TRUCKEE, Calif. — Mac Meissner held onto the lead Saturday within the Barracuda Championship, following a late par save with a tap-in birdie in the one PGA Tour occasion that makes use of the modified Stableford scoring system.
Meissner had a one-point lead over Vince Whaley, reaching 39 factors with 13 within the spherical delayed about 1 1/2 hours within the afternoon due to lightning.
Chad Ramey, tied for sixth with 33, was the one PGA Tour winner within the high eight after three rounds on Tahoe Mountain Membership’s Previous Greenwood course.
“By the point I tee off tomorrow I’ll most likely received’t be within the lead,” Meissner stated. “So, that can be good. I’ll be capable to nonetheless really feel like I can chase, as a result of it’s at all times simpler to win a golf match once you’re coming from behind.”
Gamers obtain eight factors for a double eagle, 5 for eagle and two for birdie. Some extent is deducted for bogey and three for double bogey.
Meissner received up-and-down from 230 yards for par on the par-5 fifteenth, making a 20-footer. He drove into hassle left and took two photographs to get to the green.
Making his twenty third PGA Tour begin, Meissner then hit to 2 ft on the 196-yard sixteenth to arrange a birdie, however missed a 5-foot birdie attempt on 17 and in addition parred 18.
“Generally, you’re going to hit good putts they usually’re not going to go in, prefer it did on 17,” Meissner stated. “So, simply making an attempt to be as assured over the ball as doable and making an attempt to have nearly as good velocity and if it matches and goes in, then all the higher.”
The 25-year-old former SMU participant eagled the par-5 third, making a 6-footer.
Whaley had a 16-point spherical. He rebounded from a bogey on the second with an eagle on the third and had six birdies, the final on the par-4 18th.
“Eagles are good out right here,” Whaley stated. “Simply hit an 8-iron in there and made just a little 20-footer up the hill. That positively received the spherical going.”
Rico Hoey, coming off a playoff loss final week in Kentucky within the ISCO Championship, was third at 36 after a 15-point afternoon.
“I’ve gotten numerous confidence out of that week,” Hoey stated. “I simply felt, like everybody says, like, you recognize, I belong out right here. I really feel like I belong out right here and I’m placing myself in these positions, and whether or not I get it finished tomorrow or not, I’m simply going to maintain preventing and preserve breaking down these partitions.”
Patrick Fishburn and Max Greyserman had 34 factors, and Ramey was a degree again together with Marcus Armitage and Casey Jarvis
With three weeks left within the FedEx Cup common season, Meissner is 103rd, Whaley 167th and Hoey 111th. The highest 70 will advance to the playoffs.
