St Andrews, Sept 28: Clarke, who won last month's WGC-NEC Invitational in Ohio, continued his consistent run, gathering an eagle and six birdies in a 66 to finish a shot behind his Ryder Cup team mate and level with Jacquelin, who carded a third-round 64 at Carnoustie.
Campbell fired a 66 to come in a shot ahead of South African Richard Sterne and Briton Simon Yates, with Norwegian Henrik Bjornstad, Dutchman Maarten Lafeber, Britons Paul Lawrie and David Howell and Swedes Fredrik Jacobson and Henrik Stenson a further stroke back.
Els also finished at 12 under, rattling off eight birdies before his bogey, double bogey finish. World number two Ernie Els looked poised to match Westwood's score, but the South African dropped three strokes over his final two holes to slip to a 67 and a share of seventh place at 12 under par. "I thought I had a good shot on the 18th, but I must have chosen the wrong club and I came up short," the three-times major champion told reporters. "I have got to go and cool off a little bit and get set for tomorrow. Obviously I would have loved to have finished better but I have still got an outside chance." Fiji's Vijay Singh, the world number three, birdied his first four holes before losing momentum, and had to settle for a 69 to finish seven adrift of Westwood at nine-under 207.


Defending champion Padraig Harrington made a solid 68 to end at eight under and Colin Montgomerie, seven-times European number one, produced his best round of the week, a 65, to finish on four under.


Westwood's albatross was the second of the day, emulating the feat of Steen Tinning, also at Kingsbarns. The Dane holed a four-iron from 212 yards at the par-five third hole, only the fourth albatross on the European Tour this year.


Leading third round scores at the Dunhill Links Championship on Saturday (Britain unless stated): At St Andrews (par-72) 204 Maarten Lafeber (Netherlands) 68 69 67 208 Simon Dyson 68 70 70 209 Raymond Russell 73 70 66, Terry Price (Australia) 71 70 68, Glen Day (U.S.) 69 73 67 210 Fredrik Andersson (Sweden) 72 72 66, Stephen Scahill (New Zealand) 70 73 67 211 Kenneth Ferrie 71 72 68 212 Markus Brier (Austria) 73 70 69, Adam Crawford (Australia) 73 71 68, Robert Karlsson (Sweden) 74 71 67, Jyoti Randhawa (India) 72 70 70



At Carnoustie (par-72) 201 Raphael Jacquelin (France) 69 68 64 203 Richard Sterne (South Africa) 71 67 65, Simon Yates 66 71 66 204 Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 71 66 67, David Howell 67 68 69, Fredrik Jacobson (Sweden) 71 68 65 205 Ricardo Gonzalez (Argentina) 69 70 66, Phillip Price 68 71 66, Mark McNulty (Zimbabwe) 71 66 68 206 Peter Lawrie (Ireland) 67 68 71 207 Klas Eriksson (Sweden) 69 69 69, Robert-Jan Derksen (Netherlands) 70 72 65 208 Mark James 70 71 67 209 Adam Scott (Australia) 72 67 70, Peter O'Malley (Australia) 69 70 70, James Kingston (South Africa) 70 69 70 210 Miles Tunnicliff 72 72 66, Trevor Immelman (South Africa) 71 71 68, John Bickerton 70 70 70, Thomas Levet (France) 73 67 70, Richard Green (Australia) 74 72 64 211 Andrew Coltart 73 69 69, Joakim Haeggman (Sweden) 69 73 69, Ian Woosnam 72 69 70, Santiago Luna (Spain) 73 68 70, Miguel Angel Martin (Spain) 69 72 70, Soren Hansen (Denmark) 66 71 74 212 Justin Rose 73 70 69, Emanuele Canonica (Italy) 71 70 71



At Kingsbarns (par-72) 200 Lee Westwood 70 68 62 201 Darren Clarke 67 68 66 202 Michael Campbell (New Zealand) 68 68 66 204 Henrik Bjornstad (Norway) 68 68 68, Ernie Els (South Africa) 72 65 67, Paul Lawrie 69 67 68, Henrik Bjornstad (Norway) 68 68 68 206 David Park 70 70 66, Ian Poulter 69 69 68 207 Vijay Singh (Fiji) 72 66 69, Nick O'Hern (Australia) 73 67 67, Charlie Wi (South Korea) 71 70 66, Nick Dougherty 70 70 67, Gary Evans 70 69 68 208 Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 72 69 67, David Gleeson (Australia) 70 71 67, Nick Price (Zimbabwe) 68 70 70 209 Shaun Micheel (U.S.) 73 69 67, Thomas Bjorn (Denmark) 71 73 65 210 Mathias Gronberg (Sweden) 71 73 66, Mark Pilkington 72, 71 67, Angel Cabrera (Argentina) 73 70 67, Anders Hansen (Denmark) 74 67 69, Steen Tinning (Denmark) 74 71 65, Darren Fichardt (South Africa) 73 70 67, Jamie Donaldson 67 74 69, Patrik Sjoland (Sweden) 70 70 70, Julien Clement (Switzerland) 72 68 70, Brian Davis 74 70 66 211 Alastair Forsyth 69 72 70, Nick Faldo 71 70 70 212 Colin Montgomerie 73 74 65, Sam Torrance 76 68 68, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain) 74 70 68, Peter Fowler (Australia) 73 64 72, Gary Murphy (Ireland) 66 70 76, Simon Khan 75 67 70, Gregory Havret (France) 74 70 68


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