Adam Scott’s PGA Tour playoffs qualifying streak is in jeopardy.
The Australian golfer has contested each Fedex Cup playoffs sequence for the reason that idea was launched in 2007, however heading into the ultimate spherical of the ultimate common season occasion, that 16-year streak is vulnerable to coming to an finish.
Scott, who entered the Wyndham Championship at No. 81 within the standings, fell again to a projected No. 84 end after registering 5 back-nine bogeys in a one-under par 69 third spherical on Saturday. He was tied thirty fourth, a distant 13 photographs behind joint leaders Lucas Glover and Billy Horschel.
The 43-year-old wants to interrupt into the highest 70, in any other case he’ll miss the playoffs for the primary time in his illustrious profession, leaving himself with a mountain to climb on Sunday.
Watch each spherical of the PGA Tour LIVE & Unique on Fox Sports activities, obtainable on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free trial now >
Lucas Glover and Billy Horschel shared the lead on 18-under par on the PGA Tour’s Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina after Saturday’s third spherical.
Glover, the 2009 U.S. Open championship shot an eight-under spherical of 62, ending with back-to-back birdies at Sedgefield Nation Membership.
Horschel shot a bogey 63 whereas in a single day chief Russell Henley slipped again after his 65 which additionally ended with birdies on the seventeenth and 18th.
Glover’s solely blemish got here on the eighth gap, the place he three-putted however he bounced again instantly with birdies on the ninth and tenth holes.
“I hit it good, hit each fairway and missed a inexperienced. Irons had been fairly sharp as we speak, hit it shut a bunch and putted properly,” mentioned Glover, who mentioned his method on Sunday can be to keep away from being too adventurous.
“I feel you attempt to assault this place a bit too aggressive and miss some fairways, it will probably chew you. I discovered that fairly some time in the past.
“I feel it’s only a ‘fairways first’ mentality after which for those who get some good numbers and hit it shut, you’ve received a superb likelihood to make some birdies.”
The 43-year-old from Greenville, South Carolina, mentioned he felt at house on the course.
“I’ve received a whole lot of household on this space. I’ve received two or three uncles that had been members right here years in the past and nonetheless received a bunch of cousins within the space,” he added.
“We’re three hours from the place I grew up and I just like the course. Similar to it. It’s a particular place.”
The 43-year-old Glover might be concentrating on his fifth win on the PGA Tour along with his most up-to-date victory coming on the John Deere Basic two years in the past.
Floridian Horschel has seven wins on the PGA Tour already beneath his belt whereas Henley is trying so as to add to his 4 victories, the final of which got here in November 2022 in Los Cabos, Mexico.
Horschel is aware of he wants a win or a solo second to make into the FedEx Cup playoffs and says he’s trying ahead to going head-to-head with Glover within the ultimate pairing.
“I’ve performed quite a bit with Lucas and I’ve all the time loved enjoying with him. He’s had his up and downs within the sport of golf – nobody’s ever gone by way of not having a interval of that,” Horschel mentioned.
“So it’s going to be an incredible spherical of golf, we’re each going to be battling on the market. We’ve received Russell Henley proper behind us and a few different guys not too far again.”
South Korean An Byeong-hun is three strokes off the lead after his 65 whereas German Stephan Jaeger is an extra two photographs again after ending with three birdies in a row.