Leaderboard: Can Snedeker close out big week with Wyndham win?

AVONDALE, La. (AP) — Ryan Palmer and Jon Rahm shot a 3-under 69 in the alternate-shot final round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans on Sunday and won the PGA TOUR’s only team event by three strokes over Sergio Garcia and Tommy Fleetwood. The victory was the fourth on the tour for the 42-year-old Palmer, but first in nearly a decade. Having last won in 2010 at the Sony Open in Hawaii, Palmer waved and gave a thumbs-up to TV cameras as he walked up the 18th fairway with a throng of fans applauding his and Rahm’s impending triumph. The 24-year-old Rahm won his third PGA TOUR title — one each in three straight seasons. He finished in the top 10 for the seventh time this year, including a tie for ninth at the Masters a couple weeks earlier. Palmer-Rahm finished with a 26-under 262 total at the TPC Louisiana, which had dried out considerably since heavy rains delayed the first round by more than seven hours and forced many players to play more than 18 holes on Friday and Saturday to get the event back on schedule. Opening the alternate-shot final round tied atop the leaderboard with Scott Stallings and Trey Mullinax, Palmer-Rahm surged to a two-stroke lead in just two holes after Stallings-Mullinax bogeyed the first hole and Rahm nearly holed out from the fringe to set up Palmer’s 1-foot birdie putt on the par-5 second. Palmer-Rahm never lost the lead after that, making birdies on 13 and 14 at virtually the same time Garcia-Fleetwood were making birdie on 17 and 18. From there, they just had to avoid mistakes — and did. The teams of Kyoung-Hoon Lee-Matt Every and Brian Gay-Rory Sabbatini tied for third, five shots behind.

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SILVIS, Ill. – Dylan Frittelli shot a bogey-free, 6-under-par 65 to reach 14 under par in the third round of the John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run on Saturday.  But it was his wild adventures on the eighth hole, including an unusual and fortuitous ruling, that took up most of his post-round interview. “Yeah, it’s a way of using the rules to your benefit,â€� Frittelli said. He was tied for fifth and within two of leaders Andrew Landry (67) and Cameron Tringale (65). Frittelli, 153rd in the FedExCup, got his unusual ruling at the par-4 eighth hole, where he lost his drive into the trees, the ball coming to rest 257 yards away in the right rough. His second shot, from 164, cleared the right greenside bunker, but barely, stopping in the short rough barely over the top lip of the trap.  Related: Tee times | Morikawa keeps momentum going | Landry’s putter heats up It was a lie no one wants, calling for a shot almost no one practices. Frittelli had no stance if he went with his natural right-handed swing, the ball (in the grass) well above his feet (in the sand). If he tried to hit the ball that way, he could easily have whiffed or done a backward somersault into the sand. Or both. Conversely, standing above the bunker would mean either turning the club over to make a lefty swing or facing opposite the hole and taking a backward, croquet-style swing with the club in his right hand. Frittelli was exploring these options when he realized there was something under his feet just above the bunker: a sprinkler head. Eureka.  “I wouldn’t have called the referee if I didn’t truly think I could have played the shot that way,â€� said Frittelli, a South African who briefly played alongside Jordan Spieth at Texas. “… I was standing right on a sprinkler head. The ref agreed with me. He said, ‘Sure, it’s definitely a plausible shot. It’s not conventional obviously but it’s plausible,’ so he gave me relief.â€� But his adventure wasn’t over yet. “My drop was then a club length away,â€� Frittelli continued. “Rolled back towards the sprinklers; now playing right-handed, I was standing on the sprinklers again, so needed to take relief for the right-handed shot from the same sprinkler and then go one more club length, and ended up in the sort of first-cut area where I could have a much easier chip shot than where I was.â€� After all that, from 51 feet, Frittelli chipped to 13 inches and made the par putt.  Frittelli, who birdied four of his first five holes, has made 13 cuts in 19 starts but has just three top-25 finishes this season. The big difference at TPC Deere Run: Although he came into this week 161st in Strokes Gained: Putting, the two-time European Tour winner is second (+5.237) in that stat this week. “Yesterday I made a few,â€� Frittelli said, “today I made a few, and if I can keep that rolling and the ball-striking remains, it should be a good Sunday.â€� A good break might be helpful, too.

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