(Ponte Vedra Beach) The longest week of the PGA Players Championship moved one step closer to its conclusion on Sunday, but without much clearing up the picture, where the names keep changing at the top.
Updated yesterday at 9:21 p.m.
India’s Anirban Lahiri capped off a 12-plus hour day at TPC Sawgrass with a birdie-friendly putt on the 11th green.and to finish at – 9.
“I was a bit worried that it was going to be so cold. I’m not used to playing in temperatures below [les 4 degrés Celsius] and I did indeed have a bit of difficulty at the beginning of the course, commented Lahiri. But it was nice to just get back to a good process and rhythm. I had a lot of good swings today. It was a very good day. »
Moments earlier, Harold Varner III hit an approach shot with such retro effect that his ball went across a good part of the green to stop inches from the cup, earning him a birdie. He finished with a cumulative -8.
That’s when the siren went off, not to celebrate Varner’s blow, but to signal the end of the day due to darkness.
Tom Hoge completed his round with a birdie on a 25-foot putt to close within one stroke of Lahiri.
Close behind him is Sam Burns, at -7, tied with two other golfers, Paul Casey and Sebastián Muñoz.
So there is one last day left and anything can still happen.
Two Canadians are at – 4, Taylor Pendrith and Corey Connors.
Hoge opened his tournament Thursday with a 66, one shot ahead of Lahiri. Due to the rain that saturated the course, the two players did not hit another shot before their second round on Sunday morning. Both played 27 holes.
The third round was to end on Monday morning, before the final was played in order to give the purse of 3.6 million US dollars to the winner. A scholarship with a three-year exemption to participate in the Masters Tournament, the United States Open and the British Open.
Of note, none of the six players at the top of the table has won a major tournament so far in their respective careers.