Golf: England's Mark Foster and Spaniard Ignacio Garrido, who have played more than 450 European Tour events between them since their last wins in 2003, will go head to head to try to change that at Gleneagles on Sunday.
The pair are 11-under-par after 54 holes of the Johnnie Walker Championship and three clear of the chasing pack - Dubliner Peter Lawrie, Dane Thomas Bjorn, American Anthony Kang, Austrian Bernd Wiesberger and recent Spanish winner Pablo Larrazabal.
While former Ryder Cup player Garrido has had only one top-10 finish all season, Foster has had a succession of chances to end his long drought.
He led the BMW International, French Open and Scottish Open in successive weeks this summer, but finished third, second and 14th.
"I've become a serial runner-up," said the Worksop 37-year-old, whose professional career began after he helped Britain and Ireland win the Walker Cup against an American team including Tiger Woods in 1995.
"I hit rock bottom when I lost the Spanish Open last year, but I've learnt from it and I look beyond winning now.
"You realise it's just the way it is. You can't influence what others do and I'm more interested in taking care of what I'm doing.
"I'm confident that if I do that good things will happen."
Resuming one behind Garrido, whose last success was the flagship PGA Championship at Wentworth, Foster drew level no fewer than four times during a third-round 68.
The par fives were the key. Foster birdied the second, chipped in for eagle on the ninth and grabbed more birdies at the 16th and 18th.
Garrido matched his rival's outward 33 and also his bogey on the 11th. Although he picked up further strokes at the 14th and 16th there was another dropped shot in between and that meant a 69.
Bjorn and Larrazabal, who have both won this season, shot 71 and 70 respectively, while Lawrie, whose only Tour
title in well over 250 starts was the 2008 Spanish Open, matched the Dane's score.
Wiesberger, chasing his first victory on the circuit, birdied four of the last seven for a fine 68, while South Korea-born Kang, winner of the Malaysian Open two years ago, had a 69.
Colin Montgomerie still had hopes of climbing into contention when he resumed on one under, but a 77 left him joint last of those who survived the cut - and out playing on his own at the start of the final round.
Garrido said: "It's great to be back in this position. You never know when the next one is going to be.
"The good thing is that once you've been there you know what the feeling is.
"I'm enjoying my golf lately and I will try to do the same tomorrow. I've managed not to make too many mistakes and I'm a much more solid player than when I last won."
