Canada's Hughes 1 stroke back of lead after 3rd round of Sanderson Farms Championship

Mark Hubbard ran off five straight birdies on the back nine and ended with a superb shot to 4 feet, giving him a 7-under 65 and a one-shot lead Saturday in the Sanderson Farms Championship as he goes for his first PGA Tour victory.

Hubbard has gone 163 starts over six years without winning, and this would be as good a chance as any. It's his first time to hold a 54-hole lead on tour.

Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, Ont., showed how much can change in so little time at the Country Club of Jackson.

Hughes sent his approach long on the 18th and faced a difficult putt up closely mown grass to a green and raced away from him. Right went it looked as though Hubbard might have a three-shot lead, Hughes holed the putt from 30 feet for birdie and a 68.

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Hubbard was at 15-under 201, one shot ahead of Hughes.

He shot 68 and was three shots behind along with Honda Classic winner Sepp Straka (69) and Garrick Higgo (68), who bounced back nicely from a double bogey on the 12th hole when he had wedge in his hand from 119 yards in the fairway.

Thomas Detry of Belgium, who started the third round tied with Hughes, had only one birdie on a day of good scoring, shot 74 and fell seven shots behind.

Former PGA champion Keegan Bradley set the tone early with a 64 that left him four behind at the end of the day. On this course, it's important to take advantage of a stretch on the back nine with a pair of par 5s and a reachable par 4.

That's what the 33-year-old Hubbard did as well as anyone.

His streak of five birdies began on the par-5 11th with a pitch to tap-in range. He made a pair of 8-foot birdies on the next two holes, two-putted from 50 feet on the par-5 14th and then chipped nicely behind the