Two-time US Open winner Retief Goosen is on track to break an almost six-year win drought as he surges clear midway through round three of the US PGA Tour’s event at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles.

The South African is two-under through his opening 10 holes to surge to eight-under for the tournament, two clear at the top of the leaderboard.

Goosen, who won the US Open in 2001 and 2004, hasn’t claimed victory on the US PGA Tour since March 2009 when he captured the Valspar Championship in Tampa.

Argentine Angel Cabrera (10 holes) is joined by Canadian Graham DeLaet (10 holes), Mexico’s Carlos Ortiz (14 holes) and American JB Holmes (10 holes), at six-under in a tie for second.

The best of the Australians is Matt Jones carding a one-over-par 72 to be one-over and currently tied 37th.

Jones opened his round with a 22-foot birdie putt on the first hole but gave the shot back by missing the second green short and then failing to get up and down.

A precision approach to three-feet on the seventh hole and resulting birdie put the New South Welshman under par for the day and then another birdie on the drivable par four 10th boosted him.

But after failing to birdie the par five 11th, Jones found the rough on the 12th from the tee and made bogey.

Adding insult to injury he mirrored the effort a hole later and missed the green with a short iron from the fairway on 15 to drop further back.

Geoff Ogilvy is two-over on his third round through 15 holes to be four-over and tied 64th.