Simpson up by two after a 67 at Colonial
Webb Simpson shot a threeunder-par 67 on Saturday to break out of a crowd and take the third-round lead at the Colonial at Fort Worth.
At nine-under 201, Simpson was two strokes ahead of Danny Lee and Paul Casey after both of them made long birdie putts at the 18th hole. Stewart Cink and Kevin Kisner were three strokes off the lead.
After being among four players who shared the 36-hole lead, Simpson went ahead alone to stay after consecutive birdies to start his back nine.
It is only the second time in 12 years at Colonial for the 54-hole leader to have more than a one-stroke advantage.
Defending champion Jordan Spieth shot a 68 and was at four under even with caddie Michael Greller leaving the course after 11 holes because of heat exhaustion.
Vijay Singh used his power to take advantage of rain-softened Trump National, shooting a five-under 67 to move one shot ahead of Bernhard Langer in the third round of the Senior PGA Championship at Sterling, Va.
The 54-year-old Singh is 10 under par for the week on the par fives at President Donald Trump’s 7,100-yard course on the shores of the Potomac River. He routinely outdrove the 59year-old Langer by 30 yards and got up and down for birdie on the par-five 18th to maintain his one-shot advantage.
Langer stayed close to Singh despite an off day by his standards. After missing only three greens in regulation in the first two rounds, he missed seven greens Saturday and shot 70. His two-putt birdie on 18 was his only birdie on the back nine.
China’s Shanshan Feng shot a sixunder 66 to take a one-stroke lead after three rounds of the LPGA Volvik Championship at Ann Arbor, Mich.
Feng is 15 under for the tournament after a bogey-free round. Lizette Salas (67) is in second place, one shot ahead of Suzann Pettersen (69).
Second-round leader Sung Hyun Park (72) is tied for fourth with Jeong Eun Lee (68) at 12 under.
Feng has six career victories, the most recent at last year’s TOTO Japan Classic. She has finished in the top 10 three times this season, including the past two events.
Andrew Dodt of Australia will take a one-stroke lead into the final day of the BMW PGA Championship after shooting a four-under 68 in the third round at Virginia Water, England.
South Africa’s Branden Grace isa shot behind Dodt, a two-time winner on the European Tour, after a 70 at Wentworth. Lee Westwood (72) and overnight co-leader Francesco Molinari (74) are a further two shots back. Chelsea 2-1 to deny the English Premier League champion a double.
Aaron Ramsey scored the winner, just like in the 2014 final, restoring Arsenal’s lead in the 79th minute shortly after Diego Costa leveled for 10-man Chelsea at Wembley Stadium.
Wenger became the competition’s most successful manager with a seventh title in his 21-year reign.
Paris Saint-Germain, which relinquished its league title to Monaco and was eliminated from the Champions League in the last 16, ended a mediocre campaign on a high note by winning the French Cup with a 1-0 victory over Angers at Paris on an own goal in added time.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored a penalty for Borussia Dortmund to win the German Cup final over Eintracht Frankfurt 2-1 at Berlin in what could have been his last game for the club.
Aubameyang, the Bundesliga’s top scorer with 31 goals, chipped the ball straight down the middle as Frankfurt goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky dived, giving Dortmund the title after losing the previous three finals. The penalty was set up when American Christian Pulisic was pulled down by Hradecky.
British distance star Mo Farah won the 5,000 meters at the Prefontaine Classic at Oregon’s Hayward Field in 13 minutes, 0.70 seconds in possibly his last race on a U.S. track. American Ronnie Baker bested countryman Justin Gatlin and Canadian Andre De Grasse to win the men’s 100 in 9.86 seconds, and Tori Bowie prevailed over a strong field that included Allyson Felix and Jamaican Elaine Thompson to win the women’s 200 in 21.77.
The America’s Cup qualifiers got off to a smashing start on Bermuda’s Great Sound. It was a good day for two-time defending champion Oracle Team USA and a bad one for Sir Ben Ainslie of Britain.
Moments after Oracle Team USA came from behind to beat Emirates Team New Zealand in a thrilling rematch between the 2013 finalists, Ainslie, the skipper of Land Rover BAR, crashed his 50-foot foiling catamaran into SoftBank Team Japan during the prestart of the day’s sixth and final race.
Stan Wawrinka warmed up for the French Open by retaining his home Geneva Open title, beating Mischa Zverev 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. The top-seeded Wawrinka clinched by breaking serve with a fierce forehand crosscourt pass to beat Zverev’s advance to the net . ... Second-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France won his first title on clay when he defeated Tomas Berdych 7-6 (2), 7-5 in the Lyon Open final . ... Sam Stosur rallied past fellow Australian Daria Gavrilova 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 to win the Strasbourg International and remain the top player in her country.