{"id":17366,"date":"2025-08-24T03:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17366"},"modified":"2025-08-24T03:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:04:03","slug":"fleetwood-cantlay-share-pga-tour-championship-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17366","title":{"rendered":"Fleetwood, Cantlay share PGA Tour Championship lead"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tommy Fleetwood, chasing an elusive first PGA Tour title and a $10 million top prize, bounced back from a late double bogey to remain tied for the lead at the Tour Championship on Saturday alongside Patrick Cantlay.<\/p>\n

England’s Fleetwood, a seven-time DP World Tour winner who has yet to lift a US trophy, carded a three-under par 67, erasing a double-bogey at 15 with birdies at 16 and 17 to build a 16-under total of 194.<\/p>\n

Cantlay, the 2021 Tour Championship winner who claimed the most recent of his eight US tour titles in 2022, roared up the leaderboard to join him with a six-under 64 — grabbing four of his six birdies in the last five holes.<\/p>\n

They were two shots clear of Russell Henley, who started the day tied for the lead and carded a one-under 69 for 196 at rainy East Lake in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n

US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley posted the best round of the day, firing an eagle and six birdies in a seven-under 63 that left him alone in fourth on 197 — one stroke clear of world number one Scottie Scheffler.<\/p>\n

Fleetwood, who suffered his latest PGA Tour near miss at the St. Jude Championship this month and was tied for fourth at the BMW Championship last week, got off to a sluggish start.<\/p>\n

But after a bogey at the fourth he rolled in a 14-foot birdie at the fifth to launch a run of four straight birdies that included a 44-footer at the seventh.<\/p>\n

The streak came to an end with a bogey at the par-three ninth, where Fleetwood missed the green and was unable to get up and down.<\/p>\n

He remained in control after a birdie at 13, but his tee shot at the par-three 15th found the water and he dropped two strokes to fall one behind Cantlay.<\/p>\n

Fleetwood responded with a 12-foot birdie at 16 and a nine-foot birdie at 17, but he couldn’t take advantage of the par-five 18th, settling for par after landing in a greenside bunker.<\/p>\n

“It was never really a round that flowed for me, but it was difficult,” Fleetwood said. “It was damp conditions. (It) wasn’t cold by any means, but obviously different air and windier, and I just found it a bit more difficult today.<\/p>\n

“But the one thing I was really happy with was my putter,” he added. “I felt like when I was on the green, talk about flow, things were going really well. Felt like I was reading them great and in a really good rhythm, so that was good.”<\/p>\n

Fleetwood put the miscue at 15 down to “one bad swing” and he was pleased with how he responded.<\/p>\n

“I still had three holes to play and still 21 holes of the tournament, and I still felt in a very good frame of mind,” he said.<\/p>\n

Cantlay was three adrift to start the day and got things going with a birdie at the par-three second.<\/p>\n

He birdied the third, then parred his way to 14, where he drained a 15-foot birdie putt. After a six-foot birdie putt at the 16th he rolled in a 23-foot birdie at 17 that gave him the solo lead and his birdie at the last ensured he maintained a share of the top spot.<\/p>\n

Henley had an up and down day with four birdies and three bogeys. But he kept his nose in front of Bradley — whose latest sparkling effort will stoke speculation he could name himself a playing captain for the Ryder Cup match play showdown with Europe next month.<\/p>\n

“This might be my best round of the year,” Bradley said.<\/p>\n

Scheffler, whose five victories this year include major titles at the PGA Championship and British Open, couldn’t say the same.<\/p>\n

“Felt like another frustrating day,” he said after fighting his way back from a bogey-bogey start. “Proud of the turnaround but, man, I wish I could have gotten a little bit more out of the round.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tommy Fleetwood, chasing an elusive first PGA Tour title and a $10 million top prize, bounced back from a late double bogey to remain tied for the lead at the Tour Championship on Saturday alongside Patrick Cantlay. England’s Fleetwood, a seven-time DP World Tour winner who has yet to lift a US trophy, carded a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}