The son of War Front, a 7-1 shot, bettered fellow Irish raider Trading Leather by a length and a quarter with the 11-8 fAl Kazeemanotherem another length and a half third.
Stenson, a 25-year-old European Tour rookie who has shared or held the lead after each round, had a 54-hole total of 205, three better than fellow Swede Olle Karlsson and Irishman Paul McGinley.
If she can parry, riposte and perform various other sword-swishing motions better than fellow Italian Margherita Granbassi in the semi-final, and then one more opponent in the final, she'll become the first Italian ever to win gold at three different Olympics.
And as if that liver-shocking prospect isn't bad enough, there are generally rules of conduct for each pub – for example, everyone in the group must talk like James Bond, or all participants have to call each other Frank, or – perhaps better for fellow pubgoers – every member has to remain entirely silent for half an hour.
Westwood carded a creditable three-over-par 73, seven off the lead but six shots better than fellow Englishman and world number one Luke Donald.
Not knowing any better, a fellow who goes by the name of hotrod1964 (whom we shall call Mr. Hotrod henceforth) on Twitter says he made the mistake of walking into an Apple Store armed with a jailbroken iPod touch.
Samsung is under-pressure as a long-period of growth continues to flatten out, but things couldn't be going much better for fellow Korean phone-maker LG, which just announced that it shipped a best-ever 16.8 million smartphones in Q3 2014.
She won the Iowa Straw Poll, effectively ending the campaign of her far-better qualified fellow Minnesotan Tim Pawlenty.
Labour's community paradox has been trying to cajole poor people to be more active locally than their better-off fellow citizens - as if community could substitute for cash, and social capital for the thing Sir Clive Thompson, the chairman of collapsed Christmas hamper firm Farepak, and his ilk deploy.
His time of 9.74 has only been bettered by fellow American Tyson Gay, Jamaica's Asafa Powell and his compatriots Blake and Usain Bolt - whose world record 9.58 came in Berlin in August 2009.
