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Jon Rahm hit 17 of 18 greens in regulation and made a single bogey for a 65 at the Stadium Course to take a share of the lead heading into the final round.
“Nothing but positive,” said the Spaniard. “Ball-striking felt amazing. Hit a lot of great shots out there off the tee. Giving myself a lot of opportunities with the irons. Took advantage of quite a few of them. So very confident going into tomorrow and knowing that I’m going to have to shoot another low score if I want to have a chance to win.”
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Rahm could move up to number 3 in the World Rankings with a win on Sunday.
American rookie Davis Thompson, who led after the first two rounds, carded a 67 at the Stadium Course to retain a share of the lead at 23-under.
“I felt like I stayed patient all day and made some putts,” said Thompson. “Got off to a great start, which always helps. Up-and-downs on 5 and 6 were huge for me just keeping the momentum going.
“I was really proud with how I stayed patient. Didn’t really force anything. Made a bad bogey on 14, but came back and birdied 16. So it was a good way to finish.”
“It’s great. I feel like I don’t have anything to lose in my rookie year. Just kind of freewheel it. But I’m excited to play with Jon. He’s obviously a top 5 player in the world. He’s very good. But I’m excited about the challenge and just looking forward to tomorrow.”
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American J.T Poston made 24 birdies or better through three rounds, surpassing his previous career-best of 22 birdies or better through 54-holes at a single event (2019 Rocket Mortgage Classic). He carded a 66 at La Quinta for a share of third place at 19-under.
Tied alongside Poston is South Africa’s Christiaan Bezuidenhout who carded a 10-under 62 at the Nicklaus Tournament Course posting a career-low 18-hole score on Tour in his 181st round.
| Pos. | Player | To Par | R1 | R2 | R3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | Jon Rahm (SC) | -23 | 64 | 64 | 65 | 193 |
| T1 | Davis Thompson (SC) | -23 | 62 | 64 | 67 | 193 |
| T3 | J.T. Poston (LQ) | -19 | 65 | 66 | 66 | 197 |
| T3 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout (NT) | -19 | 68 | 67 | 62 | 197 |
| T5 | Tom Kim (SC) | -18 | 69 | 62 | 67 | 198 |
| T5 | Harry Higgs (NT) | -18 | 70 | 66 | 62 | 198 |
| T5 | Sam Burns (NT) | -18 | 64 | 70 | 64 | 198 |
| T5 | Taylor Montgomery (SC) | -18 | 64 | 69 | 65 | 198 |
| T9 | Dylan Wu (NT) | -17 | 69 | 69 | 61 | 199 |
| T9 | Chris Kirk (SC) | -17 | 69 | 67 | 63 | 199 |
| T9 | Patton Kizzire (SC) | -17 | 69 | 63 | 67 | 199 |
| T9 | Sungjae Im (LQ) | -17 | 65 | 66 | 68 | 199 |
| T9 | Robby Shelton (NT) | -17 | 66 | 68 | 65 | 199 |
| T9 | Scottie Scheffler (SC) | -17 | 68 | 65 | 66 | 199 |
| 15 | Sebastián Muñoz (NT) | -16 | 71 | 67 | 62 | 200 |
| T16 | Matti Schmid (NT) | -15 | 64 | 72 | 65 | 201 |
| T16 | Jason Day (LQ) | -15 | 67 | 64 | 70 | 201 |
| T16 | Tony Finau (SC) | -15 | 69 | 67 | 65 | 201 |
| T16 | Adam Hadwin (SC) | -15 | 68 | 69 | 64 | 201 |
| T16 | Xander Schauffele (SC) | -15 | 65 | 68 | 68 | 201 |
| T21 | Danny Lee (NT) | -14 | 67 | 68 | 67 | 202 |
| T21 | Scott Piercy (SC) | -14 | 66 | 67 | 69 | 202 |
| T21 | Stephan Jaeger (NT) | -14 | 68 | 69 | 65 | 202 |
| T21 | Thomas Detry (SC) | -14 | 69 | 66 | 67 | 202 |
| T21 | Keith Mitchell (NT) | -14 | 66 | 70 | 66 | 202 |
| T21 | Tyler Duncan (LQ) | -14 | 64 | 67 | 71 | 202 |
| T27 | Andrew Putnam (NT) | -13 | 69 | 69 | 65 | 203 |
| T27 | Si Woo Kim (SC) | -13 | 70 | 64 | 69 | 203 |
| T27 | Erik van Rooyen (NT) | -13 | 65 | 72 | 66 | 203 |
| T27 | Garrick Higgo (NT) | -13 | 67 | 68 | 68 | 203 |
| T27 | Cameron Young (LQ) | -13 | 68 | 70 | 65 | 203 |
| T27 | Justin Suh (SC) | -13 | 72 | 65 | 66 | 203 |
| T27 | Harrison Endycott (NT) | -13 | 65 | 71 | 67 | 203 |
| T27 | Dean Burmester (LQ) | -13 | 65 | 71 | 67 | 203 |
| T27 | Kevin Tway (LQ) | -13 | 67 | 67 | 69 | 203 |
| T36 | Sahith Theegala (SC) | -12 | 66 | 70 | 68 | 204 |
| T36 | Byeong Hun An (LQ) | -12 | 67 | 74 | 63 | 204 |
| T36 | Denny McCarthy (SC) | -12 | 65 | 71 | 68 | 204 |
| T36 | Trevor Werbylo (LQ) | -12 | 66 | 69 | 69 | 204 |
| T36 | Rickie Fowler (SC) | -12 | 68 | 68 | 68 | 204 |
| T36 | Sam Stevens (SC) | -12 | 70 | 68 | 66 | 204 |
| T36 | Ben Griffin (LQ) | -12 | 73 | 67 | 64 | 204 |
| T36 | Aaron Baddeley (NT) | -12 | 71 | 68 | 65 | 204 |
| T36 | Austin Cook (LQ) | -12 | 68 | 70 | 66 | 204 |
| T36 | Russell Knox (NT) | -12 | 66 | 69 | 69 | 204 |
| T36 | Joseph Bramlett (LQ) | -12 | 66 | 70 | 68 | 204 |
| T36 | Andrew Landry (SC) | -12 | 68 | 66 | 70 | 204 |
| T36 | Eric Cole (LQ) | -12 | 65 | 70 | 69 | 204 |
| T49 | Beau Hossler (SC) | -11 | 68 | 66 | 71 | 205 |
| T49 | Ryan Armour (SC) | -11 | 69 | 68 | 68 | 205 |
| T49 | Justin Rose (SC) | -11 | 66 | 67 | 72 | 205 |
| T49 | Tom Hoge (NT) | -11 | 71 | 66 | 68 | 205 |
| T49 | Vincent Norrman (NT) | -11 | 70 | 69 | 66 | 205 |
| T49 | Wyndham Clark (NT) | -11 | 70 | 71 | 64 | 205 |
| T49 | Martin Laird (SC) | -11 | 71 | 69 | 65 | 205 |
| T49 | Zach Johnson (NT) | -11 | 67 | 68 | 70 | 205 |
| T49 | Will Zalatoris (LQ) | -11 | 69 | 69 | 67 | 205 |
| T49 | Stewart Cink (SC) | -11 | 67 | 68 | 70 | 205 |
| T49 | Brendan Steele (SC) | -11 | 68 | 73 | 64 | 205 |
| T49 | Matthias Schwab (NT) | -11 | 66 | 71 | 68 | 205 |
| T49 | Patrick Cantlay (SC) | -11 | 68 | 66 | 71 | 205 |
| T62 | Davis Riley (SC) | -10 | 70 | 67 | 69 | 206 |
| T62 | Justin Lower (SC) | -10 | 71 | 68 | 67 | 206 |
| T62 | Alex Smalley (NT) | -10 | 67 | 68 | 71 | 206 |
| T62 | Harry Hall (NT) | -10 | 72 | 65 | 69 | 206 |
| T62 | Zecheng Dou (NT) | -10 | 70 | 68 | 68 | 206 |
| T62 | Paul Haley II (LQ) | -10 | 72 | 67 | 67 | 206 |
| T62 | Anders Albertson (NT) | -10 | 68 | 72 | 66 | 206 |
| T62 | Tano Goya (NT) | -10 | 66 | 71 | 69 | 206 |
| CUT | K.H. Lee | -9 | 72 | 68 | 67 | 207 |
| CUT | Doug Ghim | -9 | 69 | 72 | 66 | 207 |
| CUT | Harris English | -9 | 68 | 71 | 68 | 207 |
| CUT | Kevin Roy | -9 | 70 | 68 | 69 | 207 |
| CUT | Adam Long | -9 | 71 | 71 | 65 | 207 |
| CUT | Emiliano Grillo | -9 | 69 | 73 | 65 | 207 |
| CUT | Nico Echavarria | -9 | 70 | 71 | 66 | 207 |
| CUT | Brandon Wu | -9 | 75 | 68 | 64 | 207 |
| CUT | Mark Hubbard | -9 | 67 | 71 | 69 | 207 |
| CUT | Taylor Moore | -8 | 68 | 69 | 71 | 208 |
| CUT | Callum Tarren | -8 | 71 | 67 | 70 | 208 |
| CUT | Ryan Brehm | -8 | 67 | 68 | 73 | 208 |
| CUT | Matthew NeSmith | -8 | 75 | 68 | 65 | 208 |
| CUT | Luke List | -8 | 73 | 67 | 68 | 208 |
| CUT | Brian Harman | -8 | 71 | 70 | 67 | 208 |
| CUT | Greyson Sigg | -8 | 66 | 69 | 73 | 208 |
| CUT | Jhonattan Vegas | -8 | 73 | 66 | 69 | 208 |
| CUT | Erik Barnes | -8 | 73 | 69 | 66 | 208 |
| CUT | Chesson Hadley | -8 | 73 | 70 | 65 | 208 |
| CUT | Kramer Hickok | -8 | 71 | 70 | 67 | 208 |
| CUT | Taylor Pendrith | -8 | 71 | 67 | 70 | 208 |
| CUT | Aaron Wise | -8 | 70 | 70 | 68 | 208 |
| CUT | Brendon Todd | -8 | 68 | 70 | 70 | 208 |
| CUT | Will Gordon | -8 | 68 | 70 | 70 | 208 |
| CUT | David Lingmerth | -7 | 71 | 68 | 70 | 209 |
| CUT | Michael Block | -7 | 65 | 71 | 73 | 209 |
| CUT | Carson Young | -7 | 67 | 68 | 74 | 209 |
| CUT | Caleb Surratt (a) | -7 | 71 | 69 | 69 | 209 |
| CUT | David Lipsky | -7 | 72 | 71 | 66 | 209 |
| CUT | Ben Martin | -7 | 72 | 66 | 71 | 209 |
| CUT | Aaron Rai | -6 | 70 | 71 | 69 | 210 |
| CUT | Charley Hoffman | -6 | 67 | 71 | 72 | 210 |
| CUT | Nick Taylor | -6 | 70 | 71 | 69 | 210 |
| CUT | Jimmy Walker | -6 | 68 | 71 | 71 | 210 |
| CUT | MJ Daffue | -6 | 68 | 71 | 71 | 210 |
| CUT | Sam Ryder | -6 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 210 |
| CUT | Ben Taylor | -5 | 68 | 69 | 74 | 211 |
| CUT | Jason Dufner | -5 | 69 | 74 | 68 | 211 |
| CUT | Richy Werenski | -5 | 68 | 70 | 73 | 211 |
| CUT | John Pak | -5 | 70 | 68 | 73 | 211 |
| CUT | Kevin Yu | -5 | 71 | 67 | 73 | 211 |
| CUT | Peter Malnati | -5 | 68 | 72 | 71 | 211 |
| CUT | Kyle Westmoreland | -5 | 76 | 67 | 68 | 211 |
| CUT | S.H. Kim | -5 | 70 | 73 | 68 | 211 |
| CUT | Taiga Semikawa | -5 | 70 | 75 | 66 | 211 |
| CUT | Michael Kim | -4 | 67 | 70 | 75 | 212 |
| CUT | S.Y. Noh | -4 | 67 | 74 | 71 | 212 |
| CUT | Lee Hodges | -4 | 76 | 68 | 68 | 212 |
| CUT | Zac Blair | -4 | 69 | 71 | 72 | 212 |
| CUT | Philip Knowles | -4 | 72 | 72 | 68 | 212 |
| CUT | Jonathan Byrd | -3 | 71 | 73 | 69 | 213 |
| CUT | Max McGreevy | -3 | 72 | 72 | 69 | 213 |
| CUT | Nate Lashley | -3 | 69 | 71 | 73 | 213 |
| CUT | Scott Harrington | -3 | 69 | 71 | 73 | 213 |
| CUT | Troy Merritt | -3 | 69 | 71 | 73 | 213 |
| CUT | Sung Kang | -3 | 75 | 71 | 67 | 213 |
| CUT | Cam Davis | -3 | 72 | 71 | 70 | 213 |
| CUT | Trevor Cone | -3 | 69 | 72 | 72 | 213 |
| CUT | Augusto Núñez | -3 | 70 | 70 | 73 | 213 |
| CUT | Satoshi Kodaira | -2 | 75 | 68 | 71 | 214 |
| CUT | Ryan Moore | -2 | 72 | 70 | 72 | 214 |
| CUT | Austin Eckroat | -2 | 72 | 74 | 68 | 214 |
| CUT | Nick Watney | -2 | 70 | 75 | 69 | 214 |
| CUT | Lucas Glover | -2 | 69 | 72 | 73 | 214 |
| CUT | Patrick Rodgers | -1 | 68 | 75 | 72 | 215 |
| CUT | Brice Garnett | -1 | 72 | 69 | 74 | 215 |
| CUT | Brandon Matthews | -1 | 70 | 76 | 69 | 215 |
| CUT | Martin Trainer | -1 | 74 | 73 | 68 | 215 |
| CUT | Danny Willett | -1 | 71 | 73 | 71 | 215 |
| CUT | Michael Gligic | -1 | 73 | 70 | 72 | 215 |
| CUT | Tyson Alexander | -1 | 70 | 74 | 71 | 215 |
| CUT | Bill Haas | -1 | 69 | 72 | 74 | 215 |
| CUT | Michael Thompson | -1 | 74 | 71 | 70 | 215 |
| CUT | Carl Yuan | -1 | 70 | 73 | 72 | 215 |
| CUT | Robert Streb | Par | 71 | 76 | 69 | 216 |
| CUT | Rory Sabbatini | +1 | 74 | 72 | 71 | 217 |
| CUT | Kevin Chappell | +1 | 69 | 74 | 74 | 217 |
| CUT | James Hahn | +1 | 73 | 71 | 73 | 217 |
| CUT | Chez Reavie | +1 | 71 | 74 | 72 | 217 |
| CUT | Dylan Frittelli | +1 | 74 | 73 | 70 | 217 |
| CUT | Andrew Novak | +4 | 73 | 79 | 68 | 220 |
| CUT | Hank Lebioda | +4 | 70 | 75 | 75 | 220 |
| CUT | Brian Stuard | +5 | 72 | 76 | 73 | 221 |
| CUT | Gunner Wiebe | +5 | 70 | 75 | 76 | 221 |
| CUT | Wesley Bryan | +6 | 67 | 74 | 81 | 222 |
| CUT | Adam Schenk | +8 | 77 | 76 | 71 | 224 |
| CUT | Brent Grant | +12 | 75 | 74 | 79 | 228 |
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