Akshay Bhatia shot a gap nine-under-par 63 to take a three-shot lead on the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio.
The American didn’t drop a shot as he adopted 4 birdies on the entrance 9 with 5 on the second, together with 4 in his remaining 5 holes.
Bhatia sits forward of Brendon Todd and Justin Decrease with Max Homa amongst a gaggle of 4 gamers two photographs additional again.
Northern Eire’s Rory McIlroy is tied for eighth on three underneath par after going bogey free with three birdies.
WHAT RORY HAD TO SAY
The world quantity two, who not too long ago had a lesson with Tiger Woods’ former coach Butch Harmon, advised PGATour.com after his spherical: “What I’ve been making an attempt to do the final couple weeks isn’t any completely different than what I’ve been making an attempt to do beforehand; he simply type of gave me a unique technique to do it.
“You can inform somebody 5 various things and like for a similar really feel – wish to a bit of a swing, however generally none of them resonated, generally all of them, generally one factor.
“It’s simply a type of issues over the previous few months that nothing was resonating with me.
“He gave me a tiny little one thing that I went with and, as I stated, it’s felt slightly higher over the past two weeks and felt fairly good on the market.”
A win at subsequent week’s Masters will see McIlroy be part of Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Participant, Jack Nicklaus and Woods as the one gamers to have received all 4 main championships.
Three-time main winner Jordan Spieth had a dour spherical of 73 salvaged by a hole-in-one on the par three sixteenth.
When Golf Information performed TPC San Antonio..
