Nick Price moved into position for his first win on the Champions Tour, shooting a bogey-free 66 yesterday to take a one-shot lead over D.A. Weibring after three rounds of the Senior Players Championship in Timonium, Md.

Starting the day in a fifth-place tie, Price moved up the leader board with birdies on three of the first five holes. He then peeled off 11 consecutive pars before sinking a 13-foot birdie putt on 17.

Price, 51, barely missed a 23-foot birdie putt on 18, then tapped in to close at 8-under 202.

Price earned more than $20 million on the PGA Tour and won two player of the year awards, but he has yet to cash a winner's check in 30 tournaments on the 50-and-over circuit.

That could change today in the Champion Tour's last major of the year.

It probably won't be easy -- eight players will enter the final round within four shots of the lead.

Weibring made five birdies in shooting a 66. Jeff Sluman (64) and Gene Jones (69) were at 6 under; Eduardo Romero (67) was alone at 5 under; and Jay Haas (69) and Fred Funk (72) were among four players at 4 under.

Sluman had the best round of the week. He eagled the 362-yard, par-4 sixth hole, made four birdies, hit 13 of 14 fairways and didn't have a bogey.

Jones started the back nine with two birdies in a row to move into first place, but he fell into a second-place tie by three-putting on No. 12 for a bogey.

Funkled for much of the round before stumbling under the weight of three successive bogeys on Nos. 13-15.

Second-round leader Ben Crenshaw bogeyed two of the first three holes and finished with a 74 to fall well off the pace at 3 under. Crenshaw made only one birdie in his bid to earn his first tournament title since capturing the Masters for a second time in 1995.

He struggled from the outset, hitting his first shot to the left of the fairway. His approach then rolled off the green, and he had to settle for a bogey.

After getting a par on the 157-yard second hole, Crenshaw again missed the fairway to the left and ended up with a bogey. That gave him two bogeys on three holes -- double the number he had in the entire second round, when he missed the fairway only twice.

• Texas Open: South Africa's Rory Sabbatini birdied the final hole for a 7-under 63 and a one-stroke lead over Zach Johnson in San Antonio. Sabbatini, a four-time tour winner who lives in Southlake outside Dallas, had an eagle and four birdies for a back-nine 29. Winless since the 2007 Colonial in Fort Worth, he had a 14-under 196 total. Johnson, the 2007 Masters champion, shot a bogey-free 62, playing the front nine in 5-under 30. He has three PGA Tour victories. Tim Wilkinson (63), 1997 winner Tim Herron (67) and second-round leader Chris Stroud (69) were 11 under.

• Madrid Masters: Argentina's Ricardo Gonzalez shot a 9-under 62 to trail South Africa's Charl Schwartzel by one stroke after the third round in Spain. Schwartzel birdied the 18th hole for a 66 and finished at 14-under 199 overall.

• Longs Drugs Challenge: South Korea's In-Kyung Kim remained in position for her first LPGA Tour victory, shooting a 3-under 69 in windy conditions to take a one-stroke lead at 11-under 205 over Angela Stanford (67) in Danville, Calif.