Matt Fitzpatrick in frame going into final round of US PGA Championship

• Sheffield golfer makes 67 to trail Mito Pereira by three shots
• Chilean, the world No 100, is playing only his second major

An English golfer was on a roll in the early stages of the US PGA Championship. Long Jim' Barnes, who emigrated to the United States from Cornwall, won this event - then in match play form - in 1916 and 1919. It was not played during the two intervening years.

Staggeringly, in more than a century that has passed since there has been no flag of St George adjacent to a US PGA winner. History will therefore not be on Matt Fitzpatrick's side on day four at Southern Hills but it dictates how significant a success for the Yorkshireman would be.