Lucas Glover and Billy Horschel began the Wyndham Championship as lengthy pictures to advance to the PGA Tour postseason. Now, they’ve cause to consider profitable.
Glover had nice management on Saturday, hitting each fairway and lacking just one inexperienced, on his option to an 8-under 62. That gave him a share of the lead with Horschel, who fought his swing in the direction of the top and nonetheless managed a 63.
They have been at 18-under 192, one shot forward of 36-hole chief Russell Henley. He rolled in a sweeping birdie putt from simply inside 30 ft on the final gap for a 65.
The Wyndham Championship is the ultimate PGA Tour occasion earlier than the profitable postseason, and solely the highest 70 advance to the FedEx Cup playoffs subsequent week in Memphis, Tennessee. That’s a change from earlier years, when the highest 125 made the postseason.
Glover got here into Sedgefield Nation Membership at No. 112 and with no win in additional than two years. However he has been constructing up to now, with three finishes of sixth or higher in his final 4 tournaments, and he put it collectively on a heat, sunny day that started to dry out the course.
He completed with birdies on his final two holes, a wedge that landed close to the pin and settled 2 ft away on the seventeenth, and a 6-foot birdie putt on the 18th gap.
Horschel, who’s No. 119 within the standings, started his day below a tree proper of the primary fairway. He chopped out throughout the green into tough, used the contour of the inexperienced to run a wedge into 8 ft and escaped with par.
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He went on to a bogey-free spherical and scores of 62-63 that give him an opportunity to increase his season, having already booked a visit to the Bahamas together with his household subsequent week.
Billy Horschel of america putts on the 18th inexperienced throughout the third spherical of the Wyndham Championship.
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Billy Horschel of america putts on the 18th inexperienced throughout the third spherical of the Wyndham Championship.
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Justin Thomas additionally stayed within the combine, not less than for his season. He posted a 66 that moved him right into a tie for eleventh, and whereas the nine-shot deficit is probably going an excessive amount of floor to make up, he’s on the verge of sneaking into the highest 70 to increase his season.
Thomas has by no means missed the postseason since his rookie season in 2015. Much more is at stake this yr. He’s into consideration as a captain’s choose for the Ryder Cup, and it could make such a alternative harder if he doesn’t have a spot to play the subsequent three weeks.
“It’s a distinct form of nerves,” Thomas stated. “It’s rather a lot tougher than attempting to win a golf match, in my view. I feel whenever you’re attempting to win a match you’re there and in the event you don’t win it’s a bummer, however you continue to had a fantastic week. If I simply don’t get it carried out for what I have to get carried out this week, then it sucks and my yr’s over.”
Byeong Hun An, already a lock for the postseason, had a 65 and was three pictures behind. Stephen Jaeger (64) was at 13-under 197, the one different participant inside 5 of the co-leaders.
Horschel and Glover are coping with setbacks of various varieties. Glover had been working by means of a spell of the yips when he switched to a protracted putter on the Memorial, the model that has labored nicely for Adam Scott.
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He missed a 2-foot putt in a playoff with a U.S. Open spot at stake in a qualifier, however he has been discovering his groove in latest weeks.
“It’s good to really feel you may make all of your tap-ins for a change,” Glover stated with amusing. “I used to be down to 2 choices, the lengthy one or left-handed. … This appeared to work. It’s been streaky, however I like the liberty it’s given me mentally.”
Horschel has been struggling together with his swing all yr, and it reached a low level when he shot an 84 on the Memorial and held again tears chatting with the media in regards to the state of his recreation. Horschel has but to register a prime 10 in stroke play this yr.
All of a sudden, he feels as if he is aware of the place the ball goes, and his confidence was rising even after a couple of free swings took him out of birdie probabilities towards the top.
“I had actually good management, actually good tempo till the final two holes,” Horschel stated.
Horschel and Glover every might advance to the postseason with a runner-up end, although each have a much bigger objective they’re chasing.
Scoring has been so good that Henley shot 65 and will barely sustain. Even so, he’s proper there at a match that he felt acquired away from him two years in the past.
“You’re going to get lapped in the event you’re simply enjoying for par out right here,” Henley stated.