Two teams share Shootout lead

Graeme McDowell and Shane Lowry shot an 8-under-par 64 in modified alternate shot and shared the lead with Steve Stricker and Sean O’Hair going into the final round of the QBE Shootout.

McDowell (Northern Ireland) and Lowry (Ireland), the only international players among the 12 teams at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Fla., began to erase a five-stroke deficit with an eagle and birdie on the first two holes and they dropped only one shot all day in blustery conditions.

Stricker and O’Hair started the back nine with a pair of bogeys, rallied with three consecutive birdies and then dropped one last shot from the bunker on the 17th.

The teams were tied at 18-under 126.