McIlroy fires a 62, leads by one
McIlroy shot an 8-under 62 on Saturday at the FedEx St. Jude Invitational to take a one-stroke lead over Brooks Koepka at the World Golf Championships event in Memphis.
McIlroy, who missed the cut by a stroke last week in the British Open on his home turf in Northern Ireland, rebounded very nicely.
He had a nine-birdie, one-bogey round to move from a tie for 17th to the top of the leader board at TPC Southwind. The man who shattered the screen of a woman's cellphone with his opening tee shot at Royal Portrush finished the round Saturday with three straight birdies.
McIlroy capped his birdie spurt by rolling in a 27-footer on the par-4 18th after putting his tee shot into a fairway bunker. He had a 12-under 198 total.
Two groups behind McIlroy, Koepka (64) had his chances. The world's topranked player finished with three straight pars. Now Koepka and McIlpearances, roy, who played the first two rounds together, will play together Sunday in a final round for the first time in their careers.
Second-round leader Matthew Fitzpatrick (69) was third, two strokes back. Marc Leishman (63), Alex Noren (66) and Jon Rahm (68) were three shots behind.
Champions Tour: Englishman Paul Broadhurst birdied two of the last three holes to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the Senior British Open in Lytham St. Annes, England.
Broadhurst had four birdies and a bogey in his third-round 3-under 67 at Royal Lytham & St. Annes for a 5-under 205 total. American Woody Austin (68) is second.
Madison's Jerry Kelly fired a 71 and trailed by five strokes.
Three-time champion Tom Watson shot 2-over 72 and is tied for 55th at 6 over.
After the round, the 69-year-old American announced he wouldn't be playing at the event again. In his 18 apRory he has never missed the cut.
LPGA Tour: Cresting a wave of South Koreans atop the Evian Championship leader board, Hyo Joo Kim fired a third-round 65 to move one shot clear on 15-under 198.
Top-ranked Sung Hyun Park closed the gap in second by making a birdie on the par-5 18th for a 5-under 66 on the hillside course in Evian-Les-Bains, France, overlooking Lake Geneva.
Four shots back in a tie for third place were seven-time major winner Inbee Park (69) and Jin Young Ko (66), the world No. 2 who won the season's first major, the ANA Inspiration, in April.
U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship: Lei Ye of China beat Jillian Bourdage of Tamarac, Florida, 1 up, in the 36-hole final at SentryWorld in Stevens Point.
The 18-year-old Ye, an incoming freshman at Stanford, won the par-4 35th hole with a birdie and matched Bourdage with a par on the par-4 36th to end the match.