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| June 05, 2006 | Monday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 8, 1427 |
Golf: Pettersson hangs onto narrow lead at Memorial
DUBLIN (Ohio), June 4: Sweden's Carl Pettersson ended a long day the way it began clinging to a one-shot lead at the rain-hit Memorial Tournament when third-round play was suspended due to inclement weather on Saturday.
Pettersson and most of the field arrived early at the Muirfield Village Golf Club to mop up the second round and very nearly managed to get back on schedule until the rain returned late in the day.
The Swede, who failed to make the cut for the first time in 14 events this campaign at his last start at the Colonial, completed a bogey-free second round to take a one-shot advantage into the afternoon.
One shot back are Americans Woody Austin and Zach Johnson, with one and two holes still to play but the man Pettersson will be looking over his shoulder at is Masters champion Phil Mickelson sitting three off the pace.
Leading third round scores:
205 Carl Pettersson (Sweden) 69, 67, 69.
207 Woody Austin (US) 71, 69, 67.
208 Zach Johnson (US) 70, 68, 70.
209 Phil Mickelson (US) 69, 70, 70.
210 Adam Scott (Australia) 71, 66, 73.
211 Trevor Immelman (South Africa) 72, 70, 69; Rod Pampling (Australia) 72, 73, 66; Brett Wetterich (US) 69, 69, 73; Sean O'Hair (US) 67, 70, 74.
212 Robert Gamez (US) 70, 74, 68; Vaughn Taylor (US) 70, 72, 70; Brandt Jobe (US) 70, 68, 74.
213 Paul Casey (Britain) 70, 73, 70; Ted Purdy (US) 69, 75, 69; Stewart Cink (US) 69, 74, 70; Rory Sabbatini (South Africa) 74, 68, 71; Justin Rose (Britain) 75, 71, 67; Tim Clark (South Africa) 69, 69, 75.
KARLSSON ON RAMPAGE
NEWPORT (Wales): Sweden's Robert Karlsson broke another European Tour record in the Wales Open when he bettered the 54-hole aggregate by three strokes to take a six-shot lead into Sunday's final round.
On Friday, Karlsson had bettered the 125 set by Tiger Woods for 36 holes by one stroke and, after a 65 on Saturday, his 189 aggregate outdid the world number one again.
His four-under-par moved him to 18-under for the tournament.
He heads Britain's Paul Broadhurst, who shot 67, with another
Briton, Gary Orr, a further stroke back after a 65.
Leading third round scores:
189 Robert Karlsson (Sweden) 61, 63, 65.
195 Paul Broadhurst (Britain) 64, 64, 67.
196 Gary Orr (Britain) 68, 63, 65.
197 Simon Dyson (Britain) 66, 62, 69; Henrik Nystroem (Sweden) 66, 67, 64.
198 Matthew Millar (Australia) 69, 62, 67; Colin Montgomerie (Britain) 63, 66, 69; David Park (Britain) 66, 68, 64; Johan Skoeld (Sweden) 65, 66, 67; Anthony Wall (Britain) 72, 63, 63.
199 Philip Archer (Britain) 60, 68, 71; Graeme McDowell (Britain) 68, 67, 64; Marcel Siem (Germany) 65, 66, 68.
200 Francois Delamontagne (France) 63, 67, 70; Ian Garbutt (Britain) 69, 65, 66; Michael Hoey (Britain) 64, 68, 68; Jose-Filipe Lima (Portugal) 69, 61, 70; Wade Ormsby (Australia) 68, 67, 65; Lee Slattery (Britain) 64, 67, 69; Graeme Storm (Britain) 65, 67, 68.Reuters
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