South Africans dominate the biggest Tour’s in golf with George Coetzee among three tied for the lead on six under par heading to the final round of the Tampa Bay Championship in Florida.

On the opposite side of world and fellow Springbok Thomas Aitken will take a three shot lead in the final day of the European Tour’s Avantha Masters in India.

While Aitken has tasted success before in capturing the 2011 Spanish Open, Coetzee could pull one of the biggest surprises on this year’s PGA Tour and win in his first regular PGA Tour event.

Coetzee, ranked 42nd in the world, took the sting out of the Copperhead course with a second straight 68 to move to six under par.

George Coetzee (r) tied with Justin Leonard (c) and Kevin Steelman (l) is just one round away from a PGA Tour card & a Masters invitation. (Photo – www.pgatour.com)

Tied with Coetzee is former Open Champion Justin Leonard (67) and fellow American Kevin Steelman (65).

One shot behind is 2010 champion, Jim Furyk (67) in a group on five under par.

Furyk is targeting a 17th PGA Tour success.

The 26-year old Coetzee prior to this year had played in six counting PGA Tour events but have been Majors and WGCs as a then European Tour member.

And while Coetzee is yet to win on the PGA Tour he’s no stranger to success having won four times on the Sunshine Tour.

“It would be nice to earn my card, a PGA Tour card would be nice,” he said smiling.

“I guess that’s the only thing I’ll be working on this year.

“I’m sure any golfer that’s played golf kind of seriously has wanted to be on one of the major tours.  And luckily enough, I did well enough in the first couple of events in Europe and the start of the season to secure my card for the year so I could come over to the States and maybe try to get a card here.

“Obviously everybody wants to play where the money’s at and at the moment, that’s the PGA Tour”.

However Coetzee will face stiff opposition with 20 players lying with four shots of the lead.

Among them is World No. 3 Luke Donald who is desperate to retain his Tampa Bay Championship crown.