DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) â€" Top-ranked Luke Donald is on a verge of apropos a initial golfer to win a European and American income titles, sharpened a 6-under 66 Saturday in a third turn during a Dubai World Championship to route personality Alvaro Quiros by 4 strokes.
While Donald climbed a leaderboard, Rory McIlroy headed a other approach to all though finish his chances of overtaking a Englishman for tip mark on a European income list. The U.S. Open champion had a unsure 1-under 71 to dump into a tie for eighth.
"It's over," McIlroy said. "Luke is in a good position and he's played good a past integrate of days. we design him to go out and fire another unequivocally plain turn tomorrow and hang things up."
Rory McIlroy needs to win a contest and Donald needs to finish outward a tip 9 for any possibility of overtaking him for a European income title. Donald, who wrapped adult a American income pretension this year, is fourth.
The big-hitting Quiros shot a 70 to sum 14-under 202 on a Earth Course during Jumeirah Golf Estates. He leads Paul Lawrie (66) by dual strokes while 2010 British Open personality Louis Oosthuizien (66) is another shot back.
Several other high-profile players â€" including No. 4-ranked Martin Kaymer, Sergio Garcia and Paul Casey of England â€" also changed into contention. Kaymer tied a march record with a 64 for a share of eighth place with McIlroy, Garcia (68) and Casey (70).
Despite his clever finish, Donald pronounced he isn't about to start celebrating usually yet.
"I would be ridiculous to consider it's over," Donald pronounced of a income pretension race. "Tomorrow it will be usually like any other day in terms of focus. we will be perplexing to locate whomever is a personality and perplexing to win a tournament."
Donald pronounced a pivotal to his arise from 26th mark after a initial turn was his brief game. It helped him win a BMW PGA Championship, among 4 contest victories this year. He degraded Lee Westwood in a playoff during Wentworth to take tip spot.
Donald non-stop on Saturday with a birdie on a hole he had bogeyed a initial dual days, and afterwards had 3 some-more birdies on a front nine. He slowed down on a behind 9 though birdied dual of a final 4 holes.
"Picked adult a birdies when we had opportunities and unequivocally took full advantage of all those opportunities," he said. "In a certain way, there was a lot of grub out there. It was a plain turn of golf though it positively wasn't perfect. we strike a few lax shots, though when we got into difficulty we was means to unequivocally puncture myself out of it with some good brief game."
McIlroy done a bad start and had a spook and a double-bogey on his front nine.
"Yeah, wasn't a start we wanted, obviously," pronounced McIlroy, whose tennis star partner Caroline Wozniacki was there to hearten him on. "Struggled early on. On a front nine, we kept losing all left. It cost me dual shots.
"I was usually perplexing to play good golf and it usually wasn't function for me. Some days it's like that. we knew we indispensable to fire something in a midst 60s to give myself a possibility going into tomorrow and we didn't do that."
McIlroy has been worried by tired a final few weeks. On Friday he pronounced it competence be a slow effects of dengue heat that he competence have picked adult when personification in South Korea or China final month. McIlroy pronounced blood exam formula Thursday showed his white blood dungeon count remained low. He pronounced he competence lift out of subsequent week's Thailand Golf Championship.
The 52nd-ranked Quiros, who had a lead going into final turn final week in Hong Kong usually to remove to McIlroy, had a rollercoaster turn in that it seemed he competence stutter again.
Leading by 4 after a second round, Quiros non-stop with a spook after an erring expostulate into a rough, usually to redeem with a birdie on No. 2. He had another spook on No. 4 before a birdie dual holes after and afterwards an eagle on No. 7.
The vibrated play continued on a behind nine, with dual birdies and dual bogeys, one after three-putting on a 18th.
"I'm still heading a contest and even when a day wasn't a best one, I'm still attack good shots and good putts," Quiros said. "So this is a usually thing that matters."
For many of a day, Quiros' biggest challenger was personification partner Peter Hanson. But after stringing together 3 birdies to keep pace, a Swede had a double-bogey on a 16th when his expostulate finished adult underneath a rake. That non-stop a doorway for Lawrie and Oosthuizen.
Oosthuizen holed dual birdies on his final 3 holes, while a 42-year-old Lawrie â€" who led after a initial day â€" vaulted into second with an eagle on a 18th.
"I had a 3-wood adult a hill, strike a good shot â€" usually perplexing to keep it around a pin â€" and holed about a 40-footer, we would say," Lawrie said. "Very surprising though good to hole a putt of that length. Nice approach to finish a day."
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