Byeong-hun An and Matthew Fitzpatrick have been battling it out all year to be the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year and they will go into the final day of the 2015 season at the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai separated by just a single shot.
Along with two-time winner Anirban Lahiri, the duo are leading candidates to be named the European Tour's top newcomer with late season surges making it difficult to separate the pair.
Lahiri took the early initiative with his victories at the Maybank Malaysian Open and Hero Indian Open but An burst to prominence in May when he claimed the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
Fitzpatrick had finished in a tie for fifth at The South African Open Championship Hosted by the City of Ekurhuleni but then missed five of his next six cuts as he got life off to a shaky start on The European Tour.
But a second-placed finish at the Omega European Masters kick-started his campaign and a further five top tens followed, including a maiden victory at the British Masters supported by Sky Sports.
Fitzpatrick's nine top tens are more than anyone else on Tour this season but An's 66 on Saturday took him to 58 under for The Final Series as he enjoys some fine form of his own.
An came into the week seventh in The Race to Dubai, just 322,423 points clear of Fitzpatrick and, with all to play for on Sunday at Jumeirah Golf Estates on Sunday, both men are aiming to finish as high as possible.
"I played well," said An. "I think I hit it really well, I'm trying to be sensible with every shot, not trying to get at the flags, just a better lie and easier putts.
"It would be nice to be up there so I'll try my best."
Fitzpatrick fired a third round 68 to sit a shot behind An and five back of leader Andy Sullivan but insisted he felt hew could claim a second win of the season.
"I think if someone had said 11 under after the first three and I am where I am, I'd definitely have taken that," he said. "I'll be in a good position tomorrow. If I can go out there and shoot a ridiculously low one, you never know.
"I'm just trying to finish as high as I possibly can every week. If the highest I can do is tenth this week or 20th then that's as high as it goes and I've given it my best and that's all I can do."
