2021 Sony Open scores: Brendan Steele fires a 61 to take two-shot lead heading into final round - CBSSports.com
2021 Sony Open scores: Brendan Steele fires a 61 to take two-shot lead heading into previous round
HONOLULU (AP) -- Brendan Steele had the lowest find of his PGA Tour career with a 9-under 61 on Saturday, giving him a two-shot lead and novel chance to win the Sony Open.
Steele has reason to mild be smarting from last year. He had the tournament all but won pending a series of errors over the last three holes he played to lose in a playoff to Cameron Smith.
And if Saturday was any indication, even a two-shot lead isn't safe.
Overnight rain at Waialae Country Club, coupled with the tropical wind not even sure enough to make palm trees sway, left the watercourses as vulnerable as it has ever been.
Steele didn't even have the low find to himself. Kevin Na also had a 61 and was two shots gradual, along with Kapalua runner-up Joaquin Niemann. Na had it touching so well he thought about a 59 when he recognized over a 10-foot birdie putt on the 17th, sparkling that would leave him an eagle away from golf's magic number. On this day, he had to determine for a 61.
Niemann squinted his eyes into the setting sun as his advance on the par-5 bounced up to 10 feet for a birdie-eagle enact and a 63. In two holes, he went from outside the top 10 to the previous group Sunday.
Steele was at 18-under 192.
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Stewart Cink birdied his last hole for a 65 and was three shots Slow, along with Charley Hoffman (64), Peter Malnati (64), Chris Kirk (65) and Russell Henley (65).
Starting times have been regrasped up by two hours Sunday with hopes of finishing forward of heavy rain in the forecast.
Steele had a two-shot lead with two holes to play a year ago when he missed a 6-foot par putt on the 17th hole, hit a wild hook on his Come to the easy par-5 18th and had to Decide for par, and then missed the 10th green with an 80-yard shot in the playoff. It was a last hour when everything went wrong.
On this contented day, everything went right.
And he wasn't alone.
Keith Mitchell, who had a 62 on Friday, took the lead at one display in the third round and was 8 thought through 15 holes on his round when his tee shot property-owning near a cement wall of a house and cost him a penalty drop. A mediocre execute gave Mitchell a 63, which felt even higher persons in the same group as Na.
There were 10 scores of 64 or better. The means score for the third round was 66.7.
Nick Taylor, who took a two-shot lead into the third fake, was keeping pace until a pair of bogeys on the back nine. He shot a 68 and was quiet only four shots back.
Such is the nature of this tournament in this kind of weather. It was wide open on Saturday, and it's not probable to be any different in the last round.
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