Cabrera closes in on leaders
Argentina’s Angel Cabrera closed to just one shot behind leaders Darren Clarke and Thomas Bjorn by starting his Scottish Open final round with four successive birdies at Loch Lomond today.
Cabrera, last year’s BMW Championship winner at Wentworth, charged to 10 under par, while Swede Johan Edfors was only one further back after four birdies in his first six holes and tied for fourth with Scot David Drysdale, England’s Benn Barham and Cabrera’s compatriot Andres Romero.
Cabrera bogeyed the short fifth, but Edfors made it four birdies in a row and when he added another on the ninth he was out in a best-of-the-week 30 and joint leader as Clark and Bjorn teed off.
Ian Poulter, meanwhile, was another to have three birdies in the first six to climb into a tie for fourth.
Bjorn missed a birdie chance from under four feet at the first and he and Clarke lost top spot when Edfors holed from 10 feet at the 12th.
Cabrera dropped another shot at the short eighth, but playing partner Luke Donald turned in 33 and was up to joint fourth.
