THE PLAYERS Championship, Round 4: Leaderboard, tee times, TV times

Kevin Streelman … Nothing is as reliable in the long-term like the milkshakes in which the players at Muirfield Village can indulge, but he’s on a similar trajectory. Since 2015, he’s gone T18-T8-T13 at the Memorial. And that’s with rounds of par or worse in each finale that he started inside the top eight on the leaderboard. Three top 10s in his last 10 starts this season and ranks fifth in greens in regulation, T24 in proximity, 23rd in strokes gained: tee-to-green and 14th in scrambling. He’s also resided inside the top four in bogey avoidance for more than four months. Luke List … It’s been four weeks since he placed T9 at Quail Hollow, so don’t forget about this guy. He’s scattered five top 10s this season across varied tracks, including Bay Hill and Harbour Town. That kind of diversification comps to fellow long hitter Tony Finau, but List is still chasing his first PGA TOUR victory. Despite hosting one of the deepest fields every season, Muirfield Village has not discriminated against breakthroughs. From 2014-2016, Hideki Matsuyama, David Lingmerth and William McGirt, respectively, celebrated their first TOUR titles on the course. List is fourth in strokes gained: tee-to-green, 20th in adjusted scoring and T17 in par-5 scoring. Bill Haas … Save a T7 at Harbour Town, he’s struggled in finding a groove all season. While his early scuffling was surprising, it’s been understandable since the fatal crash in which he was a passenger in mid-February. Perhaps a T14 at the Fort Worth Invitational was the turning point. (He’s 130th in the FedExCup standings and not yet fully exempt for next season.) Like his history at Colonial, he’s enjoyed multiple strong showings at Muirfield Village. Since 2013, he’s 4-for-5 with two top 10s and another pair of top 25s. C.T. Pan … It’s been three years since he turned professional, so the newest fans of golf likely aren’t familiar with his pedigree at the University of Washington. For some, noteworthy success on this stage is immediate, but for others, success is realized in a series of checkpoints passed to trigger an upward swing and achieve career consistency. In just his second season with a TOUR card, the diminutive 26-year-old profiles as a horse for courses, but his accuracy on approach can play anywhere. Finished T40 in his debut at Muirfield Village last year and has thrived at Torrey Pines South, another of the bigger ballparks on the schedule where par demands respect. Currently 10th on the PGA TOUR in greens in regulation but still without a top 10 on the season, although he has logged five top 25s, including a T20 at Colonial last week where he closed with a season-low-tying 65. Cameron Davis … The 23-year-old Aussie has been on a barnstorming excursion for six months. Upon arrival at his national open in late November, he sat 1,494th in the Official World Golf Ranking. He then prevailed by one over Matt Jones and Jonas Blixt. Cameron Smith finished fourth, Jason Day fifth and Jordan Spieth eighth. Davis then took his emerging talent to Singapore and opened 2018 with a T6. After adding a T7 at the New Zealand Open, he’s been a regular on the Web.com Tour where he started the season with conditional status. A T17 in Mississippi and a T4 in Knoxville preceded victory in Nashville this past Sunday. Now 105th in the OWGR, he was already in the field at Muirfield Village on the strength of his play abroad. In his PGA TOUR debut at the 2015 OHL Classic at Mayakoba, he placed T15.

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PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico – A sun-splashed Saturday provided a second straight day of golf at the Mayakoba Golf Classic. Now the challenge is how to finish it. Players will go off in threesomes and won’t be re-grouped after the third round in an attempt to play as many holes as possible at the rain-delayed tournament at El Camaleón Golf Club on Sunday. If necessary, play will resume at 7:30 a.m. ET Monday. RELATED: Leaderboard | Tee times | Henley misses cut after One Ball Rule violation The leader is Harris English, who won the 2014 Mayakoba Golf Classic. He knows what it takes. Then again, it’s been a while. He hasn’t won since. “It’s been a lot of ball-striking,â€� English said of his resurgence after a second-round 64 moved him to 13 under and one ahead of Vaughn Taylor (66). “Starting at the Greenbrier this year, I think I was top-10 in greens in regulation and that’s been a huge stat. “That’s what I did really well my first couple years on Tour,â€� he added, “and haven’t done so well in that the past couple seasons. But really worked with my coach, Justin Parsons, back home in Sea Island and really just doing what I did back in college and my first couple years on Tour.â€� Last season English was 147th in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green; this season he’s 21st. A four-time All-American at Georgia who turned pro in 2011, English immediately won once on the Korn Ferry Tour and twice on the PGA TOUR. So it was a surprise when his late 20s turned into a slog. His average finish in the FedExCup the last three seasons has been 131. He fell out of the top 200 in the world, and needed to go back to the Korn Ferry Tour Finals. Now, though, he’s back. He’s already posted three top-10 finishes in four starts this season. As always, Mayakoba has rewarded good ball-striking, and penalized wayward tee shots. The cut came with 82 players at 1-under 141 from a field of 131 professionals and one amateur. Rounds three and four will feature threesomes off tee Nos. 1 and 10 Sunday. English hopes to carry his early-season momentum to his third career TOUR win. “I think I missed two greens today,â€� he said after chipping in for birdie on his last hole, the 18th. “And if you do that every day out here, you’re going to take it deep.â€� Brendon Todd (68, 11 under, two back) is trying to win for the second time in as many starts after capturing the recent Bermuda Championship. Danny Lee (70), Adam Long (69) and Robby Shelton (66) are 10 under and three back. “I’m ready to keep going and go to one (tee) right now and start it up,â€� said Long, who birdied five of his last six holes and is aiming for his first win since The American Express last season. Although five of the top six players on the leaderboard are Americans, the crowd favorites have emerged with the golfing Ortiz brothers of Guadalajara. They are two of seven players representing Mexico in the field, and they are both playing well. Alvaro Ortiz, the Latin America Amateur winner who nearly won Low Amateur honors at The Masters Tournament and turned 24 yesterday, shot 67 to reach 9 under, just four off the lead. Big brother Carlos, 28, surged with a 65 to reach 8 under, five back. “We actually never played in a competitive tournament together,â€� Carlos said, “especially because of the age gap.â€� This has necessitated a delicate balancing act for their proud parents. “My dad was following my brother on the front nine,â€� Alvaro said. “I saw him on 17 and then he walked the back nine with me. Then my mom walked the front nine with me and walked the back nine with Carlos. It alternates, so it was nice that my brother was just two groups ahead of me and they can see both of us.â€� It’s a logistical challenge, but after copious rain scuttled the entire first round without a shot being hit Thursday, you could say the same for simply finishing the tournament.

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