Home favourite Brett Rumford continued his superb week at Lake Karrinyup Country Club as he advanced to the final on the ISPS HANDA World Super 6 Perth.
The Perth native led after all three days of the stroke play in Western Australia and claimed three wins in the six-hole match play knockout on Sunday morning to set up a meeting with Thai teenager Phachara Khongwatmai.
The 17 year old - who could become the second youngest winner in European Tour history - had a very different route to the final, having to go up the last three times in a play-off on Saturday to secure the 24th and final spot in the match play action.
The pair will now go head-to-head over the tenth, second, eighth, 11th, 12th and 18th holes, with the 93-yard shoot-out hole available to separate them should they be all square after six.
As one of the eight seeds, Rumford had a bye in the first round on Sunday and overcame Hideto Tanihara, Wade Ormsby and Adam Bland on the way to the final as he looks to regain the full playing privileges he lost last season.
Khongwatmai - the youngest ever winner of a professional tournament at the Sing Hua Hin Open when he was just 14 - defeated Sam Brazel, Lucas Herbert, Matthew Millar and Jason Scrivener in the Super 6.
In the semi-final, Khongwatmai put his approach to three feet on the third and then made another birdie from ten feet on the fourth.
Scrivener found a bunker on the fifth and failed to get up and down, handing Khongwatmai a 3 and 1 win and leaving him on the brink of a remarkable turnaround triumph and a first European Tour title.
Rumford has five wins to his name and he showed all his qualities early in his semi-final, holing birdie putts from 12 and 15 feet to jump out to a two up lead against Bland.
The lead was cut to one after Rumford failed to get up and down from the sand on the third and both men did well to par the fourth after poor tee-shots.
Bland then got up and down from the sand on the fifth to take it down the last and a pair of pars handed Rumford a one up victory.
Bland and Scrivener were set to play-off for third and fourth, with Louis Oosthuizen and Steven Jeffress battling it out for fifth and sixth, and Ormsby and Millar deciding seventh and eighth.
