Cantlay, Schauffele shatter mark
Duo shoots 60 in best-ball round to reach 29 under, lead by 5 in Zurich Classic
Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele played the back nine in 8-under 28 and shot a 12-under 60 in best-ball play Saturday to shatter the Zurich Classic three-round record at 29 under and stretch their lead to five strokes.
Cantlay and Schauffele broke the 54-hole mark of 23 under. Jonas Blixt-Cameron Smith and Kevin Kisner-Scott Brown set the 72-hole mark of 27 under in 2017, the first-year of the team format at TPC Louisiana. The final round will be alternate shot.
Cantlay and Schauffele opened with a tournament-record 59 in best-ball play Thursday and had a 68 in alternate shot to maintain a one-stroke lead.
The South African tandem of Garrick Higgo and Branden Grace were second at 24 under after a 63. They bogeyed the par-4 12th.
Sam Burns, the local favorite who played at LSU, and Billy Horschel were 23 under after a 63. They bogeyed
the difficult par-3 ninth hole, then shot a 5-under 31 on the back nine.
Australians Jason Day and Jason Scrivener (63) and Aaron Rai and David Lipsky (65) also were 23 under.
The father-son team of Jay and Bill Haas was 12 under after a 68. At 68 years, 4 months, 20 days, Jay Haas, making his 799th official start, is the oldest player to make a PGA Tour cut.
LPGA: Nasa Hataoka took advantage of Jin Young Ko’s late meltdown to take a fourstroke lead into the final round of the DIO Implant LA Open. Tied for the lead with Hataoka after a birdie on the par-5 15th, the topranked Ko bogeyed the par-4 16th and made a quadruple-bogey 8 on the 17th after failing twice to get the ball out of the deep barranca. Hataoka birdied the 16th and parred the final two holes for a 4-under 67 and 11-under 202 total at breezy Wilshire Country Club. The 23-year-old from Japan has five LPGA Tour victories, winning twice last season. Hannah Green of Australia was second after a 69. Ko shot a 72, closing with a 15-foot birdie putt from the fringe on the par-3 18th, to fall into a tie for third with fellow South Korean players Inbee Park (68) and Haeji Kang (69). Champions: Steven Alker moved into position for his second straight PGA Tour Champions victory Saturday, shooting a 5-under 66 in windy conditions to take a two-stroke lead in the ClubCorp Classic. The winner three weeks ago in the Rapiscan Systems Classic in Mississippi, Alker played the four par-5 holes in 4 under with an eagle on No. 3 and birdies on 10 and 18. The 50-year-old New Zealander had an 8-under 134 total at Las Colinas Country Club. First-round leader Jerry Kelly (70) and Lee Janzen (68) were tied for second. Finishing on the back nine, Janzen birdied Nos. 2 and 3 to get to 8 under, then bogeyed the fourth and sixth.
DP World Tour: Bad weather in northeast Spain forced organizers to suspend the third round of the ISPS Handa Championship on Saturday. Organizers of the European tour event said the third round would restart at 8 a.m. local time on Sunday. The final round would not start until 11:30 a.m. local time.