Alex Smalley birdied the final hole to seize a two-shot lead after the third round of the PGA Championship on Saturday, while struggling Scottie Scheffler said the tightly packed leaderboard at Aronimink was unlike anything he had seen before. Smalley recovered from a shaky start to card a two-under-par 68 and move to six under overall, with 43 players within five shots of the lead before Sunday’s final round.
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An unexpected duo of Maverick McNealy and Alex Smalley hold a one stroke lead over the chasing pack at the PGA Championship at Aronimink after a second round that saw some high profile casualties and criticism from defending champion Scottie Scheffler. Rory McIlroy bounced back from a poor opening round to keep his hopes of back to back major wins alive heading into the weekend in Pennsylvania.
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Defending champion Scottie Scheffler is part of a seven-way tie for the first-round lead after plotting a three-under round of 67 while as Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau made nightmare starts at Aronimink Golf Club. Shane Lowry is a among a group of seven one stroke behind the leading pack heading into the second round in Pennsylvania.
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Less than one hour after he teed off on Sunday afternoon, Scottie Scheffler had effectively won his first Open Championship title. The world number one was only walking off the fourth green but the game was already up. A starting four-shot advantage over the field had grown to seven at a sun-kissed Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.
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Scottie Scheffler continued his imperious march towards a first Open Championship title in a third round which had contained all the ingredients to set up a classic. Instead, world number one Scheffler, who has won the past nine times he has held the 54-hole lead, will take a four-shot advantage over China’s Li Haotong into Sunday’s final round. Victory on Sunday at Royal Portrush would complete the third leg of the career Grand Slam, having won May’s US PGA Championship, to add to two Masters titles.
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