Scottie Scheffler powers into Players Championship lead
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Scottie Scheffler powers into Players Championship lead

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Scottie Scheffler powered into the third-round lead at the Players Championship on Saturday, taking advantage of ideal scoring conditions as the golfers produced a spectacular display of birdies, eagles, a rare ace and a record low round from Tom Hoge. Masters champion Scheffler, who can reclaim the number one world ranking with a win on Sunday, got his round off to a sizzling birdie-eagle start to lay the foundation for a seven-under 65 and two-shot lead over Australia’s Min Woo Lee going into Sunday’s final round at the TPC Sawgrass. “So overall very solid day, only one bogey, which is really good around this golf course.” Lee, whose sister Minjee Lee is a twice major winner on the women’s Tour, also got his round off to the best possible start with an eagle at the first and had looked poised to share top spot on the leaderboard with Scheffler until picking up his only bogey of the day at the 18th for a six-under 66 total. “It’s one of the biggest regular season events, and it’s obviously considered the fifth major, and it would have been guttering to come 51st in the ranking and not get in.” Lurking two shots back and four off the pace is Australian Cam Davis with a pair of Englishmen Tommy Fleetwood and Aaron Rai, South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout and first-round leader Chad Ramey, all one shot further adrift at nine-under. “I saw it go in and then I looked to the left to almost see, is it real and I saw almost all the crowd’s hands in the air.” For all Rai’s fireworks it was journeyman Hoge who produced the round of the day, returning an error-free 10-under 62, the lowest score ever at a Players Championship.

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