Clements is one of 50 European tour players in the field for the co-sanctioned event played opposite The Open. In gusts to 40 km\/h, the 29-year-old Englishman had a five-under 67 to get to 18-under 198 on Saturday (Sunday AEST).<\/p>\n
“There is a lot of golf left to go,” Clements said.<\/p>\n
“I had my fair share of luck a little bit out there this week and that needs to continue for that to happen. But I think we just kind of lean on my past experiences and see where it takes me.”<\/p>\n
James, the former Virginia star, earned a tour spot through the PGA Tour University ranking, also shot a 67 in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n
“I’m playing some good golf,” he said. “I’m really excited for tomorrow. We’ll try to keep it going. Very excited for hopefully a good day.”<\/p>\n
Clements won the 2023 Czech Masters for his lone DP World Tour victory and missed last week’s ISCO Championship cut in Kentucky.<\/p>\n
“You don’t turn up to any tournament not trying to win,” Clements said.<\/p>\n
“Did I think it would be this week? Not sure, but here we are.”<\/p>\n
Max McGreevy (65), Stefano Mazzoli (66) and Gordon Sargent (69) were 14-under.<\/p>\n
Blades Brown was 13-under after a 67. The 19-year-old is playing as a special temporary member of the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n
“This is what I love about this,” Brown said. “I’m playing a lot of weeks on the road and I’m learning my recipe for success. I’m just going to keep knocking on the door.”<\/p>\n
He chipped in from 85 feet for eagle on the par-5 seventh.<\/p>\n
There are no Australians in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clements is one of 50 European tour players in the field for the co-sanctioned event played opposite The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-809228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}