Widegren record hits home hopes

A third-round, seven-under-par 65 from Sweden’s Pontus Widegren may have pushed hopes of a home win in the European Amateur Championship beyond leading Irish men Kevin Phelan and Alan Dunbar.

Widegren’s score took him to 13 under par after 54 holes, leaving Waterford Castle’s Phelan six shots in arrears going into today’s final round on the par-72 Montgomerie Course, while Rathmore’s British Amateur champion Dunbar is eight shots back.

Phelan and Dunbar were left to rue rounds of 70 and 71 respectively on a day when Widegren’s 65 and a new course record of 62 from Welshman James Frazer showed the Montgomerie was there for the taking.