Banana peel moment! A slippery slope for McIlroy during his 3rd round at the Australian Open

Crowd favourite in Melbourne wants course to gt firmer to make a lat Sunday run at the leaders. 'If it does I think I could go out there and shoot something very low, 8 or 9 under'

Rory McIlroy: “I am probably going to be too far behind to challenge tomorrow”

Rory McIlroy survived a bizarre encounter with a banana peel lodged in a tree to shoot a 3-under 68 on Saturday at the Australian Open.

His round left him nine strokes behind leader Danish player Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, who made birdie putts on the 17th and 18th for a 66 and a 54-hole total of 14-under 199.