White Sulphur Springs, WV (Betting Express) - Jeff Overton shot a four-under 66 on Saturday to remain in the lead after three rounds of The Greenbrier Classic.

Chasing his first PGA Tour win, Overton finished 54 holes on The Old White Course with an 18-under 192 to lead D.A. Points by three shots and Boo Weekley by five.

While Overton did enough to remain atop the leaderboard, making six birdies in his last 11 holes, the real drama Saturday came from a couple of players chasing history in front of him on the course.

Points went 10-under par through his first 16 holes and needed just one more birdie to shoot a 59. But he three-putted for bogey at the 17th and made a routine par at the 18th to fall two strokes short.

Points' 61 moved him to 15-under 195, good for second place behind Overton. He wasn't the only player who flirted with shooting a 59 on Saturday.

Several hours earlier, J.B. Holmes birdied his last hole to shoot a 60 and take the early clubhouse lead at 12-under 198.

Incredibly, it was the fourth round of 60 or better on the PGA Tour in the last four weeks.

Paul Goydos, of course, shot the fourth 59 in PGA Tour history on July 8 during the first round of the John Deere Classic. Steve Stricker had a 60 the same day, nearly holing out for a 59.

Last week, Carl Pettersson shot a 60 during the third round of the Canadian Open, just missing a long birdie putt at the 18th hole that would have given him a 59.

Holmes' bid for 59 was done in by a few holes. He bogeyed the par-three third when he couldn't get up-and-down from behind the green. He missed a four-foot birdie putt at No. 11 and a 10-footer for eagle at No. 17.

In all, he made just the one bogey and 11 birdies, including a 10-foot birdie putt at the 18th to finish off the 60.

"If I had shot 60 maybe this time last year, probably get a little more attention than it's probably gonna get," said Holmes. "But there's been a lot of great scores lately."

Points had a better chance to shoot a 59 because he reached 10-under for the round with an 11-foot birdie putt at the 16th, giving him two more holes to turn the trick.

But he hit a "below average" hybrid shot into a bunker at the par-five 17th, setting up his only bogey of the round.

With one foot in the bunker and one foot outside it, Points only managed to blast out to 32 feet. He lagged his first putt to four feet, but lipped out on the par effort to all but end his chase of history.

Missing a knee-knocker from four feet?

"You know, that happens. It's gonna happen to me again, and it's OK," said Points. "It was nice to be in the hunt at least for shooting 59."

Most of his scoring was done earlier in the round, as Points made a 3 on nine of his first 10 holes, something he said he's never done before.

"It was nice to keep hitting it in there close so that I could kind of keep the string going," said Points, who also made birdies at the 12th and 13th holes. "When we have wedges in ours hand, we feel like if we don't make birdie we feel a little letdown. So it's nice to finally hit the wedges in there and convert."

Overton rallied from early bogeys at the second and fifth holes, finally getting a shot back with his first birdie of the round at No. 8. But he didn't move back into the lead until making three straight birdies on the back nine, capped by a 13-foot putt at the 14th hole.

He rolled in a five-footer for birdie at the 16th, then two-putted from 53 feet for his final birdie at the 17th.

"I missed some putts early, and then a whole bunch of putts kind of fell in late for me, fortunately," Overton said. "It was good to see a couple putts go in."

Overton, 27, also held a three-shot lead heading into the final round of the 2007 Wyndham Championship, but lost to Brandt Snedeker by two strokes.

Weekley made a 10-foot birdie putt at the 18th hole to shoot a 67 and move into third place by himself at 13-under 197.

Holmes shared fourth with Jonathan Byrd (64), Brendon de Jonge (65) and Jimmy Walker (67).

NOTES: Points had a six-under 28 on the front nine, matching the lowest nine- hole score on the PGA Tour this season...Points and Holmes both carded career- best scores...There was a 54-hole cut that reduced the field from 85 to 77 players for the final round. It came at five-under 205 and Ricky Barnes was among those sent home.