Green still leads at weather-hit Australian PGA

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s Nathan Green holds a
two-shot lead over Nick O’Hern and Australian Open champion
Robert Allenby in the incomplete third round of the Australian
PGA golf tournament at Coolum in Queensland on Saturday.

Badly affected by rain and electrical storms on Thursday
and Friday, most players had to finish their second rounds
early on Saturday before play was later suspended in the third
round.

Green, who teed off at 0540 local, fired five birdies
during his second round to take a one-shot lead at nine-under
par into the third round.

He was four-under through 13 for this third round to be
13-under par, two strokes ahead of O’Hern, who was 11-under
through 16, and Allenby, who had played 14 holes.

“I’m not as attacking as the other two guys in the group
(Steven Bowditch and Wade Ormsby),” he said. “All I’ve been
doing is trying to hit a few greens, take it from there and
make the odd putt.”

“I think a bit closer to 20-under will win it if people
keep playing the way they’re playing.

“You’ve got eight guys 10-under or more, and with weather
like this you would expect one of them to fire a good round
tomorrow.

“I am just going to keep plugging along tomorrow and keep
going.”

Ormsby, Bowditch and Rod Pampling are all three shots off
the pace on 10-under par with Mathew Goggin and Ryan Haller a
shot further back.

U.S. Open champion Michael Campbell of New Zealand was in a
three-way tie for ninth on seven-under par. He is three-under
for the round through 14.