BRISBANE, Australia \u2014 Adam Scott and Marc Leishman were two strokes off the lead heading into Sunday\u2019s final round of the Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland.<\/p>\n
The Australian veterans rarely play back home due to Scott\u2019s reduced PGA Tour schedule and Leishman\u2019s tenure on the LIV Tour. And there are only two high-level pro tournaments left in Australia, this week\u2019s PGA and next week\u2019s Australian Open at Royal Melbourne.<\/p>\n
The 45-year-old Scott shot a 5-under 66 Saturday and 42-year-old Leishman 67 and were tied for sixth place.<\/p>\n
The third-round lead was held by three players \u2014 European tour regulars David Puig (65) and Ricardo Gouveia (66) and Australian Anthony Quayle (67), who had former Tiger Woods caddie Steve Williams on his bag.<\/p>\n
The trio had a 54-hole total of 13-under 200.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was very consistent of the tee and I hit a lot of greens, which is important on a course like this,\u201d said Gouveia.<\/p>\n
Min Woo Lee (67) and second-round leader Kazuma Kobori (68) were a stroke back of the leaders and tied for fourth. Kobori, a Japanese-born New Zealander, finished his second round Friday with four consecutive birdies and had two more to start the day Saturday, but then had 16 straight pars.<\/p>\n
Scott said he\u2019ll need a final-round \u201cbeauty\u201d to catch the leaders.<\/p>\n
The former world No. 1 and 2013 Masters champion had eight birdies with three bogeys. Scott has 32 victories worldwide but hasn\u2019t won a 72-hole event since claiming the Genesis Invitational in 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to complain about 66,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m going to have to have a really good round. A strong front nine to put myself in it and then maybe, if I can get my name up the top with seven or eight to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019ll have to close well too. I\u2019m chasing. I can\u2019t stall out. It\u2019s too bunched, it\u2019s going to have to be a beauty tomorrow. But I\u2019ve put myself in a decent position.\u201d<\/p>\n
Players had to overcome yet another thunderstorm delay. After storms suspended play Thursday and forced nearly half the field to finish their first round on Friday, thunderstorms caused a two-hour suspension on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The side benefit was that the greens were soft from the rain and lift, clean and place rules on the fairways were in effect, leading to lower scores.<\/p>\n
Geoff Ogilvy, the 2006 U.S. Open champion who will captain the International team in next year\u2019s Presidents Cup at Medinah in Chicago, shot 66 and was at 10 under, three behind the leaders.<\/p>\n
The Australian PGA is co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour of Australia and the European tour, which is starting its 2025-26 season just two weeks after Rory McIlroy won the Race to Dubai title.<\/p>\n
McIlroy will highlight the field in next week\u2019s Australian Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRISBANE, Australia \u2014 Adam Scott and Marc Leishman were two strokes off the lead heading into Sunday\u2019s final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-321204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}