1.
MV Bobby Cole putting on 1st hole...sinks putt to get birdie three. (2 shots)
0.22

2.
GV AND MV Jack Newton putts out on 18th to complete. (2 shots)
0.50

3.
GV AND SV Hale Irwin putting and waving to crowd. (3 shots)
1.07

4.
GV Tapies plays iron shot onto green.
1.31

5.
GV Nicklaus putting misses and then holes out on 18th green.(3 shots)
1.57



Initials VS 2.45


SPORT: GOLF

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Background: South African Bobby Cole shot his second consecutive round of 66 to take a narrow lead in the British Open Golf Championship at Carnoustie, Scotland, on Friday (11 July).

Cole, with a third round, 12 under par total of 204, leads Australian Jack Newton by one stroke.

The young Australian fired a course record 65 on Friday, clipping a stroke off the previous record, which Bobby Cole set with his first 66 on Thursday, and equalling the lowest round ever played in any British Open.

Earlier in the day a treble American challenge launched by Johnny Miller, Tom Watson and Hale Irwin looked likely to set the pace.

But all three faded in varying degrees, leaving Miller close-up with a total of 206, Watson a stroke behind in fourth place and Irwin a further shot back in a select group including his compatriots, Jack Nicklaus and John Mahaffey and South Africa's Anries Oosthuizen.

Another ideal day meant a further ??? of low scores with 12 players breaking seventy on the par ???2 course.

The local golfer David Hui??? a surprise halfway leader, collapsed with a third round 76??? leaving the british Challenge to Neil Coles, who ??? a 67 leaving ??? four strokes behind the leader. Peter Oosterhuis is ??? further stroke behind Coles.