Fowler takes lead at the Barclays
Rickie Fowler kept bogeys off his card for the second straight day and closed with a five-foot birdie putt for a three-under 68, giving him a one-shot lead over Patrick Reed going into the final round of the Barclays in Farmingdale, N.Y.
Reed overcame three bogeys in a four-hole stretch on the front nine and was tied for the lead on the back nine until the final two holes.
Reed missed a five-foot birdie putt on the 17th, and his 15-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole missed weakly to the right.
Fowler, who was at nine-under 204, is in prime position to win for the first time on the PGA Tour in a year and play his way onto the U.S. Ryder Cup team. Adam Scott was two shots behind at sevenunder 206. Martin Laird (69) and Emiliano Grillo (71) were three shots back.
Ariya Jutanugarn missed a chance to take a big lead into the final round of the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open in Priddis, Alberta, making two late bogeys at Priddis Greens. The 20-year-old Thai player bogeyed the par-four 16th and par-five 18th for a five-under 67.
At 17-under 199, she had a two-stroke advantage over South Korea’s In Gee Chun.
Gene Sauers took lead in the Boeing Classic in Snoqualmie, Wash., two weeks after his breakthrough victory in the U.S. Senior Open.
The 54-year-old Sauers two-putted for birdie on the par-five 18th for a five-under 67 and a two-stroke lead over Joe Durant. The three-time PGA Tour winner had a 12-under 132 total at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge.
Tom Byrum and Stephen Ames were nine under. Byrum had a 68, and Ames shot 69. Kirk Triplett, tied for the first-round lead with Sauers after a 65, had a 71 to drop into a tie for fifth at eight under.
Michael Mancini led Endwell, N.Y., to the Little League World Series championship game in South Williamsport, Pa., striking out 11 in a 4-2 victory over Goodlettsville, Tenn., in the U.S. final.
The Mid-Atlantic champions will try to win their first title against international winner South Korea on Sunday. South Korea beat Panama 7-2 earlier Saturday in the international final.
In the Firestone 600 at Fort Worth, Graham Rahal made a last-lap pass and just held on to beat James Hinchcliffe in the closest finish ever for an Indy Car race at Texas.
The only time Rahal led the race — competed over a 21⁄2-month span — was when he sliced to the bottom of the track coming off of the backstretch on that final lap Saturday night. He won by eight-thousandths (0.008) of a second, crossing the line side-byside with Hinchcliffe, just inches away, with Tony Kanaan right behind them.
Michael McDowell won the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., edging Brendan Gaughan after an overtime restart. McDowell beat Gaughan by 0.534 of a second on an overcast afternoon at the sprawling road course.
The Richard Childress Racing teammates went bumper-to-bumper midway through the last lap before McDowell held on at the finish line.
Brett Moffitt passed Timothy Peters and William Byron on the final lap to win the NASCAR Truck Series race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich.
Peters was two laps away from what would have been his first victory of the season, but Byron nosed ahead with a lap to go, and Moffitt was then able to move to the outside and take over the lead. Peters did finish second, giving Red Horse Racing a 1-2 showing.
Daniel Hemric was third and Byron finished fourth.
UCLA’s second stop on its Australian basketball tour wasn’t as successful as the first. Melbourne United edged the Bruins, 89-84, in an exhibition game played early Saturday morning Los Angeles time in Melbourne. Isaac Hamilton and Bryce Alford each scored 18 points for UCLA, which couldn’t replicate its 47-point blowout of a team featuring college players earlier in the week. Melbourne United competes in the professional National Basketball League.
Bruins freshman Lonzo Ball snagged a teamleading 13 rebounds to go with his eight points. UCLA will play the Brisbane Bullets, another professional team, on Monday before returning to Los Angeles.
Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska completed a dominating week at the Connecticut Open in New Haven, beating Elina Svitolina, 6-1, 7-6 (3), in the final then spraying her friends with champagne.