18-05-2025
Jerry Kelly shoots 65, leads PGA Tour Champions major at Regions Tradition
Jerry Kelly shoots 65, leads PGA Tour Champions major at Regions Tradition
Jerry Kelly is 18 holes away from a third PGA Tour Champions major. Kelly fired his second 65 in three days on Saturday to get to 15 under and take the outright 54-hole lead at the Regions Tradition.
Already with one win on the Champions tour in 2025, Kelly, 58, is looking for a second and his 14th win overall on the circuit. His previous two major wins came in the Kaulig Companies Championship in 2020 and 2022.
On Saturday, he sounded happy with his overall game.
"I'm happy that I found something that was working really well with the swing and the putter in the end. I really got back to my putting stroke and not worried about being too perfect and I putted better," he said. "It's just more of the same tomorrow, just got to keep the pedal down with these guys."
Y.E. Yang sits a shot back at Greystone Golf & Country Club in Birmingham, Alabama. He fired a 67 on Saturday and is 14 under. Steven Alker and Charlie Wi are tied for third at 13 under.
Alker also has a win this season, at the Cologuard Classic in Tucson, Arizona, where Kelly is the tournament ambassador. Alker, 54, is gunning for his 10th win overall on the circuit.
Tied for fifth at 12 under are three golfers: Angel Cabrera, Boo Weekley and Chris DiMarco.
First- and second-round leader Richard Green is now tied for 10th. He went bogey/double-bogey on Nos. 9 and 10 on his way to 3-over 75.
John Huston aced the 10th hole, his first hole of the round, with an 8-iron from 157 yards. It's the third time in 23 years that a player has made a hole-in-one on the first hole of his round.
