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Montgomerie in pursuit of Pablo Larrazabal at the final day of French Open

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Lee Westwood and Colin Montgomerie,  both former winners of the European Tour Order of Merit, trail lesser -known Spaniard, Pablo Larrazabal, by three strokes heading into today’s final round of the European Tour French Open.

Above, former European Number 1 Lee Westwood who is in with a chance of victory today

The way Larrazabal, the former Arizona State University student played yesterday it is difficult to imagine how Westwood and Monty are going to catch Larrazabal today, with the rest of the pack just that little too far back to register a win.

The 25 year old  Spaniard from Barcelona produced a superb four-under-par 67 and is out on his own in the pole position at 11 under par with Monty and Dane Soren Hansen his closest challengers, with Westwood and Lynn one stroke further back.

A first prize of almost £528,000, a two-year tour exemption and a place in the coming Open Championship at Royal Birkdale is there for Larrazabal’s taking if he can win today.

Leaderboard at Le National, Paris, France (PAR 71):

202 Pablo Larrazabal (Spa) 65 70 67
205 Colin Montgomerie 69 68 68, Soren Hansen (Den) 69 69 67
206 David Lynn 70 65 71, Lee Westwood 69 68 69
207 Markus Brier (Aut) 70 71 66
208 Oliver Fisher 66 73 69
209 Graeme McDowell 69 73 67, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 73 70 66, Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 72 71 66, Richard Green (Aus) 73 71 65, Rafael Echenique (Arg) 69 71 69, John Bickerton 72 69 68
210 Steve Webster 73 68 69, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 70 73 67, Graeme Storm 68 70 72, Paul Broadhurst 69 69 72, Tom Whitehouse 71 70 69, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 71 69 70, Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 68 69 73, Miles Tunnicliff 68 71 71, Peter O’Malley (Aus) 71 72 67
211 Robert Karlsson (Swe) 72 71 68, Angel Cabrera (Arg) 67 70 74, Danny Willett 74 70 67, Peter Lawrie 66 71 74
212 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 68 74 70, Francesco Molinari (Ita) 68 75 69, Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 68 73 71, Scott Barr (Aus) 75 69 68, Simon Dyson 70 70 72
213 Martin Wiegele (Aut) 68 76 69, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 73 67 73, David Frost (Rsa) 69 74 70, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 68 73 72, Rick Kulacz (Aus) 72 71 70, Michael Jonzon (Swe) 68 72 73, Jean Van de velde (Fra) 71 72 70, Jamie Donaldson 68 73 72, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 70 72 71, Thomas Levet (Fra) 75 69 69, Gregory Havret (Fra) 73 70 70
214 Hennie Otto (Rsa) 70 69 75, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 75 63 76, Paul Lawrie 73 71 70, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 72 72 70, Paul McGinley 71 73 70, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 71 73 70, Alvaro Quiros (Spa) 70 74 70
215 Carl Suneson (Spa) 72 67 76, Ian Poulter 72 72 71, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 70 73 72, Andrew McLardy (Rsa) 72 71 72, Barry Lane 68 76 71
216 Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 71 71 74, Nick Dougherty 71 71 74
217 Mikael Lundberg (Swe) 71 71 75, Felipe Aguilar (Chi) 74 69 74, Ross Fisher 73 71 73, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 74 70 73, Phillip Archer 69 74 74, Andrew Coltart 68 76 73
218 Peter Hanson (Swe) 71 73 74, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 72 71 75
219 Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 69 75 75
220 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa) 74 69 77
221 Sebastien Delagrange (Fra) 72 72 77
225 Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 70 74 81