Cameron Percy tied his career-low round on the PGA Tour with a bogey-free, 10-under 62 to take a two-shot lead at the World Wide Technology Championship before play was suspended due to darkness with ten players left to complete the round.
“I got on a real roll there, looked like everything went right in the middle. Then I hit a few more putts uphill into the grain, they sort of wobble a little bit more, which makes it a little harder. Then I hit a good drive and my caddie talked me into hitting 3-wood, I didn’t want to. I’m like, OK. Not a great pitch. But to hole the putt was really nice. To shoot 10 after being, what, 8 or 9 early on with a par 5 coming up, I was trying to get ahead of myself, but I knew I had a good score coming.”
The Australian is playing in his 218th event on Tour and had his best result at the 2010 Shriners Children’s Open during his rookie season where he finished second. He has recorded four top-25s in twenty starts this season with a T12 best result at The Classic in The Palm Beaches.
Colombia’s Camilo Villegas, competing on a sponsor exemption, carded a bogey-free 64 to tie for second-place at 8-under with Americans Michael Kim and Nate Lashley, the latter also bogey-free, and Argentina’s Tano Goya.
“The round started with very little wind and then we got a pretty consistent, not very strong west wind, so it wasn’t very tricky from that perspective,” said Villegas. “Fairways are forgiving. Got away with a couple little toe-y shots, still stayed in the fairway. I hit my irons nice and the putter worked. Anytime you shoot 8 under par you’ve got to roll some good putts and that was the case today.”
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The top 125 in the FedExCup Fall standings thru The RSM Classic will be exempt into all Full-Field events and The Players Championship next season.
Nos. 51-60 in the standings at the conclusion of The RSM Classic will qualify for two Signature Events in 2024 via The Next 10 (AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, The Genesis Invitational).
