American Sean O'Hair shrugged off gusting winds on a tough Bay Hill layout to preserve his three-shot lead midway through Saturday's third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando. With the day's average score among the early starters ballooning to almost four over par, O'Hair birdied the fifth before bogeying the sixth and ninth to reach the turn in one-over 36. That left him at seven under overall, with Australian Robert Allenby and Americans Hunter Mahan and Jason Gore tied for second. Allenby and the burly Gore had completed nine holes while Mahan had five holes to play. World number one Tiger Woods, bidding for a record sixth victory at the PGA Tour event hosted by Palmer, was a further two strokes back at two under after 10 holes. O'Hair, three ahead of the chasing pack overnight, coolly parred the first four holes before rolling in a 15-footer to birdie the fifth and stretch his lead to four. However the double PGA Tour champion then collected only his third bogey of the tournament after hitting his second shot into the lake behind the green at the par-five sixth. O'Hair, whose most recent victory came at last year's Tampa Bay Championship in Florida, also bogeyed the ninth after finding a greenside bunker with his approach. Kim doubles lead In-Kyung Kim matched her first-round 68 on Friday to double her lead at the 1.5 million-dollar Phoenix LPGA International. The South Korean had an eight-under total of 136 to hold a two-shot lead at the halfway point. She notched two birdies and two bogeys among her first five holes. Then she found her form, notching four more birdies in a six-hole stretch before completing her round with seven straight pars. Australian Karrie Webb and Norway's Suzann Pettersen were two shots behind Kim on 138. Two more South Koreans – Song-Hee Kim (69) and Eun-Hee Ji (70) – were another stroke back at 139. Angela Stanford notched the best round of the day, a 67, to pul into a tie for sixth at 140 with South Korean Jiyai Shin.
