[Photo: Dylan Buell]<\/p>\n
Two players will be chasing history in the final round of the 46th US Senior Open while a third will be trying to change his personal history in the championship while also seeking to set a record.<\/p>\n
After a record-tying 64 in the third round at Scioto Country Club, Stewart Cink carries a one-stroke lead over defending champion Padraig Harrington after 54 holes. Cink\u2019s bogey-free round, which tied the low round in a USGA event at Scioto, gave him a nine-under 201 total. The 53-year-old from Georgia is going for his third straight senior major title. No player has won the first three senior majors of the season.<\/p>\n
RELATED: Senior players share highly mixed feelings about upcoming PGA Tour changes<\/a><\/p>\n Harrington, 54, who defeated Cink by one stroke a year ago at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, saved bogey at the last hole for a 66. He is vying to become the fourth player to successfully defend a US Senior Open title and win his third overall, which would match Miller Barber\u2019s record.<\/p>\n \u201cToday was a day about making the choice to be committed and be willing to accept anything. That has a tendency to free me up. When I play freed up, it\u2019s just the results are usually a lot better, and executing is a lot better,\u201d said Cink, who can join Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Bernhard Langer and Steve Stricker with a third senior major in one year. \u201cToday was a good day. I\u2019d like to bottle some of that up because it\u2019s something that golf doesn\u2019t always offer you. But today I took advantage of it.\u201d<\/p>\n Tee-times will be moved forward on the final day for the second day in a row with the expectation of afternoon thunderstorms.<\/p>\n Spain\u2019s Miguel Angel Jimenez, 62, finished third a year ago at The Broadmoor and was runner-up by one stroke to Gene Sauers at Scioto in 2016. Jimenez bogeyed the 16th and 18th, but he still managed a 67 and six-under 204 total, one behind PGA Tour Champions rookie George McNeill, who shot 69 after holding the 36-hole lead. Jimenez seeks to become the oldest winner of the Francis D. Ouimet Memorial Trophy.<\/p>\n