CHANDIGARH, March 28: Three professional golfers - leader Vijay Kumar (213), Arjun Atwal (216) and Vivek Bhandari (217) - were the star performers on the penultimate day of the Rs 8 lakh Tai-Pan Mercedes Benz Chandigarh Open Golf Championship at the Chandigarh Golf Course here today. All the three played three-under par round 69 at par 72, 7202-yard course.Vijay Kumar (70, 74, 69) from Lucknow, after having bogeys on the first, third and five holes, regained his form. With his excellent approach shots, Vijay finished with a superb round of 69. after playing 54 holes.Three strokes behind the leader were Arjun Atwal and Basad Ali with an identical score of 216. Atwal, who today returned one-par 71, could have done much more better had he not missed small birdies on the 7, 8th and 18 holes and he had a double bogey on the sixth and one over each on 13th and 15th. His birdies came on the 2, 3, 4, 16 and 17. Basad Ali played a consistent game. After going one over on the first and fifth while he scoredbirdies on the 2, 8, 13, 17 and 18.Indian Classic Open winner Feroz Ali (70, 81, 75) was sharing 14th position with Gast Ram (78, 70, 78), Arjun Singh (75, 73, 78) and Shiv Prakash (74, 77, 75).Jeev Milkha Singh has not fully adjusted his game. He missed eight small birdies today. Still he carded a par round 72 and was sharing 12th spot with Mohd Islam (77, 74, 73) and Amritinder Singh (76, 77, 71).The leading scorers:Professionals: 213 Vijay Kumar (70, 74, 69); 216 Arjun Atwal (73, 72, 71), Basad Ali (75, 72, 69); 217 Vivek Bhandari (74, 74, 69), Jyoti Randhawa (75, 70, 72); 220 Mukesh Kumar (71, 74, 75); 221 Indrajit Bhalotia (73, 77, 71), Rohtas Singh (71, 76, 74); 222 Amandeep Johl (73, 75, 74); 223 Akbar Ali (78, 74, 71); 224 Mohd Islam (77, 74, 73), Jeev Milkha Singh (77, 75, 72), Amritinder Singh (76, 77, 71); 225 Uttam Singh Mundy (77, 75, 73), Yusuf Ali (75, 75, 75); 226 Gast Ram (78, 70, 78), Arjun Singh (75, 73, 78) Shiv Prakash (74, 77, 75), Feroz Ali (70, 81, 75); 227 Ali Sher(79, 76, 72) SSP Chaurasia (79, 73, 75).Amateurs: 242 Sandeep Sandhu (82, 83, 77); 243 Simran Sethi (85, 83, 75); 246 Jaiveer Singh (82, 83, 81); 248 Sandy Lehal (81, 82, 85); 250 Alamgir S Grewal (82, 83, 85); 253 KS Brar (86, 79, 88); 257 RPS Sindhu (84, 84, 89), Ravibir Singh (82, 88, 87), Rohit Dagar (88, 85, 84) and KS Sibia (92, 81, 84).