{"id":1242459,"date":"2023-03-12T00:56:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T00:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/scottie-scheffler-with-two-shot-lead-at-sawgrass-players-championship\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T18:56:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:56:05","slug":"players-championship-2023-r3-scottie-scheffler-with-two-shot-lead-at-sawgrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/players-championship-2023-r3-scottie-scheffler-with-two-shot-lead-at-sawgrass\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler with two-shot lead at Sawgrass Players Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottie Scheffler has a two-shot lead at the Players Championship at the close of the third round at Sawgrass.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Scottie Scheffler shoots 7-under 65 | Round 3 | THE PLAYERS | 2023\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jQwV_H9Li-4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scheffler moved to 14 under with a 65, with Min Woo Lee just behind on 12 under.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler will return to the world number one spot if he wins the title on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Englishmen Tommy Fleetwood and Aaron Rai are five off the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Rai made a hole in one at the 17th, making it the first time the tournament has ever had multiple holes-in-one in the same week after Hayden Buckley made one in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Rory McIlroy failed to make the cut as the second round was finally completed on Saturday following storm delays.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Irishman missed out by three shots after finishing the second round with a one-over-par 73 on Friday, following on from a first-round 76.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just the time management,\u201d said McIlroy, who also organises players-only meetings and serves as a player director on the Tour Policy Board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe golf out here, that\u2019s fine, but it\u2019s just more the time at home to make sure you\u2019re getting prepared, to make sure that you\u2019re doing everything you can to be ready once you show up to these weeks<a href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/players-championship-2023-r2-rory-mcilroy-misses-cut-at-players-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s where I\u2019ve maybe sacrificed a little bit of time with some of this other stuff<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GolfTodayUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Kelly became the oldest player to ever make the cut, with the 56-year-old American just about easing through to the final round.<\/p>\n<p>A new course record was set by American Tom Hodge with a 10-under 62.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1634715830327070720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1634715830327070720%7Ctwgr%5E7de6ad90b9eab4490c0ac48d026bd659e8b4974e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FPGATOUR2Fstatus2F1634715830327070720widget%3DTweet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scheffler moved to 14 under with a 65, with Min Woo Lee just behind on 12 under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1242460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29],"tags":[88,89,9051,90,91,92,4516,370,94,371],"class_list":["post-1242459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pga","category-the_tours","tag-golf-news","tag-news","tag-pa-news","tag-reports","tag-results","tag-scores","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-the-players-championship","tag-tournament","tag-tpc-sawgrass"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - 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