2022 PGA Championship - The favorites, contenders and long shots going into the final round

TULSA, Okla. — After several of golf's biggest stars failed to make up ground on moving day at the PGA Championship on Saturday, six players are in good position to win their first major championship at Southern Hills Country Club.

Chile's Mito Pereira moved to 9 under after the third round and is the first player since John Daly in 1991 to hold the outright 54-hole lead in his PGA Championship debut. In each of the previous seven major championships at Southern Hills, the winner had at least a share of the 54-hole lead.

Pereira is seeking to become the first PGA Tour rookie to win a major since Keegan Bradley at the 2011 PGA Championship. He'll look to join world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa as 20-somethings who won majors recently.

«That's just how it is,» Pereira said. «If you play really good golf during the week, you're going to win. Doesn't matter [if it's] your first time or your 10th time, if you play really, really well you're going to have chances.»

Four of the contenders — Pereira, Will Zalatoris, Cameron Young and Matt Fitzpatrick — have never even won on the PGA Tour. One of them would become the first player since Martin Kaymer in 2010 and only the fifth in the past 50 years to get his first tour victory at the PGA Championship. Abraham Ancer and Seamus Power, two more players in striking distance, have just one victory each.

Here's a look at the top contenders to win the Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday:

Mito PereiraLeader 9 under

Pereira, from Chile, got to 10 under at one point during the third round, but then bogeyed four of five holes. He didn't panic and rebounded with consecutive birdies on Nos. 13 and 14. He added another one with a 27-footer on No. 18.

Playing in just his second major,