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Day three digest: 2020 US PGA Championship
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Day three digest: 2020 US PGA Championship

Dustin Johnson leads heading into the final round of the first Major of the year after a back nine wobble sent Li Haotong sliding down the leaderboard on an eventful Moving Day at the 2020 US PGA Championship.

Dustin Johnson

Here is everything you need to know from the third round at TPC Harding Park.

Moving Day lives up to its name

An extremely bunched leaderboard was changing all the time on a breathless and entertaining third day. Halfway leader Li spent most of the day at the top of it, with a stellar chasing pack on his tail, but he eventually slipped off the summit after a disappointing back nine. Some of the world's best players were queuing up to take over from him, with Major Champion Johnson finishing strongly to lead by one. But he has a big chasing pack behind him, as the top 17 names on the leaderboard are separated by just four shots.

Johnson

DeChambeau drains monster at the last

Bryson DeChambeau had mixed fortunes on Saturday but he finished with a flourish to put himself in a great position heading into the final round. After finding a fairway bunker with his tee shot at the 18th and sending his second to around 95 feet, his focus was surely on ensuring he walked away with a par to stay on five under. But he went one better, rolling in his huge putt for a birdie to sit just three shots behind leader Johnson.

Bryson DeChambeau

Li's luck changes

Overnight leader Li was joined at the top as the chasing pack pushed hard around the turn, but he regained the outright lead when he made the most unlikely birdie at the 12th after being out of position. But if luck was on his side there, it deserted him completely on the next as his tee shot landed in a tree and he had to reach for another ball. Li ended up carding a double bogey to surrender the lead and went on to finish the day on five under, four shots behind Johnson.

Li day three

More bunker brilliance

We were treated to some marvellous bunker play in Friday's second round and we got more of the same on day three. After Scottie Scheffler holed his bunker shot at the short eighth, Paul Casey did the exact same thing when he got to the front nine's second par three to get a birdie two of his own.

Scottie Scheffler 

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