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Collated fourth round scores & totals in the 137th OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP, RoyalBirkdale GC, Birkdale, Southport, Merseyside, England

(GB & Irl unless stated, par 70):

283 Padraig Harrington 74 68 72 69

287 Ian Poulter 72 71 75 69

289 Greg Norman (Aus) 70 70 72 77, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 76 72 70 71

290 Chris Wood 75 70 73 72, Jim Furyk (USA) 71 71 77 71

292 Steve Stricker (USA) 77 71 71 73, Paul Casey 78 71 73 70, Robert Karlsson (Swe) 75 73 75 69, Anthony Kim (USA) 72 74 71 75, Robert Allenby (Aus) 69 73 76 74, Ernie Els (Rsa) 80 69 74 69, David Howell 76 71 78 67, Ben Curtis (USA) 78 69 70 75, Stephen Ames (Can) 73 70 78 71

293 Justin Leonard (USA) 77 70 73 73, Adam Scott (Aus) 70 74 77 72, KJ Choi (Kor) 72 67 75 79

294 Anders Hansen (Den) 78 68 74 74, Graeme McDowell 69 73 80 72, Davis Love III (USA) 75 74 70 75, Paul Waring 73 74 76 71, Simon Wakefield 71 74 70 79, Phil Mickelson (USA) 79 68 76 71, Thomas Sherreard 77 69 76 72, Alexander Noren (Swe) 72 70 75 77, Fredrik Jacobson (Swe) 71 72 79 72, Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 74 74 73 73, Jean Van de velde (Fra) 73 71 80 70, Rocco Mediate (USA) 69 73 76 76, Gregory Havret (Fra) 71 75 77 71

295 Retief Goosen (Rsa) 71 75 73 76, Andres Romero (Arg) 77 72 74 72, Richard Green (Aus) 76 72 76 71, Todd Hamilton (USA) 74 74 72 75, Tom Lehman (USA) 74 73 73 75, Heath Slocum (USA) 73 76 74 72, Nick O'Hern (Aus) 74 75 74 72

296 Ross Fisher 72 74 71 79, Bart Bryant (USA) 70 78 74 74, Woody Austin (USA) 76 72 74 74, David Duval (USA) 73 69 83 71, Graeme Storm 76 70 72 78, Simon Khan 77 72 71 76, Mike Weir (Can) 71 76 74 75, Jay Williamson (USA) 73 72 77 74, Ariel Canete (Arg) 78 71 76 71, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 74 74 75 73, Camilo Villegas (Col) 76 65 79 76, Thomas Aiken (Rsa) 75 71 82 68

297 Anthony Wall 71 73 81 72, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 72 73 74 78, Zach Johnson (USA) 73 72 76 76, Michael Campbell (Nzl) 75 74 74 74, David Frost (Rsa) 75 73 73 76, Douglas Labelle (USA) 78 70 74 75, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 72 71 79 75

298 Peter Hanson (Swe) 71 72 78 77, Kevin Stadler (USA) 72 75 78 73, Colin Montgomerie 73 75 74 76, Richard Finch 75 73 78 72, Tom Gillis (USA) 74 72 79 73, Scott Verplank (USA) 77 67 78 76

299 Soren Hansen (Den) 75 69 77 78, Wen-chong Liang (Chn) 77 71 77 74, Jonathan Lomas 75 73 76 75

300 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 75 72 73 80, Lee Westwood 75 74 78 73, Dave Horsey 74 70 79 77

301 Jose-Filipe Lima (Por) 73 76 75 77, Martin Wiegele (Aut) 75 74 78 74, John Rollins (USA) 73 75 77 76, Jeff Overton (USA) 72 75 75 79, Justin Rose 74 72 82 73, Craig Parry (Aus) 77 70 77 77, Brendan Jones (Aus) 74 73 83 71, Pablo Larrazabal (Spa) 75 74 73 79

302 Lucas Glover (USA) 78 71 77 76, Nick Dougherty 75 71 79 77

303 Martin Kaymer (Ger) 75 72 79 77

304 Phillip Archer 75 74 78 77

306 Sean O'Hair (USA) 75 73 80 78

311 Chih-bing Lam (Sin) 72 75 83 81

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