Australians Min Woo Lee and Cam Davis are poised to problem for Gamers Championship glory following excellent third rounds on the PGA Tour’s flagship match in Florida.
Lee is outright second, two pictures behind world No.2 Scottie Scheffler, after lighting up TPC Sawgrass on Saturday with a six-under-par 66 that was jump-started by a spectacular eagle on the first gap.
The 24-year-old from WA led for a lot of the day earlier than a three-putt bogey on the final and a birdie for Scheffler (65) earned the American sole possession of the lead at 14 beneath.
At 10 beneath and in outright third, Sydneysider Davis can also be doing his utmost to maintain the trophy in Australian fingers within the absence of suspended defending champion Cameron Smith.
After ambling by means of the entrance 9 in even par, Davis roared to life with an eagle and three birdies coming dwelling.
Sparked by a gap in a single on the well-known island par-3 17th gap, Aaron Rai (65) is in a four-way tie for fourth at 9 beneath with fellow Englishman Tommy Fleetwood (65), South Africa’s Christiaan Bezuidenhout (69) and American Chad Ramey (68).
Lee ignited his spherical with a hole-out eagle two from the green on the first and by no means seemed again.
Mixing beautiful iron play with deft contact and elegant placing, he adopted up with 5 birdies and scrambled for a miracle par on the 10th after discovering himself in serious trouble.
He’ll rue his solely blemish on the 18th however stays one nice spherical away from bursting from the shadows of his two-time major-winning sister Minjee with the most important victory of his profession.
On the very least, barring a calamitous end, Lee has all however secured an invitation again to subsequent month’s Masters.
He entered this week’s $US25 million occasion ranked 50th on the planet and must be within the prime 50 on April 2 to e book his ticket to Augusta Nationwide.
Jason Day’s profitable hopes look to have evaporated after a 3rd successive 70 left the previous world No.1 and 2016 Gamers Championship winner at six beneath and eight pictures off the tempo.
Nonetheless, Day is sitting properly in equal 14th and properly within the combine for a fifth consecutive top-10 end on the PGA Tour this yr – and in addition a return to the Masters after failing to qualify final yr.
-AAP
