Weather put a halt to the Tour Championship on Saturday as the final group made it through just twelve holes of the third round. It took nearly that many holes for leader Scottie Scheffler to find his next birdie as he went from the 12th on Friday to the 8th in Round 3 before he made anything other than par.
The issue for Scheffler is that everyone around him was still taking advantage of the soft conditions and he now only has a one shot advantage over Xander Schauffele. Sungjae Im and Rory McIlroy are also lurking within four shots of his lead, which makes it a much more interesting tournament with twenty-six holes still to play on Sunday.
I won’t get into the'strokes gained'data as we normally do for a Sunday final round, as with just partial round information, we can’t get too much out of it before they start back up in the morning. I do expect the nerves to be up much more than they have the first few days, which could have this thing tighten up even further with the big purse on the line. Let’s see if any value sticks out as we head into Sunday at the final event of the season.
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I still think the eventual champion will be the player that has separated himself this season, Scottie Scheffler. While he hasn’t been able to find the line and speed on the greens over the past twenty or so holes, he is putting himself in position to score. He rates 5th in the field in SG: Approach across the holes played this week, which is better than all four of his closest contenders.