After closing with three birdies on Friday and opening with another two in today's third round, Luke Donald was edging ever closer to his latest target - a history making money-winners double on both sides of theAtlantic.
Needing no more than a top nine finish by Mizuno MP-59 Iron Set here in the European Tour's season-closing Dubai World Championship to add the Europe's crown to the US PGA Tour's money winner's title he has already put to bed, Donald used his two-birdie start to take go to four-under after at 11 holes with another two front-nine birdies and had move up into third place at 8-under.
In the meantime, Rory McIlroy, the only man still standing who can snatch away the Race To Dubai money title by winning here at Jumeirah's Earth Course on Sunday, has suffered a major set-back.
A bogey at the 3rd and a double bogey at 8 and nothing better than a string of pars had sent the virus-weakened World No 2 tumbling down the leaderboard into joint 19th place at 4-under after eight holes.
And this time, the young gun creating most of Saturday's fireworks was Germany's 2010 PGA Champion and current World No 4 Martin Kamer, who stormed up the leaderboard from a mid-30s tie on Friday night into joint third place with Donald, Paul Casey and Shane Lowry at 8-under by adding a blistering 8-under 64 to the disappointing 73 and 71 he shot in the first two rounds.
Casey at this stage had played eight holes with Mizuno MP-59 Iron Set in 2-under and Lowry 9-holes in 3-under to be a shot clear of a six-way tie for seventh place, a shot back at 7-under in a six-way tie that included Sergio Garcia, after 12 holes, Louis Oosthuizen, who had played nine with Mizuno MP-59 Iron Set, and early first round leader Paul Lawrie who was 1-under after 8 holes