On a day of contrasting fortunes, Shiv Kapur worked his way up the food chain at the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open with a brilliant 68 but Jeev Milkha Singh suffered his worst round of the tournament to slip outside the top 50. Gaganjeet Bhullar slipped to 78th after carding a forgettable 76. Rory McIlroy recovered from his second round nightmare with a 68, but he is still seven off the pace at 3-under. The best cards belonged to Justin Rose, who made 66 and Marc Warren, a 67 to tie for first going into the final round. The duo are set for a race to the finish at 10-under 203, with Kristoffer Broberg lying just one behind them.
Kapur slipped all the way into the cut neighbourhood after suffering a miserable back nine on Friday. But he avenged some of that misery yesterday when he made a racy 33 on his outward nine, including four birdies to set the tone for his redemption.
Kapur is coming off a terrific top 20 finish at the Alstom Open de France and only three shots separate him and the men inside the top 10 at this unforgiving links course in Aberdeen. For the moment though, Kapur is one-under 212, perhaps relieved that he could put one back on the course that tore him apart just a day earlier.
Milkha Singh, the winner of this event in 2012, is nowhere near repeating that performance. The man from Chandigarh slipped to two over 215 after enduring a 74, that included four bogeys and a double on the 14th hole. Apparently it is a hole that has threatened him the most this week, he also had a double bogey there in the first round.
Bhullar was even through the front nine – a pair of birdies offset by as many bogeys, but that was to be all the joy he had left in the round. Double bogeys at the 12th and 15th and bogeys at 14 & 16 saw him slip to 76 and 7-over 220 to take the last place on the scoreboard.
Report by Anand Datla
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