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Both had survived the halfway cut with nothing to spare at level par, but with three and nine holes of their third rounds to play they had moved up from joint 48th to joint fifth.

Bland, first man out, turned in 34 and then eagled the driveable 12th - reduced to 280 yards because of the wet state of the fairway - and picked up another birdie at the 14th.

O'Hara, meanwhile, eagled the 516-yard second and birdied the fourth, fifth and eighth to turn in a magnificent 31.

They were up to five under par, only three behind former Open champion Paul Lawrie, who led by two at halfway from Northern Ireland rookie Jonathan Caldwell, Dutchman Maarten Lafeber and Argentina's Daniel Vancsik.

In the group ahead of O'Hara his fellow countryman Colin Montgomerie, another to make it into the weekend by the skin of his teeth, double-bogeyed the third, but came back with birdies on the sixth, seventh and ninth to stand one under.