{"id":8635,"date":"2026-02-01T09:05:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/?p=8635"},"modified":"2026-02-01T09:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:05:40","slug":"duncan-leads-by-one-heading-into-final-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/duncan-leads-by-one-heading-into-final-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Duncan leads by one heading into final round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tyler Duncan shot a third-round 68 to get to seven-under at The Panama Championship, to lead by one stroke heading into the final round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 36-year-old American made three birdies against one bogey to follow up on an opening round 1-under 69 with a 4-under 66 in the second round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duncan, who is bidding for his first Korn Ferry Tour victory, is being chased by the trio of Mason Andersen, Cole Hammer and Ian Gilligan. A further stroke behind are Adam Hadwin, Trevor Cone and Ian Holt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duncan is making his fourth career start at The Panama Championship, having recorded his best career finish at the event with a T17 last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had defeated Webb Simpson in a sudden-death playoff at the 2019 The RSM Classic to earn his first PGA Tour victory; after having birdied three of the final four holes of his final round to force the playoff,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile Andersen, who won the Argentina Open bounced back from a second-round 2-over 73 with a bogey-free 5-under 65, the only bogey-free round on the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hammer making his fourth career start at The Panama Championship, recorded his lowest score at the event with a 4-under 66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for Gilligan, who finished No. 4 in the PGA TOUR University Class of 2025, he now holds his highest 54-hole position on Tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PGA TOUR winner Hadwin, who is making his first start of the 2026 season, carded a 2-under 68 and is in contention for his third Korn Ferry Tour win. His previous victories came a good 12 years ago, at the Chile Classic Small Business Connection Championship in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brett White, who is tied eight on four-under stands inside the top 10 after 54 holes for the second time in his Korn Ferry Tour career; the other occurrence came at the 2022 The Panama Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Open qualifier Jackson Van Paris (T8\/-4) is in search of a top-10 finish to earn a start at next week\u2019s Astara Golf Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leaderboard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Pos.<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Player<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>R1<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>R2<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>R3<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Total<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Tyler Duncan<\/td><td>69<\/td><td>66<\/td><td>68<\/td><td>203 (-7)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>T2<\/td><td>Mason Andersen<\/td><td>66<\/td><td>73<\/td><td>65<\/td><td>204 (-6)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>Cole Hammer<\/td><td>69<\/td><td>69<\/td><td>66<\/td><td>204 (-6)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>Ian Gilligan<\/td><td>67<\/td><td>67<\/td><td>70<\/td><td>204 (-6)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>T5<\/td><td>Adam Hadwin<\/td><td>68<\/td><td>69<\/td><td>68<\/td><td>205 (-5)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>Trevor Cone<\/td><td>69<\/td><td>68<\/td><td>68<\/td><td>205 (-5)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>Ian Holt<\/td><td>65<\/td><td>71<\/td><td>69<\/td><td>205 (-5)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Duncan shot a third-round 68 to get to seven-under at The Panama Championship, to lead by one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8636,"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":[44],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-8635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-golf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tyler-Duncan1.jpg",2000,1125,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tyler-Duncan1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tyler-Duncan1-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tyler-Duncan1-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tyler-Duncan1-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tyler-Duncan1-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tyler-Duncan1.jpg",2000,1125,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tyler-Duncan1-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tyler-Duncan1-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/category\/international\/\" rel=\"category tag\">International<\/a>","tag_info":"International","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tyler-Duncan1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8637,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions\/8637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}