In his first tournament this year, Tiger Woods has moved into a share of the Saturday lead at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
After 10 holes of the third round the rejuvenated 14-time major winner has hoisted himself into a four-way tie for the lead at 8-under with Swede Peter Hanson, South African James Kingston and Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Gonnet
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Woods, who came into the third round after posting rounds of 70 and 69, was 3-under as was Gonnet after nine holes, but the man setting the pace on an Abu Dhabi GC course that until now had given very little away, was a super hot Hanson who after just making the cut, had stormed to the top of the leaderboard after 16 holes with seven birdies without a bogie in sight.
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The four were a shot clear of a group of six more players tied at 7-under that included World No 3 and reigning US Open champions Rory McIlroy, who for the first time in the tournament had dropped behind playing partner Woods, and Thorbjorn Olsesn, the exciting young Danish prospect who had led the second round.
Two top ranked players not in contention on Saturday and not likely to feature on the packed leaderboard that will fight it out in Sunday\'s final round were World Nos 1 and 2 Luke Donald and Lee Westwood.
Westwood shot a 4-under 68 by
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that has left him four shots off the pace on 4-under and Donald was struggling at 1-over on the 17th hole on a level par tournament total that will give him very little chance of a strong finish this week