Lingmerth struggles but maintains lead
POTOMAC, Md. — David Lingmerth waved his arm disgustedly to the right to warn the gallery after he blocked his tee shot on the tight par-5 10th hole at TPC Potomac. After two shots from the rough, one from a hazard and one from a bunker, he made a 6-footer for bogey to fall to 3 over for the day.
He was still tied for the lead.
Minutes later, he led by himself again when Daniel Summerhays bogeyed 11.
It was that kind of day at the Quicken Loans National.
Lingmerth steadied himself after his adventure on 10 and made an aggressive swing with a driver that came off perfectly on the short par-4
PGA-Quicken Loans National At TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm
Potomac, Md. Purse: $7.1 million Yardage: 7,107; Par: 70
Third Round David Lingmerth 65-65-73—203 Daniel Summerhays 66-68-70—204 Spencer Levin 70-70-65—205 Curtis Luck 68-71-67—206 Sung Kang 66-69-71—206 Geoff Ogilvy 67-65-74—206 Kyle Stanley 70-70-67—207 Charles Howell III 71-69-67—207 Martin Laird 67-72-69—208 Andrew Loupe 70-69-69—208 Johnson Wagner 66-71-71—208 Kevin Streelman 68-72-69—209 Keegan Bradley 71-68-70—209 Michael Kim 69-69-71—209 Ricky Barnes 68-68-73—209 Harris English 70-67-72—209 Nick Taylor 66-70-73—209 Patrick Rodgers 71-73-66—210 Byeong Hun An 70-74-66—210 Jason Gore 69-74-67—210
14th, leading to a twoputt birdie. The 29-yearold Swede made a sloppy bogey on 17 and managed a 3-over 73 to drop to 7 under and maintain Rickie Fowler 70-72-68—210 Brian Gay 70-71-69—210 Zac Blair 67-74-69—210 Seamus Power 72-69-69—210 Bill Haas 69-70-71—210 Marc Leishman 66-72-72—210 Kyle Reifers 70-68-72—210 Danny Lee 70-68-72—210 Arjun Atwal 68-67-75—210 Robert Garrigus 71-71-69—211 Ben Martin 68-73-70—211 Jason Kokrak 72-68-71—211 Peter Malnati 72-67-72—211 Patrick Reed 67-72-72—211 Kevin Na 75-69-68—212 Shawn Stefani 71-72-69—212 Trey Mullinax 71-70-71—212 Bryson DeChambeau 67-71-74—212 Tyrone Van Aswegen 72-66-74—212 Tony Finau 69-75-69—213 Jonathan Randolph 70-73-70—213 Billy Horschel 70-73-70—213 Scott Stallings 72-71-70—213 Nick Watney 72-70-71—213 Wyndham Clark 72-70-71—213 Matt Jones 68-74-71—213
a one-shot lead over Summerhays. Spencer Levin, who teed off two hours ahead of Lingmerth, was alone in third at 5 under after the best round of the day, a 65. There was little wind Saturday, and the greens were softened by a thunderstorm that caused a 90-minute delay, but TPC Potomac played as difficult as ever, showing as much bite as its storied neighbor, Congressional.
Saturday ended the same way the first two rounds did — with Lingmerth atop the leaderboard.
Lingmerth, who came from behind to win a Web.com Tour event at TPC Potomac in 2012, has a chance to go wire-towire for his second PGA Tour victory.
“I haven’t had the wireto-wire scenario in my career, but a lot of great players have won tournaments that way and I would like to do it as well,” he said. “I’m kind of feeling like I’m up for the challenge.” The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hector Villalba scored twice, Alec Kann had an assist and earned his fourth shutout and expansion Atlanta United beat the Columbus Crew 2-0 on Saturday night.
Atlanta struck in the 27th minute when the Crew defense didn’t get a touch on Kann’s goal kick, and Villaba beat goalkeeper Zach Steffen to the ball.
Villalba picked up his eighth goal in the 64th minute when a deflection to the middle of the box
ATLANTA UNITED:
Atlanta 2, Columbus 0
ended up on his foot and he rolled the ball between a defender’s legs past the shielded Steffen. Villalba immediately left the game with cramps.
Altanta (8-7-2) moved past Columbus (8-10-1) for fifth in the Eastern Conference.
Kann made just one save in helping Atlanta end a 0-4-1 road skid.
Columbus had scored in 19 straight home matches.