FORT WORTH, Texas — PGA Tour rookie Harry Hole intended to slip on his Vegas Golden Knights jersey while playing Colonial’s par-3 13th hole on Saturday. That plan changed after he dropped out of the lead due to a back-to-back double bogey, amidst a powerful charge from Adam Schenk.
Only after finishing in the third round a share of the lead, with Schenck at 10-under-200, did the Englishman, who lives in Las Vegas after playing at UNLV, pull the jersey off. His favorite NHL team was playing the local Dallas Stars in the Western Conference Finals.
Being 3 on the go [13th] Hall, who was the individual leader after the first two rounds, said, “I didn’t think that would be the best thing to do.” “Yeah, I’m T1 after the tour, so I thought I’d wear it for interviews.”
Hall’s final throw of a 2-over innings 72 was a 10-foot par at No. 18 after he broke off the rim due to an awkward situation in which his heels were hanging off the bunker rim. It came after a 10-foot birdie at 383 yards 17, stealing a bit of the spotlight off Schenck, along the way.
But Schenk—who was also looking for his first win, but in his 171st PGA Tour event—also finished with a memorable 67 stroke. He dropped one from 16 feet to complete his card.
“It was a lot of luck making that slam dunk,” he said. “It was a one-and-a-half foot break, very fast.”
The 31-year-old Indiana native was runner-up at Valspar in mid-March, but has since missed four cuts and is tied for 31st at RBC Heritage. He hit 11 of 14 fairways and 15 of 18 on the green while recording just one bogey on Saturday.
“We did a really good job managing everything today,” Schenck said. “It was one of those days where the place we were looking at was right where it really hit it. It doesn’t happen often, but it’s nice when it does.”
Harris English, who shot 70 in the final set with Hall, took a stroke at 9-under 201 after bogeying on the 18th, when an 8-foot equalizing chance bounced by the cup. It was two holes in after he grabbed the lead on his own with a 40-foot birdie on the par 3 in the 16th.
Scotty Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world and last year’s Colonial runner-up, drifted three of his last five holes for 72 after opening with a straight 67-second lead. He was among six players tied for 10th in the 4-under.
Defending champion Sam Burns, who overcame a seven-stroke deficit in the final round last year and beat Scheffler in his first playoff game, had his second straight 70-game winning streak. Tours.
The only player to win in consecutive years was Ben Hogan, who did so twice – 1946 and 1947, the first two years of the event, and again in 1952-53.
This is the first time since 2014 that a co-leader has participated in the Colonial Final Tour. There was a four-way tie after 54 holes that year, although eventual winner Adam Scott was not part of that foursome.
Hole’s double bogeys came in at No. 6 and No. 7, after 14 birdies and only two bogeys in the 41 holes before that.
After his tee shot at the 401-yard 6th hole putt into the right rough, Hall’s approach settled behind a temporary franchise holder. After several minutes with the bases official, a few dribbles on a cart and a couple others on a swept area of turf, his pitch came through a small gap short in the roughness of the green mound.
That double bogey took him to 10 under, at the same time that Emiliano Grillo missed a foot by 6 feet, put a hole in the lead to fall to the same score – and a share of the lead, rather than get it outright.
Grillo has a double bogey and two bogeys over his last six holes in a round of 72 that left him at 6-minus and tied for fourth with Justin Suh (66).
Hall’s approach at 420 yards flew seventh out of bounds to the right off the green.
When he reached the 13th hole on the 9-under, he was putting off a 12-foot birdie putt on No. 12. But that followed a par scramble on the 626-yard 11th hole when he was in the rough after each of his first two shots on the course’s longest hole. by 80 yards.
“Yeah, to be in T1 after today is great, especially after that front nine,” said Hall. “It shows how tough the path is, and I did a good job fighting it and bringing those two birds on the back nine.”