23 Jan 2010

Ashley Hall holds onto PGA lead

4:29 pm on 23 January 2010

The Australian golfer Ashley Hall has held onto the 3-stroke lead he started day three with at the New Zealand PGA Championship at Clearwater in Christchurch.

Hall got to 11 under par early in his 3rd round and had a 7 shot lead at one stage, before faltering to finish the day at 8 under par.

That's still good enough to have him 3 ahead of 2 New Zealanders Grant Moorehead and Gareth Paddison.

Another New Zealander, Anthony Doyle, was right up with the leaders until he tripled bogeyed the last to drop to a tie for 7th... 6 shots from the leader.