In playoff mode for weeks now, Lucas Glover is using his renewed focus to close in on a second consecutive victory while taking the lead into the final round of the St. Jude Championship at Memphis, Tenn.
Glover fired a 4-under-par 66 on Saturday on the TPC Southwind course to reach 14-under 196 for the tournament and maintain his lead at the FedEx Cup playoff opener.
A spot in the Fed Cup playoffs wasn’t even secured for Glover until he won last week’s Wyndham Championship. That moved him into 49th on the FedEx Cup standings, with only the top 70 moving on to Memphis.
If he can close out consecutive wins Sunday, Glover would vault to No. 3 in the standings.
Glover has a one-shot advantage on Taylor Moore, who shot a 5-under 65 on Saturday. England’s Tommy Fleetwood (66) is another shot back and alone in third place at 12 under.
Glover mixed four birdies with a bogey over his first six holes of the third round. His bogey 5 came at the sixth hole when he missed the green short and right on his second shot.
During a steady back nine, Glover birdied the par-4 13th hole thanks to a 176-yard second shot that he put to within 6 feet of the hole and made the putt. He closed the round with five consecutive pars.
Moore was 6 under for the day and set to hold the overnight lead with Glover until he had a bogey 5 at No. 18. He found a fairway bunker off the tee on the final hole and could not make a 14-foot putt for par.
Max Homa (65) and Jordan Spieth (68) will head into the final round tied for fourth place at 11 under. A six-way tie for sixth place includes Patrick Cantlay (66 on Saturday), Norway’s Viktor Hovland (65), Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy (68), Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo (69) and South Korea’s Tom Kim (69) and Sungjae Im (69).
–Field Level Media