Honda Classic
Tournament Players Club
Heron Bay,
Coral Springs, Florida
12th - 15th March 1998

Par 72 Prize Money $1.8 million

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Monty enters final round four-shots off the lead

Coral Springs, Florida, 14th March 1998 - Colin Montgomerie looking for his first win in his 46th PGA Tour start remained among the leading pack at the £1.2 million Honda Classic after firing his third consecutive sub-par round in Florida.

The Scot is one eight players in a tie for fifth after a 71 left him on seven-under with defending champion Stuart Appleby and Lee Janzen.

Germany's Bernhard Langer is another on 209 after recording a third round 70.

American Mark Calcavecchia heads the field on 205 after adding a 68 to his earlier rounds of 70 and 67.

He goes into the final day one shot clear of Fiji's Vijay Singh (68) and two ahead of Tommy Tolles (65) and Kevin Sutherland (70).

Calcavecchia went after every pin and made four birdies on the front nine finishing with a 4-under-par 68.

With 15 others within five strokes of the lead, Calcavecchia doesn't plan to change a thing.

"I know I'm hitting it good," he said. "I'm just going to aim at the pins and see where I stand on the last hole."

Tommy Tolles had a 65 for the low round of an ever-changing day and was tied for third with Kevin Sutherland at 8-under 208.

Jeff Maggert, who led after each of the first two rounds and is winless since 1993, found one bunker after another. He made five bogeys on the back nine and finished with a 76, six strokes off the lead.

The par-72 Tournament Players Club measures 7,268 yards.

First prize is $324,000.