Perhaps still fuming about making a bogey on a birdie hole, Stone\'s tee shot at nine went left into the trees.
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\"My second clipped a tree and ricochet into the hazard short right of the green. I took a drop, but the shot took one bounce on the green, hit the pin and spun back into the hazard.\"
Stone dropped from the same spot but this time hit it to three feet and sank the putt for a triple bogey.
\"I birdied 11, dropped another one at the 12th, but I just couldn\'t get anything going on the back nine. I stayed positive, but it just wasn\'t going to happen.\"
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While Bolognesi did catch a break from Stone\'s mid-round meltdown, the Italian put in some hard work of own, especially over the front nine.
After birdies at the second and fifth, the 20-year-old from Cervia near Bologna took the lead with a brace of birdies before the turn and nullified a drop at the 10th with a birdie at the 15th to finish with a four-under-par 68.
\"It was a great round for me today, especially over the first nine holes,\" he said. \"I struggled a little to find birdies on the back nine, but tee to green, I played
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very well.
\"I\'m looking forward to the final round. The leaderboard is quite exciting and it is going to be a dog fight until the end, I think. Hopefully, I will be the top dog.\"
Porteous birdied eight and nine for an outward loop of 32. He then birdied 12 but gave one back at the 13th for a third successive day and retaliated at the par-five 15th for a fourth birdie to edge into second on the leaderboard.
\"The leaderboard is very tight and there are at least 10 players that can still challenge for the title,\" the 17-year-old said.
\"I hope, coming down the 18th, I\'m the one with the one shot lead.\"
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Nenthunzi forced his way into the final group with a flawless 68, but it could have been better.
\"I hit every green in regulation and the putter worked well, too,\" said the Gary Player School of Champions student.
\"I left two birdies out there at the closing holes, though. I lipped out for a five-footer at 17 and left one in the jaws at 18. It was one of my best rounds recently and I will bring that same game to the course on Friday.\"
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Bolognesi hits the front in SA （2）
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