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<\/p>\n\u201cIt can be tough, and I think he\u2019s one of the best players out here and there is pressure,\u201d Lee said. \u201cI think it\u2019s just a bit of a fire in his belly over this weekend. I\u2019m sure he\u2019s going to head down and grind, and then show something next week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee finds himself well in the hunt for the title he claimed in 2023, navigating a two-hour storm delay from around 11am local time to finish the day at -12, just one stroke behind the leaders, going into Sunday\u2019s final round.<\/p>\n
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Australian Min Woo Lee during the Australian PGA.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n
While he expressed some frustrations with his putting game, the 27-year-old looked to have found his mojo \u2013 launching his third round with a long-range birdie and following it up with two more from outside the green on the eighth and ninth holes.<\/p>\n
He is joined on 12-under by overnight leader Kazuma Kobori, who ended Friday with four straight birdies and initially carried that form into Saturday\u2019s third round with two more, only to par the next 16 holes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s one of those courses where if you\u2019re just off \u2026 you can go low,\u201d Lee said. \u201cOf course, you have to have your full A-game, but if you\u2019re just a little off it can bite you in the butt, or you just can\u2019t make birdies.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one\u2019s broken out of the pack, but hopefully tomorrow\u2019s the day for it. I\u2019m going to be confident tomorrow. I feel like I haven\u2019t had my best stuff yet, so hopefully tomorrow can be that day.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Quayle almost cost himself dearly by missing a makeable putt on 15 which immediately followed a bogey, he rallied to birdie 17 \u2013 his third on the \u2018Party Hole\u2019 this week \u2013 to put himself in the frame for a maiden Australian PGA title.<\/p>\n
\u201dIt was tricky, I\u2019d birdied three of the first six, and then we came in and when I went back out there \u2026 it sort of felt like I was never really in a position for a birdie, and then when I was, I wasn\u2019t able to capitalise,\u201d Quayle said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very easy when you don\u2019t have momentum to get a little bit cranky or frustrated or whatever and hit some bad shots and you do pay the price. But I was able to stay pretty collected and just hang tough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australian great Adam Scott \u2013 a two-time winner in Brisbane \u2013 hauled himself into contention with a rollercoaster 66, offsetting a trio of bogeys with eight birdies. Scott was joined on 11 under by Mark Leishman, who birdied the Party Hole only to bogey the last.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to complain about 66,\u201d Scott said. \u201cIt was a bit of a mixed bag today, to be honest \u2013 it was a lot of good stuff and there was some squirrelly stuff as well, so it\u2019d be good to clean that up tomorrow.<\/p>\n
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\u201cDefinitely felt like I rolled the putts better today, so that\u2019s always helpful. I think just with the wind down it\u2019s a little bit easier to attack, and even the pins that are tucked with less green and no wind pushing the ball around, it\u2019s possible to get in there closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to have to have a really good round [on Sunday]. I haven\u2019t really looked at what the conditions are, but I\u2019m going to have to have a strong front nine like I did today to put myself in it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m chasing, so I can\u2019t have a hot front and then stall out on the back. There are too many guys up there, it\u2019s too bunched. Someone\u2019s going to have a good round, so it\u2019s going to have to be a beauty tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defending champion Elvis Smylie shot 66 to sit seven under for the tournament after his level-par second round left him off the pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt can be tough, and I think he\u2019s one of the best players out here and there is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-316246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316246","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=316246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}