It’s moving day at Colonial. Can Harold Varner III keep the lead with stars like Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas in hot pursuit?
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RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico – Badds was good Saturday in Puerto Rico. Aaron Baddeley shot a bogey free 6-under-par 66 and, at 12-under, leads by one heading into Sunday’s final round at the Puerto Rico Open. Baddeley (70-68-66) has won four times on the PGA TOUR – his last win came in 2016 at another opposite-field event, the Barbasol Championship – and said he’s excited for the opportunity Sunday will bring. “Super excited,â€� he said. “I’m right in everything, so it’s a good opportunity tomorrow, but will try not to put any pressure on (myself). I just know if I can go out there and play my game, keep swinging the way I’m swinging, putting the way I’m putting, I should have a good chance coming down the last.â€� Baddeley is looking to join countryman Marc Leishman (CIMB Classic) as Australian winners in the 2018-19 PGA TOUR season. His best result this year was a T-4 at the Safeway Open. He said the key to his round Saturday was hitting greens, which made for a low-stress Saturday. “I hit the ball close a few times. I had some short birdie putts. I’ve just doing a few things like that (that) made it pretty comfortable,â€� he said. The only thing out-of-routine for Baddeley on Saturday came when a young fan ran under the ropes to get a photo with him. The Australian smiled when the young fan’s father asked, and he kindly obliged. It didn’t distract him, he said, and he enjoyed the moment. “It was all fun and games,â€� he said. Baddeley will be paired with Nate Lashley for Sunday’s final round. Lashley (68-68-69) made birdie on the 72nd hole to earn a spot in the final group for the first time on the PGA TOUR. It was odd start to the day for Lashley going bogey-eagle-bogey on the first three holes. He righted the ship, he said, and finishing with a birdie means momentum for Sunday’s finale. Lashley is no stranger to winning in the Caribbean. His lone Web.com Tour victory came at the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship – which is now a PGA TOUR event – and said that experience was going to help on Sunday, although he acknowledged the magnitude of being in the final group on the PGA TOUR. “This is a lot bigger deal,â€� he admitted. “Any time you get a chance to win on any tour, it’s great. Going into tomorrow, I’m just going to try to go out and keep calm and play some good golf and see what happens at the end of the day.â€� Martin Trainer finished a shot further back at 10-under. He won twice on the Web.com Tour in 2018 to earn his PGA TOUR card via The 25. A group of five golfers sits at 9-under, including Wyndham Clark, Johnson Wagner, D.J. Trahan, Martin Piller, and Joey Garber. Garber and Boo Weekley tied for the low round of the day – 7-under-par 65, also the round of the tournament so far – and Garber, who is in the penultimate Sunday pairing, said he was excited for a chance to earn his first PGA TOUR victory. “There’s nothing better than playing late on Sunday on the PGA TOUR,â€� he said. “I’m very fortunate to be in the position I’m in and look forward to getting that competitive juice going tomorrow.â€�
Justin Thomas is among the golfers who will try to catch 36-hole leader Bryson DeChambeau.
Tiger Woods memorabilia continues to be a hot seller this year. The latest example came Sunday, after a Scotty Cameron signed by Woods sold at auction for more than $300,000. The signed Scotty Cameron ‘Red Dot’ Newport 2 is the same model Woods used to win 14 of his 15 majors. This putter is said to have been made as a backup for Woods’ gamer before being signed by him at a 2005 fundraiser for the Tiger Woods Learning Center and auctioned off. Woods usually tested the backups to ensure they were to his liking but confirming that he used them is difficult because he did so in private. The signature ensures that Woods handled this putter, however. Before being auctioned this year, it was owned for the past 17 years by the same person who bought it at that 2005 fundraiser. The putter sold for $328,577, just a few months after the set of irons purported to be used by Woods in the famous Tiger Slam of 2000-01 went for more than $5 million. Four backup putters belonging to Woods have been sold at auction before this one, and this signed Cameron fell just short of the highest bid for any of those clubs. Another Woods backup sold in August 2021 for $393,000. The first one sold in 2015 for $29,000, according to Golf Digest, and another sold three years later for $44,000. In 2020, another Woods backup fetched $154,928. “The golf collecting industry has traditionally lagged behind other sports. But that’s been changing in a big way as collectors race to acquire the best Tiger Woods items,” said Ryan Carey, owner of Golden Ague Auctions, which hosted the bidding. “Over the past year, Tiger Woods has become his own collecting category. Collectors are starting to treat him and collect him like other GOATs – Michael Jordan, Tom Brady and Mickey Mantle.” This auction, which closed Sunday, also included another Scotty Cameron putter made for Woods ($86,525) and a wedge used by Woods ($39,816). Arnold Palmer’s “Old Faithful” putter was the auction’s second-costliest item, going for $126,680, followed by the Woods putter and Dwight Eisenhower’s clubs, which went for $59,731. Items from the auction can be viewed here.
