Shane Lowry spectacularly completed birdie-birdie-eagle in The American Specific however nonetheless ended up pissed off as he missed the 54-hole minimize by one stroke at La Quinta.
Pressured begin his season in California as he seems to qualify for the massive Signature Occasions, the Offaly man was two beneath for the day and 12 beneath for the match with simply 5 holes to go.
He wanted one other birdie on the Pete Dye Stadium Course to dip contained in the minimize line however discovered water and bogeyed the par-five fifth (his 14th), then ran up a triple bogey six after one other water ball on the 223-yard sixth.
He wanted a birdie-eagle-eagle end to make the minimize and nearly pulled it off, making an eight-footer on the seventh earlier than following a two-putt birdie from 40 toes on the eighth with an unlikely eagle two on the 442-yard ninth.
The Clara man had simply 133 yards for his second landing the ni th and watched it bounce left off the perimeter and run 30 toes into the cup.
The 2019 Open champion may solely put his hand over his face after which smile as he feared he would nonetheless come up one stroke shy on 12-under after a third-round 70.
On the high of the leaderboard, reigning US Newbie champion Nick Dunlap (20) carded a 12-under 60 at La Quinta – the bottom spherical by an novice on the PGA Tour – to steer by three photographs from Sam Burns on 27-under and by 4 from Justin Thomas.
“Didn’t suppose I used to be going to must cope with a freaking school child taking pictures 60 as we speak,” Thomas mentioned.
Dunlap, a College of Alabama sophomore, may turn into the primary novice to win a PGA Tour occasion since Phil Mickelson on the 1991 Northern Telecom Open.
He would even be the second-youngest Tour winner within the final 90 years.
He’s the primary novice to carry a 54-hole lead/co-lead in a TOUR occasion since Paul Dunne on the 2015 Open Championship.
“It should be exhausting,” Dunlap mentioned of the duty forward on Sunday. “It should be one thing that I have never skilled but, clearly, on the PGA TOUR.
“We have got a superb sport plan for that golf course, and simply type of go on the market and do us and keep within the current.”
In the meantime, Leona Maguire shot a 3rd successive, stage par 72 to enter the ultimate spherical of the LPGA’s Hilton Grand Holidays Event of Champions 12 photographs behind Lydia Ko.
The Co Cavan star is tied for twenty third within the 35-strong discipline at Lake Nona, the place Ko shot a bogey-free 68 to steer by two strokes on 12-under from Alexa Plano, who shot 67.
