Third-Round Notes – Saturday, August 7, 2021
Weather: Partly cloudy. High of 91. Wind SW 4-8 mph.
Third-Round Leaderboard
Harris English 62-65-65—192 (-18)
Bryson DeChambeau 65-66-63—194 (-16)
Cam Smith 67-62-65—194 (-16)
Abraham Ancer 67-62-67—196 (-14)
Scottie Scheffler 65-65-67—197 (-13)
Ian Poulter 64-66-67—197 (-13)
Things to Know
- Harris English ties Tiger Woods for the lowest 54-hole mark in tournament history with 18-under 192
- English seeks to become the third wire-to-wire winner in tournament history
- Bryson DeChambeau birdies five of his last seven holes for a 7-under 63
- Cam Smith birdies two of his final three holes to sit T2 in search of his fourth career TOUR victory
- English and DeChambeau seek to become the first three-time winner of the 2020-21 season
Third-Round Lead Notes
10 Third-round leaders/co-leaders to win the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational
(Most recent: Justin Thomas/2018)
15 Third-round leaders/co-leaders to win in 2020-21
(Most recent: Phil Mickelson/PGA Championship)
Harris English (entering the week)
Category | Statistic |
Age | 32 (7/23/1989) |
Country | United States |
FedExCup | 5 |
OWGR | 14 |
PGA TOUR starts | 265 |
WGC-FESJI starts | 3 |
WGC-FESJI wins | 0 |
WGC-FESJI top-10s | 0 |
PGA TOUR wins | 4 |
PGA TOUR top-10s | 37 |
Starts in 2020-21 | 22 |
Wins in 2020-21 | 2 |
Top-10s in 2020-21 | 7 |
- With a two-stroke lead entering the final round, seeks to become the third wire-to-wire winner in tournament history (Tiger Woods/2000, Stewart Cink/2004); in PGA TOUR history at TPC Southwind, there have been four wire-to-wire winners, most recently Ben Crane (2014 FedEx St. Jude Classic)
- Last wire-to-wire winner on the PGA TOUR: Nick Taylor, 2020 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
- Has converted on one of two occasions (2021 Sentry Tournament of Champions) when holding the 54-hole lead/co-lead
- One of six players with two victories during the 2020-21 season (2021 Sentry Tournament of Champions, 2021 Travelers Championship)
- Tied the lowest 54-hole total in tournament history: Tiger Woods (18-under 192, Firestone CC, 2000)
- Leads the field in Greens in Regulation Percentage (79.63%) through three rounds
- Career-best finish in a WGC stroke-play event is a solo 10th (2016 WGC-Workday Championship)
- Would lead the FedExCup standings for the first time in his career with a victory; has reached as high as No. 2 following his win at the 2013 World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba
- Has finished inside the top three in two of his last three TOUR starts (3rd/U.S. Open, P1/Travelers Championship); most recently finished T46 at The Open Championship
Additional Player Notes
- In search of his first top-10 finish since the Wells Fargo Championship in May (T9), Bryson DeChambeau (T2/-16) closed with a 5-under 30 on the back nine for a 7-under 63; marks his second-lowest round on TOUR this season (62/2020 Shriners Children’s Open/R1); has finished no higher than T30 in four previous appearances at TPC Southwind
- DeChambeau sits a cumulative 12-under on the back nine at TPC Southwind this week compared to 4-under on the front nine; leads the field in birdies (20) and Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (4.245)
- Cam Smith (T2/-16) birdied Nos. 16 and 18 to take a share of second into the final round in search of his fourth career PGA TOUR victory; best career finish in a WGC stroke-play event is a T6 (2019 WGC-Workday Championship)
- Smith is one of 19 players in the field this week who competed in the Olympics; finished T10 at Kasumigaseki Country Club
- Abraham Ancer (4th/-14) held a streak of 37 bogey-free holes dating to the par-4 15th in round one before bogeying his final two holes in round three for a 3-under 67; owns three top-5 finishes in his last eight events; at No. 18 in the FedExCup, is the highest ranked player without a PGA TOUR victory; making his 121st career start this week
- Scottie Scheffler (T5/-13) hit 15 of 18 greens en route to a 3-under 67; has recorded 15 top-10 finishes since the start of the 2019-20 season without a victory, the most of any player on TOUR; would become the second player in history to finish runner-up in the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play and win the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in the same season (Tiger Woods, 2000)
- Ancer and Scheffler are in search of their first TOUR win; seven players have earned their first victory at a World Golf Championships event, the last being Russell Knox at the 2015 WGC-HSBC Champions
- Two-time World Golf Championships winner Ian Poulter (T5/-13) birdied two of his final three holes for a 3-under 67; seeks his third top-10 of the season and first since the Charles Schwab Challenge (T3)
Course Statistics
Toughest Hole Easiest Hole
R1: Par-3 14th (3.227) Par-5 16th (4.182)
R2: Par-4 5th (4.348) Par-5 16th (4.439)
R3: Par-4 5th/Par-4 18th (4.227) Par-5 16th (4.167)
Scoring Averages
Front 9 Back 9 Total Cumulative
R1: 34.076 34.318 68.394 ---
R2: 34.167 34.030 68.197 68.295
R3: 34.773 33.924 68.697 68.429
Bogey-free rounds
R1 (2): Carlos Ortiz (64), Ian Poulter (64)
R2 (5): Cam Smith (62), Abraham Ancer (62), Sam Burns (64), Louis Oosthuizen (64), Adam Scott (66)
R3 (4): Harris English (65), Paul Casey (65), Daniel Berger (67), Martin Laird (69)
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