A pair of 22-year-olds with one professional win between them are set to earn life-changing prize money after two days of the LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok.
Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra of Spain and Jed Morgan of Brisbane are placed first and tied-11th respectively in the 48-man, 54-hole tournament at the new Stonehill Golf Club, 50km north of Bangkok.
Morgan (67-69) is eight shots behind the Spaniard who has been a professional for four months and never won a pro tournament.
But Morgan says if his putts roll in he can go "nasty low" on Sunday although he believes a win is "probably out of the question".
Yet thanks to an eye-watering and seemingly bottomless well of money from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, a bounty still awaits the Brisbane-born winner of the 2022 Australian PGA Championship.
The tournament's overall pot is $39 million and the individual winner will pocket $6.2 million.
A further $25 million will be shared among the rest of the field with the remaining $7.8 million divided between the top-three four-man teams.
Morgan won the Australasian Tour Order of Merit with $190,408.
In five LIV Golf tournaments he has earned $1.08 million despite not finishing better than 26th and twice finishing last.
"The money's massive, obviously," Morgan said after his three-under round of 69 on Saturday.
"It's a difficult thing not to think about - especially when you've never played for that amount.
"But I don't think about it as much as what I think others think that you think about it.
"Because I'm here for the golf. I'm lucky to be on this tour at the moment. So I don't care about the money. It really doesn't drive me."
Lopez-Chacarra has shot 65-63 (16-under) to go five shots clear of England's Richard Bland.
"I played with (Lopez-Chacarra) yesterday and he shot seven-under, a pretty phenomenal round," Morgan said.
"It's long, this golf course. But everyone's playing good golf. Everything is so pure. This is the first proper tournament ever played on it. You can trust it."
"You've just got to get the putts going. Then anything is possible. You can try to go nasty low!"
Elsewhere, Marc Leishman continued his good recent form with a three-under 69, the same score shot by world No.3 Cameron Smith.
Matt Jones (71-70) is three-under for the tournament while Wade Ormsby (70-68) holed out from a bunker for an eagle-three on the par-5 sixth hole and is 10 shots off the lead.
