Scottie Scheffler Go Go Berserko, Taylor Pendrith is best for the last

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Charlotte, North Carolina – The world’s best player sent a loud and clear message at the PGA Championship Saturday at Quail Hollow.

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In the week when none of the world’s best players initially appeared to be in the challenge, Scottie Scheffler had no doubt that Wanamaker Trophy would lose him after making Hawks and three birdies in his last five holes, shooting 65 in his last five holes and 11 shots with 11 in Charlotte’s three-shot lead.

If that wasn’t enough, he would go straight to the driving range and start the game after the round.

“You have a chance to win big games in your life, any game in any game, and tomorrow I have a great opportunity to go there and try to win the golf tournament,” he said. “But that will take another really good round.”

After spending most of the day hovering at the top of the rankings, other top Saturday hands-ons Bryson Dechambeau and Jon Rahm got the momentum in 4-14-14, his 3-wood drove green from 304 yards and left himself a two-foot-high eagle. He was followed by birds of 15, 17 and 18, bent the famous green mile three holes to close.

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Schaffler will start three shots on Sunday with Swedish veteran Alex Noren (-8), four shots ahead of Americans JT Poston and Davis Riley (-7).

Jon Rahm (-6) is the closest major champion to Scheffler. Espanyol shot in 67 games on Saturday. Bryson DeChambeau (-5) took the third round lead before two-thirds of the green miles.

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Taylor Pendrith saved his best form Saturday.

In the process, he saved his game by birdies in three of the four finals on Quail How’s brutal hard closing stretch, scoring a 72-point shooting percentage and tied for 23rd with 2-under par.

After four bogeys starting on the 9th hole for four consecutive times, it seems like Canada’s big races are heading south on the weekend, and things have happened very frequently recently, including at the Truist Championship last week.

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Pendrith will have a conversation with Caddy Mitch theorem to get things back on track.

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“After the last few weeks, it would have been certain,” Pendrith said after the round. “We did have a conversation after (hole) 11 or 12, just trying not to focus on the results and be there, and shoot at one time.”

When asked about the chance to win a big title started to slip through the middle, Pendrith’s answer was totally outspoken.

“It’s sucking,” he said.

“I played two nice rounds and put myself in a decent position and obviously I’d love to start a better start. It was a mental battle. At that time, I might realize that I can’t win the golf tournament anymore or have a chance to win. But obviously I wanted to do my best to really try to stay patient and be able to stay patient and focus on the front of me.

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As for the best he was saving in Saturday’s last game, that’s really what the natives of Richmond Hill in Ontario did in the last hole of the beast green mile in Quail Hollow. After the wind shot into the right tree on the 18th hole Tee, he hit an approaching shot that he described as a 161 yard of “chip, cut 7” missing the right green bunker and stomped on the green green, making the green 8 feet from the hole.

“Mickey said it was the best shot he’d ever seen me hit,” Pedris said.

Playing with DeChambeau, Canadians don’t have a quiet moment.

“It’s probably most of the people I’ve played before this year, and it’s a really cool experience,” he said. “Bryson played really well today and they all worked for him.

Corey Conners was the only Canadian who advanced, hit three times on Saturday and headed to Sunday with two trips.

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