thorp in driving seat for silver medal

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Norway's Marius Thorp has the upper hand in the battle for the silver medal awarded to the leading amateur at the Open championship.

Thorp, who qualified by winning the European amateur title last year, carded a third-round 75 at Hoylake to lie one over par for the tournament.

That left him three shots ahead of Italian Edoardo Molinari, the only other amateur to make the cut. Molinari, whose brother Francesco won the Italian Open in May, returned a 77 to finish four over.