Graeme McDowell fell behind for the third day running as he battled with Korean YE Yang today for a place in the quarter-finals of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson.
The US Open champion came back from losing the opening hole to beat both Heath Slocum and Ross Fisher, but a bogey at the short third saw him go one down to the 2009 US PGA winner.
McDowell could go as high as second in the world by winning the title on Sunday, although that depended on Martin Kaymer losing to Hunter Mahan in his third round clash.
McDowell went two down at the fourth, won the next, but then bogeyed the short sixth to lose that.
Because of a bad weather forecast for Sunday — snow even — the schedule for the event has been changed so that both the quarter-finals and semi-finals will now be played tomorrow.
