Chez Reavie doubles lead to 6 points in Barracuda
TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — Chez Reavie doubled his result in six factors Saturday within the Barracuda Championship, the PGA Tour’s lone modified Stableford scoring occasion.
A day after a 19-point spherical, the 40-year-old Reavie scored 9 factors — making 5 birdies and a bogey — to achieve 37 factors on Tahoe Mountain Membership’s Outdated Greenwood structure.
“I hit the ball very well as we speak for a lot of the day,” Reavie mentioned. “Didn’t actually make many putts, had lots of attractiveness and luckily made just a few within the center. Hit some unhealthy pictures coming in and was ready to avoid wasting pars. Wasn’t fairly all collectively as we speak, however did every little thing properly at totally different instances.”
Gamers get 5 factors for eagle and two for birdie. A degree is deducted for bogey and three taken away for double bogey or worse.
Martin Laird of Scotland was second. He birdied the final three holes in a 13-point spherical.
“Love this event,” Laird mentioned. “At all times like taking part in at altitude, love being within the mountains. I reside in Denver, so it’s not unusual for me with how far the ball goes. I type of know my numbers at this altitude, which is good.”
Alex Noren and Cam Davis had been 9 factors again at 28 after 12-point days. Brice Garnett amd Henrik Norlander had 27 factors.
Reavie is making an attempt to win for the third time on the PGA Tour, following the 2008 Canadian Open and 2019 Vacationers Championship.
He pointed to his stable ball-striking within the first three rounds.
“I’ve given myself lots of seems to be day by day,” Reavie mentioned. “After I shot 9 underneath I made lots of putts. As we speak, I didn’t fairly make as many. The primary day I didn’t fairly make as many. The primary day I made an eagle which type of saved me, after which I had that chip-in after I shot 9 underneath, which saved me.”
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The Arizona participant birdied the par-5 sixth and par-3 seventh on the entrance 9. He added birdies on the par-4 eleventh, par-5 twelfth and par-4 14th, earlier than dropping a degree on the par-3 fifteenth together with his lone bogey in three rounds.
“Simply trying to hit it within the fairways, knock it on the greens and provides myself some seems to be,” Reavie mentioned.
The occasion is co-sanctioned by the European tour.
