Czech Masters: England's Lee Slattery leads in Prague
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Lee Slattery took the lead on day three of the Czech Masters as his wife was eight days overdue with the couple's second child
Czech Masters third-round leaderboard |
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-12 L Slattery (Eng); -10 H Porteous (Rsa); -8 P Widegren (Swe); -7 C Hanson (Eng), J Thomson (Eng) |
Selected others: -6 C Shinkwin (Eng) |
England's Lee Slattery will take a two-shot lead into the final day of the Czech Masters.
Slattery carded a third-round 67 at Albatross Golf Resort to finish 12 under par, with South Africa's Haydn Porteous his nearest challenger on 10 under after a matching 67.
Sweden's Pontus Widegren is two shots further back on eight under.
Halfway leader Chris Hanson is a further stroke adrift alongside fellow Englishman Jonathan Thomson.
Hanson had led an English one-two-three after the completion of the delayed second round, the 32-year-old playing 17 holes in five under par to add a 66 to his opening 68.
That gave him a three-shot lead over Slattery, and birdies on the first two holes of round three quickly took Hanson four shots clear.
However, driving into a hazard on the sixth cost Hanson a double bogey and when he dropped another shot on the eighth, Slattery took full advantage with birdies on the seventh and ninth to move into the lead.