India’s Shubhankar Sharma endured a testing mid-round disaster to salvage the day with a two-over 74 that stored him within the hunt for his first DP World Tour title since 2018.
Sharma, who led after the primary spherical and co-led after the second, dropped to T-4 at 10-under with a birdie on the final gap.
He trailed the chief Hurly Lengthy of Germany by three photographs with midway co-leader Jordan Smith (73) in second at 12-under and four-time Main winner Rory McIlroy (66) in third at 11-under.
India’s different challenger this week, Manu Gandas missed the lower.
Sharma shared the fourth spot with Kiwi Ryan Fox (66), Frenchman Julien Brun (69), Scottish pair of Grant Forrest (69) and Calum Hill (72) and England’s Ross Fisher (74).
Sharma, beginning the day within the remaining group and at 13-under, opened with 5 pars earlier than he dropped a double bogey on the Par-4 sixth. One other bogey adopted on the eighth and he turned in 3-over with no birdies.
On the again 9, the two-time DPWT winner, who logged the all-time consequence by an Indian on the Open in July at T-8, fought again. He birdied the tenth, earlier than making a gift of two shot on the twelfth and the thirteenth. He birdied the seventeenth and closed at 74.
Lengthy will take a one stroke lead into the ultimate spherical with previous champion and World Quantity Two Rory McIlroy simply two photographs again.
Lengthy, of Germany, carded a two below par spherical of 70 on the Palmer North Course on the 2006 Ryder Cup venue, with a birdie on the final taking him to 13 below par, one stroke forward of England’s Jordan Smith, who additionally birdied the 18th to signal for a one-over par 73.
4-time Main Champion McIlroy began the day eight strokes off the tempo however carded a six below par 66 to put up an early clubhouse goal of 11 below par at The Ok Membership, the identical venue the place he claimed a well-known Irish Open victory in 2016.
McIlroy will go looking for a 3rd victory on the 2023 Race to Dubai, with Lengthy in search of a maiden title and Smith looking a 3rd DP World Tour crown, following on from his win eventually 12 months’s Portugal Masters. McIlroy earlier gained the Hero Dubai Desert Basic and the Genesis Scottish Open.
Three-time DP World Tour winner Ryan Fox matched McIlroy’s six below par 66 to maneuver right into a share of fourth place.
Shane Lowry is one in every of numerous opponents on eight below after signing for a stage par 72.