SEVILLE, Spain -- Ignacio Garrido of Spain shot an even-par 72 Saturday to take a three-stroke lead into the final round of the Spanish Open on the European Tour.

Garrido three-putted for a bogey at the par-4 18th hole, but still led countryman Miguel Angel Jimenez (67) with a 15-under total of 201. Garrido shot a course record 63 on Friday.

Garrido's father, Antonio, won the Spanish Open in 1972 -- less than three weeks after Ignacio was born -- and the pair could become the first father-son duo to win the same European Tour event.

Mark Foster of England (68), Denmark's Soren Hansen (67) and Paraguay's Marco Ruiz were four strokes behind at 205.

The 36-year-old Garrido, just 19 days old when his father Antonio won the Spanish Open title in 1972, followed up his course-record 63 with his level-par 72. Denied the title by Seve Ballesteros in 1995, Garrido now faces another Spanish showdown, this one with Jimenez.

Darren Clarke, winner of his first European Tour title in five years in Shanghai last week, finally shook off his jet lag with a 67 that put him 8 under and tied for 14th place.

Colin Montgomerie, however, still looked rusty after his five-week layoff -- he married for a second time two weeks ago and then went on honeymoon to Venice -- and with a 74 was only tied for 66th of the 75 who survived the cut.

After leaving a 25-foot birdie putt on the 18th four feet short and missing the next one, Garrido shrugged off the disappointment.

"It's just one more hole in the round, nothing to worry about," said the former Ryder Cup player, who teed off this week on the back of six missed cuts in his previous seven events.

"The rest of the round was good. I felt comfortable and am happy with my performance," he added. "I did hit a couple of not-committed shots, but it just happens that you lose your concentration a bit."

Garrido added that his most anxious moment, in fact, was when Tour Senior Referee Andy McFee approached him on the 16th hole.

"Of course it was slightly worrying," he said. "You never know what he is going to say."

McFee had seen Garrido approach the caddie of playing partner Martin Erlandsson on an earlier hole and the caddie got out his yardage book. Players are not allowed to seek advice, but all Garrido was doing was asking for the return of a pin-placement sheet.

"It just looked odd at the time, but there was no penalty for what he did," said McFee.

Danny Willett of England, the world's top-ranked amateur, was 9 under through 14 before a bogey at No. 15 and three straight pars to finish with a 64 -- the day's lowest round. He was seven shots back of Garrido, but improved from 59th to 11th.

Nine under par for the first 14 holes, Willett needed only one more birdie to equal the lowest round by an amateur in European Tour history. But as the television cameras arrived, he bogeyed the 15th and parred the remaining three.

Willett had made the halfway cut with nothing to spare and climbed to third place on his own early Saturday when he produced an eagle and eight birdies in the first 14 holes.

He hit a tree on the 15th, however, and by also missing a seven-foot birdie chance at the 16th he fell one short of Garrido's course record and two short of the amateur Tour record set by Sven Struver in the 1989 German Open.

"It was a bit disappointing, but there are some tough holes coming in," said Willett, who on his Tour debut in March finished 19th in the Andalucian Open.

The clergyman's son, winner of the English Amateur title last year and a member of the Britain and Ireland Walker Cup side that so nearly beat the Americans, has already added the Spanish and Australian stroke play titles this season. The first of those earned him a place in this week's event.

"There's a lot less pressure on me. I'm not playing for a mortgage," he said. "It's good experience. I want to be out here with these boys at the end of the year.

"I was not thinking about a 59 [he would have had to birdie all the last four to be the first player ever to do that on the circuit]," he explained. "I was just trying to keep it going. I was on a really good roll."

Willett's next few months will be spent mostly back on the amateur circuit, but he will mix it with the pros again in trying to qualify for both the U.S. Open and British Open.

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