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PhilipMarlowe · 03-12-2009 1:34pm

Flawless 68 for Coltart, finished on -11, t17... happy days!

PhilipMarlowe · 03-12-2009 1:39pm

Murphy birdie on 16, up to -11 also...

Mister Sifter · 03-12-2009 1:42pm

Par on 18 for Coltart...

f22 · 03-12-2009 1:49pm

Squeeky bum time for Kearney, 6 holes left and he needs an amazing finish.

Just noticed Anton Haig at -11, amazing considering he was +7 through the first 2 rounds, then went 66, 62, 69 :eek:

PhilipMarlowe · 03-12-2009 1:52pm

Impressive from Coltart... -10 for his final 3 rounds on the stadium course, only 2 bogeys over the final 3 days.. 2 flawless 68's

PhilipMarlowe · 03-12-2009 1:54pm

Charlie Ford finished on -5
-16 after 4 rounds, +11 for the last two.

PhilipMarlowe · 03-12-2009 1:54pm

Par on 17 for the Murph.

f22 · 03-12-2009 1:56pm

Licksy wrote: »

Charlie Ford finished on -5
-16 after 4 rounds, +11 for the last two.

Thats gut wrenching stuff, will take a while to get over that one.

To the bar!

PhilipMarlowe · 03-12-2009 1:57pm

f22 wrote: »

Squeeky bum time for Kearney, 6 holes left and he needs an amazing finish.

Now -8 thru 15

PhilipMarlowe · 03-12-2009 2:01pm

Khan getting sloppy at the top.. not that it matters much but I guess it does to him!
Now only a 1 shot lead over Marco Ruiz who is -8 today thru 15!

liam12989 · 03-12-2009 2:02pm

Kearney -8 after 15...t38th..cut could be -9 i reckon

ozymandias10 · 03-12-2009 2:14pm

Murphy finished -11...well done gary

ozymandias10 · 03-12-2009 2:19pm

thornton finished -10..should be good enough..well done simon

come niall find a birdie

Aidric · 03-12-2009 2:21pm

Can't see -9 being good enough.

mag · 03-12-2009 2:27pm

good performance from coltart & murphy today, they look safe. hopefully thornton doesnt end up paying for a bogey on 18, t26 now. kearney fighting well but looks like he needs 2 more birdies in his last 3 to make it.

jj72 · 03-12-2009 2:44pm

I think it looks pretty certain to be -10 at this stage unless there is a bit of a birdie / bogey blitz from a few players.

Aidric · 03-12-2009 2:50pm

Kearney has finished on -7.

Curly7 · 03-12-2009 2:50pm

Pity about Niall Kearney, 3 shots off a tour card. Still at least he has a challenge tour card now and the experience he gains there will stand to him.

ozymandias10 · 03-12-2009 3:00pm

Kearney bogeyed a par five (the 7th his 16th) pity..very close..but i expect him to do okay on the challenge tour...good temperment

Mister Sifter · 03-12-2009 3:01pm

Decent showing by the Scots boys this week. Looks like McCauley will miss out by a whisker (currently 33rd), but delighted to see O'Hara make it through.

Some performance by the New Zealander Rick Kulacz - he's -9 thru 15 holes today to lie on 11 under overall!

mag · 03-12-2009 3:04pm

jj72 wrote: »

I think it looks pretty certain to be -10 at this stage unless there is a bit of a birdie / bogey blitz from a few players.

rosier & ruth are -10 through 15, next to them are beselling & tadini -8 through 15 so thornton looks safe.

bigtimecharlie · 03-12-2009 3:15pm

Delighted for Gary, when you see Oliver Fisher not even making the challenge tour cut-off.

PhilipMarlowe · 03-12-2009 3:21pm

Surprised at Tadini dropping down... double bogey 7 on 15 down to -8 (+4 today).
Was looking at Kulacz earlier... rounds of level par, level par, 1 under, 2 under, 1 over and then today he's a birdie machine!
Guerrier was -10 after his 60 in round 1 and had to shoot a 2 under 70 today to finish on -10 overall.
Sam Walker was on -10 overnight and t15. Shaky start where he went out in +3... still +3 for the day after 14, birdied 15, 16 & 17 to get to -10 but bogeyed the last to miss out by 1.

Khan again doing his best to make it dramatic at the top, only leads by 1 from Gallacher and Hutsby.

PhilipMarlowe · 03-12-2009 3:24pm

bigtimecharlie wrote: »

Delighted for Gary, when you see Oliver Fisher not even making the challenge tour cut-off.

Fisher finished just outside the top 120 in the Race to Dubai (125 I think?) so he should get 10+ starts on the European Tour anyway I would think? He'll need to make them count though, and the prize money wouldn't be big so....

PhilipMarlowe · 03-12-2009 3:32pm

Mister Sifter wrote: »

Some performance by the New Zealander Rick Kulacz - he's -9 thru 15 holes today to lie on 11 under overall!

His card was amended too and he was "only" 8 under thru 15 and birdied 16 and 18 to get to -10 and secure his card... magic

Mister Sifter · 03-12-2009 3:38pm

Murphy and Coltart up to joint 16th now. Every little helps i suppose for getting starts next year. Pretty sure Coltart finished 15th last year.

Johnny_Fontane · 03-12-2009 3:57pm

congrat to murphy and thornton (and great to see coltart get through).

I can only imagine that its hell on earth going down the stretch being on or around the bubble.....

Mister Sifter · 03-12-2009 4:12pm

Interesting piece today in one of the Scottish papers where Alistair Forsyth talks about the win or bust nature of tour school...

http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/alastairforsyth/2009/12/school-of-hard-knocks.html

Khan wins it by 1 shot from Hutsby. Gallagher bogeyed the last. Great performance by Gallagher, although he did have the cushion of 10 starts in 2010 already due to an injury exemption.

Mister Sifter · 03-12-2009 4:44pm

Pretty strange watching something like that unfold on a computer leaderboard. Absolutely no idea about alot of the near-misses etc...

Just saw this picture on line of the Scotsman Scott Drummond though. He looks happy...

Then i read the caption at the bottom which says 'Drummond celebrates after chipping in on 18 for birdie to reach -10.

Of course, -10 was indeed the cut line!

PhilipMarlowe · 03-12-2009 4:47pm

More of the hit and near-miss stories here

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