Fleetwood showing full game as he seeks first win
Golf Central explains how Tommy Fleetwood showed off his complete game in Round 3 of the Travelers Championship, before hearing from the 54-hole leader seeking his first PGA Tour win.
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Missing are Scheffler and Thomas, both tied for the 36-hole lead with Fleetwood. Advertisement Scheffler had a 29th birthday to forget. Thousands of spectators around the first tee serenaded him. He responded with a triple bogey, the first time he has done that to start a round in his PGA Tour career. The world's No. 1 player never quite recovered, posting a 72, the fifth time in 55 rounds this year he was over par. Scheffler was nine shots behind. Thomas, already a winner at Hilton Head this year, was still in range of Fleetwood when he hit his tee shot onto the railroad tracks left of the par-5 13th, the club slipping out of his hand. And then it got worse. He twice watched chips up a slope to a green that ran away from him come up short and roll back down the hill. Advertisement He missed a 6-foot putt and took a quadruple-bogey 9. Thomas shot 73 and was 10 behind. Without the wind — only extreme heat — the course average was right around 68. The final group of Scheffler and Thomas combined to go 5-over par. Fleetwood was in such control of his game that he didn't realize until after the round that he didn't miss a fairway, key to setting up birdie chances. He also made eagle on the 13th hole for the second day, giving him three for the week. They don't hand out crystal for that at the Travelers, only red umbrellas. But it allowed Fleetwood to get some separation for Henley and Bradley going into Sunday. Fleetwood, a 34-year-old from England, was at 16-under 194. 'I'm on top of a lot of stat lines for people that haven't won on the PGA Tour, so to always be a No. 1 at something is always nice,' he said with a laugh. 'Yeah, of course I would love to win on the PGA Tour. I think it's like an element of your career that everybody wants, and I of course want it. I haven't, this year especially, I don't feel like I've given myself ... I've given myself a back-end chance a couple of times this year, but I've not been in contention. This is like my first real chance, so I'm really excited about that and looking forward to it.' Tommy Fleetwood hit EVERY fairway en route to a 3-shot lead — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) Jason Day ran off three straight birdies on the back nine to salvage a 67 and was five shots back. No one else was closer than eight shots of Fleetwood. Advertisement Scheffler hasn't finished out of the top 10 since March, and remarkably he ended the day with a birdie to tie for eighth. The start was a shocker. He drove left into the 5-inch rough and hit wedge into a front bunker with a decent lie. But he caught all ball and sent it over the green, leaving him a tough pitch up the slope and over a mound toward the hole. The first pitch came up short and rolled back down into the rough. He hit a flop to 15 feet and two-putted for triple bogey, his first on the tour since the BMW Championship last August. One year ago tomorrow, Keegan got the Ryder Cup call. Tomorrow could be another special one — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) Bradley, whose name has not vanished from Ryder Cup consideration as a player, He likes his position of chasing. He still knows he needs to play well. 'Oh, man, you're going to have to shoot something at least in the mid 60s, probably where I am, probably lower, but it's doable out here,' Bradley said. 'When you play a course where you've got to make birdies it brings a different challenge. You can't have a stretch of 1-over par for seven holes or you lose a million shots. 'So in some aspects it's difficult just like a hard course would be.'
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