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| July 17, 2005 | Sunday | Jumadi-us-Sani 9, 1426 |
Montgomerie, Goosen close in as Woods stumbles
ST ANDREWS (Scotland), July 16: Tiger Woods’s smooth march towards his second British Open title was halted by two bogeys early in the third round on Saturday.
The world number one, four clear of the field overnight, dropped shots at the second and sixth holes as South African Retief Goosen fired a fluent 66 to move to within two strokes of the world number one along with Briton Colin Montgomerie.
Woods, seeking his 10th major title, missed a six-foot putt on the second green to register his first bogey for 22 holes.
After making his customary birdie at the fifth, a wayward drive on the sixth hole dropped the American back to 10 under.
Although he also birdied the seventh, Woods was struggling in favourable conditions to reproduce the form that brought him serene opening rounds of 66 and 67 and another drive into the bushes almost cost him a shot at the ninth.
Goosen, twice U.S. Open champion, conjured up eight birdies including three in a row from the 14th hole to move to nine under, level with Woods’s playing partner Montgomerie, who started with four pars before picking up birdies at the fifth and ninth holes to delight the home crowds.
Jose Maria Olazabal of Spain moved quietly to eight under, one ahead of his compatriot Sergio Garcia, who sank a mammoth putt to eagle the ninth hole.
South African Tim Clark, last week’s Scottish Open champion was also at seven under along with American Scott Verplank, South African Trevor Immelman and U.S. Open champion Michael Campbell of New Zealand who claimed seven birdies in a round of 68.
World number two Vijay Singh suffered two early bogeys but three successive birdies from the fifth put him back in contention at seven under before a bogey at the eighth.
South Africa’s Ernie Els and American Phil Mickelson, ranked third and fourth in the world, slipped out of contention following disappointing rounds of 75 and 72 respectively.
Many of the early starters took advantage of the benign conditions, Briton Darren Clarke, American Kenny Perry and Dutchman Maarten Lafeber shooting 67s and Denmark’s Soren Hansen a 66 to finish on six under, level with 1985 Open champion Sandy Lyle who rolled back the years with a 69.
Leading scores:
207 - Retief Goosen (RSA) 68-73-66
209 - Michael Campbell (NZL) 69-72-68
210 - Soren Hansen (DEN) 72-72-66, Maarten Lafeber (NED) 73-70-67, Darren Clarke (NIR) 73-70-67, Kenny Perry (USA) 71-71-68, Sandy Lyle (SCO) 74-67-69, Sean O’Hair (USA) 73-67-70, Bernhard Langer (GER) 71-69-70
211 - Adam Scott (AUS) 70-71-70
212 - Geoff Ogilvy (AUS) 71-74-67, Lloyd Saltman (SCO -a) 73-71-68, Bob Tway (USA) 69-71-72
213 - Tim Herron (USA) 73-72-68, Nicholas Flanagan (AUS) 73-71-69, Mark Hensby (AUS) 67-77-69, Greg Norman (AUS) 72-71-70, Nick Faldo (ENG) 74-69-70, Ian Poulter (ENG) 70-72-71, Nick O’Hern (AUS) 73-69-71, Simon Dyson (ENG) 70-71-72, Fredrik Jacobsen (SWE) 71-70-72, Phil Mickelson (USA) 74-67-72
214 - David Smail (NZL) 73-72-69, Scott Drummond (SCO) 74-71-69, Tadahiro Takayama (JPN) 72-72-70, Tom Lehman (USA) 75-69-70, KJ Choi (KOR) 75-68-71, Steve Webster (ENG) 71-72-71, Pat Perez (USA) 72-70-72, David Frost (RSA) 77-65-72, Henrik Stenson (SWE) 74-67-73
215 - Tom Watson (USA) 75-70-70, Peter Hanson (SWE) 72-72-71, Chris DiMarco (USA) 75-69-71, Grame McDowell (NIR) 69-72-74, Thomas Levet (FRA) 69-71-75
216 - Rod Pampling (AUS) 74-71-71, John Bickerton (ENG) 75-70-71, SK Ho (KOR) 73-71-72, Steve Flesch (USA) 74-70-72, Mark Calcavecchia (USA) 70-73-73, Tino Schuster (GER) 68-74-74, Eric Ramsay (SCO -a) 68-74-74, Chris Riley (USA) 68-73-75, Thongchai Jaidee (THA) 73-68-75, Ernie Els (RSA) 74-67-75
217 - Joe Ogilvie (USA) 74-70-73, Miguel Angel Jimenez (ESP) 69-72-76
218 - Paul McGinley (IRL) 70-75-73, Paul Lawrie (SCO) 72-71-75, Luke Donald (ENG) 68-73-77
219 - Justin Leonard (USA) 73-71-75, Robert Rock (ENG) 73-71-75
220 - Scott Gutschewski (USA) 76-69-75
221 - Patrik Sjoland (SWE) 74-71-76, Matthew Richardson (ENG -a) 75-69-77, Ted Purdy (USA) 72-72-77
223 - Duffy Waldorf (USA) 74-68-81
225 - Graeme Storm (ENG) 75-70-80
US PGA scores
ENDICOTT (New York): Scores here Friday after the second round of the three million-dollar US PGA B.C. Open:
129 - David Edwards 66-63
130 - Matt Hendrix 63-67
131 - Brendan Jones 67-64, Ryan Palmer 67-64
132 - Jason Bohn 64-68, Mathias Gronberg) 65-67
133 - Arjun Atwal 65-68, Ben Crane 64-69, P.H. Horgan 68-65, Mike Springer 64-69
134 - Glen Day 63-71, Jay Delsing 70-64, Bradley Hughes 67-67, Chris Smith 65-69, Roland Thatcher 68-66, Mark Wilson 65-69
135 - David Hearn 68-67
136 - John Senden 67-69, Carlos Franco 69-67
137 - Brenden Pappas 64-73, Gavin Flint 69-68, Paul Gow 72-65
138 - Trevor Dodds 67-71, Grant Waite 71-67
139 - Steve Allan 71-68, Richard S. Johnson 70-69, Hidemichi Tanaka 67-72, Hideto Tanihara 71-68
140 - Tjaart van der Walt 71-69.—Agencies
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