Day 3 is in the books and when I opened up this morning at 4am it was raining sideways and got worse. After noon when the tide rolled out and the skies cleared, the wind stayed fresh, but once again the late flight could not take advantage...
The Prince, Darren Clarke may well be the 3rd from Northern Ireland to win a major, McDowell the '10 US Open and Rory this years US Open at Congressional
europeantour.com Darren has moved back to Northern Ireland after 13 years in London to be with his new fiance, Alison Campbell..
For the Dungannon man, the proposal marks a happy new chapter in his life following the tragic loss to breast cancer of his first wife, Heather, who died in 2006.
After the death of his wife, Darren was hailed a hero when he famously soldiered on to help take Europe to victory over the US in the 2006 Ryder Cup.
Alison also has two grown-up sons from her first marriage. Fellow Ulster golf star, Graeme McDowell brought the pair together by organising a blind date.
In an interview earlier this year
Darren revealed: “I had no idea who Alison was whatsoever, absolutely no idea.
“I lived in London, so I had no idea. “We met, we talked before we went out and had dinner and stuff — we got on like the proverbial house on fire.
With bad weather in the forecast for tomorrow morning it appears the leaders will not be out in the worst of it so here is the T10 scoreboard followed by Sunday tee times
Full scoreboard click on European Tour
1 CLARKE, Darren 18 NIR 68 68 69 205 -5
2 JOHNSON, Dustin 18 USA 70 68 68 206 -4
T3 FOWLER, Rickie 18 USA 70 70 68 208 -2
T3 BJORN, Thomas 18 DEN 65 72 71 208 -2
T5 JIMENEZ, Miguel Angel 18 ESP 66 71 72 209 -1
T5 GLOVER, Lucas 18 USA 66 70 73 209 -1
T7 KIM, Anthony 18 USA 72 68 70 210 Par
T7 MICKELSON , Phil 18 USA 70 69 71 210 Par
T7 HANSEN, Anders 18 DEN 69 69 72 210 Par
T7 COETZEE, George 18 RSA 69 69 72 210 Par
T7 LOVE III, Davis 18 USA 70 68 72 210 Par
T7 KAYMER, Martin 18 GER 68 69 73 210 Par
For Sunday tee times click here..
http://www.opengolf.com/en/TeeTimes/TeeTimes.aspx
Weather Forecast for Sunday..
Sunday Morning Temperature: 13°C
Sunny with cloudy periods with a slight chance of showers. Windy.
Sunday Afternoon Temperature: 16°C
Sunny with cloudy periods with a slight chance of showers or thundershowers. Windy.
Sunday Evening Temperature: 15°C
Mostly clear with a chance of showers. Slight chance of a thunderstorm. Windy
Got that !! Sunny but windy for the leaders... The Prince grew up with that !!
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles
Lucas Glover has lost his confidence with his putter... it was painful to see how many putts he missed
Rory is done, played well but couldn't make a putt +4 74
Thomas Bjorn is hanging in, DJ is in the final group with the Prince who is my man on Sunday. He lost his wife to breast cancer 5 years ago annd won the emotional Ryder Cup in Ireland, he is now engaged to former Miss Northern Ireland
europeantour.com Darren Clarke, the Northern Irishman who has finished second and third in The Open in the last 14 years, holds a slender one stroke lead at the end of the third day at Royal St George’s
This is a remarkable run for Northern Ireland after Rory at the US Open and GMac at the US Open... now it's the turn of the "Prince"
His -1 round of 69 keeps him just ahead of American Dustin Johnson, 68 with Thomas Bjorn, 71, and young Californian Ricky Fowler,68, tied two shots further back in third place. Miguel Angel Jimenez,72, and 2009 US Open champion Lucas Glover, 73, share fifth place at one under. Only those six players finished under par after 54 holes.
The third round of the 140th Open Championship was a day of two distinct periods. The driving rain and strong winds of the morning giving way to a warm, sunny, dry and calmer late afternoon and early evening. Yet the man who made the most progress played in the worst of the conditions.
Rickie Fowler, a 22-year-old from California, played the round of the day. His remarkable two under par 68 brought him swiftly through the field from joint 19th into a tie for third place with Thomas Bjorn as the majority of those who played later in the day mostly failed to improve on their overnight scores.
One who did was his fellow American Dustin Johnson, a 27-year-old from South Carolina. He matched Fowler’s score of 68 late in the day to hold second place on his own. Johnson failed to make the cut in his first Open Championship at Turnberry in 2009, but tied for 14th last year in St Andrews. The 2007 Walker Cup team member joined the US PGA Tour in 2008 and has won a tournament each year since.
Clarke’s score could have been so much better. He hit the ball solidly from tee to green but missed a handful of short putts. He opened with a birdie at the first and matched birdies and bogeys to reach the turn in level par 35. In the calmer conditions of the second nine he had a string of eight pars and a birdie at the 12th.
“Tee to green was very good, on the greens not so good,” admitted Clarke after his round. “However if someone had given me a 69 before I went out I would have bitten their hand off. We got lucky with the weather, but I did play very well. I’m very excited. The Open is the biggest and best event in the world and it’s great to have another chance to win it.”
From a field of 71, only three players finished with sub-par rounds and one with level par. Some were as many as 13 strokes adrift. In the brutal early part of the day a realistic par was probably as high as 74. Tom Watson was out in the thick of the storm but his dream of being in close contention in yet another Open Championship died as the weather improved. Despite a remarkable round of 72 in the very worst conditions his early total of 214 is nine shots off the pace.
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