Akshay Bhatia shot 4-under-par 68 in the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Saturday to carry a two-stroke lead into the final round at Pebble Beach, Calif.

Bhatia lost some of his commanding lead by playing the final seven holes in 2 over after a sizzling start at Pebble Beach Golf Links.

He’s at 19-under 197 heading to Sunday.

Collin Morikawa made a big move with a 62 on Saturday to share second place with Jake Knapp (66) and Austria’s Sepp Straka (67). Jacob Bridgeman (68) is in fifth place at 16 under and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama (67), who played without a bogey in the third round, is sixth at 15 under.

Bhatia, who was tied for the tournament lead at the midway mark after Friday’s round, began with birdies on six of the first seven holes Saturday.

The top six golfers on the leaderboard have played all three rounds with sub-70 scores.

Defending champion Rory McIlroy isn’t in contention after Saturday’s 72 put him at 9 under and tied for 39th place.

–Field Level Media

Four players scored in double figures and No. 13 Purdue clamped down on Iowa during a 78-57 Big Ten Conference win Saturday in Iowa City.

C.J. Cox led the balanced Boilermakers (21-4, 11-3) with 14 points, connecting on four of their 12 3-pointers. Reserve Gicarri Harris also scored 14, while Fletcher Loyer and Trey Kaufman-Renn each added 12 points in Purdue’s fourth straight win.

Kaufman-Renn hauled in 12 rebounds, including 11 in the first half, while teammate Braden Smith dished out 12 assists to give him 980 for his career. Smith is 97 assists away from passing Bobby Hurley for the all-time NCAA record.

Bennett Stirtz scored a game-high 19 points for the Hawkeyes (18-7, 8-6), who fell to 0-5 against ranked opponents this season. Stirtz made 7 of 11 field goals but the rest of his teammates hit just 13 of 42.

Purdue owned an 11-point halftime lead and wasted little time expanding it. Loyer converted a three-point play and Smith hit a layup, forcing Iowa coach Ben McCollum to call a timeout just 1:48 into the second half with the Boilermakers up by 16.

Cox and Jack Benter combined to score 11 consecutive points for the Boilermakers, upping the advantage to an insurmountable 58-31 advantage after Benter’s layup with 12 minutes remaining. The margin never got closer than 16 for the game’s remainder.

Each team came into this one looking for a better performance after their midweek contests. Purdue blew a 22-point second-half lead Tuesday night at Nebraska before surviving in overtime, while Iowa saw its six-game winning streak end at Maryland, which was 2-10 in league play before pulling off a 77-70 upset.

Neither team found the range until Harris, a sophomore averaging only 5.0 ppg, gave the Boilermakers a lift. He made the first of three 3-pointers, dunked for a three-point play and canned another 3 to complete a five-point trip that began with a Daniel Jacobsen dunk.

Ahead 15-7 at that point, Purdue upped the advantage as high as 15 later in the half before settling for a 36-25 margin at the break.

–Field Level Media

David Toms put the pedal down Saturday, carding a bogey-free 9-under 63 to take control of the Chubb Classic at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Fla.

Toms heads into the final round at 14-under 130, three clear of Australia’s Michael Wright, who stayed in the mix with a 4-under 68 to reach 11 under for the tournament.

“Any time you make nine birdies, you obviously rolled the ball well,” Toms said after the round. “That was the key today. Speed was good on the greens. Once you don’t really have to think about the speed, if you can just think about the line and the speed come natural, that’s the way I putted today and it worked really well.”

Despite the three-stroke lead, Toms knows a win on Sunday will need another strong round, as another golfer could make a push up the leaderboard just like he did on Saturday.

“I’ll have to go out and play really good golf again,” Toms said. “I’m sure there is somebody that’s four, five shots back that will play a similar round like I did today, so you got to go out there and make it happen when you can.”

Wright could have been closer to the lead but double-bogeyed the par-4 17th before finishing his round with a birdie on 18.

“We had a little bit of an issue with Darren’s (Clarke) tee shot and I was a little bit rattled,” Wright said of his adventure on the 17th hole. “My emotions were running a little bit high standing over that shot. I unfortunately got — had a 6-iron and cut it a bit too much. I didn’t think it was as bad as it ended up being, but it ended up being just terrible. I had like a stick right behind the ball that I couldn’t move because it would’ve moved the ball.

“… Next thing you know, (I) had a 6 on the card. Really good chip to get it up and down for a 6. Could have made more. Fortunately got that up and down. Then did a good job on the last to make birdie.”

Justin Leonard and Ricardo Gonzalez of Argentina share third at 10 under after matching 68s, giving Sunday plenty of depth behind the leader.

A shot further back, Argentine Angel Cabrera and Steve Flesch are tied for fifth at 9 under, with Flesch’s round punctuated by an eagle on the closing par-5.

Not everyone held their ground. Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland, who shared the first-round lead with Wright after eagling two of his last four holes, slid back to a tie for 26th at 3 under after a 76.

–Field Level Media