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Eagle leaves McIlroy two off Wentworth lead

Rory McIlroy stands two strokes behind the third-round leaders heading into the final day after a three-under 72 at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
Eagle leaves McIlroy two off Wentworth lead

BMW PGA Championship - round three

-13 M Elvira (Spa), F Celli (Ita); -12 J Veerman (US), A Del Rey (Spa) JJ Spaun (US)

Selected others: -11 R McIlroy (NI), A Scott (AUS); -10 S Bairstow (Eng), M Wallace (Eng), R MacIntyre (Sco); -9 J Smith (Eng), M Fitzpatrick (Eng), A Rai (Eng); -7 R Fisher (Eng), S Lowry (Ire); -6 A Fitzpatrick (Eng); -5 D Law (Sco), J Rose (Eng), E Ferguson (Sco), T Hatton (Eng)

Rory McIlroy finished with a superb eagle to move two shots off the lead heading into the final day of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.

Northern Ireland's world number two made a three on the par-five 18th to stay in contention with a three-under 69 leaving him on 11 under.

Spain's Manuel Elvira and Italy's Filippo Celli share the lead after both made birdies on the final hole to leave them 13 under.

But there is a congested leaderboard with 20 players within four strokes of the lead.

Alejandro Del Rey, JJ Spaun and Johannes Veerman are one shot behind with an exciting finish in store on Sunday.

McIlroy is attempting to win a record-equalling eighth Race to Dubai title and can boost his hopes by securing the second Wentworth title of his career.

"There are a lot of people around the leaders," he said after another round in blustery conditions.

"I think the conditions over the last couple of days are the reason why no-one has got away from the pack, just because it has played so tricky and difficult.

"I'll probably try not to look at the leaderboards on the front nine, and if I need to play a little bit more aggressively on the back, I'll do it."

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