Golf:Lee Westwood is on course to win the Nedbank Golf Challenge and will take a five-shot lead into the final round despite an indifferent day three at Sun City.
The world number one carded a one-under-par round of 71 to go with his flawless 64 yesterday and 68 on day one - finishing on 13 under overall.
However, most of his closest rivals failed to match his effort today as low scoring was hard to come by on a much more difficult day at the Gary Player Country Club.
Fellow Englishman Ross Fisher, three behind overnight in second place, went around in 73, including a double bogey on his penultimate hole that saw him slip back to eight under, alongside Tim Clark - one of just two players to shoot 68s.
First round leader Pádraig Harrington lost further ground after a second successive 72 left the Dubliner in a tie for fifth, alongside Ernie Els (71) and Anders Hansen (68) in the 12-man field.
Collated third round scores and totals in the Nedbank Golf Challenge, Gary Player Country Club, Sun City, Johannesburg, South Africa
(Rsa unless stated, Irish in boldpar 72):
203Lee Westwood (Eng) 68 64 71
208Ross Fisher (Eng) 67 68 73, Tim Clark 73 67 68
209Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 69 69 71
210Anders Hansen (Den) 72 70 68, Ernie Els 71 68 71, Pádraig Harrington (Irl) 66 72 72
211Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 71 67 73
212Retief Goosen 72 70 70
213Robert Allenby (Aus) 70 70 73
214Justin Rose (Eng) 70 72 72
216Louis Oosthuizen 71 73 72