McKinney, Texas – The comfortable advance of Scottie Scheffler during his hometown CJ Cup byron Nelson was the same at the end of the third round as at the beginning, even without the domination that the best classified player showed on the first 36 holes.
Then he found this form again and made an even bigger advance at 23 sous while finishing after Sunset on Saturday.
Scheffler has an advance of eight strokes after a 5-mine of 66 crowned by Birdies out of three of the last five holes-the last on the 18th in Par-5 more than 1 p.m. after the start of the day with about half of the field in front of finishing the second round, including 18 players who had not even started. Friday, there was a six -hour weather time.
Erik Van Rooyen (65), Adam Schenk (65) and Ricky Castillo (67) have 15 sous, with Kurt Kitayama (68) and Jhonattan Vegas (67) another blow.
Scheffler had his first two bogeys of the tournament and was 2 under the day through 13 holes after missing the record of the PGA Tour for the lowest score of 36 holes by a shot at 124 (18 sous). His six -stroke advance after two laps was a Nelson record.
In the short par-4 14th, Scheffler led the green before settling down for a Tap-In birdie, then put his starting stroke in the long 15th 15th inside four feet for another Birdie.
The Horn for Darkness had already struck after Scheffler, Castillo and Sam Stevens died out of 18 when the group in front was still in the fairway but erased them to try to save time. The players had the opportunity to finish.
Scheffler could not see her second stroke of the rough after the impact, but she reached green. He has two strokes of 31 feet for the biggest advance of 54 holes in the PGA Tour, since Rory McILroy also led by eight on the path of the victory of the US Open 2011.
“I saw him removed as I wanted,” said Scheffler about his approach on the 18th. “But after that, I couldn’t see so far. Really, I would say that the most difficult part was to read a green.”
Van Rooyen was next to the green out of 18 in two shots and in search of another Birdie that would have equaled the bottom of the day, to need four strokes of there for a Bogey.
“The rough was pretty thin, so I thought I could cross the ball through,” said Van Rooyen. “I did not do it the first time. Then he came out dead the second time. So I was wrong.”
Schenk, who had missed six consecutive cuts arriving in the Nelson, left with a similar sensation on his 65 corresponding after a Bugey out of 15 blocked his momentum during the TPC Craig Ranch in the suburbs of Dallas.
Stevens started the day alone in the second behind Scheffler, and was the only player remaining without Bogey when he had four in a five -hole section. The native of Fort Worth nearby was one of the five players at 13 after a 70. This group included Antoine Rozner, who had the bottom of the day at 63.
Jordan Spieth, the resident of Scheffler, resident of Dallas and former Golfer of the University of Texas, pulled a second consecutive and is 10 sous. He was the first of them to do his debut on tour in the Nelson when he disputed Sunday at the age of 16 in 2010.
The first appearance of Scheffler took place four years later, and it will take a massive turn of events so that he is not the first of the good friends to win their favorite event. He should become the first Dallas high school goller to win the Nelson from Scott Verplank in 2007. He could also become the third wire winner in the history of the tournament after Mark Hayes (1976) and Tom Watson (1980).
“I mean, I just left the golf course,” said Scheffler in the darkness of an interview after the Tour. “Tomorrow is not really one of my concerns right now.”
It will be the 14th time that he will have entered the last round of a tour event with an advance in the last five seasons, twice as much as any other golfer during this period.
Scheffler’s first Bogey came to the fourth hole in 3, when his tee shot was short and he missed a 7 feet for the peer. The double winner of the Masters missed five fairways after missing a total of six in the first two laps.
“I was certainly not as clear as I was the last two days, but overall, I displayed a fairly good score,” said Scheffler. “During a 72 -hole tournament, you will have days, or generally at least a day when your swing does not shoot all the cylinders as if it were the first two days. It all depends on how you fight through it.”
The information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
