Matthew Wolff scored a second consecutive 64 sub-par to move to the top of the charts after the third round at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
Wolff rose to three-stroke command through 54 holes thanks to another low round at the Detroit Golf Club in Michigan on Saturday. The 21-year-old is watching his second PGA Tour title after winning last year’s 3M Open.
A shot out of rhythm at the start of Day 3, Wolff released six birds and two carts out of the top nine to make the 32 round.
After another bogey on 10th, Wolff caught fire with two birds and an eagle before another gain on 17th brought him to 19 below, ahead of Ryan Armor (67) and Bryson DeChambeau (67).
Troy Merritt (67), Mark Hubbard (69), Seamus Power and Chris Kirk (70) are five shots behind Wolff heading for the final round.
Kirk shared a unique lead with US Open 2012 champion Webb Simpson after Friday’s second round, but the first saw his lead evaporate. Simpson is even further behind an eighth place draw after signing for a 71 sub-par – his first round in the 70s this week.
The DeChambeau round saw him confront a camera operator after bogeying number 7. DeChambeau said the operator held the camera too long while DeChambeau reacted angrily to a poor bunker fired in that hole.
Bryson is a little warm. Framed with him on the 7th, where he took a Sergio cut in the sand after splashing out of a bunker on the green, he murmured an explosion after losing the par par and spent 60 seconds in a … daring discussion with a cameraman on his way to 8 tees. pic.twitter.com/ENjQt1U689
– Will Gray (@WillGrayGC) July 4, 2020
The American said after his turn that the players should not be shown in a negative light and therefore endanger their “brand”.
From the golf canal:
“As much as we perform here, I think it is necessary to have our moments of privacy too when things are not going in the right direction. I mean, we are in the spotlight, but if someone else is in the spotlight that they would not want either,” he said. called DeChambeau. “I feel like when you’re filming someone and you catch Tiger (Woods) in a bad moment, you accidentally show them doing something, or someone else, they are just frustrated because they really care about the game. It could really hurt if they catch you in a potentially vulnerable moment .
“We don’t mean anything about this, we only care a lot about the game. Because this damages our brand in this way, the way we act is not beautiful because if you meet me in person, I’m not a bad boy, I don’t think. “
Sporting News’s Tom Gatto contributed to this report.
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