{"id":393212,"date":"2011-04-23T22:47:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T22:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/23\/donald-on-course-for-top-ranking\/"},"modified":"2011-04-23T22:47:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T22:47:49","slug":"donald-on-course-for-top-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/23\/donald-on-course-for-top-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald on course for top ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/12a052321571_011821752-1.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Luke Donald\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Donald will become world number one if he can win in South Carolina<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Third-round leaderboard:<\/strong><br \/><strong>-11<\/strong> L Donald (Eng) <strong>-10<\/strong> J Furyk (US) <strong>-9<\/strong> B de Jonge (Zim), S Verplank (US) <strong>-8<\/strong> R Barnes (US), T Gainey (US), J Day (Aus) <strong>Selected others: -6<\/strong> G Williams (US) <strong>-5<\/strong> C Villegas (Col) <strong>-4<\/strong> M Kuchar (US) <strong>-3<\/strong> Ian Poulter (Eng) <strong>-2<\/strong> G McDowell (NI)<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>Luke Donald remains on course to become the new world number one as he maintained his one-shot lead after the third round of The Heritage event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Donald, 33, shot a steady round of 70 and still leads the US PGA event from defending champion Jim Furyk (69).<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s Brendon de Jonge (66) and Scott Verplank (67) of the US lead the chasing pack on nine under par.<\/p>\n<p>Donald will succeed Germany&#8217;s Martin Kaymer as the top-ranked player if he can clinch victory in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>With Kaymer taking the week off and Westwood playing in the  Indonesian Masters,  which carries less ranking points, victory would move Donald top of the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The world number three began the day with a one-shot lead but things quickly turned sour with a double-bogey on the second.<\/p>\n<p>He birdied the fifth and seventh to recover but needed to dig deep again &#8211; this time via a birdie on the ninth &#8211; to rescue par at the turn after a bogey on the eight.<\/p>\n<p>Birdies on the third and fifth allowed Furyk to pull level, joining Donald at 10 under for the tournament, before the Englishman re-established his one-shot advantage with a birdie at the 16th.<\/p>\n<p>American pair Ricky Barnes (67) and Tommy Gainey (67) and Australia&#8217;s Jason Day (71) are three shots off the lead at Hilton Head Island.<\/p>\n<p>Britons Graeme McDowell and Ian Poulter carded disappointing scores of 74 and 75 respectively to slip down the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/12a052321571_011821752-1-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/golf\/9466732.stm\" title=\"Donald on course for top ranking\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald on course for top ranking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Donald will become world number one if he can win in South Carolina Third-round leaderboard: -11 L Donald (Eng) -10 J Furyk (US) -9 B de Jonge (Zim), S Verplank (US) -8 R Barnes (US), T Gainey (US), J Day (Aus) Selected others: -6 G Williams (US) -5 C Villegas (Col) -4 M Kuchar (US) -3 Ian Poulter (Eng) -2 G McDowell (NI) Luke Donald remains on course to become the new world number one as he maintained his one-shot lead after the third round of The Heritage event. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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