England’s Matt Fitzpatrick hit an impressive third-round 68 to give himself a three-shot lead over Scottie Scheffler going into the final round of the RBC Heritage in South Carolina.<\/p>\n
The former US Open champion started his round nervously, with two bogeys in his first two holes.<\/p>\n
Fitzpatrick was back on par by the 12th hole, while birdies on the 12th and 14th before a chip-in eagle on the 15th gave him a 68 for the day.<\/p>\n
Despite his healthy lead, Fitzpatrick will be looking over his shoulder at world number one Scheffler following his sensational seven-under-par 64.<\/p>\n
The four-time major winner made eight birdies, dropping just one shot with a bogey on the seventh. <\/p>\n
Scheffler, who is aiming for his 21st PGA Tour title on Sunday, was full of praise for leader Fitzpatrick after finishing his round.<\/p>\n
“I admire him because he works really hard,” Scheffler said.<\/p>\n
“He’s a guy that I see always doing stuff in order to play well. He’s a guy that he gets really into his stats. He’s a guy that’s going to check every single box that he can in order to get out here and play well.”<\/p>\n
Sepp Straka, Brian Harman and Si-Woo Kim make up the rest of the top five on 13 under. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s Matt Fitzpatrick hit an impressive third-round 68 to give himself a three-shot lead over Scottie Scheffler going…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-405988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}