Varner, Kraft lead by 1 at Greenbrier at 196

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Harold Varner shot a 4-under 66 Saturday to tie secondround leader Kelly Kraft at the top entering today’s final round of A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier in West Virginia.

Varner had four backnine birdies after 10 consecutive pars.

Kraft led by as many as four strokes but bogeyed two of the final three holes and shot 1-under 69. Both were at 14-under 196.

Fifteen golfers were within five shots of the lead. Defending champion Xander Schauffele and Kevin Na were at 13-under. Both shot 65. Kraft and Varner are looking for their first PGA Tour wins in their 85th starts.

Since this tournament debuted in 2010, there have been four first-time champions, but no third-round leader has won.

The tournament has been decided by two or fewer strokes every year and has gone to a playoff three times. The 2016 tournament was canceled after devastating floods.

The Old White TPC dried out on a sunny Saturday and scores weren’t as low as the first two days when rains softened the course and yielded eight rounds of 63 or better. Kraft had a one-stroke lead entering the round, the first time he’s led after 36 holes on the PGA Tour.

He parred every hole on the front nine Saturday and his lead improved to four shots after making birdie putts of 19 feet at No. 10 and 5 feet at No. 12 and holing a 40-foot pitch shot at No. 11.

Then he found two bunkers on the par-5 16th and made bogey, and found the greenside bunker and missed a 5-foot par putt on the par-3 18th. Kraft finished fifth at last year’s tournament in West Virginia.

Varner’s best finish on tour was a tie for fifth at the OHL Classic in Mexico in 2016. He has one top-10 finish in each of the past two years and won the Australian PGA Championship in 2016.

ONEIDA, Wis. — Sei Young Kim shot an 8-under-par 64 in the third round of Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic on Saturday to tie the 54-hole record of 24 under and take a commanding eight-stroke lead. Kim, who had a 63 on Thursday and a 65 on Friday, got rolling with an eagle on No. 3 and added six birdies. A birdie on No. 16 tied Annika Sorenstam’s 24-under at the Mizuno Classic in Japan in 2003. After Kim missed a long birdie putt on the par-3 17th, she hit her tee shot on the 390-yard 18th into the left rough. Her approach was well short of the hole, and her birdie putt missed badly. She made a testy putt to save par.