Australian Cam Davis made a piping hot start to the final round of the PGA Tour’s The American Express with a six-under par front nine, while Jason Day is still lurking inside the top five at the Pete Dye Stadium Course.
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After 14 holes in the final round, Day sat at 22-under, five behind the leader Sepp Straka.
Day had a great opportunity to make up ground on the Austrian at the par 4 14th having 87 yards into the green after an excellent drive down the right hand side of the fairway, but three-putted for bogey including a cruel lip out from three feet, four inches when putting for par.
Earlier in the round, the former world number one produced a stunning hole-out from the rough beside the ninth green, and another a superb chip set up birdie at the par 11th – which remarkably took 40 minutes to play because of delays as the playing groups banked up.
Day’s chip-in birdie was his third of a blemish free front nine as the Australian stays in the mix for a top-three finish at the A$14.2m event.
A birdie putt from 17 feet, eight inches cruelly slid by the edge of the cup at the par 3 13th – the hardest hole on the course with water left of the green – as Straka dropped a near eight feet effort for birdie to extend his lead in what felt like a decisive moment.
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Day birdied the first hole and then made a string of pars before making his second birdie of the day at the par 5 eighth.
Meanwhile, Davis, who is a two-time winner on the PGA Tour made seven birdies, one bogey and one par in his opening nine holes, and his putter was running with him gaining 4.321 strokes with the flat stick, better than anyone else in the field.
The Sydneysider unfortunately dropped a shot with a bogey on the 12th hole after failing to get up-and-down from a greenside bunker, and then made bogey at the 14th and finished with a crushing double bogey at the par 4 18th.
Davis blasted his tee shot right and had to reload off the tee at the finishing hole, and he walked into the clubhouse at -16 for the tournament with a three-under final round of 69.
Throughout the rest of the field, there has been highlights a plenty with Norwegian Kris Ventura making a hole-in-one and PGA Tour rookie Matthew Riedel holing out for eagle from the fairway.
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