Rory McIlroy suffered his worst placing day for a decade on the PGA TOUR and Scottie Scheffler shot his highest spherical for practically three years to path Patrick Rodgers by 5 pictures heading into the ultimate ultimate spherical of the Genesis Invitational.
The Holywood star misplaced 3.90 within the strokes gained placing class in a two-over 74 which was his greatest loss on the greens since he misplaced over 4 pictures the 2014 Wells Fargo Championship.
He’s tied for eighth on three-under-par with world primary Scottie Scheffler who bogeyed two par fives in the identical spherical for the primary time in 5 years as he struggled to a four-over 76 for his worst rating because the 2022 Gamers Championship.
McIlroy had 33 putts, whereas Scheffler took 32.
It was a far completely different day for Rodgers, who’s searching for his first PGA TOUR win in his 284th begin.
Whereas he dumped his third within the water on the par-five 18th, he acquired up and down from 60 yards for bogey and a four-under 68 that gave him a one-shot lead on eight-under over Denny McCarty (71), who’s searching for his first win in his 194th begin.
Sweden’s Ludvig Åberg, who aced the 140-yard third, lies only one shot additional again in third after a 70.
McIlroy and Scheffler might be paired collectively for in the present day’s ultimate spherical however they are going to exit 55 minutes earlier than leaders Rodgers and McCarthy seeking to make up for forgettable third rounds.
McIlroy missed three birdie possibilities in his first 4 holes, then three-putted the par-five sixth for bogey, lacking from three ft for par.
One other shot went on the quick eighth, the place he was bunkered and missed a seven-footer.
And whereas he birdied the par-five ninth to get again to one-over for the day, he missed a five-footer for birdie on the par-five thirteenth, then three-putted from 13 ft for a double-bogey on the 230-yard sixteenth, lacking one other three-footer.
A closing birdie 4 offers him an out of doors probability of difficult for his third win in 4 begins worldwide however he has his work reduce out to catch Rodgers.
The American (32), who matched or broke a few of Tiger Woods’ data at Stanford, is aware of it gained’t be simple to interrupt his PGA TOUR duck.
“It felt like early in my profession with the newbie resume that I had, I felt like there was lots anticipated of myself internally,” Rodgers mentioned. “And it was one thing the place when rapid success, rapid wins didn’t come right away, it was type of combating who I noticed myself to be.
“So as an alternative of enjoying with a monkey in your again that will get larger and larger over time when it doesn’t occur, I’m attempting to play from a perspective that feels recent and new and thrilling and stuffed with alternative. As a result of that’s what this recreation is, and I’ve an incredible one tomorrow.”
Scheffler has endured an erratic begin to the season since present process surgical procedure on his had following a Christmas Day cooking accident.
Whereas he broke par in seven of his first eighth rounds to tie for ninth in Pebble Seaside and for twenty fifth in Phoenix, the place he shot 41 on his ultimate 9 holes.
On Saturday, Scheffler birdied the fifth to tie for the lead with Davis Thompson, however he three-putted the par-five sixth for bogey and dropped one other shot on the par-five ninth after taking two chips from thick tough 76, his highest rating in practically three years.
