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Rose Rules an Unfinished AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

El british Justin Rose He was the great winner this Sunday at Pebble Beach by finishing an impressive third round with six shots under par that allowed him to start the last and definitive round as leader. He couldn’t finish the day in Monterey and the tournament will be decided this Monday.

The third round was dominated by the Europeans, with Swedish Jonas Blixt and English Callum Tarren at -8two strokes less than a Rose who stormed the lead thanks to his five birdies and a fantastic eagle in the 16.

A total of 75 players made the cut to the final round, which featured a very close battle for the ultimate victory between seven golfers. Aside from the aforementioned Justin Rose, there were the Americans Brendon Todd, Peter Malnati, Denny McCarthy, Beau Hossler y Keith Mitchellplus the Canadian Taylor Pendrith.

Pendrith was the only one of them who was able to finish his run this Sunday, with an excellent last day of eight under par that leaves him a -12 card, his chances of winning the title are slim and it depends on a debacle of the first four classified .

The Canadian will be able to take at least the honor of becoming the first player, since 2013, to hit 64 shots or less in a final round.

The distance between this group of players was barely two or three shots in most of their tours. With a special mention for Justin Rose, who closed the day with nine holes completed, in which he had achieved two birdies and an eagle.

The Englishman will have to endorse this Monday, in the eight and a half holes that remain to be played, that first place that he would give his first PGA title since winning at Torrey Pines in 2019. It would mean his eleventh victory on the circuit in his entire career.

Denny McCarthyranked second with -13 and playing the 16th hole at the honk, is about to break his own record for birdies in a round, He has nine this Sunday and with two more he would surpass it. If he succeeded, he would embarrass Rose in defending the lead.

After knowing the suspension of the game this Saturday, there was nine golfers who dropped out of the tournament with an eye toward being able to properly prepare for the next PGA match, this week in Phoenix. Two of them had to be this Monday in Arizona to dispute their qualification for the final round.

The tournament will resume this Monday at eight in the morning (local time), after having been paused due to lack of light at 5:33 p.m.

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