Sergio García, winner of this tournament in 2008, progressed to twenty-second place by repeating a card with 71 hits after making four birdies (2, 5, 6, and 11) bogeys (3, 8 and 13)
The Spanish Jon Rahm, number one in the world, finished with -3 (141), four strokes behind the leaders, the Americans Sam Burns and Tom Hoge, after the dispute of the second day of The Players tournament, which was suspended this Sunday without finishing the third round due to lack of light on the field.
At the time of sunset suspension, no player had completed the third round, which will resume this Monday at 08:00 in the morning (local time).
Rahm, who had just started his second round when he stopped on Saturday, signed a card with 72 hits, par for the tough TPC Sawgrass course at Ponte Vedra Beach.
The Basque player achieved four birdies (holes 6, 11, 16 and 18) for as many bogeys (8, 9, 14 and 15) on another irregular day with the putter, but was able to maintain -3 of his first lap and continue to be ready to fight for the top positions.
Things are worse for the four players who can snatch the world number one in this tournament fell by the wayside. They passed the cut the Norwegian Viktor Hovland with 144 (-1) and miraculously the American Scottie Scheffler (146).
The Americans said goodbye to the last two rounds Collin Morikawa (148) and Patrick Cantlay (149), the latter after making a +5 this Sunday.
Burns and Hoge have a stroke advantage over their compatriot Harold Varner III and the south african Erik van Rooyen and two with respect to English Tommy Fleetwood, the Mexican Abraham Ancer, the english Paul Casey, the American Keith Mitchell and the canadians Corey Conners and Taylor Pendrith.
The Chilean Joaqun Nieman fell back to eleventh position after making one over par (73, total of 140), tied, among others, with the American Will Zalatoris, the australian Cameron Smith or the indian Anirban Lahiri, while the defending champion, Justin Thomas, is already in Rahm’s group and Bubba Watson, the best in the second round with 68 strokes
Sergio Garca, winner of this tournament in 2008, he progressed to twenty-second place by repeating a card with 71 hits after making four birdies (2, 5, 6, and 11) bogeys (3, 8 and 13).
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