Connor Howe (Ogden, Utah) carded a bogey-free 64 Saturday at TPC Toronto (Heathlands) to take a three-stroke lead entering the final round at the Osprey Valley Open in Caledon, Ontario. Making the most of moving day, Luke Long (Fayetteville, Arkansas) used a career-best 61 to move 35 spots up the leaderboard and into a tie for second at 14-under 196 with Thomas Ponder (Dothan, Alabama) and Ryan Voois (Orange County, California).<\/p>\n
Howe got off to a hot start Saturday, birdieing four of his first six holes to make the turn at 5-under. The Georgia Tech graduate played a steady back nine, adding one birdie to post his second-straight 64 and take the 54-hole lead as he looks to capture his first PGA TOUR Americas victory.<\/p>\n
Beginning the day tied for 37th, Long played a 3-under front nine before taking advantage of the back nine. He birdied three straight holes after the turn and added three more coming in, including back-to-back birdies at Nos. 16 and 17, to post the low round of the day and secure a place in Sunday\u2019s final grouping.<\/p>\n
Currently No. 1 on the PGA TOUR Americas Points List, Ponder used five birdies on the back nine to move into a tie for second as he looks to capture his second PGA TOUR Americas victory of the season. A member of PGA TOUR University Class of 2026, Illinois alum Voois shares second place with Long and Ponder after a third-round 66.<\/p>\n
\u00c9tienne Papineau (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada) and Corey Pereira (Sacramento, California) are tied for fifth at 13-under 197. Three Canadians are inside the top 15 through 54 holes, with Papineau joined by Peyton Callens and Piercen Hunt, who are tied for 14th at 10-under 200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor Howe (Ogden, Utah) carded a bogey-free 64 Saturday at TPC Toronto (Heathlands) to take a three-stroke lead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[712,49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-826430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826430","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=826430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}