Battling to rekindle his professional career, Kiwi golfer Danny Lee sits within striking distance of his second PGA Tour victory, lagging three shots behind leader Taylor Pendrith at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
Lee's somewhat erratic record on the US circuit has seen him lose his tour card for the 2022 season, consigning him to the second-tier Korn Ferry Tour.
Bermuda offers a rare chance to impress at top level and he has taken the opportunity, carding a third-round 65 for second, heading into the final day.
Sitting fourth halfway through the tournament, Lee, 31, provided a typically entertaining round, with six birdies over the opening 11 holes, before back-to-back bogeys stopped his rise up the leaderboard.
Birdies on the 15th and 17th resurrected his score, before channelling the game's biggest hitter - American Bryson De Chambeau - on the final tee.
With an unmistakable club wiggle and fall-away follow-through, Lee's drive carried most of the 410-yard fairway, but he left his chip approach desperately short and still needed a niggly six-foot putt for par.
"I didn't come here just to play golf," he says. "I came over here to play some good - really good - golf.
"I'm doing it right now, so it's good to see that happening right now. I just need one more day like this."
The Kiwi is the only player in the field to have won on the PGA Tour, but that was six years ago at the Greenbrier Classic in West Virginia.
