Golf:British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen shares the lead with Markus Brier heading into tomorrow's final round of the €1 million Africa Open after carding a four under 69 to get to 13 under at East London Golf Club.
The South African recorded four birdies, an eagle and two bogeys - the second of which frustratingly came on the last - to sit alongside Austrian Brier, who managed a 70, for a tournament aggregate of 206.
The pair are a shot clear of a quartet of players on 12 under, including defending champion Charl Schwartzel (68), fellow South Africans, Jaco van Zyl (70) and Jbe’ Kruger (67) plus Spain’s Manuel Quiros (68),
Gareth Maybin (71) and Darren Clarke (72) are too far off the pace to challenge for honours as they head into the final round four and three under respectively.
Just off the leading pace, England’s Chris Wood shot 67 to move to 11 under, alongside Branden Grace (72) Ross McGowan (71) and Miles Tunnicliff (72).
The round of the day belonged to Robert Dinwiddie after he went around the par 73 Eastern Cape layout in a bogey-free 66. That put him on 10 under and still in the hunt for the €158,500 top prize in the co-sanctioned European and Sunshine Tour event.
Collated third round scores and totals in the European Tour African Open, East London Golf Club, East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa
(Gbr & Irl unless stated, Irish in boldpar 73):
206Markus Brier (Aut) 70 66 70, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 70 67 69
207Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 69 70 68, Jbe Kruger (Rsa) 68 72 67, Jaco Van Zyl (Rsa) 67 70 70, Manuel Quiros (Spa) 71 68 68
208Chris Wood 72 69 67, Branden Grace (Rsa) 67 69 72, Miles Tunnicliff 67 69 72, Ross McGowan 68 69 71
209Carlos Del Moral (Spa) 70 70 69, Oliver Bekker (Rsa) 69 71 69, Thomas Aiken (Rsa) 69 72 68, Robert Dinwiddie 69 74 66
210Warren Abery (Rsa) 69 73 68, Keith Horne (Rsa) 71 70 69
211Fredrik Ohlsson (Swe) 67 72 72, Elliot Saltman 67 71 73, Wade Ormsby (Aus) 69 73 69, Steven O'Hara 72 71 68
212Divan Van Den Heever (Rsa) 71 71 70, Eirik Tage Johansen (Nor) 71 71 70, Andrew Marshall 71 72 69, Tyrone Van Aswegen (Rsa) 70 71 71, Trevor Fisher Jnr (Rsa) 69 72 71, Martin Maritz (Rsa) 69 74 69, Neil Schietekat (Rsa) 74 70 68
213Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 67 74 72, Daniel Gaunt (Aus) 74 71 68, Shaun Norris (Rsa) 70 73 70, Matthew Nixon 71 74 68, Mikko Korhonen (Fin) 71 72 70, Doug McGuigan 68 75 70, Tjaart Van Der Walt (Rsa) 70 74 69, Benjamin Hebert (Fra) 74 69 70
214Adilson Da Silva (Bra) 74 69 71, Daniel Greene (Rsa) 70 72 72, Bradford Vaughan (Rsa) 70 73 71
215Steve Lewton 71 74 70, Gareth Maybin 71 73 71, Tim Sluiter (Ned) 72 73 70
216Dean O'riley (Rsa) 70 74 72, Clodomiro Carranza (Arg) 71 73 72, Darren Clarke 69 75 72, Lloyd Saltman 68 76 72, Marco Ruiz (Par) 72 73 71, Thabang Simon (Rsa) 68 76 72, Ryan Tipping (Rsa) 73 72 71, Louis De Jager (Rsa) 72 71 73, Deane Pappas (Rsa) 73 70 73
217Sam Hutsby 74 70 73, Robert Rock 68 75 74, James Kingston (Rsa) 72 72 73, Bernd Wiesberger (Aut) 73 73 71
218Alex Haindl (Rsa) 70 72 76, Scott Hend (Aus) 76 70 72, Marc Warren 71 75 72, Peter- Henric McIntyre (Rsa) 74 72 72, Alastair Forsyth 70 76 72, Jake Roos (Rsa) 74 72 72, Lorenzo Gagli (Ita) 73 70 75, Charl Coetzee (Rsa) 75 70 73
219Brandon Pieters (Rsa) 66 77 76, Jamie Elson 76 69 74, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 71 75 73, James Kamte (Rsa) 72 71 76
220Jean Hugo (Rsa) 74 72 74
221Adrian Ford (Rsa) 72 74 75, George Coetzee (Rsa) 71 75 75
222Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 71 73 78, Atti Schwartzel (Rsa) 76 70 76
