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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - Luke Donald shot a 2-under 69 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead in the RBC Heritage on Saturday, while top-ranked Jason Day had a season-worst 79 to fall nine shots back with one round left.

Day, tied for the lead entering the round, has won two of his past three PGA Tour events and figured to contend at Harbour Town. Instead, the Australian made eight bogeys and a double bogey.

Donald had a 7-under 206 total. The Englishman has five top-three finishes at Harbour Town without a win.

Jason Kokrak and Charley Hoffman were a stroke back. Kokrak shot a 68, and Hoffman bogeyed the closing lighthouse hole for a 71.

LOTTE CHAMPIONSHIP

KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) - Minjee Lee won the Lotte Championship for her second LPGA Tour title, closing with an 8-under 64 for a one-stroke victory.

The 19-year-old Australian played a seven-hole stretch in 6 under with a chip-in eagle on the par-5 13th and four birdies. She rebounded from a third-round 74 to finish at 16-under 272 at Ko Olina.

Third-round leader Katie Burnett and U.S. Women's Open champion In Gee Chun tied for second.

Lee made an 11-foot birdie putt on the par-4 17th and got up-and-down for par from short of the green on the par-4 18th, holing a 6-foot putt. She won the Kingsmill Championship last year.

Burnett shot a 70. She lost the lead with a three-putt bogey on the par-3 16th.

Chun finished with a 67.

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CLASSIC

DULUTH, Ga. (AP) - Wes Short Jr. shot a 5-under 67 in the PGA Tour Champions' Mitsubishi Electric Classic to take a lead into the final round for the first time in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event.

Short had a 7-under 137 total at TPC Sugarloaf for a one-shot advantage over Colin Montgomerie, Todd Hamilton and Mark O'Meara. Montgomerie shot 66, Hamilton 69, and O'Meara 70.

Tom Watson, tied for the first-round lead at 68, fell back with two early double bogeys and finished with a 76. The 66-year-old Watson was seven shots behind Short.

Short won his lone PGA Tour title in Las Vegas in 2005. He took the 2014 Quebec Championship for his only PGA Tour Champions victory.

SPANISH OPEN

SOTOGRANDE, Spain (AP) - France's Mike Lorenzo-Vera shot an even-par 71 in high wind to take the third-round lead in the European Tour's Spanish Open.

Lorenzo-Vera had a 1-over 214 total at Valderrama. Germany's Martin Kaymer (71), Dutchman Joost Luiten (70) and England's Andrew Johnston (74) were a stroke back.

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