It's three wins on the trot for an unlikely trio of Irishmen - Darren Clarke, Damien McGrane and now McGrane's room-mate on tour, Peter Lawrie.

Lawrie beat Ignacio Garrido thanks to four birdies in the last six holes of regulation play for an impressive fourth round score of 67. Both players finished at 15-under after Garrido's 72, with Soren Hansen at 14-under and Alfredo Garcia-Heredia, Miguel Angel Jimenez and David Lynn at 13-under.

Lawrie holed a 30-foot putt on the first play-off hole to stay in the game and struck a magical fairway bunker shot at the second play-off hole, while Garrido's approach spun back into the water at the 18th.

Well, it certainly didn't take long for David Toms to go off the boil, did it? Now at the top of the pile is Jason Bohn, who holds a slender lead at nine under. The secret to his success? Lengthening his putter by a gargantuan one inch, apparently. Anyway, what's really making our mouths water is the fact that Anthony Kim is only one shot behind Bohn... the Bet Detective has already spent the winnings in his mind (a new conservatory if you must know). And it's good to see Villegas in the hunt just four off the pace, but better still, the fact that Paul Goydos is in the chasing pack to add a certain old school flavour to proceedings.

Just as we were getting used to Erlandsson's magical opening round of 65, along comes Spanish stalwart, Ignacio Garrido, who topped that by posting a second round 63. "I played perfectly, and had lots of fun out there. We play a very tough sport," said Garrido, who, by the looks of that nearly unbreakable record, found it very tough, indeed. 

If we'd known that he was going to do this, we would have put our flaming house on him winning the damn thing. The local favourite is now sitting comfortably at the top of the leaderboard on 15 under par, four shots ahead of Erlandsson and seven strokes clear of third place Aussie, Peter Fowler. Still, a good third round from the chacing pack- or a meltdown from Garriddo - and it's anybody's game really.