A again 9 surge has stored Min Woo Lee’s hopes of successful the Waste Administration Phoenix Open alive with one spherical left to play at TPC Scottsdale.
The Australian went four-under par in solely three holes with a scintillating birdie-birdie-eagle run from holes 13 to fifteen earlier than ending the penultimate spherical at -9, 4 pictures behind chief Hideki Matsuyama.
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Lee shot a three-under par 68 within the third spherical because the lengthy bomber produced a masterclass with the motive force.
Nobody gained extra strokes off the tee than the West Australian, however regardless of clawing his manner again into the event along with his beautiful burst, he little doubt would really feel as if he left a couple of pictures on the market.
Lee drained a close to 25-foot eagle putt on the fifteenth, however his putter went chilly down the closing stretch.
He was booed by the boisterous crowd on the par 3 sixteenth stadium gap when he missed a birdie putt from the same vary to the monster effort he dropped a gap prior.
The 27-year-old then three-putted for par after driving the inexperienced on the 308 metre par 4 seventeenth.
He additionally made three bogeys for the day to scale back the influence of his 4 birdies and an eagle.
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Lee is joined within the chasing pack by world No.1 Scottie Scheffler, who’s a shot additional again at -8 after producing one of many highlights of the day with a hole-out from a greenside bunker on the tenth.
There are a whopping 18 gamers inside 5 pictures of the lead and within the remaining spherical somebody might want to replicate the efforts of lots of the contenders on Sunday morning AEST.
Nicolai Hojgaard (-12), Maverick McNealy (-12), Michael Thorbjornsen (-11) and Viktor Hovland (-9) shared low spherical of the day honours with 65s.
Submit-round, Hovland mentioned the altering nature of the rowdy crowd in Phoenix.
After the chaos of latest years the place there have been rising numbers of arrests and evictions, Hovland says issues have “much more tame this yr”.
A streamer was handed a lifetime ban from PGA Tour occasions for paying a spectator $100 to yell out “jacka**” in a Mackenzie Hughes’ backswing throughout the second spherical.
“It occurs at this event generally… Yeah, I noticed the video. Truthfully, I didn’t lose a lot sleep over it. My caddie and the safety workers had been all fairly immediate to kick whoever it was out,” the Canadian instructed The Athletic.
“I really feel like I wasn’t actually a lot of the story. I simply occurred to be the man that was there…I’m probably not a lot of a social media man, so I had no thought who it was.”
A fan was filmed asking Dan Brown, who missed the minimize, for a cigarette earlier within the event and the Englishman handed him one.
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However in any other case the carnage has been stored to a minimal, in accordance with Hovland.
“I imply, in contrast to a few years I really feel prefer it’s much more tame this yr,” he mentioned.
“I don’t actually assume it’s too loopy in any respect. 16 is simply enjoyable. I feel to get booed each on occasion or cheered for when you make a putt is totally fantastic. It’s enjoyable. It’s cheap.
“There’s not beer all around the inexperienced. Nobody has made a hole-in-one but, so not going to jinx that.”
In the meantime, Cam Davis is the one different Australian to make the minimize.
After virtually making a hole-in-one on a par 4 within the second spherical, Davis shot a fair par 71 to stay -2 general.