FedEx St. Jude Championship R3

J.J. Spaun retains narrow lead

J.J. Spaun closed his round with two birdies and a par for a 68 to take a one-shot lead into the final day of the FexEx St. Jude Championship at 13-under.

“It was a theme of patience, I believe, for today,” said the American. “I didn’t make a birdie until 11 and had a few good looks, but it was one of those days where I felt like I was going to get lapped. But I think I kind of mentioned that yesterday where watching the leaderboard you kind of, I used to not want to look, but maybe in the past I would have not looked and think I’m getting lapped, but reality was I was even par and I was still tied for the lead for the most part.

“It kind of helped me be Ok with being patient. Then ended up finishing the round strong with a couple birdies on 16 and 17. Got the lead going into tomorrow.”

Austrian Sepp Straka bogeyed the last hole for a 68 and lies in solo second place at 12-under.

Both Spaun and Straka won for the first time on the PGA Tour this year and a win on Sunday would guarantee them a place in the FedEx Cup finale at East Lake.

“I mean, to be where I am right now, like I’m pretty like happy,” said Spaun. “Like I don’t think — I mean, everyone has expectations and we all want to win, but for me to get my first win already this year, this would just be a cherry on top. Even if I don’t win and have a great week and kind of lock up East Lake that would be cool, too.

“I’m not going to let it get to me. It’s almost the same thing thinking of going to Augusta the next day after Valero, you know, the night before Sunday. Trying not to get too far ahead of myself kind of what I did last time in Texas and hopefully the results are the same.”

Americans Will Zalatoris (65) and Trey Mullinax (66) are tied in third place at 11-under alongside Australian Cameron Smith (67).

Smith won his first major title at this year’s Open Championship and victory on Sunday would give him the number 1 spot in the world rankings.

“That’s been one of my goals probably since the start of the year is to try to get to that top spot,” Smith said. “Try and chase it down.”

Pos.PlayerTo ParR1R2R3Total
1J.J. Spaun-13626768197
2Sepp Straka-12646668198
T3Will Zalatoris-11716365199
T3Trey Mullinax-11666766199
T3Cameron Smith-11676567199
T6Tyler Duncan-10706367200
T6Troy Merritt-10656570200
T8Sungjae Im-9706863201
T8Hayden Buckley-9696765201
T8Sam Burns-9656967201
T8Matt Fitzpatrick-9686667201
T8Andrew Putnam-9666867201
T8Wyndham Clark-9676767201
T8Ryan Palmer-9656769201
T8Brian Harman-9666669201
T8Tony Finau-9646869201
T17Joaquin Niemann-8716665202
T17Dylan Frittelli-8667066202
T17Joohyung Kim-8667066202
T17Collin Morikawa-8676966202
T17Lucas Glover-8656869202
T17K.H. Lee-8646969202
T17Sahith Theegala-8637069202
T17Denny McCarthy-8666571202
T25Adam Schenk-7716666203
T25Jon Rahm-7676967203
T25Kevin Kisner-7696470203
T25Adam Scott-7666770203
T29Viktor Hovland-6677067204
T29Adam Svensson-6667167204
T29Keith Mitchell-6686967204
T29J.T. Poston-6647268204
T29Davis Riley-6696768204
T29Max Homa-6666969204
T29Tyrrell Hatton-6657069204
T36Chez Reavie-5677167205
T36Cam Davis-5677167205
T36Corey Conners-5677167205
T36Martin Laird-5667168205
T36Michael Thompson-5657070205
T36Sam Ryder-5686671205
T36Justin Thomas-5676771205
T36Emiliano Grillo-5676672205
T44Robert Streb-4677069206
T44Mito Pereira-4677168206
T44Taylor Moore-4677069206
T44Aaron Rai-4696869206
T44David Lipsky-4677069206
T44Patrick Cantlay-4676871206
T44Lee Hodges-4656972206
T44James Hahn-4656972206
T52Stephan Jaeger-3716769207
T52Aaron Wise-3667170207
T52Brendon Todd-3696870207
T52Sebastin Muoz-3686871207
T52Shane Lowry-3686871207
T52Si Woo Kim-3627372207
T58Cameron Young-2677170208
T58Mackenzie Hughes-2677071208
T58Rickie Fowler-2657172208
T61Beau Hossler-1686972209
T61Xander Schauffele-1686873209
T61Maverick McNealy-1676775209
T64Greyson SiggE706872210
T64Taylor PendrithE667074210
T66Gary Woodland1696973211
T66Christiaan Bezuidenhout1696676211
68Adam Hadwin2696776212
69Marc Leishman3696975213
CUTTom Hoge-17366139
CUTBilly Horschel-16871139
CUTRory McIlroy-17069139
CUTPatton Kizzire-16970139
CUTMatthew NeSmith-16970139
CUTKurt Kitayama-17069139
CUTRussell Henley-16871139
CUTKeegan Bradley-16871139
CUTScottie Scheffler-17168139
CUTJason Day-16574139
CUTRussell KnoxPar7070140
CUTScott StallingsPar7169140
CUTLuke ListPar7169140
CUTChesson HadleyPar7268140
CUTAnirban LahiriPar7169140
CUTAlex SmalleyPar7169140
CUTJhonattan VegasPar6773140
CUTKevin Streelman17071141
CUTPatrick Rodgers17071141
CUTBrendan Steele17170141
CUTKramer Hickok17269141
CUTMatthias Schwab16873141
CUTMax McGreevy16972141
CUTNick Watney16972141
CUTNick Taylor17467141
CUTDoug Ghim17368141
CUTPeter Malnati27171142
CUTJoel Dahmen26973142
CUTMatt Kuchar27171142
CUTRyan Brehm27171142
CUTChad Ramey37469143
CUTHarold Varner III36974143
CUTBrandon Wu36974143
CUTLucas Herbert37370143
CUTCameron Tringale37271143
CUTCallum Tarren37271143
CUTWebb Simpson37172143
CUTMark Hubbard47173144
CUTSeamus Power47173144
CUTC.T. Pan47371144
CUTDanny Lee47272144
CUTKevin Tway46975144
CUTChris Kirk47272144
CUTJordan Spieth47074144
CUTAdam Long57570145
CUTVince Whaley57273145
CUTJustin Rose67175146
CUTStewart Cink97277149
W/DJohn Huh7340113
W/DAlex Noren732093
W/DScott Piercy7440114
Updated: August 23, 2022
FedEx St. Jude Championship 2022
Date: 11th August - 14th August, 2022
Location: TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tennessee
Purse: $15,000,000