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Saturday, August 04, 2007

OCHOA GOES SIX CLEAR AFTER NIGHTMARE
80s FOR MATTHEW AND WARD

Catriona Matthew had a nightmare third round of 80 in the Ricoh Women's British Open championship over the Old Course, St Andrews today.
After opening scores of 73 and 68, the North Berwick player was breathing down the neck of leader Lorena Ochoa but Catriona dropped three strokes very early on - and that seemed to shake her confidence. She required 40 for both halves and has dropped to a share of seventh place on 221 alongside American Wendy Ward who also had a bad Saturday with an 80.
Ochoa surged clear with a par 73 for six-under-par 213 and leads by six strokes from Sweden's Linda Wessberg with one round to go.
THIRD ROUND TOTALS
Par 219 (3 x 73)
213 Lorena Ochoa (Mex) 67 73 73
219 Linda Wessberg (Swe) 74 73 72
220 Maria Hjorth (Swe) 75 73 72, Jee Young Lee (Kor) 72 73 75, Karine Icher (Fra) 72 71 77, Annika Sorenstam (Swe) 72 71 77
221 Reilley Rankin (USA) 73 74 74, Se Ri Pak (Kor) 73 73 75, Eun Hee Ji (Kor) 73 71 77, Catriona Matthew 73 68 80, Wendy Ward (USA) 71 70 80
222 Stacy Prammanasudh (USA) 74 76 72, Paula Creamer (USA) 73 75 74, Brittany Lincicome (USA) 71 76 75, Na On Min (Kor) 72 75 75
223 Becky Brewerton 74 75 74, Martina Eberl (Ger) 73 75 75, Virginie Lagoutte-Clement (Fra) 72 73 78, Sherri Steinhauer (USA) 72 71 80
224 Karrie Webb (Aus) 77 73 74, Jimin Kang (Kor) 77 72 75, (x) Melissa Reid 73 75 76,
In-Bee Park (Kor) 69 79 76, Yuri Fudoh (Jpn) 74 69 81
225 Beth Bader (USA) 73 77 75, Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 78 72 75, Gloria Park (Kor) 74 75 76, Natalie Gulbis (USA) 73 76 76, Karen Stupples 75 72 78, Candie Kung (Tai) 72 74 79, Louise Friberg (Swe) 69 76 80, Rebecca Hudson 70 73 82
226 Grace Park (Kor) 75 74 77, Alena Sharp (Can) 77 70 79, Meena Lee (Kor) 71 76 79, Sophie Gustafson (Swe) 73 72 81
227 (x) Rachel Bell 77 74 76, Ai Miyazato (Jpn) 70 80 77, Ji-Yai Shin (Kor) 76 74 77, Trish Johnson 75 75 77, Sarah Lee (Kor) 72 76 79, Cristie Kerr (USA) 77 71 79, Kim Hall (USA) 74 74 79, In-Kyung Kim (Kor) 72 76 79, Miki Saiki (Jpn) 76 70 81
228 Suzann Petersen (Nor) 74 76 78, Joanne Mills (Aus) 71 78 79, Christina Kim (USA) 75 74 79, Momoko Ueda (Jpn) 73 76 79, Mhairi McKay 75 74 79
229 Lotta Wahlin (Swe) 74 77 78, Beth Daniel (USA) 74 75 80, Michele Redman (USA) 75 73 81, (x) Belen Mozo (Spa) 75 72 82 , Rachel Hetherington (Aus) 75 72 82, Juli Inkster (USA) 79 68 82
230 Lisa Hall 73 73 84
231 (x) Sally Watson 78 73 80, (x) Kerry Smith 77 74 80, Jin Joo Hong (Kor) 76 73 82,
Meg Mallon (USA) 74 74 83
232 Iben Tinning (Den) 77 74 81, Dina Ammaccapane (USA) 76 73 83, Catrin Nilsmark (Swe) 72 74 86
233 (x) Hye Yong Choi (Kor) 74 76 83
234 Nicole Castrale (USA) 73 78 83
235 (x) Anna Nordqvist (Swe) 76 75 84, Diana D'Alessio (USA) 74 76 85
237 (x) Naomi Edwards 74 77 86

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