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
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