Lee improves his lead after 54 holes Fortinet Australian PGA Championship... full Sunday scoreboard

 DP World Tour : Fortinet Australian PGA Championship Leaderboard

Min Woo Lee was paired with Adam Scott on Saturday downunder at the Australian PGA Championship.

He shot 66 with 7 birdies and 2 bogey's on the Royal Queensland GC to extend his lead at -17 while his countryman and friend Adam Scott shot 71 slipped down to 4th at -11.

Lee : "I’ve been hitting the ball so well all year and the results have been there. I just feel like it was just a couple of moments that I stuffed up, like on 8 today, I pulled an iron where I can look back and just hit a 7-iron and draw it off the right side and not be in the trees on the left. Stuff like that, I think everything’s been pretty up to par with how I think I’m going and how I have been going. Yeah, that’s pretty much it. It’s just those little moments.

It’s a course where you can shoot low, so you’re going to be aggressive no matter what. There’s probably a couple of holes where you don’t need to hit driver where I did the last three days. It just all depends. It’s obviously score dependent but I’m here because I played aggressive and I played the way that the game plan has been. So, hopefully I can just do the same."

Three shots behind Lee on -14 is Rikuya Hoshino, who birdied six of his final eight holes to cap off a back-nine 29 and tie Scotsman Connor Syme for a round of the day -7 64 to surge through the leaderboard on moving day.

Adding to rounds of 67 and 68, the six-time Japan Tour winner's first outing in Australia has him firmly in contention to contend for a first DP World Tour title.

“My iron shots were the best, I hit them very close and I had a lot of chances," he said.

"It’s my first time in Australia, so I’m enjoying it. The atmosphere on the 17th hole is great, it’s the most exciting I’ve ever been a part of.

“I want to win on the DP World Tour, I expect a big result. I might be nervous, but I’ll try to sleep well.”

One shot behind him is Australian Curtis Luck on -13, with Adam Scott two further back on -11  Syme, who shot a front nine of 30, enters the final round seven behind on -10 with Lucas Herbert.

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