Colin Montgomerie wiped out Kenneth Ferrie's five-shot overnight lead in the first nine holes of the Dunhill links championship final round at St Andrews today.
Montgomerie holed a birdie putt of nearly 35 feet at the second. Then, after both had birdied the long fifth, Ferrie three-putted from just short of the next green for bogey and double-bogeyed the 390-yard seventh - getting into bunker trouble and taking three putts again.
That brought the gap down to one, and Montgomerie's two-putt birdie from just short of the ninth green squared things up.
It could have been worse for Ferrie there. He hit his drive into the gorse and took a penalty drop, but an eight-foot putt gave him his par four.
Even with that he was out in 38 to Montgomerie's 33. They were 11 under, two ahead of Argentina's Ricardo Gonzalez. More later...
