After almost nine months in America, England's Tyrrell Hatton is on target for a happy homecoming in the BMW PGA Championship - the tournament which inspired him to become a professional.
Hatton will take a three-shot lead over Denmark's JB Hansen and France's Victor Perez into the final round at Wentworth, with Open champion Shane Lowry, Tommy Fleetwood, Patrick Reed and David Horsey another stroke back.
Lowry had shared the halfway lead with Matt Fitzpatrick, but the final group were a combined six over par as Lowry carded a 74 and Fitzpatrick - who caused a stir by claiming US Open winner Bryson DeChambeau's big hitting was "making a mockery of the game" - struggled to a 76.
Hatton grew up not far from Wentworth and often came to one of the European Tour's flagship events as a spectator, while he went into the final round in 2016 a shot off the lead before finishing seventh.
"It's been a goal of mine to hopefully win this tournament so it would be very special," Hatton said.
"There's still 18 holes to go tomorrow, I just have to try to not get too far ahead of myself, take confidence from the fact I've won on Tour, go out there and control myself, play well like I have the last three days and see what happens."
Hatton began the day a shot off the lead and fell further behind with a bogey on the third, but bounced back to birdie the next and jumped into the lead with an eagle from 20 feet on the 12th.
The 28-year-old also birdied the 13th and recovered from a bogey on the 15th with a closing birdie to put himself in pole position for a fifth European Tour title and second victory of the season following his victory in the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March.
