Jon Rahm and Danny Willett will share the lead heading into the final round of the BMW PGA Championship after they could not be separated on a dramatic third day at Wentworth Golf Club.
The duo entered the weekend locked together and after an afternoon that ebbed and flowed in the glorious English sunshine, they both recorded rounds of 68 to head into day four of the fourth Rolex Series event of the season at 15 under.
Home hero Justin Rose, South Africa's Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Indian Shubhankar Sharma were then three shots off the lead, two clear of Spaniard Rafa Cabrera Bello and Scot Richie Ramsay.
England's Ross Fisher made history by recording the first ever albatross on the 18th at Wentworth to win a BMW i8 Roadster and sit at seven under, a shot clear of World Number Two Rory McIlroy, whose 65 was the lowest round of the day.
Rahm is making his debut at Wentworth this week but the Spaniard has looked like a veteran over the West Course as he searches for a record extending fourth Rolex Series title.
He held a two shot lead stood on the 17th tee but dropped a shot after a ragged second, before making a remarkable par after an errant tee shot on the last.
"My mind is still a little bit on what happened the last two holes," he said. "I'll reflect and focus on tomorrow. I'm just glad I have a chance and enjoy every single moment of it.
"It's a tricky golf course and 18 holes tomorrow with Danny being tied with me playing solid, and the guys behind us only three shots back, it's going to be a tough day. We're going to have to play really, really good golf to win this event and I hope I can live up to it."
Willett birdied the last to join Rahm at the summit and a second Rolex Series victory for the 2016 Masters Tournament champion would be a third top ten at the European Tour's flagship event.
"If you go out and shoot 68 in the lead, it's nice to still be up there," he said. "I played some good golf today and I think we've given ourselves a little bit of breathing room from third, fourth and fifth. It was a pretty good day all around.
"This is our biggest tournament of the year for the British guys who play the European Tour. This is a massive event. I've been here now ten straight years and I love the place and the crowds were amazing.
"Jon is up there, he's an incredible player, only been on Tour for three or four years and already done some exceptional things. It's going to be a pretty tough battle tomorrow."
Rahm and Willett started round three locked together at 11 under but there was a two shot swing on the first as Rahm birdied after a remarkable 374 yard drive and Willett failed to get up and down after finishing short of the green.
Willett got back within one from 15 feet on the third but a two putt birdie on the par five fourth moved Rahm to 13 under and kept him two ahead.
The Englishman then found his range and smart approaches to the sixth and seventh handed him a share of top spot, with both of the leaders birdieing the ninth to move three ahead of the field.
Rahm went left off the tee on the tenth for a first bogey of the day but both he and Willett made the most of the par five 12th before Rahm holed from 12 feet on the next to join the lead again.
Willett hit a ragged tee shot on the 15th and had to take a drop but produced a remarkable recovery to keep the damage to a single dropped shot, with Rahm hitting an excellent approach into the next to lead by two.
Rahm's bogey on the next cut the gap to one but he avoided a closing blemish with an excellent 18 footer, while Willett got up and down from the sand for a closing gain.
Rose and Bezuidenhout both carded rounds of 69, while Sharma bogeyed the last in an excellent 66 as he surged up the leaderboard.
Cabrera Bello and Ramsay both registered 67s to sit a shot ahead of Patrick Reed and two clear of Paul Casey, Billy Horschel, Viktor Hovland, Andrew Johnston, defending champion Francesco Molinari and Andrew Putnam.
