DETROIT — Akshay Bhatia and Aaron Rai every shot 4-under 68 on Saturday to succeed in 17 beneath via three rounds and share the lead for the second straight day on the Rocket Mortgage Traditional.
Cam Davis (66) and Cameron Younger (67) have been a shot again at soggy and windy Detroit Golf Membership. Sam Stevens (66) and Erik van Rooyen (68) have been one other stroke again.
Beginner Luke Clanton (65), Min Woo Lee (66) and Joel Dahmen (68) have been three photographs behind the leaders, coming into the ultimate spherical Sunday.
The third spherical began a few hours later than scheduled and threesomes went off each the back and front 9 as a result of greater than an inch of rain soaked the course, leaving standing water within the fairways and huge puddles in areas of the tough.
The soggy situations allowed gamers to raise, clear and place their golf balls within the fairways. Gamers didn’t get aid from the wind that gusted as much as 25 mph.
Rai had a tiebreaking birdie on the par-3 eleventh and held a one-shot lead till he had his first bogey of the match on the par-3 fifteenth, lacking a 12-foot putt to fall again right into a tie.
Bhatia, the one participant within the subject with out a bogey, adopted with a 7-foot putt for par on the identical gap.
Whereas Bhatia and Rai slowed down because the solar began to set and shadows blanketed the course, Younger surged right into a three-way tie on the par-5 seventeenth along with his third birdie in 4 holes.
Younger shot a 59 final Saturday on the Vacationers Championship, the primary participant to tug off that feat since Scottie Scheffler did it throughout the 2020 FedExCup Playoffs.
Davis, who gained the Rocket Mortgage Traditional in 2021 at 18 beneath, made it a four-way tie atop the leaderboard with a slow-rolling 8-footer to shut along with his fourth birdie in 5 holes.
Bhatia and Rai each birdied 17, turning a four-way tie right into a two-way at 17 beneath and so they each parred the ultimate gap.
Will Zalatoris, who entered the match ranked No. 44, withdrew due to a again damage after enjoying eight holes in 3 over Saturday.
