Almost an outstanding eagle for Rickie Fowler from forty feet on the short fifth.

He knocks his 40-footer to inches but pockets a birdie.

Well played Tommy Fleetwood though, who needs to sink from six feet and holds his nerve.

The top end of the scoresheet is daubed in blue, meaning Europe are on course to secure victory without needing those down the bottom to close out their matches.

Just as well at the moment.

Ludvig Aberg is three down to Brooks Koepka after eight holes, with Sepp Straka and Shane Lowry also trailing.

Robert MacIntyre misses the third green and faces a tricky chip, but his short game holds up and he gets it up-and-down for a par to halve the hole - with Wyndham Clark making a four when missing a birdie effort from 25 feet away.

While the top trio down the course are pressing home their advantage, Max Fitzpatrick is feeling the heat from Max Homa.

A second water penalty of the day for the Yorkshireman while Homa knocks his second shot serenely onto the green.

This could be a third straight hole for Homa.

It's back-to-back birdies for Xander Schauffele and he levels his match with Nicolai Hojgaard on the fifth hole. The American knocked it to 11 feet with his second shot and rolled it in after the Dane could only make par when his second came up short of the green.

This scorecard is going up and down like our heartrates.

After McIlroy was pegged back on the ninth, he responds with a par on the 10th after Burns duffs a short iron to end up with a bogey.

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A scrambling Collin Morikawa gets up and down for par, leaving Vktor Hovland two putts to take another giant stride towards a point for Europe.

The poster boy of Luke Donald's team is a touch off line and it scoots four feet by.

He knocks that in though and it;s starting to look a lost cause for Morikawa.

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Justin Rose is fired up, or trying to get fired up in an attempt to peg back Patrick Cantlay but even when knocking in a seven-footer it's only for a half in the end.

Rose is level par for the round today, and although Cantlay is only two under he's made every putt when he had to and kept Rose at arm's length.

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Are those putting demons still lurking in Scheffler's head? Let's find out.

They've been going in and out of the cerebrum all day.

Here he goes with the birdie putt on the 13th... missed it!!

Jon Rahm is gifted the hole and, from being one down about half an hour ago, the top of the scorecard is blue once again.

On the 13th tee... Jon Rahm hits an absolute stunner to leave the European fans celebrating.

A gorgeous iron shot pitches about 15 feet past the pin and screws back to leave him with a short birdie put.

"Vamosssss!" screams a Spanish football shirt-wearing fan.

Scheffler has the minerals to respond with a superb tee-shot of his own, although he's about 10 feet out. Gulp.

Fairway, green, fairway green.

It's ideal front-running matchplay golf from Viktor Hovland.

It's enough to make Collin Morikawa screw his iron from the fairway into the grisly uphill rough to the right of the 12th green.

Robert MacIntyre takes the lead against self-proclaimed best player in the field Wyndham Clark - as the American makes a bogey on the second following a trip to the rough and then a fairway bunker as he zig-zagged that one.

The Scotsman is left with a nine-foot putt for the win and in what could be a good sign for him going forward he rolls it in with a measure of confidence.

All square in the penultimate pairing as Rickie Fowler trundles in a 10-footer against Tommy Fleetwood.

There aren't many people watching these final groups though - can't blame them with all the fireworks up ahead.

European talisman Jon Rahm has gone slightly off the boil, but turns up the heat on Scottie Scheffler by reaching the 12th green in two.

Scheffler is short of the green after missing the fairway with his drive, but then knocks a chip to put him into a good position.

A 12-foot putt for the half awaits... but walks off it after a pesky fly bothers him. The crowd don't need any encouragement to crank up the pressure with some inquisitive jeers.

That unsettles him and he drags the putt left.

Even steven!

Matt Fitzpatrick is scratching around in the sand on nine and it presents Max Homa with the chance to go ahead for the first time in the match.

He does not miss from four feet and America have another splash of red towards the top.

Just a glimmer for Tyrrell Hatton as he hits a long putt to three feet while Brian Harman is seven feet away after a chip from the greenside rough, but the American makes no mistake to send his effort home for the half.

Xander Schauffele pulls one back against Nicolai Hojgaard with a birdie on the fifth despite his ball coming perilously to finding the water off the tee.

He recovers to chip it to two feet and when Hojgaard can't make his three from just off the back of the green then the American takes the hole to go just one down.

Iain Carter
BBC golf correspondent on BBC Radio 5 Live

Oh, the atmosphere - it's just bubbling beautifully.

A bit loose from Collin Morikawa as he leaves his iron short and the door is open for Viktor Hovland to extend his lead.

Hovland caught the green with his tee shot and duly takes advantage of to get birdie, including a majestic long-range putt.

Morikawa needs to sink from 16 feet to halve the hole... he can't manage it and Hovland is back to three up.