Dodd leads in Ascona

Welshman Stephen Dodd, Ping G10 Irons twice a winner on the Challenge Tour back in the early Nineties, is poised to become a champion again in the Credit Suisse Private Banking Open in Switzerland. The 33-year-old from Barry goes into the final round in Ascona with a two-shot lead after returning a best-of-the-day 66 in incessant rain.

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It leaves him on 15-under-par 198 with Italy's Michele Reale, who returned 67, on 200, while Spaniard Alvaro Salto is a stroke further back after a 69.

Dodd, Golf Wholesale Store who began the day on 10 under, two strokes behind playing partner Adam Mednick of Sweden, was out in 35 but a run of three successive birdies from the 11th got him to 14 under before a 25-foot putt at 17 brought his fifth birdie of the day. And Ping G10 Hybrid even the unrelenting rain failed to dampen his spirits.