Jordan Spieth fired a 4-under 66 on Saturday at TPC River Highlands, and will take a one shot lead into Sunday’s final round at the Travelers Championship.
Spieth, who has led since round one, finally relinquished the top spot after back-to-back bogeys on 13 and 14, which dropped him to 9-under.
The 23-year-old Texan got those two strokes back, plus one, with birdies on three of the final four holes, highlighted by a 20-foot birdie putt on 18 that had the New England golf gallery sounding more like Gillette Stadium.
With a win on Sunday, Spieth would join Tiger Woods as the only golfers (since 1983) with 10 PGA Tour wins before the age of 24.
Boo Weekley (-11) shot 5-under 65, highlighted by five birdies over the final eight holes, and will join Spieth in the final group.
Recent St Jude Classic winner Daniel Berger is alone in third at 9-under, following a 4-under 66.
Rounding out of the top 5 are Paul Casey, David Lingmerth, and Cheng Tsung, who are tied (T4) at 8-under.
Factoids
- The sole leader through 54 holes, Spieth is attempting to become the third wire-to-wire winner of the 2016-17 PGA Tour season (Mackenzie Hughes at The RSM Classic and Justin Thomas at the Sony Open in Hawaii).
- Out of nine wins, Spieth has only won one tournament in wire-to-wire fashion—the 2015 Masters.
- A win by Spieth (or Daniel Berger, who is alone in third), would give high school class of 2011 a total six wins (of 32) on the PGA Tour season: Justin Thomas (3), Jordan Spieth (1) and Daniel Berger (1).
Shot of Day
Spieth makes chip shot but misses the celebratory slap with Greller.
Jordan Spieth nails the chip but whiffs on the slap pic.twitter.com/xD1E8gwBoJ
— Pro Golf Buzz (@ProGolfBuzz) June 25, 2017
Top 10
1 Jordan Spieth -12
2 Boo Weekley -11
3 Daniel Berger -9
T4 C.T. Pan -8
T4 David Lingmerth -8
T4 Paul Casey -8
T7 David Hearn -7
T7 Keegan Bradley -7
T7 Danny Lee -7
T10 Jason Kokrak -6
T10 Webb Simpson -6
T10 Charley Hoffman -6
T10 Chez Reavie -6
T10 Patrick Rodgers -6
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Quotable
“I’m going to go out there and play solid golf. That’s what we’ve been doing. That’s cliché, but a couple a side on a round like today, I thought at the beginning of the week if you shot 4-under each day, you’d be right there. So I think that’s the goal.”
–Jordan Spieth
Leaderboard
Travelers Championship | Round 3 | June 24, 2017 | TPC River Highlands
POS | PLAYER | TO PAR |
---|---|---|
1 | Jordan Spieth | -12 |
2 | Boo Weekley | -11 |
3 | Daniel Berger | -9 |
T4 | C.T. Pan | -8 |
T4 | David Lingmerth | -8 |
T4 | Paul Casey | -8 |
T7 | David Hearn | -7 |
T7 | Keegan Bradley | -7 |
T7 | Danny Lee | -7 |
T10 | Jason Kokrak | -6 |
T10 | Webb Simpson | -6 |
T10 | Charley Hoffman | -6 |
T10 | Chez Reavie | -6 |
T10 | Patrick Rodgers | -6 |
T15 | Marc Leishman | -5 |
T15 | Bryson DeChambeau | -5 |
T15 | Brian Harman | -5 |
T15 | Ryan Brehm | -5 |
T15 | Brendan Steele | -5 |
T15 | Patrick Reed | -5 |
T21 | Rick Lamb | -4 |
T21 | Morgan Hoffmann | -4 |
T21 | Xander Schauffele | -4 |
T21 | Padraig Harrington | -4 |
T21 | Bryce Molder | -4 |
T21 | Chase Seiffert | -4 |
T21 | Troy Merritt | -4 |
T28 | Matt Every | -3 |
T28 | Russell Knox | -3 |
T28 | Tony Finau | -3 |
T28 | Brett Stegmaier | -3 |
T28 | Will MacKenzie | -3 |
T28 | Hunter Mahan | -3 |
T28 | Johnson Wagner | -3 |
T28 | Anirban Lahiri | -3 |
T28 | Smylie Kaufman | -3 |
T28 | Jim Furyk | -3 |
T28 | Grayson Murray | -3 |
T28 | Graham DeLaet | -3 |
T28 | Beau Hossler | -3 |
T28 | Daniel Summerhays | -3 |
T42 | Bud Cauley | -2 |
T42 | Mackenzie Hughes | -2 |
T42 | Mark Hubbard | -2 |
T42 | Kevin Streelman | -2 |
T42 | Fabian Gomez | -2 |
T42 | Byeong Hun An | -2 |
T42 | Ryan Palmer | -2 |
T42 | Adam Hadwin | -2 |
T42 | Patton Kizzire | -2 |
T42 | Ricky Barnes | -2 |
T52 | William McGirt | -1 |
T52 | Brad Fritsch | -1 |
T52 | Tom Hoge | -1 |
T52 | Vaughn Taylor | -1 |
T52 | Brandt Snedeker | -1 |
T52 | Kevin Na | -1 |
T52 | Michael Kim | -1 |
T52 | Wesley Bryan | -1 |
T60 | Nick Watney | E |
T60 | Tim Wilkinson | E |
T60 | Retief Goosen | E |
T60 | Emiliano Grillo | E |
T60 | J.J. Henry | E |
T60 | Rod Pampling | E |
T60 | Rory McIlroy | E |
T67 | Jonas Blixt | 1 |
T67 | Geoff Ogilvy | 1 |
T67 | Hudson Swafford | 1 |
T67 | Kyle Stanley | 1 |
T67 | Greg Chalmers | 1 |
T67 | Kevin Tway | 1 |
T67 | Joel Dahmen | 1 |
T67 | Robert Streb | 1 |
- | Sebastian Munoz | 2 |
- | Julian Etulain | 2 |
- | Peter Malnati | 2 |
- | Cameron Percy | 2 |
- | Jamie Lovemark | 2 |
- | Sung-hoon Kang | 2 |
- | Spencer Levin | 3 |
- | K.J. Choi | 3 |
- | Steve Wheatcroft | 4 |
- | Alex Cejka | 5 |
- | Scott Piercy | 11 |
- | Trey Mullinax | CUT |
- | Luke Donald | CUT |
- | Andres Gonzales | CUT |
- | Robert Garrigus | CUT |
- | Kelly Kraft | CUT |
- | Mark Anderson | CUT |
- | Gonzalo Fdez-Castano | CUT |
- | Vijay Singh | CUT |
- | Jason Day | CUT |
- | John Peterson | CUT |
- | Tyrone van Aswegen | CUT |
- | Martin Laird | CUT |
- | Tag Ridings | CUT |
- | Harris English | CUT |
- | Billy Hurley III | CUT |
- | Jim Herman | CUT |
- | Harold Varner, III | CUT |
- | Brandon Hagy | CUT |
- | Bubba Watson | CUT |
- | Seung-yul Noh | CUT |
- | Chad Collins | CUT |
- | Lucas Glover | CUT |
- | Kyle Reifers | CUT |
- | John Huh | CUT |
- | Miguel Angel Carballo | CUT |
- | Cody Gribble | CUT |
- | Whee Kim | CUT |
- | Zack Sucher | CUT |
- | Brett Coletta | CUT |
- | Seamus Power | CUT |
- | Chad Campbell | CUT |
- | Scott Stallings | CUT |
- | Ken Duke | CUT |
- | Troy Kelly | CUT |
- | JT Poston | CUT |
- | Zach Johnson | CUT |
- | Brian Campbell | CUT |
- | Jhonattan Vegas | CUT |
- | Brian Gay | CUT |
- | Justin Thomas | CUT |
- | Derek Fathauer | CUT |
- | Martin Flores | CUT |
- | Bobby Wyatt | CUT |
- | Rory Sabbatini | CUT |
- | Ryan Armour | CUT |
- | Nick Taylor | CUT |
- | Dominic Bozzelli | CUT |
- | Zach Zaback | CUT |
- | Ben Crane | CUT |
- | Jonathan Randolph | CUT |
- | Shawn Stefani | CUT |
- | Michael Thompson | CUT |
- | Steven Alker | CUT |
- | Nicholas Lindheim | CUT |
- | Ryan Blaum | CUT |
- | Neil Johnson | CUT |
- | Richy Werenski | CUT |
- | Brian Stuard | CUT |
- | Ryan Ruffels | CUT |
- | Zac Blair | CUT |
- | Andrew Loupe | CUT |
- | Jason Bohn | CUT |
- | Mark Wilson | CUT |
- | Carl Pettersson | CUT |
- | Wyndham Clark | CUT |
- | Bobby Gates | CUT |
- | Billy Downes | CUT |
- | Brett Drewitt | CUT |
- | Stuart Appleby | WD |
- | Bob Estes | WD |
- | Charlie Beljan | WD |