GOLF – Filippo Celli and Manuel Elvira will share the lead heading into the final round of the BMW PGA Championship but the duo have a high-class leaderboard breathing down their necks at Wentworth Club.
On a day when a host of players shared the lead, the playing partners both birdied the last to get to 13 under and sit one ahead of Major champion JJ Spaun, Spaniard Alejandro del Rey and American Johannes Veerman.
Rory McIlroy finished birdie-eagle to get to 11 under alongside fellow Masters champion Adam Scott, American Davis Bryant, Chilean Joaquin Niemann and Norway’s Kristoffer Reitan.
Italian Celli and Spaniard Elvira carded rounds of 69 and 68 respectively and will go out together again on Sunday as they both look for a first DP World Tour win at the third Rolex Series event of the season.
Celli – the Silver Medallist at The 2022 Open Championship – is playing his second full season on Tour after coming through the Qualifying School in 2023 and regaining his card via the HotelPlanner Tour last year.
Celli started with a bogey and then made ten pars in a row before taking advantage of the par-five 12th.
A long putt on the next and a smart approach into the 16th were then followed by an outrageous piece of luck on the last as his second bounced off the wood around the water and went into the bunker from where he got up and down.
Elvira – brother of three-time DP World Tour winner Nacho - is playing his third season on Tour since graduating from the HotelPlanner Tour in 2023 and has three top tens in 2026.
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