General / Editor / 15 April 2007 / Leave a Comment

Jerry Kelly fired a hole-in-one to clamber above Ernie Els and into a one-shot lead after the third round of the Verizon Heritage.
Kelly was two strokes behind Els when his four iron at the 200-yard fourth bounced once, hit the flag and dropped in for eagle.
His ace put a shine on a card which also showed five birdies and three bogeys, moving the American to 13 under par, one ahead of Els and Kevin Na.

Els opened his third round with a double bogey and found it tough going on the South Carolina course, carding a level-par round of 71 after two consecutive 65s had previously made him the clear half-way leader.
But the popular South African, who missed the cut at last week's US Masters, fought back with birdies at three, eight and 10.
He followed a bogey at the 11th with a birdie at 13 but bogeys at 16 and 17 dropped him back and it took a 15-foot birdie putt at the last hole just to move level with Na, who shot a 66.

"I feel a little disappointed about the round," said Els, now the world number five.

"I just didn't quite play the way I wanted to. Thank goodness I didn't shoot myself totally out of it but it was a tough day."
Boo Weekley is alone on 11 under while Masters champion Zach Johnson is in a group of five players on nine under.
Johnson has an outside chance of repeating his final day heroics at Augusta and coming from behind to clinch the title and is 24 in Betfair's winners market, where Els remains the favourite.

The South African is 2.76 to clinch another US PGA Tour victory, just ahead of Kelly (4.1) and Na (9.6).