Sunday 6 December 2015 17:10, UK
Marc Leishman will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge after Henrik Stenson stuttered along the closing stretch.
Stenson had found himself temporarily three shots clear of the chasing pack at Sun City, but two bogeys over his final three holes gives Leishman a narrow cushion heading in to Sunday's final round.
Resuming one-shot clear, Stenson briefly saw his overnight lead disappear when Jaco Van Zyl opened with back-to-back birdies and the Swede played an air shot from the edge of the second green to only make par.
A ten-foot gain from Stenson at the fifth restored the world No 7's advantage as Van Zyl dropped a shot after failing to get up and down from the greenside bunker, before the South African carded another blemish after missing the seventh green.
Stenson followed a bogey at the eighth by almost finding the water at the next, but after seeing his ball stop inches short of the hazard he pitched to 20 feet and sunk an unlikely birdie to reach the turn with a two-shot lead.
Leishman, playing in the group ahead, pulled alongside Stenson moments later by holing a six-foot eagle at the tenth, only for the Swede to follow a gain on the same hole with back-to-back birdies from the 14th to briefly hold a three-shot cushion.
Van Zyl lost ground with successive blemishes from the 16th, while a three-putt bogey from Stenson at the 17th coincided with Leishman ending his six-under 66 with back-to-back birdies to set the clubhouse target at 14 under.
Stenson, the 2008 champion at Gary Player Country Club, then saw his wayward tee shot at the last find the sand to card another dropped shot and give the Australian the outright advantage.
"I don't feel like I'm out of it by any means," Van Zyl said. "But to win an event, you kind of need a couple of lucky breaks and things need to turn around for me. It's a combination of will, determination and what the golfing gods throw at you on the day.
"I'm just fighting the swing a little bit. It's just not quite on song. And it's 36 degrees out there, it's week six in a row for me, so all of those things do start adding up at the end of the year."
Although Robert Streb's early gain at the second had moved him within one of the lead, the American will resume on Sunday five adrift after a level-par 72.
Branden Grace recovered from an opening-hole bogey to not drop another shot for the rest of his round and join Bernd Wiesberger in a tie for fifth, while a bogey-free back nine from Louis Oosthuizen saw him move through the field into seventh place at six under.
Defending champion Danny Willett lies alongside Andy Sullivan and last week's Alfred Dunhill Championship winner Charl Schwartzel 10 strokes off the pace, with Matt Fitzpatrick a further two adrift following a third-round 68.
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