Fleetwood Leads Rose By One After Third Round

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-14 T Fleetwood (Eng); -13 J Rose (Eng); -12 S Scheffler (US); -11 A Novak (US), J.J Spaun (US); -9 A Bhatia (US), B Griffin (US), R Fowler (US), C Kirk (US)

Selected others: -5 H Hall (Eng), R MacIntyre (Sco); -3 M Fitzpatrick (Eng), A Rai (Eng)

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Tommy Fleetwood will return a one-stroke lead into nan last time of nan St Jude Championship successful Memphis aft struggling early connected during his 3rd round.

He carded a one-under-par 69 to decorativeness nan time connected 14 nether par, 1 changeable clear of chap Englishman Justin Rose.

Fleetwood had held a three-shot lead complete Rose aft nan 2nd information was completed earlier connected Saturday, play having been suspended overnight because of terrible upwind connected Friday.

World number 1 Scottie Scheffler was six shots adrift aft information 2 but is now only 2 backmost aft firing a five-under 65, tied for nan champion information of nan time pinch US Open champion JJ Spaun.

Fleetwood is simply a seven-time victor connected nan European Tour but is still waiting for his first PGA Tour title, pinch this arena his 162nd commencement connected nan US circuit.

The world number 15 mislaid his lead early successful nan 3rd information pursuing a double bogey astatine nan par-five 3rd and a bogey astatine nan seventh.

That near Rose unsocial successful nan lead and he followed pinch a birdie astatine nan seventh, but past recovered h2o astatine nan ninth and made bogey while Fleetwood birdied nan ninth to regain a stock of nan lead.

The 34-year-old went clear again pinch a 14-foot birdie putt astatine nan 12th and claimed different birdie connected nan 16th.

He had a three-shot lead aft 17 holes, but a bogey connected nan past allowed Rose to propulsion wrong 1 pinch a birdie.

Fleetwood has had 5 top-five finishes this play and was runner-up down Keegan Bradley astatine nan Travelers Championship successful June.

Players who decorativeness successful nan apical 50 of nan FedEx Cup standings aft Sunday's information astatine TPC Southwind will beforehand to adjacent week's BMW Championship - nan 2nd of nan PGA Tour's 3 play-off tournaments.