Six-time Major winner Nick Faldo has put his money on Scotland’s Russell Knox to secure a third PGA Tour success with victory at the AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Knox, 35 played a flawless ‘moving day’ round picking-up three shots to move to 11-under and into a fiveway share of second place at 11-under par along with Pacific Ocean shoreline.

Three-time major winning Jordan Spieth takes a one-shot in the last day having signed for a round of 71 to move to 13-under par.

Spieth had gone close to victory at last week’s Phoenix Open and for a second week running the Texan has muscled his way again into contention to capture what would be a first victory since capturing the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.

Spieth sensationally capped his round in holing a 160-yard second shot at the par-4 16th after bogeys on his 10th, 12th and 14th holes to drop off the leading pace.

Daniel Berger was sharing the lead at 13-under par with Spieth in playing the last but sent his tee shot so far right it just trickled out-of-bounds, and much the dismay of the American before scrambling his way to a humbling double-bogey ‘7’ to drop back to 11-under.

Knox heads into the final day tied with Berger along with Patrick Cantlay (70), Nate Lashley (68) and Tom Hoge (68)

Faldo was in the CBS commentary box when Knox was on the 11th when the call was thrown-up among those calling the shots for TV when the Englishman was asked his pick to win the event.

“My money is on Knox.  He’s played very solid these three rounds and his game looks in superb shape.  He hit 26 greens in regulation in succession and is six for six in sand saves, so the Scot is my bet.”

The Florida-based Scot went into the day three of the $7.3m event with prior rounds of 66 and 70.

Knox grabbed the first birdie on day three in holing an eight-footer at the par- 4 fourth hole and then moved to two-under for his round in landing a five-footer to the bottom of the cup at the par-5 fifth hole.

He two-putter for a par the stunning downhill par-3 seventh and came to the par-4 ninth where he holed a seven-footer to head into the inward nine lying at three-under for his round and now 11-under for the tournament.

And while the birdies dried-up for Knox in producing nine closing pars in his round of 69 the proud Scot was, as Faldo pointed-out, rock-solid along the Pacific Ocean shoreline.

“I played a great round today,” said Knox.

“I hit a lot of really good shots, I felt extremely comfortable and just — I mean, I’m not going to say I putted poorly because I didn’t, I just left myself a lot of difficult putts. And it’s hard out here when you’re just kind of tapping it and it’s breaking a foot in the wind and bounciness of the greens. I’m very happy with my round.

And looking ahead tomorrow, Knox said:  “If I keep swinging the way I’m swinging, which I hope I can, I hope I don’t wake up tomorrow and get worse, I mean the person that wins tomorrow is just going to make some putts. Get off to a fast start.

“Obviously the first seven you can get, so it would be nice to get off to a flying start and then kind of hold on for the remainder.”