McGinley right in the hunt in Ohio

Ireland's Paul McGinley moved into position to challenge for the NEC World Championship in Akron this weekend as Tiger Woods, who had been leading by two, finished with a double-bogey six.

The world number one, back at the venue where he has won three times and had nothing worse than a fourth-place finish in his last five visits, for once could not recover from driving wildly right into the trees and had to be content with a level-par 70.

It brought Luke Donald, round in 67, into a share of the lead on four under par - and McGinley would have been alongside them but for a closing bogey at the 484-yard ninth, where he could not get down in two from the edge of the green.

The Dubliner still had the joint best round of the day with a 66 and now shares third place with Thomas Bjorn, Vijay Singh, Chris DiMarco and Henrik Stenson, the Swede also finishing with a double bogey on the 18th for a 71.