Donald takes lead by one shot at RBC Heritage
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – Luke Donald shot a 2-under 69 Saturday to take a one-stroke lead in the RBC Heritage on Saturday, while top-ranked Jason Day had a season-worst 79 to fall nine shots back with one round left.
Day, tied for the lead entering the round, has won two of his past three PGA Tour events and figured to contend at Harbour Town. Instead, the Australian made eight bogeys and a double bogey.
Donald had a 7-under 206 total. The Englishman has five top-three finishes at Harbour Town without a win.
Jason Kokrak and Charley Hoffman were a stroke back. Kokrak shot a 68, and Hoffman bogeyed the closing lighthouse hole for a 71.
Locally, Steve Wheatcroft is 2-over par and tied for 40th. He is nine shots off the lead.
Short leads on Champions tour: Wes Short Jr. shot a 5-under 67 in the PGA Tour Champions’ Mitsubishi Electric Classic to take a lead into the final round for the first time in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event.
Short had a 7-under 137 total at TPC Sugarloaf for a one-shot advantage over Colin Montgomerie, Todd Hamilton and Mark O’Meara. Montgomerie shot 66, Hamilton 69, and O’Meara 70.
Tom Watson, tied for the first-round lead at 68, fell back with two early double bogeys and finished with a 76. The 66-year-old Watson was seven shots behind Short.
Short won his lone PGA Tour title in Las Vegas in 2005. He took the 2014 Quebec Championship for his only PGA Tour Champions victory.
Golfers battle wind at Spanish Open: France’s Mike Lorenzo-Vera shot an even-par 71 in high wind to take the third-round lead in the European Tour’s Spanish Open.
Lorenzo-Vera had a 1-over 214 total at Valderrama. Germany’s Martin Kaymer (71), Dutchman Joost Luiten (70) and England’s Andrew Johnston (74) were a stroke back.