Robert Allenby & James Nitties lead into final day
Robert Allenby and fellow Australian James Nitties shot 3-under 69s and shared the third-round lead at the Australian Open on Saturday.
On a day when many of the front-runners turned in high scores -- Friday's co-leader Kim Felton shot 79 -- Nitties and Allenby had 54-hole totals of 10-under 206, a stroke ahead of Stuart Appleby (68).
"I really did hit some unbelievable shots out there because it was very tricky," Allenby said. "Today was one of those days where I could've shot quite a few lower than what I am. But it's the Australian Open. It's a tough tournament to win and I've got a lot of respect for it and for the field."
Craig Parry, who followed his course-record-tying 64 with a 70 Saturday, is tied for fourth with Nick O'Hern, who shot 72 Saturday after sharing the second-round lead with Felton.
American Brandt Snedeker was sixth after a 70, three strokes back, followed by former two-time champion Aaron Baddeley after a 69.
Felton was 1 under for the tournament and tied for 37th after Saturday's 7-over round. Australian Andrew Bonhomme, who was one stroke behind going into Saturday's round, had an 81 and is 2 over and tied for 54th.
American Lee Williamson, also just a stroke off the lead after Friday, shot 76 and fell seven strokes behind.
O'Hern started off eagle-birdie, but double-bogeyed the par-5 fifth. Felton had a bogey on the first, a quadruple-bogey seven on the par-3 fourth and chipped in from off the green on the par-5 18th for a seven, saving him from an 80.
Appleby, who missed the cut at last week's Australian PGA, hopes he'll be in the hunt Sunday for his second Australian Open title.
"I'm not sure what I have to do," Appleby said. "I know I have to do something like today, think like today, commit like today and play like today and that still might not be enough. It's going to be a good old test for everybody."
206 Robert Allenby 67 70 69, James Nitties 71 66 69
207 Stuart Appleby 71 68 68
208 Craig Parry 74 64 70, Nick O'Hern 70 66 72
209 Brandt Snedeker (USA) 69 70 70
210 Aaron Baddeley 70 71 69
211 Gavin Coles 71 69 71, Stephen Leaney 69 75 67, Cameron Percy 74 70 67, Kane Webber (USA) 70 72 69, Ewan Porter 70 71 70, Terry Price 73 71 67, Jason Gore (USA) 73 70 68, Paul Sheehan 72 70 69
212 Won Joon Lee 70 70 72, Rodney Pampling 73 70 69, Marc Leishman 72 69 71, Michael Curtain 73 71 68, Ryan Moore (USA) 73 68 71, Peter O'Malley 72 71 69, Hyung-sung Kim (Kor) 71 73 68
213 Jarrod Lyle 70 70 73, Greg Chalmers 69 72 72, Lee M Williamson (USA) 65 72 76, Geoff Ogilvy 68 72 73, Tatsuhiko Takahashi (Jpn) 73 71 69, Hiroshi Iwata (Jpn) 71 69 73, Matthew Jones 74 68 71
214 Steve Alker (Nzl) 70 71 73, Nathan Green 72 70 72, Michael Sim 72 70 72, Steve Jones (USA) 69 69 76, Stephen Allan 71 69 74, Adam Crawford 71 69 74, Peter Lonard 71 70 73
215 Richard Green 73 71 71, Matthew Millar 71 73 71, Wayne Perske 69 69 77, Wade Ormsby 70 72 73, Kim Felton 67 69 79
216 Scott Hend 68 74 74, Andrew Tampion 77 67 72, Scott Barr 74 70 72, Scott Sterling (USA) 71 72 73, Ed Stedman 74 69 73, Peter Senior 71 72 73, Lee Sung (Kor) 69 72 75
217 Paul Marantz 68 72 77, Aaron Townsend 73 71 73, Lucas Parsons 72 72 73, Kevin Stadler (USA) 73 71 73, Bradley Iles (Nzl) 69 72 76
218 David Smail (Nzl) 70 71 77, Andrew Bonhomme 67 70 81, Michael Long (Nzl) 70 71 77, Matthew Zions 73 68 77, David Diaz 73 71 74, Takuya Taniguchi (Jpn) 72 71 75, Rohan Blizard 72 72 74
219 Nick Flanagan 73 71 75, Scott Draper (Rsa) 72 72 75, Brad Lamb 73 71 75
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