Detroit Golf Club<\/a>, Riley will begin the final round with a one-shot lead over Michael Brennan, and he\u2019s suddenly in position to chase his third PGA Tour victory.<\/p>\n\u201cThere have been times where I wanted to just stay at home and not play golf, honestly,\u201d Riley said. \u201cThat\u2019s been tough. To see something that I love hit home really hard has been tough this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019s flashing signs of his old form. A two-time Tour winner \u2014 at the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge and the 2023 Zurich Classic alongside Nick Hardy \u2014 Riley said his driver has been his \u201cAchilles heel\u201d this season. This week, he\u2019s found more fairways and paired that improvement with a putter he said has been reliable all year.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy game\u2019s been trending and getting in the right direction,\u201d Riley said.<\/p>\n
But Riley reserved most of the credit for the people around him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just lucky, honestly, to have the people around me who picked me up when I\u2019ve been down,\u201d he said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t do that without the people around me, so I have them to thank just as much as anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also has another reason to keep things in perspective. Riley and his wife, Alexandra, are expecting their first child later this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s definitely at home working hard, just as hard as I am, if not harder than I am out here this week,\u201d Riley said. \u201cShe\u2019s growing a human and trying to get ready for all that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI owe her everything. I\u2019m thankful for her to go through pregnancy and probably to deal with me on tough days on the golf course.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunday doesn\u2019t promise to be easy, either. But he\u2019s got no reason not to want to go to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you ever had a day when you just didn\u2019t feel like going to work? It can happen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-842063","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\/842063","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=842063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}