LEADERBOARD
(*Started on the 10th)
-5 Corey Conners (F), Scottie Scheffler (F), Viktor Hovland (F)
-4 Bryson DeChambeau (15)
-3 Justin Suh (14*)
-2 Keegan Bradley (15), Brooks Koepka (F), Callum Tarren (16*)
The Irish
E Rory McIlroy (F), Shane Lowry (F)
+3 Pádraig Harrington (F)
+9 Séamus Power (F)
Other notables
+1 Collin Morikawa (F)
+4 Jon Rahm (17), Cameron Smith (17)
+5 Jordan Spieth (F), Justin Thomas (F)
Rory McIlroy interviewed by Sky: “I wouldn’t say it all came together but I held it together well. I was a bit erratic off the tee, I rode my luck a bit with those drives. I finished really strongly. With how badly I feel I played to be only five off the lead is a real bonus.”
That’s all from me for tonight. Fun final nine holes there for the Irish players. 69 for McIlroy and 67 for Lowry, just outside the top 10. Well poised for moving day tomorrow.
Philip Reid’s report of the action to come from Oak Hill. Good night!
Very nice approach at 18 by Hovland gives him a chance to join the leaders on the last. Five feet left and he gets it!
Lowry in the bunker on the last. It spins too much for him and he has a similar putt to McIlroy left for par and to stay under par. From 17 feet, it just goes to the right. What a shame to finish bogey-bogey after that hot streak. In the end, even par and tied 11th for Lowry and McIlroy. Still a 67 for Lowry, made his move.
Pádraig Harrington is finished on +3, a 71 today on a day that promised more.
Spieth grinds to the end and holes a par putt to make the cut.
Birdie for McIlroy! Finishing in style, didn’t seem like much was happening but a back nine 33 and a 69 today, he’s even for the tournament. Some big putts today. Well in it.
Lowry’s drive at 18 is a big hook, oh no. In trouble there, it will be a lay up to the par 4 at best there. Hovland and Spieth find the fairway.
On the short par 4, DeChambeau hits a fairway wood on the green, rolls off the edge but chips close and he’ll get to -4. Justin Thomas has a putt to make the cut after taking two from the bunker.
Conners finishes up …