Majorca Open:Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano three-putted the last to fall back into a tie with Swede Pelle Edberg at Pula in Majorca today. Four times a winner on the European Tour but never on home soil, the 29-year-old from Madrid kept a bogey off his card in the tricky conditions until he came to the par-three 18th.
But then the shaky putting which has haunted him since his last victory — a play-off success over Lee Westwood in the 2008 British Masters at The Belfry — returned.
Fernandez-Castano was round in a two-under-par 68 as a result and with a day to go in the Iberdrola Open Cala Millor Mallorca stands four under alongside Edberg.
Joint halfway leader with James Kingston, Edberg followed up his stunning second-round 64 with a 71, mixing four birdies with five bogeys.
But that was better than Kingston managed. The 44-year-old South African did not have a single birdie and bogeys on the third, 10th, 12th and 14th meant a 74 and a drop into a tie for sixth place.
Australian Scott Hend had a best-of-the-day 66 to improve from ninth to third and will resume only a shot off the pace.
One further back are Edberg’s fellow countryman Peter Hanson and Spaniard Alejandro Canizares, while Bristol’s Chris Wood is alongside Kingston and Dane Mark Haastrup.
Colm Moriarty dropped back to eight over after a 74, the same score Damien McGrane shot to drop to nine over.
Paul McGinley is 12 over after a six-over-par 76.
Collated scores (Irish in bold)
206Pelle Edberg (Swe) 71 64 71, Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (Spa) 70 68 68
207Scott Hend (Aus) 72 69 66
208Peter Hanson (Swe) 72 69 67, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 68 70 70
209Chris Wood 69 72 68, James Kingston (Rsa) 65 70 74, Mark F Haastrup (Den) 72 69 68
210Andrew Marshall 70 69 71, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 69 72 69
211Branden Grace (Rsa) 72 69 70, Matthew Zions (Aus) 71 71 69, Santiago Luna (Spa) 70 75 66
212Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 73 68 71, Jamie McLeary 70 69 73, Thorbjorn Olesen (Den) 68 74 70, Stuart Manley 70 68 74, Manuel Quiros (Spa) 70 71 71
213Carlos Del Moral (Spa) 70 73 70, Klas Eriksson (Swe) 74 69 70, Julien Quesne (Fra) 76 68 69
214Christian Cevaer (Fra) 73 70 71, Alvaro Velasco (Spa) 67 75 72, Sam Hutsby 72 70 72, Gary Clark 70 73 71, Marco Ruiz (Par) 70 71 73, Jean-Francois
Lucquin (Fra) 72 71 71, Charles-edouard Russo (Fra) 74 71 69, Tim Stewart (Aus) 72 69 73, Thomas Levet (Fra) 76 69 69
215Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 73 72 70, Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 72 70 73, Magnus A Carlsson (Swe) 73 72 70, Benn Barham 76 69 70, Robert Dinwiddie 71 73 71, Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 72 70 73, Richard McEvoy 70 75 70, Andrew Dodt (Aus) 75 70 70, Steven O'Hara 72 69 74, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 68 76 71, Carl Suneson (Spa) 72 73 70, Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 73 70 72, Gregory Havret (Fra) 73 71 71
216Lee Slattery 72 74 70, Alvaro Salto (Spa) 74 70 72, Peter Gustafsson (Swe) 71 69 76, Christophe Brazillier (Fra) 72 71 73, Simon Khan 72 71 73
217Henrik Nystrom (Swe) 73 72 72, John Parry 73 69 75, Oliver Whiteley 74 71 72
218George Murray 73 73 72, Colm Moriarty 74 70 74, Jesus Maria Arruti (Spa) 72 73 73, Callum Macaulay 74 70 74, Moises Cobo (Spa) 71 73 74, Stephan Gross Jnr (Ger) 75 68 75, Victor Riu (Fra) 73 73 72
219Hennie Otto (Rsa) 74 71 74, Damien McGrane 74 71 74, Marco Soffietti (Ita) 69 73 77, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den) 73 71 75
220Mark Tullo (Chi) 71 73 76
221Antonio Ferrer (Spa) 71 75 75
222Seung-yul Noh (Kor) 72 71 79, Paul McGinley 75 71 76
223Javier Colomo (Spa) 73 73 77
224Ghislain Rosier (Fra) 73 73 78
229Fredrik Ohlsson (Swe) 75 71 83