Davis Riley stormed into the lead of the Rocket Classic golf championships with a 7-under 63 round and reach 15 under.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He takes a one shot lead into the final round ahead of Michael Brennan. Riley hit 17-of-18 greens en route to his bogey-free round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Searching for his third PGA Tour win, Riley closed with consecutive birdies, making a 54-foot putt at No. 17 and a 10-footer at 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brennan opened the third round with four birdies in his first five holes; sat 7-under through 17 holes before recording his lone bogey of the day on the par-4 18th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brennan won the Bank of Utah Championship last year as a sponsor exemption in his third PGA Tour start, becoming the seventh player on record to earn his first title within his first three career starts. He will be looking to make more history in the final round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After making the cut on the number, Denmark’s Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard (T3\/-12) carded the low round of the day with a bogey-free 61.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last year’s runner-up and six-time Tour winner Chris Kirk (T3\/-12) seeks to become the second player this season after Gary Woodland at the Texas Children’s Houston Open to win a tournament after finishing runner-up in the same event last year<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is tied with former 2023 champion Rickie Fowler and overnight leader Cameron Young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thirt-six-hole co-leader Patrick Cantlay (T11\/-10) enters the final round five back after a third-round 70.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Third-Round Leaderboard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Davis Riley stormed into the lead of the Rocket Classic golf championships with a 7-under 63 round and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-15272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-golf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tPos.<\/strong><\/td> Player<\/strong><\/td> R1<\/strong><\/td> R2<\/strong><\/td> R3<\/strong><\/td> Total<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> 1<\/td> Davis Riley<\/td> 68<\/td> 64<\/td> 63<\/td> 195 (-15)<\/td><\/tr> 2<\/td> Michael Brennan<\/td> 65<\/td> 67<\/td> 64<\/td> 196 (-14)<\/td><\/tr> T3<\/td> Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard<\/td> 69<\/td> 68<\/td> 61<\/td> 198 (-12)<\/td><\/tr> T3<\/td> Chris Kirk<\/td> 65<\/td> 67<\/td> 66<\/td> 198 (-12)<\/td><\/tr> T3<\/td> Rickie Fowler<\/td> 63<\/td> 68<\/td> 67<\/td> 198 (-12)<\/td><\/tr> T3<\/td> Cameron Young<\/td> 69<\/td> 61<\/td> 68<\/td> 198 (-12)<\/td><\/tr> T7<\/td> Four players tied<\/em><\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 199 (-11)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"