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Jimenez maintains advantage despite lapse of concentration

Spaniard leads by three shots after European Masters third round

  • Reuters
  • Published: 00:00 September 6, 2010
  • Gulf News

Crans Montana: Miguel Angel Jimenez kept his three-shot overnght advantage after the third round of the European Masters on Saturday despite a momentary lapse of concentration which cost him a stroke.

The leaderboard briefly recorded a four-under 67 and an 18-under 195 total for a four-shot advantage over Ryder Cup team mate Edoardo Molinari of Italy.

However, before he signed his card Jimenez called an extra shot on himself at the 10th, changing his total to 17-under and his score to 68, three ahead of Molinari and four better than Italian teenager Matteo Manassero and Britain's Steve Webster. "I just wasn't thinking, I accidentally picked my ball up on the 10th because I was near a sprinkler head," the Spaniard told reporters.

"I said to myself ‘what are you doing, you have to check if you can get relief first? I put it back in its correct place. So I gave myself a bogey on the 10th, a one-shot penalty."

Scores

Leading third round scores from the European Masters at the par-71 course in Crans-sur-Sierre, Switzerland on Saturday.

196 Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain) 67 61 68

199 Edoardo Molinari (Italy) 66 65 68

200 Steve Webster (Britain) 66 70 64; Matteo Manassero (Italy) 64 67 69

203 Rafael Echenique (Argentina) 69 69 65; Oliver Wilson (Britain) 68 68 67

204 Peter Lawrie (Ireland) 72 69 63; Nino Bertasio (Italy) 70 68 66; Thomas Aiken (South Africa) 70 68 66; Robert Coles (Britain) 66 71 67; Noh Seung-Yul (South Korea) 71 66 67; Pablo Martin (Spain) 70 67 67; Anthony Wall (Britain) 67 68 69; Charl Schwartzel (South Africa) 68 66 70

205 John Parry (Britain) 70 68 67; Darren Clarke (Britain) 67 70 68; David Dixon (Britain) 67 69 69; Robert-Jan Derksen (Netherlands) 67 68 70

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