Tara Davies (lying second) is GB&I's

only title hope left in Portugal

Germany's Lara Katzy, winner of the Swiss open amateur title, is hot on the trail of another - the 80th Portuguese women's open amateur championship at the Amendoeira Golf Resort on the Algarve.
Lara is two shots clear at the head of the 41 qualifiers on 229 or better for Sunday's final round in the championship over the Oceanico Christy O'Connor junior course.
The Berlin-Wannsee member has shot rounds of 71, 70 and 71 (35-36) for a four-under-par tally of 212.
Her nearest challenger is Welsh champion, Tara Davies from Holyhead, who is not in the GB&I Curtis Cup short leet for the June match in America. But the selectors did not rule out anyone not on the preliminary list forcing their way into contention with an outstanding performance - and that's what stocky Tara seems to be doing.
Tara, pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency in last year's women's home internationals at Irvine GC, is only two shots off the lead with scores of 71, 73 and 70. Her two-under-par round today started with a bogey at the long first and finished with a bogey at the 18th. But in between Tara had four birdies - at the short third, the 10th, the long 11th and the long 16th, in halves of 36-34.
Glasgow University student Pamela Pretswell - winner of the Swiss open amateur title in 2007 - lost ground on Katzy and Davies with a 77 respectively and is in joint 10th place on 222 - 10 shots behind the leader.
Pretswell made too many mistakes in halves of 38 and 39. Her only birdie came at the long fifth after bogeys at the long first and short third had set the tone for her round.
British open stroke-play champion Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co Down) - another Curtis Cup "named" player - also went backwards with a 77 for 223 and a share of 15th place. The Maynooth student had a disastrous outward half of 41 with a double bogey 6 at the eighth and single shots dropped at the short third, the short sixth and the ninth.
Coming home, Danielle got her solitary birdie of the day at the 12th but she dropped a shot at a short hole for the third time on the day, at the par-3 13th, in coming home in 36.
Compatriot Gillian O'Leary, a former winner of the Portuguese title, is in joint 22nd place after a 75 for 224. She had two double-bogey 7s - at the long fifth and the long 17th. She did birdie two of the other long holes, the first and the 11th, and also the par-4 10th but Gillian also shed further shots at the short sixth and 14th in halgves od 38 and 37.
Welsh international Amy Boulden - on the GB&I Curtis Cup list - matched the par of 72 to rise to joint 26th place on 225 - a good performance, considering she was three over par at the turn after a double bogey at the short third and a bogey at the ninth. Amy birdied the long 11th, the 12th and the 15th for a splendid inward half of three-under-par 33.
England teenager Jess Wilcox (Blankney) had a 73 for 226, which leaveds her in joint 28th place. She birdie the short third, seventh and 10th but bogeyed the fourth, eighth, ninth and short 17th.
Laura Murray (Alford), who completes Scotland's representation of two in a championship once won by a Scot, the late Marjory (Fowler) Ferguson, is alongside Wilcox on 226 after double bogeys at the second and sixth in an outward six-over-par 42. Laura played a lot better on the inward half - seven pars and birdies at the long 11th and long 16th for 34 home.

Third-round totals
Oceanico O'Connor jun Course
Par 216 (3x72)
212 Lara Katzy (Germany) 71 70 71 (35-36).
214 Tara Davies (Wales) 71 73 70 (36-34).
215 Noemi Jimenez Martin (Spain) 73 70 72.
216 Caroline Karsten (Netherlands) 74 71 71, Anna Arrese (Spain) 72 72 72.
219 Klara Spilkova (Czech Republic) 76 74 69, Mireia Prat (Spain) 72 76 71.
220 Manon Gidali (France) 74 73 73.
221 Laure Castelain (France) 79 72 70.
222 Adriana Zwanck (Spain) 74 77 71, Marieke Nivard (Netherlands) 75 72 75, Pamela Pretswell (Scotland) 71 74 77 (38-39), Ainhoa Olarra Mujika (Spain) 75 75 72, Holly Clyburn (England) 70 78 74.
223 Ha Rang Lee (Spain) 75 75 73, Margot Ivanoff (France) 72 78 73, Teresa Hermani (Spain) 73 78 72, Marion Ricordeau (France) 782 78 73, Stephanie Kirchmayr (Germany) 75 75 73, Ines Lescudier (France) 75 75 73, Danielle McVeigh (Ireland) 75 71 77 (41-36).
224 Perrine Petit (France) 74 76 74, Nina Holleder (Germany) 73 74 77, Gillian O'Leary (Ireland) 76 73 75 (38-37), Jana Niedballa (Germany) 75 79 70.
225 Amy Boulden (Wales) 75 78 72 (39-33), Manon Molle (France) 76 74 75.
226 Karolin Lampert (Germany) 73 77 76, Jess Wilcox (England) (37-36) 75 78 73, Laura Murray (Scotland) 74 76 76 (42-34), Camilla Hedberg (Spain) 76 77 73.
227 Luna Sobron Galmes (Spain) 78 71 78, Merle Kasperek (Germany) 76 73 78.
228 Samantha Birks (Wales) 78 75 75 (37-38), Maria Parron Alferez (Spain) 81 73 74, Linda Henriksson (Finland) 77 78 73, Julie Yang (South Korea) 71 78 79, Audrey Riguelle (France) 75 77 76.
229 Laura-Alexandra Stempfle (Germany) 76 75 78, Anna-Lena Kramer (Germany) 76 80 73, Mathilde Cassaignau (France) 76 75 78.
MISSED THE CUT
230 Chloe Leurquim (Belgium) 78 74 78, Ariane Provot (France) 72 79 79.
231 Marrion Duvernay (France) 77 80 74, Ines Diaz-Negrete (Spain) 77 77 77.
232 Rocio Sanchez (Spain) 79 77 76, Quirine Louise Eijkenboom (Germany) 72 80 80.
233 Clemence Abrahamian (Francer) 78 77 78.
234 Ann-Kathrin Lindner (Germany) 78 78 78, Natalia Escuriola Martinez (Spain) 76 76 82, Lourdes Lopez Caballa (Spain) 73 81 80, Maria Dunne (Ireland) 76 81 77.
235 Katherine O'Connor (Wales) 75 82 78, Lea Charpier (France) 77 78 80.
236 Marion Kaddouche (France) 77 81 78, Chrisje De Vries (Netherlands) 76 77 83, Lena Schaffner (Germany) 79 81 76.
237 Emilie Piquot (France) 79 77 81, Elizabeth Haycock (England) 74 77 86, Justine Dreher (France) 76 80 81, Rachel Drummond (England) 82 81 74.
238 Victoria Scherer (Germany) 81 78 79, Sanna Nuutiern (Finland) 84 75 79, Joana Silva Pinto (Portugal) 84 78 76, Joana Yanez (Spain) 81 80 77.
239 Larissa Skodda (Germany) 78 80 81, Isabel Gabsa (Germany) 83 77 79.
240 Antonia Scherer (Germany) 81 80 79, Vicki Troeltsch (Germany) 81 80 79, Gemma Bradbury (Wales) 81 81 78.
241 Jenny Haggblom (Finland) 81 81 79. Aedin Murphy (Ireland) 79 82 80.
242 Victoria Bradshaw (Ireland) 74 82 86, Justine Sicot (France) 82 78 82.
243 Sarah Cunningham (Ireland) 87 81 75, Joelle Van Baarle (Belgium) 79 90 74.
245 Rebecca Cunha Ferreira (Portugal) 84 80 81, Maria Elena Rodrigues (Spain) 79 85 81, Irene Calva Sanz (Spain) 86 81 78.
246 Laura Lorenzen (Germany) 80 85 81, Susan Ribeira (Portugal) 79 87 80, Andrea Vilarasau Amoros (Spain) 82 85 79.
247 Magda Carrilho (Portugal) 81 80 86, Caroline Larsson (Sweden) 83 85 79, Ciara Butler (Ireland) 85 77 85.
249 Louise Mernagh (Ireland) 84 83 82.
251 Mariana Martins (Portugal) 85 78 88.
252 Sofia Camara (Portugal) 80 87 85.
No show: Laura Chemarin (France) 76 86 -.
No return: Marta Lampreta (Portugal) 89 NR.