Location: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida date: 1-4 March-11: R McIlroy (NI) terminates: H English (United States), T Gillis (US)-7: K Bradley (United States), B Harman (US), J rose (Eng)-6: C Schwartzel (SA), D proud (US) selected other-4: G McDowell (NI)-3: Christian G (Eng)-2: T Woods (United States), E Els (SA)-1: L Westwood (Eng) level: P Harrington (IRE) + 2: B Davis (Eng) + 4: JM Olazabal (SP) Rory McIlroy closed the world number one spot as a 66 gave a two-shot lead at 11 am under going into the final round of the Honda classic.
The 22-year-old must the event in Florida, Luke Donald, overhaul, not this week, and win plays combined six birdies with two dropped shots.
American Tom Gillis and Harris English are at second place on nine under, two before the England's Justin Rose (71) in the fourth quarter.
Tiger Woods (69) is two under Lee Westwood (70) shot further back.
McIlroy, who the number one ranking of the world match play event was denied after defeat against Hunter Mahan final last weekend, a shot behind rose and Gillis began the penultimate round at Palm Beach Gardens course.
Properly he turned a beautiful approach to three feet only in the second to miss the birdie putt.
A 260-meter, three-wood, however, increased over the flag to the next, and even though the Eagle putt curled over the Cup, he stayed with a tap-in birdie and a share of first place.
A putt of 22 metres of the nearest the outright gave him continued, lead and his imperious iron play on the par-3-fifth if he pitched and quiet rolled 10 feet in the putt two shots clear go.
McIlroy dropped shots on the next two holes, the leadership was taken but by 43-year-old Gillis, world number 269, which to win tour is still on the PGA.
Read the most important storyRory McIlroy the American pulled a shoe out of the mud in a water hazard hack and made some remarkable par saves, fixed of 33 and 28 feet on consecutive holes."This is why I play golf, put me in the race to win tournaments and try the best players in the world"
McIlroy continuously in conflicts with the introduction of the fringe grass 11 birdie and after some impressive escape his own to salvage par, he accounted to regains the top at 15, after a majestic tea, three feet of the first of the three treacherous holes known as the bear trap shot.
The Northern IRE was in a greenside bunker in two at the closing par five but a secured 12-foot birdie-putt a useful cushion gave him how he the second youngest world number should be one after Woods.
"I just tried it like every other tournament approach", he said the task awaits him on Sunday.
"This is where I want to be." "This is why I play golf, put me in the race to win tournaments and try, the best players in the world."
Rose went one ahead after he a 15-foot putt in TwittMS is the first, only shots fall on four foot putts the next Miss two holes perforated.
Woods, playing for the third day in a row, briefly threatened with birdies on the third, fourth and sixth, seventh next to Westwood, could not on the back nine and 13 bogeyed but.
"I Iranian large and I was close to put up there at a low", he said. "I felt like I was five under par for the day, or something like the post and me within range."
Tournament organizers decided the possibility of thunderstorms on Sunday and winds as high as 25 km/h also expected move forward tee times for the final round.
McIlroy was due to tee-off at 1030 local time in a Threeball with Gillis and English.
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