Saturday, September 29, 2007

SEVE TROPHY THIRD-DAY RESULTS
The Heritage, Killenard, Ireland.
Scoreline at end of day:
Great Britain and Ireland 8 1/2 Continental Europe 9 1/2
Greensomes:
GB&I 1/2, CONTINENTAL EUROPE 3 1/2

Justin Rose & Paul Casey lost to Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano & Robert Karlsson 3 and 1.
Nick Dougherty & Graeme Storm lost to Raphael Jacquelin & Gregory Havret 2 and 1
Oliver Wilson & Simon Dyson lost to Peter Hanson & Soren Hansen 1 hole
Bradley Dredge & Phillip Archer halved with Markus Brier & Mikko Ilonen
Foursomes:
GB&I 3, CONTINENTAL EUROPE 1
Rose & Dougherty bt Jacquelin & Havret 2 and 1.
Colin Montgomerie & Storm lost to Fernandez-Castano & Karlsson 3 and 2
Dyson & Wilson bt Hanson & Hansen 3 and 2
Archer & Dredge bt Brier & Miguel Angel Jimenez 2 holes

CONTINENTAL EUROPE LEAD BY ONE POINT
WITH SUNDAY FINISH OF TEN SINGLES

Colin Montgomerie, who has lost only three of his last 22 Ryder Cup games going back 10 years, suffered his third defeat in three matches at the Seve Trophy in Ireland.
But Nick Faldo's Great Britain and Ireland, having fallen three points behind in the morning greensomes, still managed to fight back and will go into Sunday's 10 concluding singles at The Heritage, west of Dublin, trailing just 9.5-8.5.
From one up with nine holes to play, Montgomerie - left out of the first session of the day - and Graeme Storm lost four holes in a row and went down 3 and 2 to Swede Robert Karlsson and Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano.
Their sudden woes were summed up on the 473-yard 13th. As the rain lashed down, French Open champion Storm hit a superb approach to within five feet of the flag - but Karlsson then holed from 20 and Montgomerie dribbled his effort wide.
Seve Ballesteros' side looked as if they might turn the tables in the top game too when unbeaten French pair Raphael Jacquelin and Gregory Havret won the 11th and 12th to go in front against Justin Rose and Nick Dougherty.
But the English duo, having just had three bogeys in succession, levelled when their opponents ran up a six on the long 14th, Rose then chipped in at the 16th and Jacquelin and Havret bogeyed the next to lose.
Faldo then saw Simon Dyson and Oliver Wilson avenge their greensomes loss to Swede Peter Hanson and Dane Soren Hansen with a three and two win.
Phillip Archer and Bradley Dredge, with 2.5 points from their first three games together, stood three up with five to play, but then lost the 14th and 16th to Austrian Markus Brier and Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez.
In a tense finish it was the previously unbeaten Brier who made the fatal error, though, hooking into the lake down the last.
Marc Warren, the only Scot in Nick Faldo's squad, did not get a game morning or afternoon. That will teach him to swing a five-iron in his hotel room and smash up a chandelier.

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