RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – The only consolation for Lorena Ochoa was a one-shot lead in the Kraft Nabisco Championship.

Just when it looked as though Ochoa would seize control of the first major of the year, she three-putted for bogey on two of the final four holes and settled for a 1-under 71 on Saturday, with only one shot separating her from Hee-Won Han.

The Mexican star must know by now that this major won’t come easily.

Despite opening the back nine with three straight birdies to build a two-shot lead and loads of momentum, Ochoa gave it away with an aggressive three-putt on the 15th, and by chopping her way up the 18th in the rough and the sand.

Han had a 70 and will play in the final group of a major for the first time.

“It was an up and down day,” Ochoa said. “Today was difficult golf. It was hard from tee to green.”

U.S. Women’s Open champion Cristie Kerr was all but forgotten until finishing a 66 before the leaders made the turn, leaving her in the group only two shots behind.

Annika Sorenstam suffered stomach cramps so severe that she nearly walked off the course after 10 holes, but tried to gut it out and is glad she did. Sorenstam had four birdies on the back nine for a 73, and was only four shots behind.

Wagner holds lead after 3 in Houston

HUMBLE, Texas – Johnson Wagner says he’s struggled too much on the PGA Tour to apologize when things finally go his way.

Wagner got lucky bounces on two tee shots and shot a 3-under 69 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead over Chad Campbell after the third round of the Houston Open. The 28-year-old Wagner, winless in 43 career starts, had a 15-under 201 total.

Campbell, playing one group ahead of Wagner, birdied five of his first nine holes for a 65. Charley Hoffman and Bob Estes were three behind at 12 under. Estes shot a 64, the best round of the day. Hoffman had a 69. Geoff Ogilvy shot a 66 to reach 10 under, and Mathew Goggin was another shot back after a 72.

Wagner started the day three shots ahead of Hoffman and Goggin. Campbell was five back, but made up that deficit in eight holes.

Wagner saw it all, including Campbell’s 62-foot putt down a slope on the sixth. Campbell also holed a wedge from 88 yards for an eagle on the par-5 eighth.

“I definitely didn’t like starting with a three-shot lead and seeing it erased immediately,” Wagner said.

Wagner, in his second year on tour, admitted Friday that he would have to battle his nerves to win for the first time and earn an invitation to next week’s Masters. He played better after Campbell tied him, sinking a 16-foot birdie putt on the par-3 ninth to get going.

On the back nine, Wagner got away with two bad tee shots, hitting a spectator on the 13th and a tree on the 15th, but escaping with two pars.

“I’ve had enough bad breaks not to feel bad about the good ones,” he said.

Campbell was tied with Wagner for the lead until hitting his tee shot into the rough on No. 17 and taking a bogey.

The 33-year-old Campbell was the runner-up to Shaun Micheel at the 2003 PGA Championship, then won the Tour Championship later that year at The Champions in Houston. He won at Bay Hill in 2004, but has only two victories since, admitting that the run of success made him complacent.

He has four top-20 finishes this year and felt good about his game coming to Houston, even after missing the cut in New Orleans last week.

“Golf is a weird game,” he said. “Lot of times, you don’t get results as quick as you want them. You tend to be a little impatient.”

Hoffman shot 1-under 35 on his front nine, then jump-started his round with a wedge to 4 feet on the par-4 12th. He added birdies at 13 and 14 before a bogey at the 17th.

“I gave myself a lot of chances,” Hoffman said. “I could always make a few more putts coming down the stretch.”

Wiebe increases lead in Cap Cana

PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic – Mark Wiebe shot a 4-under 68 on Saturday to take a three-stroke lead over Scott Hoch in the Champions Tour’s Cap Cana Championship.

Wiebe’s bogey-free round, highlighted by an eagle-birdie run, pushed him to 9-under 135. He had a chance for a bigger lead, but missed 3-foot birdie putt on the par-3 fourth hole and the par-5 12th.

After starting his round by making seven straight pars, Wiebe holed out a wedge shot from 45 yards for an eagle on the par-4 eighth hole. The eagle came after he had temporarily fallen out of the lead 20 minutes earlier when Hoch holed his second shot from 85 yards for an eagle at the same hole.

Wiebe, the SAS Championship winner last year, then added a 5-foot birdie on the par-4 ninth. After making seven more pars, Wiebe converted a 15-foot birdie putt at the par-4 17th and finished with a two-putt par.

“The eagle at No. 8 made up for my silly bogey there yesterday. Today, I didn’t hit the ball great, but I played nice golf for the second day in a row,” Wiebe said. “Any time you hole out a shot for an eagle, there’s some luck involved but overall, I didn’t make any bogeys so my mind was in the right place.”

With calmer conditions at the Jack Nicklaus designed-Punta Espada course at Cap Cana, the scoring improved significantly.

A total of 45 players broke par Saturday compared to just 13 Friday.

The overall field scoring average was 71.195, down from 74.688 in the first round.

Hoch, a two-time winner on the Champions Tour already this year, shot a 67. He birdied three of his first four holes and eagled the eighth. After turning in 31, Hoch offset bogeys on No. 11 and 15 with birdies at 13 and 17.

“The eagle at No. 8 was nice and I’m glad to birdie No. 13 both days. The golf gods here at Cap Cana don’t usually allow you to do that,” said Hoch. “I’m looking forward to tomorrow. I’d like to see it where the player that shoots 2 or 3 under will win.”

Bourdy stretches lead in Estoril Open to 4 strokes after third round

CASCAIS, Portugal – Gregory Bourdy extended his lead to four strokes in the Estoril Open with a 3-under 68 in Saturday’s third round.

The 25-year-old Frenchman, who is aiming for his second European Tour title after his debut victory in Mallorca last October, has a three-round total of 17-under 196 on the Oitavos Dunes course.

Alistair Forsyth kept his hopes alive with a 5-under 66, moving the Scot into second place at 200. A stroke behind is England’s Miles Tunnicliff, whose 63 made him the fifth player in this year’s tournament to tie the course record.

Tunnicliff, a two-time tour winner who was in 40th place at the start of the day, chipped in for an eagle on the seventh hole and sank six birdie putts in the first 13 holes.