McIlroy stumbles at the Masters, shares lead with Cameron Young entering final round

Rory McIlroy's march to another Masters title took a ride through the Georgia pines and into the water and all sorts of places he didn't want to be Saturday, including having to share space at the top of the leaderboard with Cameron Young.

This one-man show has turned into a wide-open race for the green jacket.

McIlroy lost a Masters record six-shot lead after 36 holes when he stumbled to a 1-over 73, surprising considering it was the lowest-scoring third round in Augusta National history at 70.63.

Young was eight shots behind at the start and shot a 65, which included a bogey on the par-5 15th when his wedge came up short and rolled back into the water. But he took the lead with a 20-foot birdie on the 16th, only for McIlroy to catch up at the end.

"Didn't quite have it today," McIlroy said before going off to the range to figure out what went wrong. He is last in the field in driving accuracy among the 54 players who made the cut.

"There's a lot of guys in with a chance tomorrow. I'm still tied for the best score going into tomorrow, so I can't forget that," he said. "But I do know I'm going to have to be better if I want to have a chance to win."

Even so, this was not the day anyone was expecting of McIlroy. Only two players were within six shots of the Masters champion going into the third round. There were nine players within McIlroy and Young when the wild day was over.

They were at 11-under 205, one ahead of Sam Burns who played bogey-free for a 68. Shane Lowry, who made a hole-in-one on the par-3 sixth hole to become the first player to have a pair of aces in the Masters, had a 69 and was two shots behind.

And suddenly very much in the picture was the No. 1 player in the world, Scottie Scheffler, who had his