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PGA Tour 2017: Live leaderboard for TOUR Championship (FedExCup Playoffs)

• Updated: Sep. 23, 2017, 4:55 a.m. |
• Published: Sep. 23, 2017, 3:55 a.m.
• Dennis Manoloff, The Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The third round of TOUR Championship 2017 unfolds Saturday, Sept. 23, in Georgia. The TOUR Championship is the finale of the four-event FedExCup Playoffs.

Justin Thomas, Paul Casey and Webb Simpson each carded 7-under through 36 holes to tie for the lead. Jon Rahm was one of four players tied for fourth at 6-under.

• TOUR Championship leaderboard

Through one round, Kyle Stanley shot 6-under to lead by two shots. 2017 U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka was one of four players at 4-under.

Jordan Spieth and Thomas, who rank Nos. 1-2 in the FedExCup standings, were the featured pairing in Rounds 1-2.

Dustin Johnson won the first event, Thomas the second and Marc Leishman the third.

PGA TOUR TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP Site: Atlanta. Course: East Lake GC. Yardage: 7,385. Par: 70. Purse: $8.75 million (First prize: $1,575,000). Television: Friday, 1-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 12:30-2:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 2:30-6 p.m. (NBC). Sunday, Noon-1:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 1:30-6 p.m. (NBC). Defending champion: Rory McIlroy. Last week: Marc Leishman won the BMW Championship. FedEx Cup leader: Jordan Spieth. Notes: The points are reset for the top 30 who qualified for the FedExCup finale, giving everyone a mathematical chance to win the $10 million bonus. The top five seeds -- Spieth, Justin Thomas, Dustin Johnson, Leishman and Jon Rahm -- need only to win to capture the FedEx Cup. ... Rory McIlroy won last year as the No. 6 seed. ... This is the eighth time in the 10-year history of the FedExCup that the defending champion did not make it back to East Lake the following year. The exceptions were Brandt Snedeker and Spieth. ... Bill Haas at No. 25 is the worst seed to win the FedExCup. ... Tiger Woods is the only two-time winner of the FedEx Cup, in 2007 and 2009. ... The winner of the FedExCup has won the TOUR Championship each of the last seven years, dating to win Phil Mickelson won the tournament in 2009 and Woods on the cup. ... Only 13 players from last year's TOUR Championship made it back this year. ... This is the ninth straight year Johnson has qualified for the TOUR Championship, the longest active streak. He was No. 30 but did not play in 2014 when he took time off to seek professional help for personal problems. Next week: Presidents Cup. Online: www.pgatour.com

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Justin Thomas wins 2017 FedExCup, Xander Schauffele takes TOUR Championship

JT and the X-Man win big on the final day of the PGA Tour season.

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The 2016-2017 PGA Tour season has come to an end, and because the golf media loves a nice and tidy narrative, you're going to read and hear plenty about how appropriate the ending was at the TOUR Championship. That's because two more high school class of 2011 stars took the two biggest prizes, capping a year in which 25-and-under players made the most competitive tour in the world their own. You'll get headlines about "youth being served" and that tacky phrase "youth movement" will be machine-gunned onto the page and airwaves.

While it might be facile and tired, it's not wrong. Pro golf is changing and Sunday was the latest reminder, as 24-year-old Justin Thomas finished off what is sure to be a Player-of-the-Year season by taking the FedExCup. The Playoffs win secures that enormous $10 million grand prize payout and push his season earnings close to $20 million. A major, five wins, a FedExCup, $20 million, and the PoY award is a nice way to breakout for a player that's been hailed as a top prospect since his junior and college golf days.

Alongside Thomas was Xander Schauffele, a 23-year-old who had a lot less hype but just capped a Rookie-of-the-Year season with a $3-plus million payout and a Tour Championship title. It was Schaueffele's second win of the year, backing up his victory at the Greenbrier in the middle of the summer. Schauffele maybe came on your radar at the U.S. Open, where he contended deep into the weekend at Erin Hills. Or maybe you knew about him as he came up through the Web.com Tour last year, where he thrived in a setting that's just as cutthroat and almost as competitive as the big leagues. Or maybe you still hadn't heard of him until late Sunday night at East Lake, where he put in an around-the-world putt on the 18th to win the last event of the PGA Tour season.

A rookie no more. @XSchauffele wins the @PlayoffFinale with a birdie on 18. #QuickHits pic.twitter.com/CMNyDuZyyQ — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) September 24, 2017

Maybe you're just hearing about him for the first time right now. It doesn't matter — he's got an incredible backstory ( read my colleague Kyle Robbins' debrief on him from the U.S. Open ), a badass name, and now he's rookie of the year. This may be the hottest stretch he experiences in his career, and that would be fine. But we're betting we'll hear more from him again next season (which starts in 10 days!).

So yes, JT and the X-Man side-by-side seemed like an appropriate way to end this particular season.

Schauffele's win is the 18th this season on #PGATour by a player under age 25. Previous record was 10. — Justin Ray (@JustinRayGC) September 24, 2017

(As J-Ray supplemented in a later tweet , that previous record came in 2000, when Tiger bagged NINE of those 10 wins).

It was the first time since 2009 that the winner of the Tour Championship was also not the winner of the overall FedExCup. The machinations of FedExCup points can get complicated like that, but we've been on a great run of the winners in Atlanta also taking the entire FedExCup, including titles by Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy the last two years. The split in that 2009 event at East Lake? Two pretty good players:

Thomas will now head north to New Jersey for the Presidents Cup, where the American squad is the overwhelming favorite against the International team. Thomas is a centerpiece of a roster that is one of the strongest in recent memory at these U.S. team events. And so much of the talent is ... keeping the theme here ... young. It's a powerhouse core that should lead these teams for the next decade or so.

Schauffele will not be a part of that team, but after this season, it's a realistic goal to start shooting at going forward. Here's your final leaderboard from the Tour Championship:

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And here are your final FedExCup standings for the season. As I mentioned above, the points will start being put up on the board in about 10 days as the new season begins in California.

Final 2017 FedExCup Standings

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FedEx Cup 2017: Winners & Losers from Sunday at the Tour Championship

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There was drama. There were surprises. But most of all, there was clarity on Sunday at the Tour Championship. While Justin Thomas entered the final event of the 2017 PGA Tour season in second place in the FedEx Cup points race, most people would agree he was the appropriate winner of the season-long title. And that includes Jordan Spieth.

“I almost cheated my way into winning the FedEx Cup,” Spieth admitted after his Sunday round, knowing that he would have been the first FedEx winner not to have won a Playoff event if things broke just a little differently.

But Thomas made sure they didn’t, closing with a 66 that didn’t give him the Tour Championship, but clinched the bigger prize and its accompanying $10 million payday.

On an exciting Sunday in Atlanta, here’s a look at the winner and losers:

Winner: Justin Thomas All week Thomas said he was focused solely on winning Tour Championship, not wanting talk about the FedEx Cup race to distract him from the real task at hand. And while the 24-year-old fell one stroke short of his "goal" at East Lake, things worked out just find as he locked up the season-long title with his four-under par 66. It was only appropriate that the five-time tour winner in 2017 (including his PGA Championship victory in August) was the one who came out on top. Thomas is now a lock for PGA Tour player of the year, and his 2016-'17 season will become a benchmark that he’ll be chasing for the rest of his career.

Winner: Xander Schauffele The unassuming 23-year-old from Southern California made an interesting cameo appearance during the U.S. Open, and you thought that would be the highlight of his rookie season. But X-Man showed he wasn’t a one-hit wonder, winning the Greenbrier Classic in July and then becoming the underdog who wins the Tour Championship. His victory, with a closing 68, wasn’t enough to take the FedEx Cup title, but it certainly locked up the PGA Tour rookie-of-the-year honors. Oh, and then there is the $3.5 million he banked at East Lake for the win and his third-place finished in the FedEx Cup.

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Loser: Paul Casey The Englishman could have put to rest the comments about his inability to close out tournaments with a good Sunday showing at East Lake. But the Tour Championship’s 54-hole leader stumbled early in final round, making bogeys on three of the first nine holes. A bogey on the par-3 15th after hitting his tee shot in the water ended his hopes of taking the title at East Lake, and the FedEx Cup crown in the process. His fifth-place finish was disappointing in that he was the only top-10 finisher in the tournament with an over-par score on the last 18 holes.

Loser: Jordan Spieth He needed to roll in a 14-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole Sunday at East Lake to put himself in position to win the FedEx Cup without winning any of the four playoff events. But for once, the putting maestro couldn’t get the must-maker to drop, failing to put the necessary heat on eventual FedEx Cup winner Justin Thomas. Spieth’s final-round 67 for a T-6 showing was a “nice” finish, but he will be lamenting his second-round 70 and third-round 69 when looking back on the missed opportunity for winning his second career FedEx Cup.

Winner: FedEx Cup volatility It’s taken a while for the PGA Tour to figure out the right formula to create some intriguing final-round drama at East Lake, but it’s found it in the current setup. Come Sunday, the movement on the Tour Championship leader board created scenarios where Paul Casey, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas could all have taken the FedEx Cup title. For a few moments even, the math was looking like there could be the need for a playoff between Thomas and Spieth for the FedEx Cup crown. In the end Thomas narrowly missed out on becoming the eighth straight player to win both the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup.

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Winner: East Lake Flipping the nines didn’t seem like that big a deal when the PGA Tour first announced it ahead of the 2016 Tour Championship, but for the second straight year, the new back nine close of the long par-3 15th, tricky par-4 16th and 17th and then the gettable par-5 18th created a level of excitement that the tournament lacked when it ended on the old par-3 18th.

Loser: Hideki Matsuyama The Japanese star, ranked No. 2 in the World, had his fourth straight poor finish in a playoff event with a T-26 finish at East Lake after a MC, T-23 and T-47. His hopes for winning the FedEx Cup title were all but lost after his opening-round 75. It was a disappointing end to an otherwise solid season for Matsuyama, and bodes a little ominous for the International team this week at the Presidents Cup with its top player having lost his form.

Loser: U.S. Presidents Cup team Sure, the American squad looks strong , led by the new FedEx Cup champion in Thomas. And who could have know that a long-shot rookie like Schauffele would win at East Lake. But you’ve got to wonder how Captain Steve Stricker feels that the winner of the Tour Championship won’t be playing for his squad this week at Liberty National.

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FedEx Cup 2017: Standings, winners, rules and how golfers win $10 million

The fedex cup is a bit complicated, but it gets simplified this week as the field is cut to 30.

The final PGA Tour event of the 2016-17 season is here, and there is a lot of money on the line. Thirty players will play the Tour Championship this weekend at East Lake, and just under $34 million is at stake between the Tour Championship purse and FedEx Cup bonus money.

Jordan Spieth is the favorite to win this week (it would be his second in three years), but he'll have loads of competition. One of the quirky nuances to the Tour Championship is that the FedEx Cup points players have been earning since last fall get reset this week. 

The reason for this is to create a little bit of drama in case one or two players are way out in front. The PGA Tour wants everyone to have a mathematical chance of winning the FedEx Cup if they win the Tour Championship, thus the reset. Their points earned at the Tour Championship are then added to the reset points to determine a FedEx Cup winner.

Here's how we stand right now.

2017 FedEx Cup Standings

2017 tour championship point distributions.

So you can see the player in 30th (Jason Dufner) has to win the Tour Championship and basically have the field finish in the opposite order of its ranking (i.e. Spieth in 30th, Thomas in 29th, etc.) for him to win the FedEx Cup. Let's say Dufner won this week. He would finish with 2,115 FedEx Cup points. If Spieth finished even 29th, he would surpass Dufner with 2,118 points. 

The margin is thin for players at the bottom. It's not that they can't win, it's just that it's incredibly unlikely. The top five are guaranteed a FedEx Cup win if they win the Tour Championship. The players just outside of that have a great chance of taking home the $10 million first prize by winning the Tour Championship as well. Take Rickie Fowler, for example. All he has to do to win the FedEx Cup is win the Tour Championship and have Jordan Spieth finish third or worse. Fowler would finish with 3,120 points, and Spieth would finish with 2,760 with a third-place finish.

Over $25 million in bonus prize money is distributed for the FedEx Cup after the dust settles this weekend (and this doesn't include the $8.8 million purse for the Tour Championship!). All told, $35 million of FedEx Cup money is distributed to players who make the FedEx Cup playoffs. Those who got cut in previous weeks receive a little bit of the $35 million pot, and even those who finished Nos. 125-150 in the standings receiving $32,000 each. Here are distributions for the final 30.

2017 FedEx Cup payouts

There is a lot at stake this week at the Tour Championship. The winner of the tournament walks away $11.5 million richer if he also wins the FedEx Cup. Interestingly, eight of the 10 champions of this event (including Rory McIlroy this year) did not make it back to East Lake to defend, and only Tiger Woods has ever won the FedEx Cup twice (something Spieth could accomplish this week). 

Past FedEx Cup Champions

• 2016: Rory McIlroy
• 2015: Jordan Spieth
• 2014: Billy Horschel
• 2013: Henrik Stenson
• 2012: Brandt Snedeker
• 2011: Bill Haas
• 2010: Jim Furyk
• 2009: Tiger Woods
• 2008: Vijay Singh
• 2007: Tiger Woods

We should be in for a tremendous week of golf in Atlanta. All of the playoff events have been strong so far, but throw in the juice of $34 million and you start to ratchet up the intensity from 30 of the best players on the planet. 

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While the skies were clear Saturday at Valhalla, it continued to rain birdies in buckets.

And while some may bemoan the record-breaking scores, the leaderboard this venue has produced with one round to play in the 106th PGA Championship is undeniably strong. Fifteen players, many of them among the most accomplished in the game today, are within five shots of the lead heading into the final day.

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1. At 15 under par, Collin Morikawa is tied for the lead entering the final round of a major for the first time in his career. After missing each of his first three greens in regulation Saturday, Morikawa hit 12 of 15 the rest of the way, carding just a single bogey in his round. Renowned as one of the top iron players in the sport, Morikawa is tied for the lead despite ranking 24th in the field in strokes gained approach through three rounds. Instead, it’s been an excellent short game that’s led his charge; he tops the field this week in strokes gained around the green.

Morikawa is looking for his third career major championship victory in his 18th major start. It has been nearly 47 years since a player reached three major wins in 18 attempts or fewer. The last to do it was Tom Watson, who got his third major title in his 17th career start at the 1977 Open. Brooks Koepka and Tiger Woods won their third major in start No. 20, while Jordan Spieth did it in 19.

The only player in the PGA Championship stroke-play era (since 1958) to win the PGA Championship twice in his first five tries is Woods. Morikawa can join him with a win Sunday.

2. Xander Schauffele was cruising atop the leaderboard most of the day until a double bogey at 15, his only dropped shot of the afternoon. The world No. 3 bounced back admirably, though, making birdie at 17 and 18 to tie Morikawa entering the final round. This is the second time Schauffele has led entering the final round of a major — he shared the lead entering the final round at Carnoustie in the 2018 Open.

Schauffele, who led outright after each of the first two rounds, is the seventh man since 2000 to hold a share of the lead after Rounds 1, 2 and 3 at a PGA Championship. Four of the previous six went on to win. This is the fourth time in Schauffele’s career that he has been in the top five entering Sunday at a major — he did not break par in the final round in any of the previous three instances.

3. On the biggest stage in his young career, Sahith Theegala (-14, 1 back) acquitted himself extremely well Saturday. His reward is a prime opportunity to win his first major championship. The 26-year-old Pepperdine product was 2 over through eight holes before catching fire, playing his last 10 in 6 under. Theegala is third in the field in putting through three rounds this week, picking up more than eight strokes on the field on the greens.

This will be just the sixth major championship Sunday for Theegala, and the first time he has teed it up in one of those rounds starting better than tied for 20th. His best finish in his eight previous major championships was a solo ninth at the 2023 Masters, when he closed with 67.

4. Shane Lowry shot the fifth round of 62 in men’s major championship history, the second this week and the fourth in the last 11 months. Lowry has lit up the greens at Valhalla, making a field-best 14 putts of 10 feet or longer. Lowry has gained nearly 11 strokes putting this week, far and away the most of anyone through three rounds in any PGA Tour event in 2024. His more than 5.97 strokes gained putting Saturday alone are a career high in any round.

Lowry started the third round eight shots off the lead, in a tie for 29th place. Should he go on to win, it would be the largest 36-hole comeback by position in PGA Championship history and tie the second largest across all men’s majors. Only David Duval’s, after he was in a tie for 35th entering Round 3 of the 2001 Open at Royal Lytham, would be bigger. Lowry is trying to join Padraig Harrington and Rory McIlroy as the only European players to win an Open Championship and a PGA.

5. Bryson DeChambeau celebrated an eagle on the closing hole Saturday with an emphatic fist pump and matching roar. The chip-in puts him two shots off the lead entering the final round, the same deficit he faced in 2020 at Winged Foot when he won the U.S. Open. The powerful DeChambeau leads the field this week in driving distance, which is exactly what Tiger Woods (2000) and Rory McIlroy (2014) did when they left Valhalla with the Wanamaker Trophy.

This marks the first time DeChambeau has ever started a major championship with three consecutive rounds in the 60s. Should he win, he would be just the third player to win the U.S. Amateur, U.S. Open and PGA Championship, joining Woods and Jack Nicklaus.

Bryson DeChambeau EAGLES on 18 😱 He's ONE BACK off the lead! #PGAChamp pic.twitter.com/9vODJiMbXF — PGA Championship (@PGAChampionship) May 18, 2024

6. The field averaged -1.45 strokes under par Saturday, the lowest single round in relation to par in PGA Championship history. In fact, it was just the third round in this championship’s history where the field was a stroke or more under par on average. Three of them have come at Valhalla GC — the third round in 2000 (-1.00) and the third round in 2014 (-1.43) being the other two.

Twenty-eight players shot scores of 3 under or better Saturday, the second most in a single PGA Championship round after a cut has been made. In 2015 at Whistling Straits, 30 players shot 3 under or lower in Round 3. Jason Day would go on to win that week, posting the first score of 20 under or lower in men’s major championship history.

7. Reports surfaced earlier in the week that reigning FedExCup champion Viktor Hovland had started working again with his previous swing coach, Joe Mayo. The on-course results have been quick and staggeringly good. Hovland is just two shots off the lead entering the final round and looks closer to his soaring superstar form of 2023 than what he’d put on film to date this year.

The ebullient Norwegian entered the week ranked 122nd on the PGA Tour in strokes gained tee-to-green in 2024 and 81st in strokes gained approach. He’s seventh and 11th in those two metrics this week. Saturday was the first bogey-free round of his PGA Championship career and fourth across all the majors. This is the fifth time in the last seven majors contested that Hovland will be in the top five entering the final round.

Two of Hovland’s European Ryder Cup teammates should not be discounted as we head to the final round. Robert MacIntyre is three shots back, looking to become the first Scottish major winner in the men’s game since Paul Lawrie at the 1999 Open Championship. Justin Rose fired a third-round 64, tying his career-low score across 267 major championship rounds. Rose, 43, is the oldest player from outside the United States to shoot 64 or lower at the PGA Championship since Gary Player in 1984.

8. After a second consecutive round of 67, hometown favorite Justin Thomas is five shots off the lead heading into Sunday. JT was multiple shots back entering the final round in each of his two PGA wins (two back in 2017, seven in 2022). The last player to win each of his first three majors when trailing by at least two strokes through 54 holes was Harrington. Thomas leads the tournament in strokes gained tee-to-green but ranks a dismal 70th in strokes gained putting.

Four-time major winner McIlroy and three-time major champ Spieth are seven shots back and will need a minor miracle to win Sunday. A seven-shot comeback has happened twice, by Thomas in 2022 and John Mahaffey at Oakmont in 1978. In Spieth’s eight PGA Championship starts since winning the third leg of the grand slam, seven strokes ties the smallest deficit he has faced after 54 holes.

9. The game’s two best performers in major championships in recent seasons, Scottie Scheffler and Brooks Koepka, both struggled Saturday.

Scheffler shot a 2-over-par 73, his first score worse than par in an official event since the Tour Championship in August. Scheffler’s unlikely day included a double bogey-bogey-bogey run on holes 2 through 4. Incredibly, it was the first time in 646 days that Scheffler made bogey or worse on three consecutive holes. In the span between when it last happened — the 2022 St. Jude Championship — Scheffler played 2,470 holes on Tour.

Koepka wobbled to a third-round 74, falling out of contention in his title defense. Saturday was the 149th round of Koepka’s major championship career. It’s just the sixth time he shot a score four shots or more worse than the field average. Koepka did not make a birdie until the 17th hole Saturday and lost more than 2.4 strokes on the greens alone in his round.

10. In the men’s game, 40 of the last 41 major winners have been within four shots of the lead entering the final round. The lone exception in that span was Thomas at Southern Hills two years ago in this championship. Since 2000, every men’s major winner has been tied for ninth or better on the leaderboard with one round to play. Eighty-one percent of the winners in that span were either first, second or third.

(Top photo of Sahith Theegala: Christian Petersen / Getty Images)

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Another major championship, another event with a LIV Golf player in contention.

Bryson DeChambeau would have won almost any other tournament with his 20 under score over the last four days at the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club, but the bulked-up bomber was beaten by one stroke thanks to a historic 21-under performance from Xander Schauffele .

Of the 16 LIV players to tee it up this week, 11 made the 36-hole weekend cut, with three finishing inside the top 30. On the flip side, five players saw their week end early and slammed the trunk and made their way home. From the top of the leaderboard to the bottom, here’s how all 16 LIV players fared this week at the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla.

Bryson DeChambeau: Runner up, 20 under

Bryson DeChambeau reacts on the ninth green during the final round of the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club on May 19, 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Best previous PGA Championship finish: T-4 (2020, 2023)

Dean Burmester: T-12, 12 under

Dean Burmester of Team Stinger during the final round of the LIV Golf Mayakoba tournament at El Chamaleon Golf Course. Mandatory Credit: Erich Schlegel-USA TODAY Sports

Best PGA Championship finish: 54 (2023)

Brooks Koepka: T-26, 9 under

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Best PGA Championship finish: Win (2018, 2019, 2023)

Joaquin Niemann: T-39, 7 under

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Lucas Herbert: T-43, 6 under

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Dustin Johnson: T-43, 6 under

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Best PGA Championship finish: 2 (2019), T-2 (2020)

Patrick Reed: T-53, 5 under

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Best PGA Championship finish: T-2 (2017)

Talor Gooch: T-60, 4 under

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Best PGA Championship finish: T-20 (2022)

Tyrrell Hatton: T-63, 3 under

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Best PGA Championship finish: T-10 (2016, 2018)

Cameron Smith: T-63, 3 under

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Best PGA Championship finish: Fourth (2023)

Martin Kaymer: T-73, Even par

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Best PGA Championship finish: Winner (2010)

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Jon Rahm: Even par

Best PGA Championship finish: T-4 (2018)

Adrian Meronk: 1 over

Best PGA Championship finish: T-40 (2023)

David Puig: 3 over

Best PGA Championship finish: Debut

Phil Mickelson: 4 over

Best PGA Championship finish: Win (2005, 2021)

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05 - 08 Oct 2017

Alfred Dunhill Links Championship

Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland

DP World Tour Partners

Monday qualifier Tanner Gore leads at AdventHealth Championship

Daily Wrap Up

Tanner Gore watches his shot out of the rough on the 1st hole during the third round of the AdventHealth Championship at Blue Hills Country Club on May 18, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Reed Hoffmann/Getty Images)

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Things to know

• Monday qualifier Tanner Gore enters the final round with a two-shot lead, the first lead of his career
• Kyle Westmoreland cards his third consecutive round of 4-under or better and is in solo second
• Overland Park, Kansas native Harry Higgs has one bogey through 54 holes and sits three shots off the lead
• Ten total players enter the final round within three shots of the lead
• Van Holmgren, Étienne Papineau and Brandon Harkins tie for the low round of the day with 8-under 64s
• Final-round groupings will run from 6:50 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. local time off the first tee

Third-round lead notes

7 – Third-round leaders/co-leaders to win the AdventHealth Championship: Cameron Young (2021), Zecheng Dou (2017), Wesley Bryan (2016), Martin Pillar (2015), Zach Sucher (2014), James Nitties (2011), Michael Sim (2009)

3 – Third-round leaders/co-leaders to win on Tour in 2024: Tim Widing (Veritex Bank Championship), Isaiah Salinda (The Panama Championship), Jeremy Paul (The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay)

Charting the leader

Tanner gore (leader/16-under).

• Clinches his first career lead/co-lead after any round in a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event
• Eagled the par-4 17th and birded the par-4 ninth, par-5 13th and par-4 16th
• Lone bogey of the day was on the par-3 12th
• Through three rounds, has 17 total birdies (16 birdies, one eagle) against just two bogeys
• Carded a new low round in a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event Friday with a bogey-free 7-under 65
• 54-hole total score of 200 (68-65-67) shatters his previous best of 210, set at the 2024 Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank
• Earned the start this week as an open qualifier
• Earned conditional membership for 2024 Korn Ferry Tour season with T119 finish at Final Stage of 2023 PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry; also claimed medalist honors at First Stage
• In three starts this season, has one made cut, a T39 at the 2024 Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank, which is his best career finish on the Tour
• Making second ever start at the AdventHealth Championship (placed T43 in 2022)
• Made three starts on PGA TOUR Americas this season, resulting in two made cuts and one top-25 finish, a T18 at the Bupa Championship at Tulum
• Turned professional in 2019 after playing collegiately at the University of Texas-Arlington for four seasons (2015-19), where he was a 2017 All-Sun Belt Conference selection
• Native of El Paso, Texas

Tanner Gore on holding the outright lead entering the final round… “You know, I'm pretty happy. I feel a lot of emotions right now. Having to Monday qualify and just being able to do that and get a spot in the field, let alone to be on top of the leaderboard after three rounds, is pretty remarkable. I'm just very grateful for the opportunities.”

Gore on what he’s looking forward to in the final round… “I'm just excited just to learn. I learned a lot today, first time I was in the final group or even in contention in a Korn Ferry Tour event. You learn a lot. You have to obviously give some time to reflect. I haven't really thought about it but definitely going to be a fun experience tomorrow.”

• Entered the week No. 14 on the points list, Westmoreland has four top-25 finishes in nine starts this season, highlighted by a runner-up finish at The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club
• Westmoreland is making his 91st career start in a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event (46th on the Korn Ferry Tour) and is bidding for his first career victory
• Higgs has two top-25 finishes on the Korn Ferry Tour this season in five total starts
• This week marked Higgs’ fifth ever start at the AdventHealth Championship; his best finish in this event was T2 in 2019
• Higgs has just one bogey through 54 holes this week, the fewest by any player in the field
• In his first season on the Tour, has logged two top-25 finishes in nine starts; best finish this season is T20 at the Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard
• Prior to joining the Korn Ferry Tour, spent two years on PGA TOUR Canada from 2022-23
• Currently No. 10 on the points list, Cummins has five top-25 finishes this year and three inside the top 10, most recently a T5 in the Veritex Bank Championship
• Best career finish is T2 at this year’s The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club
• Daniel Summerhays (T3/13-under), Braden Thornberry (T3/13-under) and Jorge Fernández Valdés (T3/13-under) carded matching 7-under 65s and each enter the final round three shots behind the leader
• 36-hole solo leader Alistair Docherty (T13/12-under) recorded a third-round 1-over 73 after logging two birdies against a bogey and double bogey
• Holmgren rolled in seven birdies on his final nine holes Saturday for a 29 on the back-nine