Chris Doak top Scot, five shots

behind leader Hoey in Holland

From Michael Gibbons, Challenge Tour Press Officer
Chris Doak will attempt to overhaul a five-stroke deficit in the final round of the Dutch Futures presented by Royal Bank of Scotland to win the biggest pay cheque (€22,400 ) of his professional career.
Doak, the current Tartan Tour Number One after a year of domination on Scotland’s National Tour, posted a third round 70 for a five under par aggregate of 211 to trail the leader, Ulsterman Michael Hoey, by five strokes at the Challenge Tour event on the outskirts of Amsterdam.
While Doak attempts to make up five shots on the lead, his countryman, Andrew McArthur, will be looking to make up a potentially tantalising seven shots on Hoey, safe in the knowledge that, if he does it, the €22,400 on offer for first prize would almost certainly guarantee him a place on the 2009 European Tour as one of the Challenge Tour’s top 20 players of 2008.
Hoey, winner of the British amateur championship at Prestwick in 2001, has scored 69, 69 and 68 for a 10-under-par tally of 206. He leads by one shot from English left-hander Chris Gane (71-66-70).

THIRD-ROUND SCOREBOARD

Par 216 (3 x 72)

206 Michael Hoey (NIrl) 69 69 68
207 Chris Gane (Eng) 71 66 70
208 Andrew Tampion (Aus) 71 66 71, Stuart Davis (Eng) 70 70 68, Ben Evans (Eng) 69 72 67, Matthew Morris (Eng) 71 69 68
209 Sebastien Delagrange (Fra) 70 70 69, Matthew Cort (Eng) 69 70 70, Christian Aronsen (Nor) 73 69 67, Joost Steenkamer (Ned) 70 69 70, Taco Remkes (Ned) 72 68 69, Richard Mcevoy (Eng) 75 68 66, Wil Besseling (Ned) 70 73 66, Ralph Miller (Ned) 68 72 69, Ryan Blaum (US) 73 68 68, David Carter (Eng) 70 72 67
210 Inder Van Weerelt (Ned) 72 69 69, Daniel Wardrop (Eng) 73 71 66, Roland Steiner (Aut) 70 69 71, Jeppe Huldahl (Den) 73 69 68, Christophe Brazillier (Fra) 75 65 70, Marcus Higley (Eng) 71 68 71
211 Andrew Butterfield (Eng) 74 68 69, Wilhelm Schauman (Swe) 73 73 65, Adam Gee (Eng) 72 72 67, Chris Doak (Sco) 70 71 70, Robert Coles (Eng) 71 74 66
212 Adrien Bernadet (Fra) 72 73 67, Kyron Sullivan (Wal) 68 74 70
213 Mattias Eliasson (Swe) 75 67 71, Joakim Haeggman (Swe) 72 71 70, Marco Soffietti (Ita) 73 69 71, Andrew McArthur (Sco) 73 67 73, Branden Grace (Rsa) 73 71 69, John E Morgan (Eng) 72 70 71
214 Klas Eriksson (Swe) 72 70 72
215 Steven Jeppesen (Swe) 73 69 73, Gary Clark (Eng) 75 70 70, Lorenzo Gagli (Ita) 73 70 72, Johan Axgren (Swe) 75 71 69, Reinier Saxton (Ned) 72 73 70
216 Edward Rush (Eng) 71 74 71, Peter Bronson (USA) 73 71 72, Pablo Del Grosso (Arg) 71 75 70, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 71 72 73, Simon Robinson (Eng) 74 70 72
217 Richie Ramsay (Sco) 71 72 74, Lars Brovold (Nor) 74 71 72, Gustavo Rojas (Arg) 70 71 76, Charles-Edouard Russo (Fra) 74 72 71, Matthew Zions (Aus) 75 70 72, Richard Kind (Ned) 75 70 72
218 Eirik Tage Johansen (Nor) 71 75 72, Alexandre Rocha (Bra) 72 73 73, Rodolfo Gonzalez (Arg) 76 69 73
219 James Morrison (Eng) 75 71 73, Greig Hutcheon (Sco) 69 75 75, Johan Wahlqvist (Swe) 74 69 76, Floris De Vries (Ned) 77 68 74
220 Ben Mason (Eng) 73 73 74, Anthony Snobeck (Fra) 73 69 78, Oliver Whiteley (Eng) 73 72 75, Nicolas Vanhootegem (Bel) 73 73 74, Benjamin Miarka (Ger) 70 75 75, Frank Van Hoof (Ned) 73 71 76
221 Jean-Nicolas Billot (Fra) 73 73 75
222 Andreas Hogberg (Swe) 71 75 76
223 Miguel Rodriguez (Arg) 72 73 78
225 Jack Kutumane (Rsa) 75 71 79, Damian Ulrich (Swi) 74 72 79, Jurrian Van Der Vaart (Ned) 73 73 79
Retired: Rolf Muntz (Ned) 71 69