BMW Championship - third-round leaderboard
-17 W Clark (US); -12 R McIlroy (NI), P Cantlay (US); -11 C Gotterup (US), G Woodland (US); -10 C Morikawa (US); -9 S J Im (Kor); -8 M McNealy (US), R Hisatsune (Jpn), E Cole (US), JJ Spaun (US)
Selected others: -5 R MacIntyre (Sco); -4 A Rai (Eng), M Fitzpatrick (Eng); -1 J Rose (Eng), A Fitzpatrick (Eng); +2 T Fleetwood (Eng)
Rory McIlroy struck a five-under 65 to determination to joint-second connected time 3 astatine the BMW Championship.
The Northern Irishman improved from a time 2 circular of 69 that outgo him his first-day lead, birdieing 4 of the past six holes to determination up to 2nd spot connected 12 under.
American Patrick Cantlay of the United States is level with McIlroy, having changeable a 66 connected Saturday, portion his compatriot Wyndham Clark extended his pb astatine Bellerive Country Club to 5 shots with a 65.
Clark double-bogeyed the opening spread but was superb thereafter, birdieing doubly and past hitting an eagle connected the eighth to spell into the crook connected 2 under.
He past birdied 4 of the adjacent 5 holes earlier bogeying the last, returning to the clubhouse connected -17 overall.
The location duo of Chris Gotterup and Gary Woodland beryllium connected -11 overnight with compatriot Collin Morikawa connected -10 and South Korea's Im Sung-Jae connected -9.
Scotland's Robert MacIntyre and American satellite fig 1 Scottie Scheffler struck 68s to decorativeness successful a radical of 8 connected -15, with England's Aaron Rai and Matthew Fitzpatrick a changeable behind.
The experienced English brace of Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood some slipped down the tract aft over-par rounds. Rose changeable 73, to permission him connected -1 going into the last day, portion Fleetwood's 74 enactment him connected +2.
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