Reigns in Desert

Garcia got off to the perfect start, putting his approach to the first to inside six feet and rolling it home to extend his lead. Stenson made a fantastic birdie after finding trouble off the tee on the sixth, putting an approach to 15-feet and rolling in the putt and while Garcia was in worse trouble on the eighth after finding the desert, he found his ball and made par from the sand. He carried that momentum to the ninth and an excellent approach brought a birdie and restored his four-shot lead at the turn.

Stenson holed an 18-footer on the tenth for birdie and while he bogeyed the 12th, he took advantage of the par five next and then put an approach to eight feet on the 14th to sit two back with four to play. Garcia hit back in stunning fashion, putting his tee-shot on the 15th to two feet while Stenson bogeyed, and when he produced a brilliant bump-and-run to save par on the 16th, Stenson's birdie on the last only served to narrow the gap.