England Harry Corridor produced a spectacular late birdie burst to maneuver again inside two strokes of the lead heading into the ultimate spherical of the PGA Tour’s Sony Open in Hawaii.
Corridor was 4 strokes off the midway lead at Waialae Nation Membership and at risk of slipping out of competition after enjoying the primary 13 holes of his third spherical in a single underneath, solely to birdie 4 of his final 5 and card a five-under 65.
The world No 86 fired his method on the par-four 14th to tap-in vary and holed a 45-footer on the subsequent, with Corridor choosing up a shot on the sixteenth and including a two-putt birdie on the par-five final to maneuver to 11 underneath.
Corridor sits within the group tied-fifth alongside Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley and former Open champion Brian Harman, with JJ Spaun topping a congested leaderboard that sees 15 gamers separated by simply three strokes going into the ultimate day.
“I think the last few times I’ve been in contention, I’ve put a little bit of pressure on myself and had like a goal in mind to get to,” Corridor mentioned. “I think tomorrow I’ll just be a lot more patient, probably take the pressure off my shoulders, and go out there and try and just do one shot at a time.”
Spaun combined seven birdies with two birdies to card a third-round 65 and maintain a one-shot cushion over Germany’s Stephan Jaeger – who jumped up the leaderboard with a round-of-the-week 62 – Eric Cole and Patrick Fishburn.
The 34-year-old Spaun’s solely earlier win on the PGA Tour in 218 earlier makes an attempt got here on the Texas Open in 2022. He had 4 top-10 finishes final yr.
Denny McCarthy had began the day as co-leader with Fishburn however a one-over 71 left him 4 photographs off the tempo.
Gary Woodland (10 underneath), Zach Johnson (8 underneath) are amongst 27 gamers inside 5 photographs on the lead, with final week’s Sentry victor Hideki Matsuyama (7 underneath) one additional shot adrift and never but completely out of competition both.
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