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Peterson leads after record round

Matt Peterson fired a course-record-tying, five-under 65 Saturday to grab a one-shot lead after three rounds of the Buy.com Steamtown Classic at Glenmaura National Golf Club. His three-day total of seven-under-par 203 bettered the previous 54-hole record for this event by four strokes.

Jason Buha is alone in second at six-under par. Second-round leader John Elliott struggled to a one-over 71 and fell to third place at minus-four.

Peterson, who began the third round three shots behind Elliott, got out of the gate with a birdie only to drop a shot at the second hole. He reclaimed the lost shot with a birdie at the third. The 34-year-old sandwiched another bogey between a pair of birdies later on the first nine to go out at two-under 32.

The par-five 10th turned out to be a pleasant surprise for Peterson after he drove into a hazard down the right side of the fairway. After taking a penalty stroke he ripped a three-wood 20 yards from the green, then holed a sand-wedge shot for an unlikely birdie.

Peterson stuffed his eight-iron tee shot less than a foot from the stick at 11 to set up birdie. He later used the same club to knock his approach at 16 to tap-in range for birdie.

He owned a two-shot lead until Buha drained a 65-foot birdie putt at 17 in the group behind Peterson.

"That was a fun one," said Peterson of his seven-birdie effort on Saturday. "I still have a lot of work left ahead of me, but today it was all good."

Buha mixed six birdies and two bogeys for a third-round 68.

"Today was a topsy-turvy day," Buha said. "Every time I made a good shot, I capitalized on it. I didn't hit the ball nearly as well today as I did Friday, but I putted better."

Bud Still, Bob Friend, Jeff Gove, Jonathan Byrd and Jason Hill share fourth place at three-under 207.

Vic Wilk, Bob Heintz, Mark Carnevale, Sonny Skinner and Tim Petrovic, one of two players in the top-10 on the money list without a victory, are together in ninth at minus-two.

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