Justin Rose and Lucas Bjerregaard share the lead on 15 under par at the Hong Kong Open after a gripping third round.

Englishman Rose began the day with a one-shot lead and carded two eagles and two birdies for a six-under 64.
But his playing partner Bjerregaard went one better with a 63, marred only by a bogey on the 18th that denied the Dane an outright lead.
England's Ian Poulter hit six bogeys in a three-over round of 73 that left him 11 shots off the lead.
Poulter, who made a last-minute journey from Orlando to play this week and maintain his European Tour membership, saw his chances of victory disappear with three bogeys in his last five holes.
Rose and Bjerregaard are four shots clear of third-placed Anirban Lahiri, of India.
A shot further back on ten under are India's Jeev Milkha Singh and England's Matt Fitzpatrick, whose four-under round featured five birdies.
The 21-year-old, who won the British Masters at Woburn a fortnight ago, had raced to the turn in 30 but also dropped his only shot of the day on the last in a round of 66.
Rose, who started the day nine under after rounds of 65 and 66, hit a wild drive on the first hole and had to putt from 15 feet for par.
The 35-year-old then hit form on the par-five third with a drive of more than 350 yards and an excellent approach setting up an eagle chance that he converted from 25 feet.
Rose briefly enjoyed a two-shot lead until Bjerregaard, who had birdied the third, also picked up a shot on the fourth.
The Dane took a share of the lead after a tap-in birdie on the sixth and matching Rose's birdie on the 10th.
Further birdies on the 11th and 12th took Bjerregaard two clear and the 24-year-old made it four in a row on the par-five 13th, but still saw his lead cut in half as Rose holed from 50 feet for his second eagle of the day.
Rose birdied on the 14th before Bjerregaard retook the lead on the 16th, only to drop his only shot of the day on the last after his approach shot edged into the rough at the back of the green.


A man who burned down his former Â£250,000 farmhouse in Carmarthenshire after it was repossessed by a bank has been jailed for five years.

Charles Chestnut reduced his home in Login, Whitland, to a "smouldering shell" after a four-year row with the Yorkshire Building Society.
Swansea Crown Court heard fire crews arrived at the property to find him having a barbecue and playing guitar.
Chestnut, 55, was convicted of arson in January.
The court had heard Chestnut ended up squatting in the house after it was repossessed, but set fire to it on the day he was due to attend court.
He had hung two signs on his farmhouse gate which greeted fire crews - one read "Free Scrap" and the other said "Danger keep out. Private property undergoing complete renovation".
Chestnut told police he started the fire but refused to take part in his trial and was convicted in his absence.
After the blaze, the value of the farmhouse fell to Â£80,000.
Previously, Chestnut had told a judge to pass the longest sentence possible but had a change of heart during his sentencing hearing and asked him to "open the door and let me go".
But Judge Geraint Walters imposed an immediate five-year jail term.
He said: "The farmhouse had been completely burned down. It was a smouldering shell. You were found outside seemingly preparing a barbecue while playing a guitar.
"You began defaulting on your mortgage payments and the property was repossessed. You became involved with a campaign against the Yorkshire Building Society for a number of years and showed determination not to be beaten by them.
"But the reality is, this was their property and not yours. You played a game of cat and mouse and decided to have the last laugh - or so you thought."


The funeral has taken place of the prominent loyalist John Boreland who was shot dead near his home in north Belfast last Sunday.

The 46-year-old father of three, who was a member of the UDA, was murdered outside his home on Sunningdale Gardens.
Among the mourners at the Moravian Church on the Oldpark Road was Andre Shoukri, one of his close associates.
Mr Boreland had survived a previous attempt on his life.
Police also warned him in recent months his life was under threat.


Notts County boss Jamie Fullarton became the latest Football League managerial casualty on Saturday, just 10 weeks after being appointed.

BBC Sport looks at five things you may have missed, on a day Bolton headed ever closer to League One and a couple of debutants had instant impacts at their new clubs.
Bolton fans might be happy just to have a club to support at all after their off-field issues this season.
It has been another dramatic week at the Macron Stadium, with manager Neil Lennon leaving by mutual consent on Monday and the club's new owners paying off their outstanding tax bill to HM Revenue & Customs.
Former Sunderland and Leeds boss Peter Reid has been brought in as a football adviser to assist caretaker Jimmy Phillips, but their first game in charge could not have gone much worse.
Fellow strugglers Bristol City hit six unanswered goals to leave the Trotters marooned at the bottom of the Championship, 12 points adrift of safety.
Wanderers will almost certainly be playing in the third tier next season for the first time since 1993.
Millwall and Chesterfield's players could be forgiven for wondering who had scored for them on Saturday.
Midfielder Chris Taylor rejoined the Lions on loan from Blackburn on Thursday.
He scored what proved to be the winner for the League One promotion chasers against Sheffield United just two minutes into his first appearance since returning to the club.
Meanwhile, winger Jamal Campbell-Ryce made Taylor's intervention look positively slovenly.
Campbell-Ryce joined the Spireites on loan from the Blades on Saturday morning and scored his side's equaliser at Scunthorpe, seconds after coming on in the 59th minute.
The Jamaica international had a loan spell with Chesterfield in 2004. He failed to score in 14 league appearances.
Spare a thought for Colchester United.
Last weekend, League One's bottom side led promotion hopefuls Wigan 3-2 going into the final minute, only for Will Grigg to pop up and score a leveller.
This week Kevin Keen took his strugglers to third-placed Walsall knowing that they needed a win to keep their fading survival chances alive.
It looked improbably like that was going to be what they were going to get after Alex Gilbey gave them the lead in first-half injury time.
However, when it is not your season, it is not your season.
Saddlers top scorer Tom Bradshaw popped up with an 89th-minute equaliser and four minutes into stoppage time Matt Preston struck to seal a remarkable comeback for the hosts.
The U's are bottom of League One with 28 points from 37 games and are 10 points adrift of safety.
Blackpool forward Jack Redshaw's day at a glance:
The former Morecambe man missed all of the late drama, as first Marcus Haber levelled for Crewe before Tom Aldred restored Blackpool's lead in the 84th minute.
There was still time for the hosts to be awarded a last-minute penalty, which Brad Inman sent over the bar to leave the Seasiders celebrating a huge victory in their battle against relegation and Redshaw breathing an equally large sigh of relief.
Two months is a long time in football.
Here is what Notts County owner Ray Trew said about Jamie Fullarton upon appointing him Magpies boss on 10 January: "I don't think I have ever been as impressed by someone at an interview as I was by Jamie.
"He had us all captivated throughout what turned out to be a lengthy assessment of his suitability for the role."
It turned out Fullarton could not get his players to buy into his philosophies and after Saturday's 4-1 home defeat by Exeter City, his eighth loss in 12 games, he was sacked.
The next man in the Meadow Lane hotseat will be the 10th manager to take control since 2010.


The literacy skills of Scottish school pupils have fallen over the past four years, according to figures published by the Scottish government.

The Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy found that less than half of Scotland's 13 and 14-year-olds are now performing well in writing.
P4 and P7 pupils also saw a drop in writing performance.
The reading ability of P4, P7 and S2 pupils remains broadly similar to 2014 - but lower than 2012.
And there has been no reduction in the big gap between the performance of the country's wealthiest and most deprived pupils.
Scottish Education Secretary John Swinney acknowledged that the figures were "simply not good enough" and showed that education reforms were now "imperative".
Mr Swinney added: "If anyone looking at these literacy results thinks nothing more needs to change in Scottish education, then they are mistaken."
He later made a statement to the Scottish Parliament, where he told MSPs that the drop in writing performance for S2 pupils was of particular concern
The Scottish Conservatives described the results as "shameful" and said the SNP had "failed a generation" during its decade in government.
But the EIS teaching union said the figures showed that Scottish pupils were continuing to perform well "despite the many challenges that our schools have faced in recent years".
The Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN) is an annual sample survey which monitors national performance of school children at P4, P7 and S2 in literacy and numeracy in alternate years.
The 2016 survey, the results of which were published on Tuesday morning, focused on literacy and involved about 10,000 pupils in 2,250 schools.
It found that in writing:
While in reading:
Pupils from the least deprived areas outperformed pupils from the most deprived in every category, and across all three age stages.
The size of the attainment gap was similar to the one recorded in 2012 - standing at 18 points in P4, 13 points in P7 and 16 points in S2 for reading.
And for writing, the size of the gap was 15 percentage points in P4, 20 in P7 and 18 in S2.
About a quarter of P4 pupils said that they seldom or never read together with someone at home, while just over a fifth said they did not play number or counting games.
And 29% said they never or rarely played word games.
Meanwhile, 40% of S2 pupils said they read "very often" using an electronic device such as mobile phone, tablet or e-reader, but only 22% said they regularly read fiction books and 14% said they frequently read non-fiction books.
Last year, the SSLN's numeracy statistics showed that pupils in Scotland were also doing less well in maths.
And Scottish schools recorded their worst ever performance in the international Pisa survey of pupils, with standards in maths, reading and science all falling.
It was the first time since the Pisa tests began in 2000 that all three subject areas were classed as "average", with none "above average", when compared with other countries across the world.
Speaking ahead of a visit to a primary school in Edinburgh, Mr Swinney said there were four key areas where improvement was needed.
He said: "We need to better understand the progress of individual pupils, be clear about the standards expected in our classrooms while stripping out bureaucracy to free teachers to teach, and ensure literacy skills are fully embedded across the curriculum."
Mr Swinney insisted that the Scottish government was taking action to provide teachers and schools with the tools and resources to improve literacy.
Its reforms include a Â£120m annual fund aimed at closing the attainment gap, as well as standardised testing and new regional education boards.
But he said: "These reforms are not an overnight solution; it will take time before we see their full effect and we must stay the course.
"But if anyone looking at these literacy results thinks nothing more needs to change in Scottish education then they are mistaken. Further reform is now imperative".
There's little cause for cheer in the literacy figures.
The survey suggests no improvement in reading or writing since 2012 - although there are some signs of progress in listening skills.
Worse there have been significant declines in writing performance since 2012.
In the case of youngsters in their second year of secondary school, the decline has been stark. A minority can now write well, very well or indeed exceed expectations for their age.
For the Scottish government, which says it wants to be judged on education, this is an enormous headache.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has previously said she wants to be judged on her education record, which she has described as her top priority.
But opposition parties have accused her of neglecting education while pushing for a second referendum on independence.
Scottish Conservative education spokeswoman Liz Smith said reading and writing ability had fallen to "shameful" levels under the SNP.
She added: "Given this evidence, it is abundantly clear that the Scottish government is not doing enough to address the problems in basic literacy that this data highlights.
"It also shows that a very persistent gap between pupils from the most deprived areas and the least deprived areas continues, and that needs to be tackled."
Scottish Labour's Iain Gray said: "No child should have their life chances determined by their background - yet that is exactly what is happening under a Nationalist government obsessed with the constitution."
Ross Greer of the Scottish Greens called for investment to reverse cuts to teachers, additional support needs staff and librarians in the country's schools.
And Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said the SNP's "obsession" with independence was "taking a terrible toll" on education.
EIS general secretary Larry Flanagan said: "At a time when education budgets have been falling, staff numbers have declined and teachers and pupils have been under severe workload pressures, our schools have continued to perform well.
"If the attainment gap is to be tackled successfully, we need to see an end to the politics of austerity and a renewed political commitment to support our comprehensive system, including tackling the excessive workload which still blights our schools."


Rain-soaked racegoers have braved bad weather on the first day of this year's Royal Ascot meeting.

Umbrellas were handed to many of the guests at the event - with others compromising their fancy attire with rain ponchos.
More than 30mm of rain has fallen at the course since Friday. The ground was officially described as soft after another 4mm of rain fell overnight.
Up to 280,000 racegoers are due to attend the event over five days.
Read more about Royal Ascot's first meeting


Britain's Laura Robson and Tara Moore have reached the second round of qualifying for the US Open.

World number 247 Robson, 22, beat Korea's Su Jeong Jang 6-3 6-2 and will next face Bulgaria's world number 142 Isabella Shinikova.
Moore, 24, the world number 171, beat Tereza Mrdeza 6-4 6-1 to set up a meeting with German Antonia Lottner, ranked 13 places higher.
Both matches are scheduled for Thursday.
There is a third round of qualifying before the tournament starts on 29 August.
Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic are the top seeds at Flushing Meadows. Andy Murray is seeded second, with fellow Briton Johanna Konta a career-high 13th.


US President Donald Trump has withdrawn his healthcare bill after it failed to gain enough support to pass in Congress.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said he and Mr Trump agreed to pull the vote, after it became apparent it would not get the minimum of 215 Republican votes needed.
The last minute move was seen as a huge blow to Mr Trump.
Repealing and replacing the programme known as Obamacare was one of his major election pledges.
Earlier on Friday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that the vote would go ahead at 15:30 (19:30 GMT).
Mr Trump had reportedly warned Republicans that if they did not vote for his bill then they would be stuck with Barack Obama's healthcare programme for good.
However, multiple reports suggested that between 28 and 35 Republicans were opposed to his draft American Health Care Act.
The vote was withdrawn shortly after 15:30, and the House is now in recess.
Republicans currently have a majority in both the House and the Senate.
However, some Republicans were unhappy that the bill cut health coverage too severely, while others felt the changes did not go far enough.
The bill also appeared unpopular with the public - in one recent poll, just 17% approved of it.
Speaking after the withdrawal, Mr Trump blamed the Democrats for not supporting the bill and predicted that Obamacare would "explode".
He said the Republicans would probably focus on tax reform for now.
"We have to let Obamacare go its own way for a little while," he said, adding that if the Democrats were "civilised and came together" the two parties could work out a "great healthcare bill".
How bad was Friday's defeat of the American Health Care Act in the House of Representatives? Bad. Very bad.
The American Health Care Act was the first major piece of legislation pushed by the White House and the Republican-controlled Congress, a key political test early in the president's term, when he should be at the height of his power and party cohesion at its strongest.
In spite of all of this, Mr Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan and the Republicans running Washington could not get the job done.
For Republicans Friday wasn't just bad. It was a disaster.
Read more analysis here.
Earlier, Mr Ryan told reporters: "We are going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.
"I will not sugar coat this. This is a disappointing day for us. Doing big things is hard."
"We were a 10-year opposition party where being against things was easy to do," he said, adding that it was difficult to get "people to agree with each other in how we do things".
Meanwhile, Democrat and House minority leader Nancy Pelosi described it as "a victory for the American people".
And House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer said it was a "good day" for Americans, adding "we worked over years to assure that the American public would have access to affordable, quality healthcare".


The British and Irish Lions can beat New Zealand but must change tactics rather than personnel, says former coach Sir Clive Woodward.

The tourists lost 30-15 in the opening Test at Eden Park on Saturday.
Woodward, whose Lions side suffered a 3-0 whitewash by the All Blacks in 2005, says Warren Gatland's team need to dominate possession rather than trying to play a box-kicking game.
"The All Blacks are totally beatable," said Woodward, 61.
"But you have got to dominate possession and if you don't they are so talented, so good, so physical, you are going to get beat."
England's World Cup-winning coach told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek: "We didn't lose the game based on selection.
"What happens in the UK, you box kick, the opposition get it, play a couple of phases and normally kick the ball back.
"You box kick down here, the All Blacks catch it and you don't get the ball back."
The Lions face the Hurricanes on Tuesday, before Saturday's second Test against the All Blacks in Wellington (both 08:35 BST kick-offs).
Referees will be asked by Gatland to clamp down on what he considers the All Blacks' harassment of Conor Murray's kicking game.
He said New Zealand dived "blindly" at Murray's standing leg whenever he launched a box kick in Saturday's defeat.
France's Jerome Garces will referee this Saturday's second Test, and Gatland said he will raise the issue in meetings with the officials later this week.
"There were a couple of times from Conor Murray where there was a charge down where someone dived at his legs," said Gatland.
"I thought that was a little bit dangerous, and after he's kicked he's been pushed a few times, and pushed to the ground."
Munster claimed Glasgow targeted Murray's standing leg during the Irish province's 14-12 Champions Cup win at Scotstoun on 14 January.
Woodward, who toured New Zealand as a Lions player in 1983, was impressed with Gatland's attacking line-up and said defeat by "one of the best sporting teams in the world" should be put in perspective.
He highlighted the performance of full-back Liam Williams and wingers Elliot Daly and Anthony Watson, adding that scrum-half Conor Murray's use of the ball - making a game-high 11 kicks from hand - was down to the "team plan".
"When we ran from deep and had the confidence to keep the ball in hand, we played really well," added Woodward.
"I just don't want to see us kick the ball away."
Woodward called New Zealand lock Brodie Retallick's performance on Saturday "one of the best I've ever seen", adding that the Lions need to match the All Blacks like for like in the remaining Tests.
"They are physical, they are direct and they are tough to beat," he added. "You know what's coming.
"My own personal view is you have to try and pick a team that plays similar to them, try and match them at what they do really well.
"If you can match them you have got half a chance."


President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia is using violence to silence critics in the lead-up to presidential election in December and pressure is needed to stop it, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.

Mr Jammeh has denied similar allegations in the past.
He will be seeking re-election for a fifth term and for the first time he will be facing a single major opposition candidate.
HRW urges external pressure on The Gambia to prevent further violence.
In a report published on Wednesday, the group says two Gambian activists have died in custody, with dozens of critics of President Jammeh in jail.
They are being denied medical or legal help, the report says.
The Gambia, a popular tourist destination because of its beaches, has never experienced a democratic transition of power since independence.
Mr Jammeh took over in a 1994 coup. His critics accuse him of running a repressive state, an allegation he denies.
Most of the major Gambian opposition parties last week picked a single candidate - businessman Adama Barrow of the United Democratic Party (UDP).
Mr Barrow's nomination is the result of the biggest opposition alliance in Gambia since independence, the AFP news agency reported.
HRW says the prospect of political change in December has prompted Mr Jammeh's government to step up oppression against critics.
It claims a torture squad, linked to the presidential guard, is terrorising opponents ahead of the election.
The group wants freedom benchmarks to be imposed now - by the United States, the European Union and The Gambia's West African neighbours - to prevent more bloodshed.
Last week, The Gambia said it would pull of the International Criminal Court (ICC) after accusing the tribunal of persecuting and humiliating Africans.
The small West African nation joined South Africa and Burundi in saying it will withdraw from the court.


Angus MacDonald scored in stoppage time as Barnsley snatched a deserved draw against promotion-chasing local rivals Sheffield Wednesday at Oakwell.

MacDonald superbly headed Adam Hammill's cross past Keiren Westwood after constant Tykes pressure.
Sam Winnall, who left Barnsley to join the Owls in January, had earlier tapped the visitors in front, having been booed by the home fans throughout.
Wednesday are now seventh, one point below sixth-placed Fulham.
Carlos Carvalhal's side dropped out of the play-off places after the Cottagers relegated their South Yorkshire rivals Rotherham United.
Sheffield Wednesday, who had occupied a top-six spot since December, have now won just one of their past seven matches and are without a victory in four.
That sequence looked to be coming to an end when Winnall capitalised on a defensive mistake to tap into an empty net.
But substitute Adam Armstrong was twice denied by Westwood before MacDonald, who had earlier had an attempt cleared off the line, eventually hauled Barnsley level.
The home side may even have taken all three points had Matty James not volleyed over the crossbar when well placed with the game's final attack.
Barnsley are 13th in the table after winning only one of their past 11 matches.
Barnsley head coach Paul Heckingbottom:  "I would have been upset if we had not got something out of the game, but I would have been delighted if we had got three points with the chances at the end.
"What could go wrong did go wrong, but it shows the spirit and determination to come out and get something out of the game.
"We know Wednesday are a good side with the ball so we did a lot of work on our shape and I was pleased with it.
"The second half had a lot of tactical shifts and changes in momentum. There were a lot of positives in terms of attitudes and application from the players today."
Sheffield Wednesday boss Carlos Carvalhal:  "The goalkeepers almost didn't have a save to make in the first half but in the second half we started to press higher.
"We achieved one goal and should have had more to finish the game. During that period we didn't feel any real threats to our goal.
"If you don't score the second goal all teams are very strong mentally and believe they can score in the last minutes, which is what happened today.
"We played for the three points and with good discipline. We didn't play fantastic football but we played with discipline."
Match ends, Barnsley 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Second Half ends, Barnsley 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Attempt missed. Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Steven Fletcher.
Attempt missed. Matthew James (Barnsley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Roberts.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Tom Lees (Sheffield Wednesday) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Adam Hammill (Barnsley) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Armstrong.
Attempt saved. George Moncur (Barnsley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Kent with a cross.
Angus MacDonald (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Marc Roberts (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal!  Barnsley 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1. Angus MacDonald (Barnsley) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Adam Hammill with a cross following a set piece situation.
Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Josh Scowen (Barnsley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday).
Hand ball by Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday).
Adam Reach (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Josh Scowen (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Reach (Sheffield Wednesday).
Angus MacDonald (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Morgan Fox (Sheffield Wednesday).
Foul by Ryan Kent (Barnsley).
Marco Matias (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Adam Reach (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Marco Matias.
Foul by Josh Scowen (Barnsley).
Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Barnsley. Conceded by Jack Hunt.
Ryan Kent (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ryan Kent (Barnsley).
Marco Matias (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Sam Winnall (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card.
Saidy Janko (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marco Matias (Sheffield Wednesday).
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Marco Matias replaces Callum McManaman because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Callum McManaman (Sheffield Wednesday) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Ryan Kent (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Josh Scowen.
Attempt saved. Callum McManaman (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  Barnsley. Conceded by Sam Winnall.
George Moncur (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Jones (Sheffield Wednesday).


A smartphone with a built-in thermal camera is on show at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

21 February 2016 Last updated at 19:34 GMT
The Cat S60 can measure the temperate of objects and take thermal selfies in complete darkness.
BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones asked product manager Pete Cunningham what people would use the device for.


Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson admitted he was "ashamed" to see his side set a new club record of eight straight league defeats with a 1-0 loss at fellow-strugglers Nottingham Forest.

The Robins have lost 11 of their past 12 league games, winning just once in that time, and are 20th in the table - two points above the relegation zone.
"It is a horrendous statistic," Johnson told BBC Radio Bristol.
"I'm ashamed of that. It hurts. We have to keep fighting."
Former Barnsley boss Johnson arrived at Ashton Gate in February 2016 and steered Bristol City clear of relegation last season.
A promising start this term saw his side occupy fifth spot in October, but Saturday's loss at the City Ground saw them drop below Forest - who had not won since 2 December.
"It was a frustrating watch for all of us," Johnson said. "We were good in the second half and had a couple of chances we needed to take.
"The Championship was never going to be easy - we are in a rebuilding phase.
"We spoke at the start of the season about history makers and it was supposed to be positive - not bad history.
"We've got to make sure we make history in positive ways and we can still do that this year. We need to fight our way back up the table. I believe that we can."


Education secretary John Swinney has set out the thinking behind controversial plans for new regional education boards.

The boards will encourage co-operation between schools in different council areas.
Mr Swinney told MSPs not all practice in learning and teaching was good enough.
He argued the boards could play a part in helping to avoid duplication between different councils to save cash.
Mr Swinney made the remarks under examination by MSPs on Holyrood's education committee.
The government is consulting over moves to reform the governance of schools. It wants to give as much power as possible to individual schools and headteachers and create the new regional boards which will operate across council areas.
Details of just what powers the boards will have and the regions they will cover have still to be decided.
It has said councils will retain legal responsibility for schools and insisted councils will still have an important part to play.
However some in local government - which is fiercely protective of its traditional role in the education system - wonder what practical powers they will retain.
Mr Swinney explained that the plan for regional boards stemmed from the government's aim of closing the attainment gap - the gap between how well children from relatively rich and poor backgrounds do. He told them an OECD report on Scottish education had challenged the government to ensure there was more collaboration.
He said the quality of learning and teaching was central to closing the gap.
Mr Swinney told the committee: "To be honest about it, I'm asking the question are all of our local authorities adding as much value to that learning and teaching experience on an equal basis?
He added: "I think - and it's not just my opinion on that - Audit Scotland assessments about the capabilities of education authorities vary significantly around the country and I can't afford to ignore that because if I'm interested in closing the attainment gap in every part of the country it's not good enough to... resign ourselves to the fact that one authority is a fabulous education authority that adds lots of value to the learning and teaching experience and another authority at the other end of the spectrum doesn't do so. That's not fair to young people.
"So this isn't some abstract lines on a map discussion that I'm raising. I'm raising an issue about what enhances the learning and teaching of young people in our country and we have to be honest enough to confront it and not all the practice that is undertaken in our country adds enough value. And that's got to be addressed."
Mr Swinney praised the joint work on education done by councils in north east Scotland and the Highlands and islands through a co-operative group called the Northern Alliance.
But he expressed frustration at the limited progress which had been made by some other local authorities in the rest of Scotland, both in education and local services more widely.
He said: "If we're doing things 32 times then I venture to suggest in a tight financial climate there are ways we could collaborate to save money for local authorities... in avoiding the need for replication."
The Scottish government has encouraged councils to look at ways they can work more collaboratively with each other and with other public services. It deliberately avoided telling them what to do, arguing what was right in one area may not be right somewhere else.
However there has been far less progress towards so-called "shared services" than many had predicted.
Councils have a pivotal role in the Scottish education system - virtually all state schools are run by councils and there are no provisions to allow schools to opt out of local authority control. Councils employ teachers, take responsibility for school buildings and decide just how much to spend.
The government is already committed to giving Â£100 million straight to headteachers to help raise attainment through changes to the council tax. Some in local government are angry that money raised in one council area may end up spent somewhere else.
It is also discussing whether there should be a national funding formula for schools to help ensure spending is consistent and based on educational need or the challenges facing an area.
Larry Flanagan, the general secretary of teachers' union the EIS, said: "We are currently taking the views of members to support a formal response to the Scottish government's consultation on the review of governance.
"However, from the EIS point of view, the priority must be enhancing the support for schools and teachers and ensuring a consistent high-quality educational experience for pupils in all parts of the country. Rather than focussing on structural changes, the review should concern itself with how teaching and learning can be enhanced and professional collaboration supported.
"The role and remit of the proposed regional boards, and any value that this additional structural layer might bring, remains unclear and the key question over the benefit this would bring to schools, teachers and pupils remains to be answered."
A spokesman for Cosla said: "We note Mr Swinney's comments with interest as they come on the back of a very successful event held by Cosla yesterday looking at this very issue.
"Over 120 officers and politicians came together from all areas of Scotland and a number of existing regional collaborations were showcased. Mr Swinney was in attendance and would have noted that many of these existing partnerships are looking at the very issues covered by the education governance consultation.
"Local government, day in/day out, are absolutely committed to raising levels of attainment and addressing the attainment gap.
"A number of challenging questions were posed to Mr Swinney at the event and it was clear that Scottish government and local government should work together to focus on the children and young people and to support them in every aspect of their lives and to ensure that our teaching staff are supported to do so."
Reforming the governance of education may lead to a huge row between some councils and the Scottish government.
Councils are fiercely protective of their role in the system - education is the biggest, and arguably most important, council service.
But, in a sense, it is a national service that local government has historically been entrusted to provide.
Tensions have often erupted - in the past and now - when councils and national politicians have different expectations.
Mr Swinney's remarks could be loosely paraphrased as a statement of the obvious: some councils aren't doing as well as others and that this is unacceptable.
The powers of the new regional educational boards have still to be decided.
One question many in local government are asking is whether they will devolve power down from Holyrood or suck power up from individual councils.
Coupled with plans to devolve as much power as possible to individual schools, some in local government wonder just what practical powers and responsibilities over education they will retain.
Scotland has 32 councils - an attempt to create a joint education department covering both Stirling and neighbouring Clackmananshire came to an end. But having so many education authorities is a modern development which, some might argue, swam against the tide.
Between 1975 and 1996, education was the responsibility of nine regional authorities such as Strathclyde. Some in local government claim there has been a 50 year trend towards centralisation in Scotland with recent rows, such as the creation of a national police force and fire service, simply the latest examples.
But this row over power and responsibility could be just as significant as the debate over what can be done to raise attainment in schools.


A health minister says the government no longer plans to undertake its own consultation on abortion counselling.

Anna Soubry told MPs the government "did not intend to change either the law or the guidelines".
But she said ministers would look at recommendations from an inquiry being held by a cross-party group of MPs.
Anti-abortion campaigners argue there is a conflict of interest because many pregnant women who receive counselling from clinics go on to have abortions.
Instead, they want counselling to be provided by someone, such as a GP, who is separate from the abortion clinic.
The cross-party group was set up after MPs voted last September against proposals that would have stopped abortion providers offering counselling to pregnant women.
The proposals, supported by three cabinet ministers, were brought forward by Conservative MP Nadine Dorries.
The government said at the time that it would look at ways of incorporating the "spirit" of the proposals in new regulations - and said a consultation was due to be launched.
'Personal belief'
Ms Soubry said: "I am aware that there is a cross-party inquiry into unwanted pregnancy and I think there is some important work that they will do and evidence which they will hear.
"But the simple reality is as follows - we no longer plan to undertake a separate consultation and I am sorry if that disappoints those members of the committee.
"I am grateful for the work that they did and I want to thank them for all their efforts. I am sorry if, as I say, there is some disappointment, but the reality is that we now don't intend to change the law so it is now an otiose exercise."
Ms Dorries, who called the debate in which the minister made her announcement, accused Ms Soubry of cancelling the consultation because of her own personal beliefs.
She said: "This is quite bizarre. What Anna Soubry has said today doesn't improve services for women.
"The government has decided that it is not the right decision, and what makes it even more bizarre is that the British Medical Association voted to support the consultation.
"Anna Soubry has a personal belief. What she has done is try to impose her personal belief on her role and that is out of order."
Shadow public health minister Diane Abbott, who walked out of the cross-party group earlier this year, welcomed the cancellation of the consultation as a "victory for women".
"The message that people have forced this government to listen to is that British women's right to choose is here to stay," she said.
"I think it's been a particularly tough period for those people who provide care and support for women seeking an abortion, who have repeatedly faced the most appalling attacks, smears and misinformation about their work in the media, and in Parliament."
After the debate the British Medical Association responded to Ms Dorries' reference to them, saying: "Our policy states that we support timely and impartial counselling and advice for women requesting abortion should they wish to receive it. However, we have not called for consultation."


India has said that planned talks with Pakistan would go ahead only if Islamabad took action against militants that Delhi said were behind the deadly assault on the Pathankot air base.

A foreign ministry spokesman said the "ball is in Pakistan's court" and the "immediate issue" was their response.
Indian troops killed six militants during a four-day battle at the base in Punjab, close to the Pakistan border.
Foreign secretaries of the two sides are due to hold peace talks next week.
Although India has not officially announced any dates, Indian media reports say the meeting is due to take place on 14-15 January in Islamabad.
The assault on the Pathankot base started on Saturday, when a group of gunmen - wearing Indian army uniforms - entered residential quarters on the air base.
Seven Indian troops and six militants were killed in the gun battle.
Hopes for Delhi-Islamabad detente were raised in late December after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi  paid an unexpected visit to his counterpart Nawaz Sharif  on his way back from Afghanistan and the two sides announced plans to resume peace talks.
But the attack has come as a blow to the peace initiative.
"Pathankot terror attack has put renewed focus on cross-border terrorism," Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Vikas Swarup told a press conference in Delhi on Thursday.
"The government's policy towards Pakistan is clear and consistent. India wants friendly relations with all its neighbours including Pakistan," he said, adding that "India will not tolerate cross-border terror".
On Tuesday, Mr Modi urged an "immediate" response to the Pathankot attack after Mr Sharif telephoned him to discuss the incident.
Mr Sharif promised that Pakistan would take "prompt and decisive action against the terrorists", Indian officials said.
India's Press Information Bureau said India had provided Pakistan with "specific and actionable" information on the attack.
Earlier in the week, the United Jihad Council - a coalition of more than a dozen militant groups fighting against Indian rule in Kashmir - claimed that its "national highway squad" was behind the attack.
The council, based in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, is headed by Syed Salahuddin who also leads Hizb-ul Mujahidin, the longest surviving Kashmiri militant group.
Some Indian security officials have suggested the Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed was to blame. India says the group is backed by Pakistan, but Islamabad denies this.


The closure of the Forensic Science Service should have no negative impact on criminal justice as long as the wind down is properly handled, commercial providers have told a Commons inquiry.

LGC Forensics, the biggest commercial provider, said the private sector was ready to take on the work of the FSS, but expressed concern that the forensics market was shrinking.
The government announced last year that the FSS would close, with as many of its operations as possible being transferred or sold off.
The government wants private enterprise, which currently makes up 40% of the market, to fill the gap left behind by the FSS.
But some experts are concerned that an over-emphasis on profits could threaten the quality of science.
The FSS analyses evidence from crime scenes in England and Wales, but has been losing about £2m a month.
In a written submission to the inquiry, Steve Allen, the managing director of LGC Forensics, commented: "The closure of the FSS will not damage the prospects for forensic science in the UK so long as its wind-down is properly implemented and is used by the government as an opportunity to support a properly regulated market of a sufficient size to enable competition between dedicated market participants."
The Home Office has tasked the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) and the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) with managing the gradual wind down of the FSS.
Written evidence from David Hartshorne and Roger Derbyshire, directors at commercial provider Cellmark, said there would be no negative impacts on the quality or impartiality of forensic evidence.
"Forensic scientists in the private sector have exactly the same motivation to support the criminal justice system and the victims of crime as those in the public sector," they said.
"[Private sector scientists'] ethics and impartiality are independent of the organisation for whom they work; and ultimately, when they stand in the witness box to provide evidence, they are representing themselves rather than the company that employs them."
In a written response to parliamentary questions on 1 February, Crime Reduction Minister James Brokenshire said advice from ACPO, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) and others suggested that the UK forensics market would contract from £170 million in 2009 towards about £110 million by 2015.
In addition, police forces have been bringing forensic work in-house, in order to make cost savings. And commentators say this could pose an impediment to the future expansion of the private forensics market.
Some forensic scientists have expressed dismay at the FSS's closure, voicing concerns about the quality of science, the retention of expertise and the future of forensic research and development (R&D) once the service is closed down.
In a letter to New Scientist magazine in January, Professor Alec Jeffreys, who pioneered the technique of genetic fingerprinting at the University of Leicester, said the decision to close the FSS could not be in the interests of justice.
"Who will provide the expertise for complex and interdisciplinary investigations, and who will develop and refine new technologies? The private sector is most unlikely to fill this void," he wrote.
As reported by BBC News last month, Peter Gill, professor of forensic genetics at the University of Oslo, said there was a mismatch between the government's aim to commercialise forensic science and the requirement of courts for openness.
He added that UK courts would not accept forensic tests whose details were kept secret due to commercial confidentiality issues.
Mr Brokenshire has said that the Forensic Science Regulator should ensure that quality standards are maintained. This course is questioned by Prospect union, which represents scientists and engineers, in their evidence to the inquiry.
"Currently the forensic science regulator sits in the Home Office, but... Prospect understands that there are very limited powers and no statutory influence," the union wrote.
It added: "Additional regulatory powers will be needed to ensure that there is a level playing field between police forces and private contractors. It will also be essential to ensure that forensic science practitioners have recognisable and respected qualifications and a professional code of ethics."
Professor Allan Jamieson, director of the Forensic Institute in Glasgow, which is a commercial supplier of forensic services, said there was "no reason to expect that, if properly managed, this market cannot deliver the required service at a fair price".
But he highlighted the need for the involvement of the wider scientific community in UK forensic science to prevent it from becoming isolated.
"It cannot be known whether any provider has met the scientific standard if there is no scientific research to measure the standard against," he wrote in his submission.
"Perhaps properly funding this essential research is the obvious, logical, and necessary step to prevent the feared decline of standards in forensic science."
The FSS is headquartered in Birmingham, with a number of laboratories around England and Wales; it has already closed laboratories at Chepstow and central Birmingham to help bring costs under control. The service previously employed about 1,600 staff.
Paul.Rincon-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk


Police searching a prison in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte say they have found three unfinished escape tunnels.

The discovery comes just days after at least 26 inmates were killed in a riot at the jail in the city of Natal.
Officials said inmates at Alcacuz jail had taken advantage of heavy rains to dig the tunnels in the softened ground.
But they insisted that none of them had been finished and that no prisoner had managed to escape through them.
Violence erupted at Alcacuz on 14 January when rival criminal gangs First Command of the Capital (PCC) and the Crime Union clashed.
At least 26 people were killed in the 14-hour riot.
There have been several outbreaks of violence at the jail since that day.
Military police are erecting a barrier made from 12m-high (39ft) containers between the prison wings occupied by the rival gangs to keep them apart.
Officials said the temporary barricade would eventually be replaced by a cement wall measuring about 90m in length.
Alcacuz prison was designed to hold 620 inmates, but held more than 1,000 before the riot erupted.
The authorities have since transferred 220 prisoners to other prisons.
Brazil has seen a wave of prison violence since the beginning of the year with more than 120 inmates killed.
The spike in violence is blamed on a breakdown of a truce between two of the country's most powerful gangs.


A judge in Pakistan has dismissed an application for bail from the father of Samia Shahid, who was allegedly killed in a so-called "honour killing".

Her former husband, Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel, is accused of murder and is reported to have confessed to strangling her with her scarf.
Chaudhry Muhammad Shahid, her father, is being held as an accessory to her murder.
A lawyer for Samia's father said he intended to lodge an immediate appeal.
At a hearing in the Punjab city of Jhelum,  Samia's uncle and the policeman who headed the original investigation were granted bail.
They were being held on suspicion of falsifying and withholding evidence in the case.
Both men will be released subject to the payment of bonds.
Ms Shahid, 28, from Bradford, died in July in northern Punjab.
She had been visiting family in the village of Pandori when she died, and her relatives initially said she had suffered a heart attack.
Her second husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazim, believes she was the victim of a so-called honour killing as her family did not approve of their marriage.
A post-mortem examination confirmed she died as a result of being strangled.


Cambridge United defender Josh Coulson has signed a new contract to stay with the League Two club until June 2018.

Coulson, who will miss the rest of the current season with an ankle ligament injury, made 12 appearances for the U's in all competitions this term.
The 27-year-old has played a total of 269 games for the club, having made his debut in December 2008.
"I want to thank everyone at the club for looking after me at this tough time," he said.
"I can now concentrate on getting my ankle right and returning to fitness as soon as possible to repay their loyalty."


The assembly's finance committee is to meet amid calls for an inquiry into claims a £7m payoff had been set aside for a Northern Ireland politician.

The allegation, over a major property deal, was made in the Irish parliament by independent member Mick Wallace.
He said it was linked to the sale of NI property loans held by the National Asset Management Agency (Nama).
He claimed £7m was in a law firm's account and earmarked for the politician.
The Nama portfolio was purchased by New York firm Cerberus Capital Management for £1.3bn.
The chair of the assembly's finance committee, Sinn Féin's Daithí McKay, said he will convene an emergency sitting to examine the allegations.
"As part of this examination I would expect Cerberus to appear before the committee," he said.
"I would intend to call on Nama officials and Mick Wallace to appear before the committee and the law firm involved to elaborate on their recent statement on the matter.
"I will be calling the committee together at the earliest opportunity to consider these very serious allegations in the interests of transparency and accountability."
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said an "intensive investigation" should begin as soon as possible.
"This is a very serious statement by Mick Wallace, it needs to be very thoroughly investigated," the Sinn Féin MLA told BBC Radio Foyle.
He said Mr Wallace should speak to An Garda Síochána (Irish police) and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) "as a matter of urgency so we can get to the bottom of the story".
"It may be baseless, it may not be. It absolutely needs to be investigated and I'm very keen for this to happen," Mr McGuinness added.
The PSNI said nothing has been reported to it regarding the claims, and "as such there is no investigation".
Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister said he will table a priority written question to the first and deputy first ministers on Friday.
He said it is "imperative that this matter is thoroughly investigated by all relevant authorities, including the PSNI".
Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said it would be useful if every Northern Ireland party leader came forward to say they were not the intended recipient of the money.
He added: "What we do need to hear is Mick Wallace putting some facts together beyond that allegation; we need an investigation by An Garda Síochána, the PSNI, perhaps by the Financial Services Authority in the UK and the Irish Financial Service Regulatory  Authority."
The SDLP's Alban Maginness said the matter had to be cleared up quickly.
"The statement that was made in Dail Eireann yesterday is a serious statement, it has to be taken seriously and we in Northern Ireland have got to act and act appropriately, quickly, efficiently and effectively," he said.
Legal and property circles in Belfast and Dublin have been buzzing with speculation and gossip on the NAMA property sale story for months.
Journalists who made enquires, including to the Law Society of Northern Ireland and PSNI, largely got nowhere in terms of establishing on-the-record facts.
But yesterday, after Mick Wallace's Dáil allegations, or speculation if you prefer, Tughans issued a very revealing and startling statement.
"They threw their former partner under a bus," was how it was put to me, with Tughans saying he had diverted fees "to an account of which he was the sole beneficiary, without the knowledge of the partners".
The $64,000 question - or maybe the £7m one - is why?
Mr Wallace named Belfast solicitors Tughans as having acted for Cerberus and said "a routine audit showed that £7m ended up in an Isle of Man bank account".
According to the official transcript of parliamentary proceedings, he added: "It was reportedly earmarked for a Northern Ireland politician."
Tughans has denied Mr Wallace's allegation, while Cerberus said "no improper or illegal fees were paid by us, or on our behalf".
The Democratic Unionist Party MP Sammy Wilson cautioned that Mr Wallace is "known for outlandish claims", but added that the allegation should be "properly investigated".
Northern Ireland Justice Minister David Ford said: "Mick Wallace should be making a formal statement to the Garda, not just making an allegation under parliamentary privilege."
Although Tughans denied Mr Wallace's specific allegation, it did disclose details of a dispute at the highest level of the firm.
In its statement, the law firm said: "We can confirm that a former partner diverted to an account, of which he was the sole beneficiary, professional fees due to the firm, without the knowledge of the partners.
"We have since retrieved the money and he has left the practice.
"Tughans reported the circumstances of the departure of the former partner to the Law Society."
The man who left Tughans was Ian Coulter, the firm's then managing partner.
In a further statement on Friday, Tughans said Mr Coulter was involved in the Nama transaction.
"Following internal investigation Tughans voluntarily brought the circumstances leading to Ian Coulter's departure to the attention of the Law Society of Northern Ireland [LSNI]," it said.
"Tughans has cooperated fully with LSNI's inquiry. That inquiry is ongoing. The firm awaits the outcome of the inquiry before deciding which other agencies should be notified."
The BBC has attempted to contact Mr Coulter for comment.
A spokesperson for the Law Society of Northern Ireland said it "does not comment on whether or not there is any investigation ongoing in relation to any particular matter or firm".


American Brooks Koepka equalled the US Open's lowest winning score of 16 under to claim his first major at Erin Hills.

Koepka had three successive birdies from the 14th to match the total set by Rory McIlroy when he won in 2011 on a par-71 layout compared to this par 72.
His five-under 67 was only bettered by Japan's Hideki Matsuyama who posted 66 to tie for second on 12 under with overnight leader Brian Harman (72).
England's Tommy Fleetwood, shot a level-par 72 to end fourth on 11 under.
The 26-year-old from Southport, playing in just his second US Open, was unable to keep pace with playing partner Koepka on the front nine.
The pair started Sunday's final round one off the lead but Koepka holed three birdies in his first eight holes, while Fleetwood followed a birdie on the second with three bogeys in his next six holes for a five-shot swing.
Fleetwood, ranked 33rd in the world, steadied his round with a birdie on the ninth and returned to 11 under by picking up another shot on the par-five 14th and then parred his final four holes.
"I didn't play how I wanted to," he said on Sky Sports. "You never know how you're going to react being up there in the final round - you've got to deal with that and it's all new for me."
However, he was quick to praise Koepka who becomes the seventh first-time major winner in succession. "He was brilliant, the shots he hit down the stretch, you can't describe how hard some of them are," Fleetwood continued.
"He was phenomenal - I would've like to have played like that. It was windy and he shot five under, fair play."
BBC Radio 5 live's Jay Townsend said in commentary that Koepka only seriously got into golf after being involved in a car accident at the age of 10.
Townsend added: "As a result, he was banned from playing contact sports and that's how he seriously got into golf. It was kind of by accident."
The 27-year-old from Florida who turned professional in 2012, had won twice on the European Tour and just once on the PGA Tour before this win, which earns him $2.1m (£1.6m).
Koepka opened his final round in perfect fashion with birdies on his opening two holes. Another followed on the eighth and he battled hard after dropping a shot on the 10th, holing a 10-foot par-putt on the 13th before effectively winning the title with his birdie streak from the 14th.
The statistics show that he won with a combination of power and accuracy from tee to green on the 7,845-yard course, the longest in major championship history.
The fairways were the widest in US Open history and Koepka took full advantage, averaging 307 yards off the tee and hitting 88% of them across the four rounds, tied fourth overall.
"It was bombs away," he said. "You could hit it far and the fairways were generous enough. That was a big plus for me. I'm a big ball striker. On some of these par fives I don't even need to hit driver to get there."
Staying on the fairways and out of the punishing thigh-deep fescue rough helped Koepka hit the most greens in regulation, 62 out of 72.
Once on the greens Koepka said he "putted brilliantly", although he took 1.71 putts per hole, slightly above the average for the field.
On joining the likes of Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as a US Open winner, he added: "To be in the same category as some of the guys on this trophy is unbelievable. This is truly special, it really is."
For the first time since world rankings were introduced in 1986, the top three, Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day, all missed the cut at a major.
The only men in the world's top 10 to significantly challenge a leaderboard dominated by players chasing their first victory at a major were Matsuyama and American Rickie Fowler and both of them are also yet to win one of golf's big four prizes.
World number four Matsuyama started six shots behind Harman and began positively with with three birdies in five holes. However, despite five more on the back nine, two bogeys proved costly.
Fowler started two back but the world number nine did not threaten the lead at any point and carded a 72 - including dropped shots at the 12th and 15th - to finish on 10 under par.
The 28-year-old ended tied for fifth with fellow Americans Bill Haas and Xander Schauffele and was satisfied with a seventh top-10 finish at a major.
"If you look at the negatives too much, you're going to be stuck doing that the whole time," he reasoned.
"You have to measure success in different ways, not just by winning, just because that doesn't happen a whole lot. You kind of have to say, 'Hey, it's a major.'"
American Jordan Spieth, winner in 2015, closed with a three-under 69 to finish on one over.
The 22-year-old, ranked fifth, was pleased with his tee-to-green play but conceded he was "not comfortable" on the greens all week and has "work to do with the putter".
Masters champion Sergio Garcia is world number seven and the Spaniard had a solid, if unspectacular, week in Wisconsin. A two-under 70, followed by two 71s and a 72 returned a four under par total.
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Eddie Pepperell was the only one of the six other Britons to make the cut to finish the day better than he started it.
The 26-year-old, playing in his second US Open, carded a one-under 71 to improve to five under.
Paul Casey, who was in a four-way tie for the lead at halfway on seven under par, saw his challenge effectively end with a three-over 75 on Saturday. A quiet finish with just the two bogeys saw the 39-year-old end on two under.
Scotland's Martin Laird also went backwards, closing with a 73 to finish the tournament as he started, on level par.
Matt Fitzpatrick of England was next best on one over after posting a four-over 76 that featured six bogeys, one double bogey and four birdies.
Compatriot Andrew Johnston dropped five shots in five holes on his front nine but rallied with a couple of birdies on the back nine as he closed with a three-over 75 and two over total.
Lee Westwood finished his 18th US Open with a four-over 76 to end on seven over.


The trial of a French soldier charged with molesting two young girls while serving in Burkina Faso in 2015 is due to start on Tuesday.

The 40-year-old serviceman, only named as Sebastien L, is set to appear before a criminal court in Paris.
Prosecutors say he filmed himself touching the girls in a hotel pool in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou.
The soldier initially denied the allegations but later admitted inappropriate contact, prosecutors say.
Sebastien L was a member of the Barkhane force set up in 2014 in an effort to stop Islamist militant groups in the Sahel region.
The incident was brought to the attention of French consular officials when the children's French mother found the footage on a camera that the soldier had left behind, prosecutors say.
He was then flown out of the country to stand trial in France.
The father of the girls, Ben Ouedraogo, who holds both French and Burkinabe citizenship, wanted the soldier to go on trial in Burkina Faso.
"This means that as long as you're a French soldier abroad, you can [do] anything you want. Why are we not trying him here?," he told AFP at the time.
If Sebastien L is convicted he faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
About 3,000 French soldiers are deployed as part of the Barkhane operation, along with troops from Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Chad.
Two months before the allegations against Sebastien L. were brought to light, a group of French troops in the Central African Republic were accused of raping six girls aged between nine and 13.
French prosecutors last month asked for that case to be dropped, saying the evidence was unreliable
French President Francois Hollande had cautioned against drawing links between the two cases, saying they were totally separate.


A bid for a statue of a Victorian bare-knuckle boxing champion in his home city of Nottingham has been launched.

Local legends Robin Hood and Brian Clough are already cast in bronze but prize fighter Bendigo has just a concrete sculpture on the outskirts.
Campaigner Ryan Drain believes "the people's champion of Nottingham" deserves a more fitting tribute in a more prominent city centre location.
The city council said it would consider a "firm proposal" for a statue.
William Abednego Thompson, who was born in 1811 in Sneinton, just outside Nottingham, began fighting aged 15 to provide for his family, who were sent to the workhouse following the death of his father.
Three years later he was drawing crowds of up to 15,000 at fights all over country, and in 1839, aged 28, won the All England Title.
Mr Drain, 26, said: "I've seen the Brian Clough and the Robin Hood statues and went to Sneinton to see the Bendigo statue and it broke my heart.
"The hands are missing, it looks as if it's falling to pieces to me. It's not a fitting tribute.
"He was the people's champion of Nottingham and deserves a hell of a lot better."
World champion boxer Carl Froch, from the city, recently spoke out about the state of the Sneinton sculpture, telling the Nottingham Post: "It needs renewing in bronze, like the Brian Clough statue."
And Nottingham North MP Graham Allen tweeted he would like to see "an Angel of the North-size statue".
Mr Drain said Bendigo's story was more than one of boxing success.
"I feel that passionate about Bendigo, particularly his upbringing. He lost his father at 15 and grew up in abject poverty but he came out of that to become a champion," he said.
Mr Drain is hoping to raise funds for the statue through a series of activities, including a bar crawl of the boxer's famous Nottingham haunts, and to boost the campaign's profile by getting some famous names on board.
A Nottingham City Council spokesman said "If anyone came to us with firm proposals for a statue to commemorate Bendigo's life, we would consider them."


Top DUP advisers "intervened" to prevent the closure of a catastrophic energy scheme that could cost taxpayers £400m, a former minister has alleged.

Overgenerous offers of fuel subsidies meant the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme went vastly over-budget.
Jonathan Bell, who succeeded Arlene Foster as minister at the department that set up the scheme, made the claim.
Mrs Foster, Northern Ireland's first minister, has denied any wrongdoing in the so-called "cash-for-ash" scandal.
The RHI scheme was set up by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (Deti) to encourage businesses and other non-domestic users to stop using fossil fuels and instead install renewable heating systems, mostly burning wood pellets.
But the subsidies it paid out were far greater than the cost of the pellets, leaving the scheme open to abuse as claimants could earn more cash the more fuel they burned.
One whistleblower has said that some applicants are in line to pocket as much as £1.5m over 20 years for heating empty sheds and factories.
About £20m a year for the next two decades could be taken from the public purse to cover the overspend.
In an exclusive interview with the BBC's Stephen Nolan, Mr Bell claimed that two senior DUP advisers "were not allowing this scheme to be closed" at the point when costs were spiralling out of control in autumn 2015.
One of those, he said, was Timothy Johnston, who was advising then first minister and DUP leader Peter Robinson.
The other was Dr Andrew Crawford, an aide at the Department of Finance and Personnel, which at that point was under the control of Mrs Foster, who now leads the party.
According to former enterprise minister Mr Bell, the advisers, who deny the allegations against them, secretly tried to "cleanse the record" of references to Mrs Foster.
Those alleged attempts to alter the papers were made "without my knowledge, without my consent", Mr Bell said, and were revealed to him by a senior Deti civil servant.
An email trail exists to prove the claim, he said.
And the two most senior civil servants in the department are prepared to put evidence of the interference "formally on the record in an inquiry", he added.
Mr Bell also claimed that Mrs Foster was "hostile", "abusive" and "highly agitated" when she "overruled" his move to finally close the botched scheme early this year.
He said the first minister owes the people of Northern Ireland an apology, and he called for a full public inquiry.
However, the first minister said Mr Bell "took all the decisions" and insisted that she would not stand down from her role.
When Mrs Foster was enterprise minister, a whistleblower raised concerns about the flaw in the RHI scheme, but they were ignored by Deti officials.
Mrs Foster has since said that civil servants did not tell her of any issues arising from the whistleblower's alert.
"Cui bono?" The old Latin question about who stands to gain needs to be asked again and again.
While the blame game is necessary and inevitable, no-one must lose sight of the fact that Stormont is committed to paying out for this scheme for the next 20 years.
Those contracts must be re-examined in order to see if the "too good to be true" deal can be renegotiated.
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Mr Bell said he wanted the scheme to be amended from 1 October last year to reduce the subsidy rate.
That came after Deti permanent secretary Dr Andrew McCormick told him there was "significant concern" that its costs would soon become unsustainable.
But Mr Bell said: "I was then informed by my special adviser in the department that other DUP [advisers] were not allowing this scheme to be closed.
"I believe my officials when they tell me there is a documented email trail, which shows an attempt - behind my back, without the knowledge of the minister of the department - to cleanse the record."
He said that, given the severity of the issue, he wrote to Mrs Foster, the DUP's deputy leader Nigel Dodds and Lord Morrow, the party's chairman, to tell them of his concerns.
Crucially, the initiative's lucrative tariff offer remained in place for almost another seven weeks, until mid-November 2015.
During that period, there was a spike in applications to the RHI scheme - 429 in October and 452 in November.
The approved applications during those two months are expected to drain the public purse of £485m.
But Mrs Foster said no-one from from the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister intervened to keep the lucrative scheme open and nor did she as finance minister.
"What I do understand is that advisers, of course, will advise but the minister takes the decision," Mrs Foster said.
She accused Mr Bell of "trying to distract from the fact that he took the decision".
Mr Johnston and Dr Crawford said they never sought to keep the RHI scheme open against the wishes of the minister, adding that their roles were simply "to offer advice" and not to "influence any decision".
Dr Crawford acknowledged that his brother is a director of a company that availed of the scheme.
In January, the Treasury told the Northern Ireland Executive that it would not foot the bill for Stormont's enormous overspend on the RHI scheme.
Mr Bell said he was told by Dr McCormick, his top civil servant, that the scheme must immediately be halted.
The former minister told the BBC: "In fact, what [Dr McCormick] said to me was: 'You have to close the scheme and I'm no longer prepared to deal with these outside influences - I'm putting this on the record to you.'
"[Dr McCormick] said to me: 'If you want me to continue the scheme as your principal civil servant you must issue me with a ministerial directive.'"
But Mr Bell suggested that during a confrontational meeting with Mrs Foster, which he claimed was witnessed by three of the DUP's top advisers, she ordered him to keep it running for a further two weeks.
"In the strongest terms, both in volume and force, Arlene Foster, as first minister, overruled me and told me to keep the scheme open," he said.
"To be fair, I was fairly strongly telling her back: 'No.'
"I will never break the law, and if I'm not prepared to do it I'm certainly not prepared to instruct somebody else to do it."
He said he "turned to the special advisers" - Mr Johnston, Stephen Brimstone and Richard Bullick - and asked them: "What on earth are you thinking of now reopening [the scheme]?'
"They sat and dropped their heads, they had no answers to me."
Mr Brimstone and Mr Bullick said they did not witness the exchange between the ministers.
Mr Brimstone, who left his job as an adviser to Mrs Foster last month, confirmed to the BBC that he was a claimant of the scheme.
But he added that his installation has been inspected by auditors, who have given him "written confirmation... that they are satisfied" it is compliant with the scheme's regulations.
Mrs Foster also contested Jonathan Bell's version of events, and said that instead of proposing an immediate closure of the scheme Mr Bell wanted it to end in March this year, a date that she deemed to be too late.
He was then advised to bring it forward, she added, but he became "very aggressive with me" when his decision to cease it immediately was refused because it was believed it could lead to legal challenges from applicants "still in the system".
"He came in and used his physical bulk to stand over me in quite an aggressive way," Mrs Foster said.
"The Jonathan Bell that appears [in the BBC interview] is not a Jonathan Bell that would be familiar to many of his political colleagues, to many of his civil servants that he worked with in the department or to many in the business community.
"I have many female colleagues who have felt intimidated and felt bullied over the years - I certainly did on that occasion."
The RHI scheme continued for two more weeks after the confrontation between Mr Bell and Mrs Foster.
The first minister hopes that more than half of the scheme's projected £400m cost to the Northern Ireland budget can be saved, with the executive working on a "very substantial plan" to deal with the issue.
"A mark of a politician is not in good times, it's in challenging times," she said.
"I'm determined, while others walk away, to make sure that we find a solution to all of this.
"I owe it to the people of Northern Ireland, and I take my duties and responsibilities as first minister very, very seriously."


Plymouth Argyle have signed winger Lionel Ainsworth after he rejected a new deal at Motherwell.

The 29-year-old had spent the past four seasons at Fir Park, scoring 27 goals in 142 appearances for the club.
Ainsworth has previously played in England with Watford, Huddersfield and Shrewsbury and becomes Plymouth's first signing since promotion to League One.
He also made his professional debut for Derby County against Plymouth in the Championship in February 2006.
The length of his contract with Plymouth has not been disclosed.
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Morocco defender Medhi Benatia has joined Italian club Juventus on a season-long loan from German champions Bayern Munich.

The Serie A champions have paid $3.3m (£2.5m) for the loan spell and have the choice to buy him for $18.8m (£14.3m) next summer.
The 29-year-old returns to Italian football after spells at Udinese and Roma, whom he left for Bayern in 2014.
He made 23 appearances for the Bundesliga winners last season.
He had hinted earlier this year that he would consider his future after Bayern re-signed Germany defender Mats Hummels from rivals Borussia Dortmund.
Benatia was born in France but opted to play for Morocco at international level and has now earned 42 caps.


Ben Affleck, who takes over as Batman in next summer's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, has admitted some concerns about the caped crusader role.

"If I thought too hard about the actors who played this part before, I couldn't take the job," he told fans gathered at Comic-Con in San Diego.
But director Zack Snyder reassured the 42-year-old he was "perfect" casting.
"He's at the end of his rope. He's older; he's burned out... You're perfect for it" Snyder told the star.
Two-time Oscar winner Affleck follows in the footsteps of Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney and Christian Bale, as he steps into role of the masked vigilante - in a showdown with Henry Cavill's Superman.
Speaking at Comic-Con, where a new trailer for the film was shown, Affleck revealed an unexpected encounter with Bale - the previous incumbent of the Batman suit - in a store in LA.
"Before we started the movie I was getting my kid a Hallowe'en costume. My son is really into Batman," Affleck explained.
"We went to a costume store in Los Angeles... it was pretty empty. And I was in the aisle and I heard this 'Oi!', and I turned around, and it's Christian Bale!
"And there he and I were, standing in the Batman section."
"I said, 'Do you have any tips?'," Affleck recalled. "'And he said: 'Make sure you can piss in that suit.'"
Bale was also in the costume shop to buy his son a Batman suit, Affleck added: "He doesn't just hang out [in the Batman aisle]".
The film, a sequel to Snyder's 2013 film Man of Steel, also stars Jeremy Irons as Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred, and introduces Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman.
British actor Irons said he wanted to recognise, but move away from, previous interpretations of his role.
"Michael Caine was pretty amazing as Alfred, so I had big shoes to sit in. But he's a little different my Alfred, so I think there are surprises in store."
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Gadot - a star of the Furious franchise - spoke about how honoured she felt about playing Wonder Woman, immortalised on screen by Lynda Carter in the 1970s TV series.
"Wonder Woman has all the strength of a superhero, and at the same time she's very sophisticated, loving and has a lot of emotional intelligence.
"So, for me, I feel very, very privileged to be the one who's going to bring her back to life."
Also at Comic-Con on Saturday, Warner Bros, the studio behind Batman, revealed new footage from Peter Pan origin story Pan - from British director Joe Wright, and starring Hugh Jackman as villain Blackbeard.


Shares in Alliance Trust rose on Tuesday after a rival with links to the Rothschild banking dynasty confirmed it was in talks to potentially take over the Scottish investment firm.

RIT Capital Partners said discussions over a merger were at a "preliminary stage".
RIT, which is chaired by financier Jacob Rothschild, has expressed interest in combining both funds.
A merger would take their managed assets to more than Â£5bn.
In a stock market announcement, RIT said: "The possibility of combining the two companies for the benefit of both sets of shareholders is at a very preliminary stage of consideration.
"Further analysis and discussion will determine whether such an outcome is indeed in the best interests of shareholders and can be achieved.
"There is no certainty that an offer by RIT for the share capital of Alliance Trust will be made."
By the end of trading on Tuesday, Alliance shares were up by nearly 2.5%, at 521p. RIT's share price was down by 2.41%.
Dundee-based Alliance Trust has been under siege by activist shareholders.
They have been pushing the board to boost shareholder value with a change of strategy.
The board has been entirely replaced, and is now chaired by Lord Robert Smith, the former Commonwealth Games chief and Holyrood reform commissioner.
He is to publish a review of Alliance Trust this summer, for which the RIT approach will be added to the options.
RIT has until 27 June either to announce a firm intention to make an offer for Alliance Trust or state it has no intention to bid.
Alliance, which manages about Â£2.7bn of assets, said RIT had not provided any detailed terms regarding the proposal.
RIT, which manages about Â£2.4bn, was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1988, growing out of the fortune amassed by the Rothschild banking dynasty.


The last remaining high street cinema with the ABC brand is set to close following a charity screening later.

The Odeon-owned cinema on Westover Road in Bournemouth has been sold and is due to be redeveloped into flats.
ABC - Associated British Cinemas - began in 1928, with the brand name gradually disappearing following its takeover by Odeon in 2000.
The last screening is Back to the Future, being shown in aid of Dorset Mind.
ABC was one of the biggest names during the post-war heyday of British cinema-going.
The Westover Road building first opened its doors as a 2,515-seat cinema in June 1937, showing the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical Shall We Dance.
The cinema divided into three screens in the 1970s but its 634-seat main auditorium remains one of the largest in the UK.
Film enthusiast Adrian Cox, from Barton-on-Sea, who tours cinemas across the country, said the ABC in Bournemouth was his favourite.
He said: "It's an event to watch a movie there. It has perfect sight-lines. A very tall person in front of you is never in the way because of the steep banking."
Mr Cox, who hired the cinema for a private screening of the once-banned Monty Python film Life of Brian, said modern cinemas tended to be smaller, less well decorated and "like little boxes".
The other Odeon cinema on Westover Road is also earmarked for closure ahead of the opening of the new BH2 leisure complex, planned for Bournemouth Square.
Cinema general manager Spencer Clark said: "It was one of the flagship cinemas for ABC and it's a fond farewell for what is a great venue."


Hundreds of football fans are in Helsinki for Northern Ireland's game against Finland on Sunday.

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Northern Ireland hope to secure the one point they need to finish top of their Euro 2016 qualifying group.
The team qualified for its first major tournament in 30 years after beating Greece 3-1 at Windsor Park on Thursday.


New Cardiff City boss Neil Warnock has made ex-Leeds United defender Sol Bamba his latest recruit.

Bamba, 31, has signed until 2018 and joins ex-QPR winger Junior Hoilett at the Bluebirds.
Ivory Coast international Bamba will help bolster a defence that has conceded 19 league goals this season to leave Cardiff 23rd in the Championship.
Striker Marouane Chamakh is also expected to join Cardiff before they host Bristol City on Friday.
Warnock told Cardiff's website: "I tried to sign Sol a few years ago when he was at Leicester, on a couple of occasions. They didn't come off then, but now is the right time and opportunity to bring him in.
"Sol's a leader and he's another good addition for us."
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Bamba said: "I'm excited to be here. I always want to work with the gaffer, so as soon as this chance arose I jumped at it.
"I know the league very well and am looking forward to offering my experience and leadership."
Chamakh, a 32-year-old Moroccan who was released by Crystal Palace, had previously attracted interest from Bluebirds boss Warnock.
Centre-back Bamba left Leeds for personal reasons in September.
Bamba, Hoilett and Chamakh are set to be involved against Bristol City, which will be Warnock's first game since taking charge.
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Firefighters have tackled a small blaze at the Clutha bar, the Glasgow pub which only recently reopened after a police helicopter crash into it.

The bar reopened in July, almost 20 months after the disaster in November 2013, in which 10 people died.
Three fire engines went to the pub when the alarm was raised at about 01:40 on Sunday.
They were at the scene until 02:23 dealing with a small fire in a bin room.
The pub's Facebook page said the damage was minor.
It said: "Wee Fire at the Clutha - Nothing to worry about! A small fire broke out in one of the bins and caused a bit of smoke around the place.
"The fire service reacted very quickly and it was quickly under control.
"Wee bit of damage to a couple of doors but nothing more. They reckon it was caused by a fag end."
The message went on: "Thanks to everyone for their concerns and thanks again to the fire service and please anyone who does smoke can you make sure your fag is extinguished before throwing away."
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon joined relatives of the dead, survivors and members of the emergency services at the venue when it reopened on 24 July.
More than 100 people were in the bar on the night of 29 November 2013 when the tragedy took place.
The interior of the old bar where the helicopter crashed remains sealed off, but a new bar has been erected in a former smoking area.


HSBC's private banking arm, which is based in Switzerland, is under formal investigation in France, days after being accused of tax fraud by the Belgium authorities.

French magistrates will examine whether the bank helped some clients to avoid paying taxes between 2006 and 2007.
The bank said it had been asked to deposit a bail bond of â‚¬50m (Â£39.6m).
"We will continue to co-operate with the French authorities to the fullest extent possible," it added.
On Monday Belgium prosecutors alleged that hundreds of the bank's clients moved money to offshore tax havens with the help of the bank.


Blair Cowan hopes his displays in the autumn Tests have convinced any doubters that he is good enough for Scotland.

The London Irish back row was man-of-the-match in Saturday's win over Tonga at Rugby Park.
"It's always something I wanted to do, not just turn up and play but prove myself and prove I'm worthy of the jersey," he said.
"Getting the man-of-the-match is something I'll always remember."
Cowan scored a try in the 37-12 triumph over Tonga, having also played in the win over Argentina and the narrow loss to New Zealand.
"I take each Test match as it comes and I think I'm progressing slowly," Cowan told BBC Scotland.
"I still think I've got a lot to offer but I hope people accept I'm worthy to wear the jersey.
"You've always got parts of your game you want to pick up, and there's been a few slight errors I'd like to improve on.
"I don't think any player's had the complete game, where they're 100% happy, so I'm still searching for that and hopefully one day I'll get it in a Scotland jersey."
In the wake of the weekend win, hooker Ross Ford backed Scotland to enjoy a successful Six Nations championship in the new year.
And 28-year-old Cowan also reckons Vern Cotter's side can lift the trophy.
"I know what we can possibly achieve, which is winning the Six Nations, but for me it's about us growing as a team and just keeping progressing," Cowan added
"If you don't believe you can win it what's the point of turning up? I definitely think we're capable of that and we're showing signs of being able to do that.
"If we start looking ahead of ourselves that's when we can slip up, so it's about progressing and just working on those positives, improving the little flaws we've got and you never know what can come."


Karen Droogan has spent almost all of her life not knowing who she really is or where she came from.

The 40-year-old has spent years trying to discover her true identity and find the woman who gave birth to her.
Karen is one of thousands of people who were adopted under the Republic of Ireland's secretive adoption system, which has been in force since 1952.
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Karen was born in 1974 and was raised on a farm in County Cavan by a couple she believed were her parents.
But when she reached the age of about 10, she found out she was not who she thought she was, when she discovered her adoption certificate.
"Growing up, I always knew there was something different," she said.
"I always knew I didn't look like either of my parents or even my brother, I don't look like him, and I always knew I didn't fit in. There was something I felt was missing".
She had been issued with a false baptism certificate in the name Catherine Maguire, but her adopted family always referred to her as "Karen".  Neither name was real.
Despite the revelation, she said she maintained a good relationship with her adoptive mother, who died when Karen was 18.  Her adoptive father died last year.
The fake certificate was signed by a priest in Drogheda, County Louth, and around the time of her adoptive mother's death, Karen, then 18, wrote to him, asking for information.
The priest replied, saying he had passed her letter on to the Health Service Executive (HSE), the body that runs all public health services in the Republic of Ireland.
Karen decided not to pursue the matter with the HSE at that stage. She later got married, took her husband's surname and is now raising a family in Omagh, County Tyrone.
But having children of her own made the search for information about her birth family more important than ever. She started asking questions again in 1996, when she gave birth to a second son who was very ill.
"I pushed it then, to try to find some medical information but all they would tell me was that there was no history of any diseases in the family or any conditions that I should be concerned about."
She was also told, at that stage, her mother had got married and had other children.
At present, adopted people in the Republic of Ireland do not have an automatic right to information that would help them apply for their birth certificate, although the new law will go some way to redressing the balance in their favour.
Adoption authorities are, however, able to release basic facts known as "non-identifying" information about birth parents.
When I ask Karen what she knew for certain about the woman who gave birth to her, she replied: "She was in her early 20s, she was a catering assistant, and I just have (information on) height and colour of eyes, and things like that."
She had another breakthrough recently though, when the Catholic Church published Irish parish records online, including baptismal records.
By cross-referencing her date of birth with babies born to single mothers, a friend of Karen's tracked down what they now believe is her real baptism certificate.
She was named Jennifer and was born to a single woman in a Drogheda hospital in October 1974.  She was adopted weeks later from a baby home outside the town.
She has since tried to make contact with her birth mother, through social workers in Drogheda.
Unfortunately, her mother's sister - Karen's biological aunt - replied on the family's behalf saying her mother did not want any contact.
The news was "devastating" for Karen, but she said she will not give up her search.
"I hope that at some stage I would be given the opportunity to send her a letter personally, and just to know that she is happy.  If she doesn't want contact, I'm not going to turn up on somebody's doorstep and destroy somebody's family," said Karen.
"I assume, from what they had told me, that her husband and her family don't know. I would just like to know the truth of what happened to me and what happened to her."
Karen says she holds no bitterness towards the woman who gave her up for adoption but is angry with the system that denied her the right to know the truth.
"I feel bitter that I had such a struggle, that I had to go begging, nearly, to find information," she said.
"I don't feel bitter towards her because I can understand, back then in 1974 she was on her own, I assume, and she had no support from family probably.
"I can understand being a single parent because I've done it myself and it's not an easy job and back in those days it would have been a lot harder."
The new legislation should make it easier for someone like Karen to find the basic personal details that she had to spend years tracking down.
However, she said she was "insulted" by plans to make adoptees sign a statutory declaration, promising to respect the wishes of parents who do not want contact.
"To me personally, it's making us out like we're just going to turn up on somebody's doorstep, which is not what any adoptee I've ever spoken to wants to do.
"All we really want is to have the basic right, that everybody else has, to know who were are and where we come from and to know the stories around our birth.
"I think to be made to sign [declarations] sounds like it's going back years, to where the mothers were forced to sign their children away - we're going to be forced to sign our rights away."
Asked what she would say to her mother if she ever agreed to a meeting, Karen said: "I would just like to know how she is and whether she had a good life and what the story of my birth was, did she marry my father?
"I just want to know that she didn't suffer."


Non-EU migrants illegally entering an EU state in the Schengen zone should not face detention on those grounds, says the European Court of Justice.

Migrants staying illegally should instead be returned to the country from which they came under the so-called Return Directive, it said.
The ruling applies to migrants crossing borders within the passport-free area and on leaving the zone.
It will infuriate critics of EU policy, but contains several important caveats.
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The ruling was triggered by the case of a Ghanaian migrant who was found to be using false Belgian travel documents by French police at the entrance to the Channel Tunnel.
Selina Affum was placed in police custody on grounds of illegal entry into French territory but argued that this was unlawful, in light of the EU's Return Directive.
Under the directive, an illegal migrant told to leave has up to 30 days to go voluntarily. After that, removal should not involve excessive force or place the person's life in danger.
The French court of cassation referred Ms Affum's case to the European Court of Justice, the EU's highest court.
"The Return Directive prevents a national of a non-EU country who has not yet been subject to the return procedure being imprisoned solely because he or she has entered the territory of a Member State illegally across an internal border of the Schengen area," the Luxembourg-based court ruled.
This was also the case when the migrant "is intercepted when leaving the Schengen area".
It was welcomed by the International Organisation of Migration (IOM), which said it was "in line with international standards and interpretation on when detention is legitimate - when it is a measure which has a legitimate purpose and is proportionate".
Spokesman Leonard Doyle added: "Most countries do however not use detention as a punitive measure, but detention is too frequently used as an administrative measure. The ruling is important in that it sends a clear signal that the use of detention should be used less and, as stated, as a last resort."
The IOM said it was legitimate to detain migrants in cases where they risked absconding, but the 18-month period "is a maximum".
The ruling does not apply to the UK or Ireland, which are not within the Schengen zone. It also does not apply to Denmark, which although a member of the Schengen zone holds an opt out from European Union justice policies.
The ruling also contains some important conditions.
It says migrants may be detained - for up to 18 months - if there is "a risk of the removal being compromised", which may be interpreted to mean that they are a flight risk.
Detention is also permitted if a person is subject to a deportation order and has refused to go, or if they have already been deported, and have attempted to re-enter the country illegally, in breach of an entry ban.


A negative image of Africa in the UK is harming efforts to raise food aid in the continent, charity Oxfam has said.

It found that three out of four people had become desensitised to images showing hunger, drought and disease.
Three-quarters thought it was possible to end hunger in Africa, but just one in five believed they could play an active role in achieving it.
Of the more than 2,000 people surveyed, almost half suggested hunger as the biggest problem facing Africa.
Respondents to the survey said over-exposure to negative media and advertising portrayals of Africa and developing countries in other parts of the world was "depressing, manipulative and hopeless".
Oxfam chief executive Dame Barbara Stocking said: "Oxfam has led the way in drawing attention to the plight of Africa's most vulnerable people and we aren't trying to gloss over the problems that still beset so many of them, particularly levels of malnutrition that remain stubbornly high.
"But we've come a long way since the 1980s and Band Aid's Do They Know it's Christmas? We need to shrug off the old stereotypes and celebrate the continent's diversity and complexity, which is what we are attempting with this campaign.
"The relentless focus on ongoing problems at the expense of a more nuanced portrait of the continent, is obscuring the progress that is being made towards a more secure and prosperous future.
"If we want people to help fight hunger we have to give them grounds for hope by showing the potential of countries across Africa - it's a natural instinct to turn away from suffering when you feel you can do nothing to alleviate it."
And when speaking to the BBC, Dame Stocking said a negative image of Africa was "not the truth" about that continent.
"Of course, there are floods, droughts, and there is conflict, but that is not in every country at all. And there are quite a number of countries now in Africa that are really doing very well.
"We want to make sure people have a really better balanced picture of what's happening in Africa. Of course we have to show what the reality is in the situations in those countries.
"But we also need to show the other places where things are actually changing, where things are different."
In a separate recent Oxfam poll, more than half of people immediately mentioned hunger, famine or poverty when speaking about Africa.