Australian Min Woo Lee has dropped out of contention of the FedEx St. Jude Championship after a horror third round in the PGA playoff opener while world number one Scottie Scheffler continued his charge.

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Scheffler fired a two-under par 68 to stand on -13. He is 11-for-17 in winning after 54-hole leads in PGA events, including triumphs in his past seven attempts.

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However, Lee plummeted down the leaderboard after shooting five over par. He’s +3 for the tournament and back in a tie for 53rd while fellow Aussie Adam Scott is faring much better on -5, but will need a miracle to chase down Scheffler.

Thankfully for the pair, both have already qualified for next weekend’s second playoff event in St. Louis.

Scheffler seized his first 54-hole lead in more than a year, taking a two-stroke edge after Saturday’s third round at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee.

“Strategy is still the same, just go out there and execute,” said Scheffler.

“This is a golf course where that’s really all it comes down to. I’ll just do my best to go out there tomorrow and be committed and try and execute.”

Scheffler, who last led after 54 holes at last year’s British Open, will play Sunday’s final round alongside friend and compatriot Sam Burns, who shot a bogey-free 62 to share second with South Korean Sungjae Im on -11.

“It’s always a little weird just because I want him to have success so much and I think he wants the same for me,” Scheffler said of Burns.

“It will be a competition like normal. It will be fun being out there with your friend but it’s also a bit weird.”

It was a dirty day for Min Woo Lee in Memphis.Source: AFP

Defending playoff champion Tommy Fleetwood of England shared fourth -8 with American Jake Knapp while South Korean Kim Si-woo, Sweden’s Alex Noren, American Brian Harman and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama were another stroke adrift (-7).

Im is among those in position to jump into the top 50 on the season points list and qualify for next week’s playoff eventin St. Louis while Harman needs improvement on Sunday to rise from 51st.

“I always look at the leaderboard so I’ll know where I’m at,” Harman said.

“I’ll be trying to shoot it super low to win the tournament. We’ll start with that and see where it takes us.”

Scheffler’s only victory this year came in his January season opener in the California desert, but he also has had five runner-up finishes and five other top-10 showings.

Scheffler began the day with a three-stroke lead after matching the course record with a 61 on Friday, but struggled to fightoff challengers all day.

He needed an 11-foot putt to save par at the third and missed a 12-footer to bogey the fourth.

“Any time you’re holing those 10- to 15-footers, it’s really nice to keep the round going,” Scheffler said.

“It was definitely important to keep the momentum going.”

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE – AUGUST 15: Scottie Scheffler of the United States walks from the ninth tee during the third round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship 2026 at TPC Southwind on August 15, 2026 in Memphis, Tennessee. Stacy Revere/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Stacy Revere / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)Source: AFP

Scheffler fell back into a share of the lead twice but grabbed the outright lead again each time with birdies — from just outside 12 feet at the par-three eighth and just beyond eight feet at the par-three 11th.

Burns made eight birdies to leap into contention for his first victory since the 2023 WGC Match Play.

“It can be frustrating at times when you feel like you’re playing well and you’re not getting the results of a win out of it,” Burns said.

“You’ve just got to keep putting yourself in that position. The more you do it, the better the odds are for you.” Norway’s Viktor Hovland grabbed a share of the early lead with birdies at the second and fourth holes but slipped back with bogeys at nine and 10 and a double bogey at 12.

Scheffler sank a 16-foot birdie putt at 12 and a six-foot birdie putt at the par-five 16th to reach 14-under and seize a three-stroke lead, but found the right rough and a greenside bunker on the way to a bogey at 17.