New Zealand golfer Michael Campbell is poised just off the pack in the US Open at Pinehurst, North Carolina.
Campbell shot a one over 71 to finish the third round tied for fourth place, with Australia's Mark Hensby.
Defending champion South African Retief Goosen has a three-shot lead over relative unknown Jason Gore and US PGA Tour journeyman Olin Browne.
Goosen leads Campbell by four shots, one under par.
Campbell had three birdies, including chipping in from a bunker on the 17th, and four bogeys.
He's two shots ahead of Tiger Woods ? in a tie for seventh ? with world No 1 Vijay Singh further back.
Goosen is poised to lift his third US Open championship after a stunning third-round comeback here on Saturday.
He shot a one-under 69, only the second sub-par round of the day, to go into Sunday's final round with a three-shot lead over Gore and Browne.
Behind Campbell and Hensby are David Toms, Tiger Woods, Lee Westwood, KJ Choi and Peter Hedblom.
The 36-year-old Goosen, who began the day sharing the lead with Americans Gore and Browne, looked to be letting it all slip away when he went bogey-double bogey on the long march home.
It took him back to level par and out of the lead.
But in true championship style, he hit back with back-to-back birdies to return to two-under par.
Then a dramatic birdie putt from off the 18th green took him to three-under and a vital cushion on a brutal course where birdies are hard to come by.
Goosen has led or co-led after the third round in his two previous US Open victories and few will bet against him taking his third US Open title in five years.
It was an equally gutsy performance from Gore.
The 31-year-old Californian is unable to make a living from the PGA Tour but he refused to wilt when he was put under the spotlight here to finish level par for the championship and with reach of Goosen.
Browne gave an equally impressive performance as he too refused to go away.
The much-heralded playing duo of Vijay Singh and Sergo Garcia failed to keep it together on Pinehurst No 2, the Spaniard finishing the day five-over for the championship and eight shots back ? a near impossible mountain to climb on this course.
Singh is seven back and needing a total collapse by Goosen to have any chance.
Veteran Peter Jacobsen, only playing here because of his victory in the US Senior Open, scored a hole-in-one when his ball took once bounce on the green of the 160m ninth and dropped in the hole.
It allowed Jacobsen to card the only other sub-par round on Saturday.
LEADING SCORES
207 - Retief Goosen (South Africa) 68 70 69
210 - Jason Gore 71 67 72, Olin Browne 67 71 72
211 - MICHAEL CAMPBELL (NZ) 71 69 71, Mark Hensby (Australia) 71 68 72
212 - David Toms 70 72 70
213 - Peter Hedblom (Sweden) 77 66 70, Tiger Woods 70 71 72, Lee Westwood (England) 68 72 73, KJ Choi (Korea) 69 70 74
214 - Peter Jacobsen 72 73 69, Arron Oberholser 76 67 71, Steve Allan (Australia) 72 69 73, Vijay Singh (Fiji) 70 70 74
215 - Tim Clark (South Africa) 76 69 70, Corey Pavin 73 72 70, Nick Price (Zimbabwe) 72 71 72, Rocco Mediate 67 74 74, Adam Scott (Australia) 70 71 74, Sergio Garcia (Spain) 71 69 75
216 - Kenny Perry 75 70 71, Paul Claxton 72 72 72, Luke Donald (England) 69 73 74, Keiichiro Fukabori (Japan) 74 67 75, Jim Furyk 71 70 75
217 - Justin Leonard 76 71 70, John Cook 71 76 70, Davis Love 77 70 70, Tim Herron 74 73 70, Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 72 74 71, Shigeki Maruyama (Japan) 71 74 72, Ted Purdy 73 71 73, Angel Cabrera (Argentina) 71 73 73, Steve Jones 69 74 74
218 - Bernhard Langer (Germany) 74 73 71, Bill Glasson 74 73 71, Phil Mickelson 69 77 72, Ryuji Imada (Japan) 77 68 73, Charles Howell 77 68 73, Bob Estes 70 73 75
219 - Paul McGinley (Ireland) 76 72 71, Ernie Els (South Africa) 71 76 72, Colin Montgomerie (Scotland) 72 75 72, John Mallinger 74 72 73, Rob Rashell 74 72 73, Peter Lonard (Australia) 71 74 74, Fred Couples 71 74 74
220 - Graeme McDowell (Northern Ireland) 74 74 72, Chad Campbell 77 71 72, Tom Pernice 74 73 73, Stewart Cink 73 74 73, Ian Poulter (England) 77 69 74, Nick Dougherty (England) 72 74 74, Thomas Bjorn (Denmark) 71 74 75, Fred Funk 73 71 76, Brandt Jobe 68 73 79
221 - Matthew Every 75 73 73, Thomas Levet (France) 75 73 73, Jonathan Lomas (England) 72 74 75, Nick O'Hern (Australia) 72 71 78, Steve Flesch 72 71 78, Tommy Armour 70 72 79
222 - JP Hayes 77 71 74, Lee Janzen 74 74 74, DJ Brigman 74 73 75, Jeff Maggert 72 75 75, Mike Weir (Canada) 75 72 75, JJ Henry 73 73 76, Rory Sabbatini (South Africa) 72 74 76, Stephen Ames (Canada) 71 75 76, Michael Allen 73 72 77, Soren Kjeldsen (Denmark) 74 71 77, Richard Green (Australia) 72 72 78, Steve Elkington (Australia) 74 69 79
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