Nathan Jordi\u2019s has lost the NT PGA Championship lead on the back of a two-over par third round and will enter the final 18 holes three behind new favourite Andrew Martin.<\/p>\n
A wayward chip going into the eighth green sparked a horror run of three bogeys from four holes as the US golfer slipped to nine-under par going into the fourth and final round at Palmerston Golf Course in Darwin. <\/p>\n
Martin will enter the fourth round as the new leader at 12-under par after shooting a nerveless six-under 65.<\/p>\n
Jordi is tied third with Australian Nathan Barbieri while James Conran is second at 10-under par. <\/p>\n
Jordi had played some spectacular golf to head into the third round three shots ahead of the field at the second stop of the PGA Tour of Australasia season. <\/p>\n
But the horrendous wedge on the eighth hole started a mid-round stretch in which Jordi gave up the lead on Saturday, and looked like he would never recover. <\/p>\n
He flayed the ball right off the tee and barely scraped out of another bunker, showing how hard it is to keep a lead in any golf tournament.<\/p>\n
Yet somehow he hung in there to remain with a chance of a career breakthrough win<\/p>\n
The fact Jordi was even in Darwin was fascinating in itself.<\/p>\n
He only returned to golf this year after serving a five-month missionary, entered the PGA Tour of Australasia\u2019s American Q-school almost impulsively, got some status, then jumped on a plane to play the start of the season. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s all unique, but maybe not as bizarre as only using a yardage book for the first time this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Jordi\u2019s has lost the NT PGA Championship lead on the back of a two-over par third round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-106617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}