Italian Matteo Manassero and New Zealand’s Ryan Fox had been tied for the lead after the third spherical at a intently contested Canadian Open.
Manassero and Fox each carded rounds of 64, every together with seven birdies and one bogey as they moved to 14 underneath.
“It was a very good spherical,” mentioned Manassero, whose bogey got here on the seventeenth gap earlier than he recovered the stroke with a birdie on the final.
“I missed the quick one on 17, and I did miss a pair extra quick ones. I strive to think about them similar to a shot actually, like a driver, like a six-iron, no matter. It is only a shot.
“It wasn’t that onerous for me to remain targeted into what I used to be doing and never ruining [it] on the finish.”
Manassero might be chasing his first PGA Tour title, whereas Fox is looking for a second only a month after his first triumph on the tour on the Myrtle Seashore Basic.
“Clearly there’s a whole lot of good gamers behind me,” mentioned Fox. “I really feel like it may take a reasonably low [score] to get the job accomplished.”
Lee Hodges and Kevin Yu each shot seven underneath par rounds of 63 and sit one again together with Matt McCarty.
A 65 from England’s David Skinns moved him on to 11 underneath together with seven different gamers, together with in a single day chief Cameron Champ.
Champ might solely handle a one over-par 71 at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley.
England’s Danny Willett (67) and Eire’s Shane Lowry (68) are a shot additional again on 10 underneath.
