Outside of that, everything was good today.'Īmerican Justin Thomas was alone in third after a four-under par 68 for 205. 'Drive on 11 was just what cost me, obviously, a double. 'It was good for pretty much the whole round bar two holes,' Fitzpatrick said. He bogeyed 16, but closed with back-to-back birdies for a 13-under par total of 203. After a double-bogey at the 11th he birdied 12 and 14 before draining a 47-foot eagle putt at 15. These greens can be tough to putt at times, but I'm rolling it good.'įitzpatrick had climbed the leaderboard with four birdies on the front nine. 'I played really well today, really solid the whole day,' said Scheffler, the 2022 Masters champion who has finished runner-up in this event the past two years.

He added four birdies before he rolled in a 14-foot eagle at 15 to push his lead to four strokes over England's Matt Fitzpatrick, who also signed for a 65.Ī bogey at 18, where Scheffler's drive was in the right rough, cut that by one, giving him a 16-under par total of 200. Scheffler, meanwhile, was in cruise control, starting the day tied for the lead with Jordan Spieth and seizing control with a 15-foot eagle at the third. 'I'm very excited how the week's turned out.'

'To be able to knock off some of the rust as I have this week, showed myself that I can recover each and every day, that was kind of an unknown,' he said.

Most importantly, Woods said, he was 'very excited' at how he has responded physically to the pace of competition. US superstar Tiger Woods reacts to his birdie on the ninth hole in the third round of the Hero World Challenge at Albany Golf Course in the Bahamas / ©

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