SCOTTSDALE Ariz. — Scottie Scheffler received his first PGA Tour cease on the WM Phoenix Open two years in the past.
Now he’s in prime place to be the primary to win the occasion three years in a row at TPC Scottsdale.
Scheffler made 5 straight birdies on Nos. 9 via 13 within the resumption of his third spherical Sunday morning, the fourth time he’s carried out that in his profession, to zoom up the leaderboard and get to 13 beneath, one stroke off the lead.
He bogeyed the 14th however then birdied the sixteenth to remain inside a shot of first-round chief Nick Taylor, second-round chief Sahith Theegala and Charley Hoffman.
A couple of minutes later, he poured in a four-footer for birdie on the driveable par-4 seventeenth to get to 14 beneath and forge a four-way tie for the lead. However he inexplicably putted off the inexperienced from 42 ft and into the bunker at 18 and made bogey to drop two strokes off the lead heading into the ultimate spherical.
Arnold Palmer turned the hat trick within the ’60s however that was when the match was held at Phoenix Nation Membership.
The ultimate spherical formally began at 10:15 a.m. native time (12:15 p.m. ET) with the third spherical nonetheless in progress on different elements of the course as match organizers determined to not re-order teams for the ultimate spherical. The final group to begin their closing rounds will probably be about 12:15 p.m. native time.
Play has been known as on account of darkness every of the primary three days at 6:07 p.m. native time.
