DP World Tour : Genesis Championship Leaderboard
Byeong Hun An was forced to endure an attritional Moving Day to join fellow South Korean Tom Kim at the summit of the Genesis Championship.
The home favourite had birdied the most holes during the first two rounds and looked set to accelerate from the chasing pack when he picked up a shot at the first on a glorious Saturday at Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea.
However, the World Number 36 only picked up two more shots, alongside two bogeys, in his one under 71 to sit alongside Kim at 12 under par.
The pair are one shot ahead of Frenchman Antoine Rozner, who carded a seven under 65 to initially set the clubhouse target, Portugal's Ricardo Gouveia and Italian Francesco Laporta in Incheon.
"I struggled a little bit today," An said. "The last two rounds have been almost perfect. I didn't have many birdie chances out there and when I did, I would just miss it by a little bit.
"It was one of those days. It's golf. It's been great the last few days, it happens and hopefully better tomorrow."
"I don't think it can get any better. I said at the start of the week that I would love to play with Tom in the final group on Sunday and hopefully one of us can come out on top"
Tom Kim : "Obviously I've made a few mistakes this week, but those little things are coming together to back up those mistakes.
"What happened on 15, you can't control it, you know, one bad swing. You are really unlucky, hit the cart path and it's out of bounds. I had no idea!
"I told myself going up to that next tee that I'm making sure I'm birdieing a few holes coming in."
Rozner rolled in eight birdies and a bogey to catapult himself into contention, with Laporta recording a roller coaster round of seven gains, three dropped shots and a double bogey.
Gouveia, who started the week in 154th place, moved up to provisional 107th in the Race to Dubai Rankings in Partnership with Rolex after carding a -3 69 to boost his chances of earning his playing rights for next season at -11
Denmark's Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Japan's Rikuya Hoshino and Spaniard Alejandro Del Rey are at -10
South African Brandon Stone, New Zealand's Daniel Hillier and first round leader Ivan Cantero are one shot further back at -9
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