Si Woo Kim jumped to the highest of the leaderboard, but it surely was a collection of dramatic moments involving in a single day chief Justin Thomas that had been the speak of the third spherical of the PGA Tour’s RBC Heritage at Harbour City Golf Hyperlinks in South Carolina.
Kim produced a stellar five-under par spherical of 66, solely making a bogey on the final, to maneuver to -15 for the match, one pictures away from Thomas and Andrew Novak within the US$20 million signature occasion the place the winner will pocket US$3.6 million.
The Korean raced out of the blocks with birdies on the first and two holes, but it surely was his taking part in accomplice Thomas that attracted all the eye as Kim made his transfer.
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On the par 5 second, Thomas dumped his drive into the left fairway bunker after which known as a penalty on himself as he by accident moved his ball ever so barely.
The second of honesty got here after Thomas was attempting to maneuver a unfastened obstacle close to his ball however triggered it to maneuver within the course of.
He managed to avoid wasting par regardless of the one-shot penalty, by getting up-and-down tidily from the entrance of the inexperienced.
It was the primary of 4 cases all through the spherical the place the two-time main champion needed to name for a guidelines official, as he often ended up close to sprinkler heads and in one other difficult positions.
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None extra so than on the par 4 eleventh the place Thomas sprayed his drive proper and ended up on the sting of a pond.
As an alternative of taking a drop, he opted to play the ball out of the muddy water after a eradicating a close-by put up that will have inhibited his swing.
The ball got here out however solely went roughly 15 toes to roughly the place Thomas would have taken a drop anyway.
All he had achieved ultimately was protecting himself in mud courtesy of the massive splash as he went on to make bogey.
“Didn’t actually appear value it in any case that,” Thomas mentioned with fun afterwards.
The American, who matched the course document with a surprising 61 within the first spherical, completed with a second straight spherical of 69.
The weird moments weren’t left to only Thomas, nevertheless.
Sahith Theegala, who’s +3, suffered the extraordinarily unfortunate break on the par 3 fourth of his tee shot hitting a wood put up in entrance of the inexperienced and launching throughout the placing floor and into the water on the again.
Tony Finau, who’s -3, additionally skilled the course displaying its tooth when he hit a bunker shot into the wood posts on the entrance of the lure and needed to go backwards to go forwards.
In the meantime, Australian Cam Davis stays an out of doors probability of claiming his third ever PGA Tour title.
Coming off the again of lacking 5 straight cuts, together with at The Masters, Davis has rediscovered some kind with a spherical of 67 shifting him to -10, 5 pictures again from Kim.
Adam Scott and Jason Day are additionally backing up from Augusta Nationwide and they’ll each begin the ultimate spherical at -6.
So too will PGA Tour rookie Karl Vilips after the 23-year-old Australian shot a good par 71 within the third spherical.
Min Woo Lee has had an underwhelming week as far as he sits at +1 for the match following a second straight spherical of 71.
There’s additionally a second PGA Tour occasion on this week, the Corales Puntacana Championship within the Dominican Republic the place Joel Dahmen leads by three pictures at -17 and Australian Aaron Baddley is tied eleventh, seven pictures again.