Learn more<\/a><\/p>\nThere\u2019s been a bit of beloved nostalgia through May for Taylor, who switched back to the same putter he used to win in Canada three weeks ago. Since the change, he\u2019s notched two top-15 finishes in a row on the PGA Tour and this week at Aronimink he sits sixth in strokes gained: putting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Taylor’s day was special even before the first shot was hit as he was paired with fellow Canadian Corey Conners for the third round. He is sharing a home with Conners this week and they had breakfast together and drove into the course together. Why not?\u00a0<\/p>\n
They both had it going early, with Conners making four birdies in a row on Nos. 3-6 and adding another on the par-four 10th. The train fell off the tracks quickly for Conners through the back nine as he gave all those birdies back with four bogeys in a row on Nos. 12-15 and then stumbled into the house with two more bogeys on Nos. 17 and 18 to shoot a two-over 72. He\u2019s tied for 52nd heading into Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Taylor Pendrith, the other Canadian who made the cut, shot a three-under 67 and is tied for 44th.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While Conners was struggling late, Taylor was able to stay in his own steady bubble.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything was very good today,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cThe iron game was definitely kind of back to myself, in a sense, where it’s the strength of my game, and today gave myself a lot of opportunities. Just hit a lot of greens, gave myself relatively routine pars. It was a steady day. It was comfortable pairing with Corey.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBogey-free round around here is no easy task, so I’m proud of that today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taylor, who will be in the penultimate pairing alongside Jon Rahm Sunday at Aronimink, was seemingly quick to praise all aspects of his game Saturday. Driving, he explained, was another thing he\u2019d worked hard on the last few weeks after a realization at the recent Cadillac Championship. He was in contention there, a signature event on the PGA Tour, but just \u201cdidn\u2019t drive it well enough\u201d to keep climbing the leaderboard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTo compete at events where it was a little more penal off the tee with rough (I) worked hard on that the last couple of weeks. I feel like it\u2019s gotten better every day and that\u2019s definitely been a key this week,\u201d Taylor said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While Taylor got into the clubhouse early at four under \u2013 he\u2019s in a five-way tie for second \u2013 amongst the chasing pack at three under is Rory McIlroy, gunning for his second major of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
McIlroy was tied for 105th after his four-over 74 on Thursday and no one has come from further back after the first round in major championship history to eventually hoist the trophy Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it’s just setting yourself little targets,\u201d McIlroy said of his focused effort to climb out of the hole he dug after Thursday. \u201c(On Friday) I set myself a target of getting back to even-par for the tournament, didn’t quite get there, was one shy. Again today, set myself a target of if I could get to 5-under par, one better than the leaders going out. (Again) didn’t quite get there, but I think just setting yourself these little targets, it helps you just lock in and focus on yourself and not really think about anything else that’s going on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
There was plenty of volatility in the leaderboard Saturday at the PGA Championship and while there are some big names within shouting distance of the top of the leaderboard, there\u2019s a Canadian with a tremendous chance to win the whole thing \u2013 as long as he stays committed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 14 of the last 15 PGA Championships, the eventual winner was either leading or within two shots of the lead at the end of the third round.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLuckily I’ll have a chance tomorrow, whatever that will be,\u201d Taylor said, \u201cand we’ll kind of take it from there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. \u2013 Nick Taylor\u2019s coach gave his pupil a singular thought for Saturday at the PGA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-674958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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