SAM BURNS CLUNG to a two-stroke lead over Matthew Fitzpatrick when darkness halted the wind-hit third round of the US PGA Genesis Invitational on Saturday.
Burns closed with back-to-back bogeys to stand on 10-under overall with five holes remaining when sunset halted play with 23 golfers — including 11 of the top 14 on the leaderboard — needing to finish their third round at cold and blustery Riviera Country Club.
World number 149 Burns matched the 36-hole Riviera course record at 12-under par to lead by five when the day began, then had to wait out a wind delay of three hours and 54 minutes before starting his round.
The American, chasing his first PGA title, still led by five strokes until the final half hour of play, when he made a three-putt bogey at the par-four 12th and missed a seven-foot par putt at the par-four 13th.
Fitzpatrick, meanwhile, sank a 22-foot birdie putt at the par-three 16th and stood on eight-under with one hole remaining.
World number one Dustin Johnson was in a third-place pack on seven-under with fellow Americans Max Homa and Wyndham Clark. Johnson, the reigning Masters champion, and Homa had five holes remaining. Clark had three.
Gusting high winds caused unsafe and unplayable conditions, blowing balls off greens and toppling equipment.
It was the first time wind had caused unplayable conditions to suspend a tour event since the second round of the 2015 British Open at St Andrews.
Where ????
Rochdale ?
He’d beat Utd routinely from there as well baby!
Arsenal, good manager..
Ireland anyone ha ha …hello red thumbs..
I don’t get the criticism of the man.
Chelsea were already off the pace in the league and basically out of the champions league when he took over.
He has them in the latter stages of two competitions and could well win both and yet all he gets is knocked.
Any club in England would be lucky to have him and hicks and Gillette left liverpool in an awful state, not rafa
Of course he wants to manage a top club. He doesn’t know how to manage without throwing money at new, usually terrible, signings. Mancini and Mourinho used to have Serie A won by November then they give Benitez a job and he makes a fool of himself every week by telling the press he needs 2 years to build etc. He did well with Valencia although they had good players back then and fair enough he won the CL but he left Liverpool in a terrible state.
Everton maybe, if moye’s leaves.
Why would a big club go for such a small manager?