Late eagle carries DeChambeau to win in Vegas

Here are nine tidbits from the third round of the BMW Championship gamers can use tomorrow, this weekend or down the road. Aronimink Golf Club just outside Philadelphia plays 7,267 yards to Par-70. Know Thy Enemy These were the top-10 selected, plus TWO, golfers in the PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf game presented by SERVPRO. I included all players who were owned by 20 percent or more. The early-morning tee times ended up being washed out and being pushed back to almost the original starting times. The course was wet and used lift, clean and replace in closely-mown areas. To put scoring in perspective, Keegan Bradley played in the final three-some, shot 66 and DROPPED three places to T6. Tee times have been moved up again for early Sunday morning but the forecast is dire regardless. Coming up Roses The Monday forecast isn’t much better for the Philadelphia metro area so if they can’t complete the tournament, 54-hole leader Justin Rose could probably connect the dots. He backed up his 63 in Round 2 with 64 in Round 3 and will be paired with Ryder Cup pal Rory McIlroy in the final round. The new favorite son of Pennsylvania bogeyed his first hole this week and has played the next 53 in 18-under. Other Half Not many guys can post 63 with a double bogey but Rory McIlroy had the perfect response after his five on the Par-3 No. 8. The second shot from the fairway on the Par-5 No. 9 landed eight feet from the flag and his subsequent putt wiped out the double. Momentum was recovered as he went out in 31 and came in with a bogey-free 32 to move into the final pairing. The Ulsterman leads the field in Strokes-Gained: Off-the-Tee. Friday’s Overnight Leader Xander Schauffele has only made three bogeys over 54 holes with one in each loop. The square on his final hole Saturday knocked him out of a spot in the final group and saddled him with one-shot deficit entering the final round. The putt that lipped out secured a spot with “Mr. 62” in the final round that Schauffele could use (heads-up) to impress Captain Furyk. People’s Choice — Bryson DeChambeau The free roll this week essentially ended with 70 in Round 2 but the man leading the FedExCup Playoff standings heading into East Lake didn’t mail it in during Round 3. With seven birdies against just one bogey, he moved up to T26 and another low one could reward his investors who were riding the streak this week. It’s not like he’s spraying it as he’s fourth in Strokes-Gained: Off-the-Tee and remains first in proximity. #Stud. 124 Wow. Wow x 2. Moving Day Although they didn’t match Fleetwood’s magnificent 62, Austin Cook and Adam Hadwin each shooting 63 will give them hope for another low round Sunday. They’ll need to pull a “Fleetwood” and go lower if they are going to make it to East Lake as both sit well outside the top 30. I’m not sure there are enough holes to make up the difference. … Quietly sneaking up the leaderboard is Francesco Molinari after 63-64. He’s now T7. … It’s also too-little-too-late for Dustin Johnson as his 64 moved him up 15 spots but he’s only T33. Moving Day: Wrong Way For the second Saturday running Keegan Bradley went backwards (T6) but he’s hardly out of it this week. He’s gone close every week of the FedExCup Playoffs and will begin the final round No. 30 as it stands. Time for another low round! … Alex Noren signed for even-par 70 and dropped from T3 to T21. … Jason Day carded 68 and plummeted from T7 to T15. Study Hall Rain and damp conditions paired with ball-in-hand for these guys will mean ridiculous scores and they didn’t disappoint in Round 3. The scoring average was 67.159, almost three-shot under-par. Of the 69 players who teed it up, they made a combined 92 bogeys! … Charles Howell III has made one bogey this week and is T26. … There were 16 bogey-free rounds bringing this week’s total to 33. … McIlroy and Bradley lead the field with 20 birdies each.

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HAIKOU, CHINA—England’s William Harrold shot a 7-under-par 65 to share the 36-hole lead with towering American Joseph Winslow (69) at the PGA TOUR Series-China International Qualifying Tournament No. 2 at Mission Hills Haikou’s Sandbelt Trails Course. Chinese Taipei’s Chunkang “Jacob� Hung (74), the first-round leader, was third at 4-under, one ahead of Ireland’s Brian O’Donovan (73), a Mission Hills Shenzhen teaching pro, and the American trio of Jesse Speirs (71), Cody Paladino (70) and Kevin Techakanokboon (70). South Korea-based Argentine Martin Kim (69) is among a group at 2-under. Others in contention include Hong Kong’s Motin Yeung (72) and Japan’s Junya Kameshiro (68), in a tie for 13th at 1-under, while Malaysia’s Arie Irawan (69), moved to even-par and a share of 18th. The top-15 finishers will earn full cards and the next 25 and ties will be conditionally exempt for a Series that rewards the top-five money winners with places on the Web.com Tour, the path to the PGA TOUR. The 6-foot-5 Winslow carded his sixth birdie of the day at the par-5 18th to set the clubhouse lead. The 25-year-old bogeyed the par-5 first and doubled the par-4 17th, but in between birdied Nos. 3, 6, 7, 8 and 12 before closing his round with his 13th birdie in 36 holes. The 25-year-old native of Kansas is on track to earn a full card on the Tour but will be mindful of last month’s PGA TOUR Latinoamerica qualifier in Bogota, Colombia, when he started the final day in second place before a closing 80 left him 17th and with only conditional status for 2018 on that circuit. “I feel pretty good. I’ve had a couple of pretty solid rounds out there. Today was more gritty, while yesterday was pretty solid in general. it’s been fun, but I feel like my best golf is still ahead out here,� Winslow said. “I just want to keep playing solid on the weekend, keep executing the strategy. I want to play the par-5s a little bit better and clean up a little bit of the slop. My wedge play today wasn’t quite as solid, so I’d like to clean that up a bit, stay focused and keep playing my game.� Harrold, who shot an opening 64 in an Asian Tour event in Xiamen, China, at the end of last year, teed off on No. 10 and carded eight birdies, including three in a row, twice, from Nos. 11-13 and Nos. 7-9. The 29-year-old was delighted with the improvement from his opening 74. “I’ve had three birdies in a row before, but I can’t remember doing it twice in a round,� said Harrold, who won a European Challenge Tour event in 2014 and has two victories on the Euro Pro Tour. “I set myself up much better today and hit nice iron shots into good positions on the green. I also holed some good putts, and that’s not always easy on these greens, which have a lot of slopes. I putted nicely in the first round, but my swing wasn’t as good as today.� The 5-foot-3 O’Donovan played with Winslow for the first two days and enjoyed the group, despite the big difference in height and length off the tee. The 30-year-old native of Ireland played his own game and kept himself in contention for Tour golf. “Joseph’s hitting his second ball from a different place to me, places I don’t see on the golf course,� said the Irishman. “I remember I hit a really good drive on one hole, and he knocked a 3-wood about 30 yards past me. That was depressing, but it’s been good fun.� Kim showed his pedigree, having played on the Korean Tour for three years and on the Japan Golf Tour last year, although he failed to retain his card. The strongly built Argentine—whose grandparents moved from South Korea to Buenos Aires— is just three shots off the lead as seeks a PGA TOUR Series-China card and a path to the U.S. “It was a good round, I think. Even when I made mistakes, I didn’t lose focus, so that’s why I could finish under-par today,� Kim said. “I’m here because I want to be on the PGA TOUR, so first I have to get my card.�

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