Sunday 4 December 2016 12:49, UK
Andrew Dodt will be looking to join the greats of Australian golf when he takes a two-shot lead into the final round of the Australian PGA Championship on Sunday.
The 30-year-old has led the tournament from the start, taking a share of the first-round lead with an opening 65 and then establishing a two-shot advantage with a 67 on Friday.
A third-round 70 containing five birdies and three bogeys was good enough to maintain that advantage as he moved to 14 under on day three, with fellow Australian Ashley Hall and American Harold Varner III his nearest challengers.
World No 7 Adam Scott and John Senden are a further two shots back, and Dodt will be looking to join the likes of Scott, Peter Thomson, Kel Nagle and Greg Norman by lifting the trophy after the final round.
"It would be one of my biggest achievements, for sure," he said.
"I've thought about it a couple of times this week but you don't want to get ahead of yourself. You just want to play each round.
"It would be huge. All the top guys have won the Australian PGA, so it would be nice to put my name alongside them."
Dodt extended his lead to three shots on the first as he birdied from six feet but after Hall eagled the ninth, a bogey on the 11th saw him reeled in.
Dodt edged back ahead only for a second Hall eagle on the 15th see him caught again but the cushion was re-established as Hall finished bogey-bogey.
Varner also claimed a pair of eagles on the 15th and 17th and he will be looking to go one better than last season when he lost out in a play-off.
England's Steve Webster equalled the lowest round of the week with a 65 to sit at six under, two shots clear of countryman Ian Poulter and Welshman Oliver Farr.
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