Jason Day stays in competition however it’s Harris English who leads the best way after rattling in a hat-trick of birdies on the closing three holes to seize a one-shot lead heading into the ultimate spherical of the Farmers Insurance coverage Open at Torrey Pines in southern California on Friday.
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English, who was a part of a four-way playoff at Torrey Pines in 2015 however misplaced to Day, is chasing his first PGA Tour win since victory on the Vacationers Championship in 2021.
He carded a six-under-par 66 to maneuver to 9 underneath for the match by means of 54 holes.
After the chaos of Friday, when sturdy gusts halted play and despatched scores hovering, calmer circumstances marked a return to normalcy for Saturday’s third spherical on the picturesque course overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
English, who had struggled to a one-over-par 73 on Friday, took full benefit of the lull in winds to compile a spherical that contained seven birdies and just one bogey.
A 20-foot birdie putt on the sixteenth began his late cost, and he moved right into a share of the lead on the seventeenth when his 170-yard second shot from a fairway bunker left him with a seven-footer for birdie.
English saved his greatest for the par-five 18th, hitting his third to inside three ft earlier than tapping within the birdie to say sole possession of the lead.
Main the pursuit of English on Sunday shall be Andrew Novak, the 29-year-old from North Carolina who continues to be but to enter the winner’s circle after 4 years on tour.
Novak carded a bogey-free 66 comprised of six birdies and 12 pars to maneuver to eight underneath for the match.
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Novak’s spherical gathered steam with a run of 4 birdies in 5 holes beginning on the ninth on Torrey Pines’s south course, together with a superb chip-in from the greenside tough on the par-five thirteenth gap.
He then completed his spherical — and grabbed the solo lead after coolly rolling in a 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th inexperienced.
Aldrich Potgieter is in third place on seven underneath after carding a five-under-par 67. The 20-year-old South African’s spherical included a spectacular eagle two on the par-four twelfth the place he holed out from 173 yards.
Germany’s Matti Schmid, South Korea’s Lee Kyoung-Hoon, Joel Dahmen and Lanto Griffin are tied for fourth on 5 underneath, 4 off the lead.
As for the Australian contingent, Day is tied for fifteenth at three-under general.
Day opened the day with a 43-feet shot for birdie solely to come back up simply quick, opening the spherical with a par earlier than lacking one other alternative on the subsequent gap for birdie, once more settling for an additional par.
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A 3rd-straight par to start the spherical adopted earlier than Day recorded his first bogey and added one other to begin shifting within the unsuitable route after 5 rounds.
However the Australian rapidly responded by practically holing out for eagle on the sixth, as an alternative nonetheless recovering properly with a birdie and Day swiftly made it three on the trot.
Day combined in one other two birdies and one bogey to complete the day.
One shot again from Day, fellow Australian Aaron Baddeley sits tied for twenty fifth at two underneath. He additionally had a shaky begin with two bogeys on his first two holes earlier than ending sturdy.
The winner of the Farmers Insurance coverage Open takes house $1.674 million ($A2.65m), with a complete purse of $9.3 million ($A14.7m) up for grabs.
Third-Spherical Leaderboard
1 Harris English (-9)
2 Andrew Novak (-8)
3 Aldrich Potgieter (-7)
T4 4 gamers (-5)
Main Aussie Scores
T15 Jason Day (-3)
T25 Aaron Baddeley (-2)