The difference was 7 shots.
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Steele will head into the final round on Sunday with a one-shot advantage after carding a 69 at Silverado Country Club in Napa, with compatriots Andrew Loupe and Kevin Na in hot pursuit.
“The last couple of years in the FedEx Cup, I feel like I’ve always been playing catchup because I start the PGA Tour season at the end (of) February when most guys are starting now. If you can go lower than that, you probably have a pretty good-sized lead”. Graham DeLaet (68) and Harold Varner III (70) were tied for second.
Rory McIlroy never got anything going in his 1-under 71 and was eight shots behind. He twice had birdie putts from 5 feet or in and missed them badly.
“It’s insane numbers”, McIlroy said.
The U.S. Open, British Open and PGA will be played in a seven-week stretch, followed by the return of golf to the Olympic games. “But I don’t expect the scores to be as good as they were the first day at least, the first two days”.
That’s why McIlroy headed to the practice green, even though he looked exhausted.
MACAO (AP) – Taiwan’s Hung Chien-yao shot a 7-under 64 in the Macao Open to take a one-stroke lead over defending champion Anirban Lahiri of India. Jhonattan Vegas didn’t make a bogey until his last hole, the par-5 ninth, when he three-putted from 15 feet.
Missing putts was a familiar sight for everyone.
“I just can’t imagine what Grillo was thinking back there on the tee”, said Golf Channel commentator Peter Jacobsen, a former tour victor. “I just didn’t want it to be weak and around the hole, because you don’t get those opportunities that often”.
Two PGA Tour rookies were among the eight players two shots behind at 12-under 204. The 50-year-old McCarron is making his seventh start in his first season on the Champions Tour.
“It’s frustrating, because I thought I hit a few good shots and good putts”, Steele said. “I’m staying in American Canyon”.
“I just can’t imagine what Grillo was thinking back there on the tee”, Jacobsen said.
Recap: Gonzales made two quick birdies, including a 20-footer at No. 12, to get to 2 under on his round. Plus, he made birdie on the final five holes of his opening round. It just didn’t quite work out that way.
Positions: Moore (2-under 142) is tied for 56th, nine strokes behind leader Brendan Steele (11-under 133).
American Matt Kuchar will take a two-shot lead into the final round of the Fiji worldwide after an impressive 69 left him as the only man under par. “But that’s the sort of travel that have you to do to be a world-wide player”.
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But he wasn’t alone. That started a run of back-to-back bogeys. A birdie on the last hole for a 70 put him in the group at 8-under 136 that included Justin Rose (69), Russell Henley (69) and Martin Laird (71).
