Seamus Energy birdied his remaining gap for the third day operating to offer himself an opportunity to win the Butterfield Bermuda Championship and save his PGA Tour card.
The West Waterford man (38) brushed in a two and a half footer for a 4 underneath 67 at Port Royal Golf Course to maneuver as much as eighth on nine-under-par.
He is simply three pictures off the lead as he seeks a win that may catapult him from 133rd within the FedEx Cup Fall standings into the highest 100 who will probably be exempt in 2026.
Adam Schenk shot 67 and Braden Thornberry a 69 to share the lead on 12-under.
They seem to be a shot away from Japan’s Takumi Kanaya, in a single day chief Adam Hadwin of Canada and People Max McGreevy and Chandler Phillips, with Japan’s Rikuya Hoshino alone in seventh on 10-under.
Energy lies a shot additional again alongside Frankie Capan III, Vince Whaley and Noah Goodwin after one other day of 30 mph winds in Southampton.
He began with a bogey the place he hit his second right into a penalty space however holed out from the tough for his 5.
However he dug deep from there and birdied the second, fourth and sixth earlier than including additional birdies on the 14th and 18th.
There’s lots at stake within the remaining spherical with Schenk (134th), Thornberry (178th), Kanaya (one hundred and twentieth), McGreevy (a hundredth), Hadwin (147th) and Phillips (139th) all determined for factors earlier than the highest 100 is ready after The RSM Basic at Sea Island subsequent week.
Energy can be underneath strain, however he can look again to his win in Bermuda in 2022 for confidence, and he can have an opportunity to place the leaders underneath strain by posting a goal for them to chase.
