Learn more<\/a><\/p>\nYellamaraju had another very solid day off the tee but had his best day, by far, with the putter in the third round. As he wrapped up, he was 13th in strokes gained: putting, a stat he was 117th in after Thursday\u2019s opener. He made a couple of long ones, he said, but also missed a few chances as well \u2014 he knew Saturday\u2019s round could have been really good.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Still, the PGA Tour rookie has stayed steady through three days, and he\u2019s been rewarded with a great spot on the leaderboard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything was pretty good. I definitely made some more putts today than I did yesterday. Yesterday I hit it really good. Today it was maybe not as good as yesterday, but the putts were pretty good and that’s why the score was good,\u201d Yellamaraju said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a very solid rookie campaign for Yellamaraju, who started his PGA Tour season with a tie for 13th at the Sony Open. He then notched back-to-back top-10 finishes at the The Players Championship and the Texas Children\u2019s Houston Open. His tie for fifth at The Players was the best result at The Players by a PGA Tour rookie in almost a decade-and-a-half (David Lingmerth finished tied for second in 2013) and Yellamaraju\u2019s first career top-10 result on the PGA Tour. It is also the best result by a Canadian at The Players since Stephen Ames\u2019 win in 2006.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He now has recorded six top-20 finishes and is Canada\u2019s top-ranked golfer in the FedExCup standings at No. 48.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yellamaraju has also become quite a fan favourite this week since he grew up in Mississauga (his family immigrated from India when he was just a boy and he spent a little time in Winnipeg before coming to Ontario). He was serenaded with \u2018O Canada\u2019 on No. 14 \u2014 The Rink hole this week \u2014 and there were even calls of \u2018\u2019Sauga City!\u2019 and \u2018One of us!\u2019 through the balance of the afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just trying to focus as much as I could, like I always do. But I was definitely hearing it out there and it felt good, for sure,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yellamaraju leads the Canadian contingent at TPC Toronto heading into Sunday\u2019s finale which is set to be a rainy grind. Tee times have already been moved up by tournament organizers in hopes of skirting some serious storms that are set to blow through the Greater Toronto Area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be a different golf course and a different challenge,\u201d said Fleetwood. \u201cYou just have to be ready for whatever the golf course is going to bring and whatever challenge that is.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we just have to be ready for what is to come tomorrow and know that you’re going to go out there for 18 holes, and 18 holes in a battle, really.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Matt Anderson, who was one of the first-round leaders, sits at 8 under.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Adam Hadwin sits at 7 under and is a prime spot to record his best finish on the PGA Tour this season. He\u2019s tied with amateur Justin Matthews \u2014 who counts TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley his home course and has already locked up the Gary Cowan medal as the low amateur as he was the only Canadian non-pro to make the cut \u2014 and Taylor Pendrith.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In all, there were 10 Canadians to find the weekend at the Canadian Open, the most since 1969.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Canadian crew is topped by Yellamaraju, though, who is just one great day away from notching his best-ever PGA Tour finish at a place he\u2019s awfully familiar with, as his pro journey beginning at this particular golf course in 2022 when he Monday qualified for the Osprey Valley Open on the then-PGA Tour Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be pretty cool if I can (do) something tomorrow where this is kind of pretty much where it all started,\u201d Yellamaraju said. \u201cI\u2019m focusing on trying to play the best I can and if it ends up being the result I want, then that\u2019s good.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALEDON, Ont. \u2014 Sudarshan Yellamaraju being around the lead at a PGA Tour event may be a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-735271","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\/735271","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=735271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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