Royal Golf Club, Feb. 2 -- Callum Tarren will take a slender one-shot lead into the final round of the Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship after holding off a stellar chasing pack on a roller-coaster third day.

The Englishman went into day three with a two-shot lead but was caught at the summit early on after opening with three straight pars.

His round then burst into life, with birdies at the fourth, sixth and seventh sending him four clear at the top of the leaderboard.

But there were more twists and turns to come as three bogeys in five holes from the eighth allowed countryman Dan Brown to join him at the top.

Tarren was never overtaken on Saturday, though, and finished the day alone at the summit on 13 under par after parring his ...