For a first time in a very long while two Scottish-born golfers in Richie Ramsay and Paul Lawrie will be looking to be the one to raise the Scottish Saltire flag on the Swiss Alps summit.

Ramsay heads into last day of the Omega European Masters leading by a stroke at 11-under par and Lawrie on 10-under par.

Scotland's Ritchie Ramsay hitting into the 18th on route to a 64. (Photo - Jenny Matthew/www.golffile.ie)

Ramsay, with one Tour victory in more than 100 starts, carded the only bogey-free round on day three in signing for a 64 while Lawrie was left lamenting driving out-of-bounds at the par five, 14th after a 20-minute delay caused by slow play.

And with both players also having been born in the north-east Scottish city of Aberdeen it adds further interest in the final round on the Crans-sur-Sierre course.

“I’ve just got to stick to the gameplan, and try to knock on that door,” said Ramsay.

“If the door opens and I get the win, then fantastic. If not, then I’ll try again next week.”

Lawrie at No. 30 in the world is the highest-ranked player competing this week in Switzerland and he’s also on a high having cemented his place at the start of last week’s Johnnie Walker Championship ahead of winning the Gleneagles event.

But after starting his round eagle, birdie and then posting three birdies in a row from the seventh, seeing his ball fly out-of-bounds at the 14th was a tough pill for the 43-year old to swallow.

“I’m a little frustrated to be fair as I played lovely out there but just missed so many putts,” said Lawrie.

“Then you hit one poor shot and you make double bogey but that’s golf as you are not going to make them all.

“So my assessment is that it could have been four or five shots better.”

Ramsay and Lawrie, along with England’s Danny Willett, who shares second place with Lawrie, will be out in the last group at 11.35am.

Nearly two hours was lost to play today due to clouds rolling in to engulf the course and with the likelihood of a further disruption to early morning play Sunday.