Golfweek’s Adam Schupak previews the 2020 Mayakoba Golf Classic at El Camaleon Golf Club.
Mayakoba Golf Classic preview
Golfweek’s Adam Schupak previews the 2020 Mayakoba Golf Classic at El Camaleon Golf Club.
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Carlos Ortiz earns first PGA Tour title, takes trophy at Vivint Houston Open
Golfweek’s Adam Woodard recaps the 2020 Vivint Houston Open, where Carlos Ortiz won his first PGA Tour title at Memorial Park Golf Course.
Golfweek’s Adam Woodard recaps the 2020 Vivint Houston Open, where Carlos Ortiz won his first PGA Tour title at Memorial Park Golf Course.
Winner’s Bag: Carlos Ortiz, Vivint Houston Open
Carlos Ortiz won his first PGA Tour event, the 2020 Vivant Houston Open, using a Ping G400 Max driver. Get all the details on his gear.
A complete list of the golf equipment Carlos Ortiz used to win the PGA Tour’s 2020 Vivant Houston Open:
DRIVER: Ping G400 Max (9 degrees), with Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw Orange TX shaft
FAIRWAY WOOD: Ping G425 LST (14.5 degrees), with Project X HZRDUS Yellow 73X 6.5 shaft
IRONS: Titleist U500 (3), with Graphite Design Tour AD DI 95 shaft, Ping S55 (4-PW), with Project X PXi 6.5 shafts
WEDGES: Titleist Vokey Design SM8 (50, 54, 60 degrees), with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts
PUTTER: Odyssey Stroke Lab Jailbird Mini
BALL: Titleist Pro V1x
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Carlos Ortiz earns first PGA Tour title, takes trophy at Vivint Houston Open
Carlos Ortiz held off Dustin Johnson and Hideki Matsuyama to win the Vivint Houston Open at Memorial Park on Sunday.
Consider 118 a lucky number for Carlos Ortiz.
The veteran from Guadalajara, Mexico, needed that many PGA Tour events to finally capture his first title, but it was a special one — his 65 on Sunday was enough to edge Dustin Johnson and Hideki Matsuyama and capture the Vivint Houston Open.
Ortiz, who played collegiately at North Texas, had been showing signs he was ready to break through, making three cuts in five starts this season, but hadn’t cracked the top 30 in any event. He came into Houston ranked 160th in the Official World Golf Ranking (and 136 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings), but looked surprisingly comfortable on the front as he fired a bogey-free 32 to pull ahead. He shot a 65 on Sunday to finish the tournament at 13 under.
Meanwhile, Johnson’s goal was to get his game in top gear with the Masters on the near horizon. Consider Johnson’s motor up and running.
The World No. 1 missed a few chances down the stretch, but he proved he’s ready to contend for his first green jacket next week. Johnson shot a 65, although he did miss chances on Nos. 16 and 17 that would have pulled him event with Ortiz.
Hideki Matsuyama didn’t look like he’d be a threat to break a long drought after posting two rounds of even-par to open the tournament, but after a 66 on Saturday, he was aggressive all Sunday in pulling into a tie for the lead.
Matsuyama, who last won at the 2017 WGC-FedEx St. Jude, barely missed a putt on No. 18 that would have forced the issue, but he still finished with a course-record 63 (one of three) to finish at 11 under.
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The tournament marked the first time the PGA Tour has played at Memorial Park since 1963. Architect Tom Doak was the front man for a $34 million renovation funded through a foundation headed by Houston Astros’ owner Jim Crane.
Brooks Koepka, who had helped with the renovation of the Memorial Park, made an early run with a 30 on the front, but he cooled just a tad on the back and posted a second straight 65 to finish the tournament at 8 under.
Meanwhile, 54-hold leader Sam Burns saw his hopes of capturing his first PGA Tour title dashed early. Burns opened the day with a bogey, then added a double on No. 4 to drop off the top of the leaderboard.
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Players are eating up Harbour Town; another tasty day on the menu for final round at RBC Heritage
The PGA Tour’s RBC Heritage concludes Sunday at Harbour Town with 21 players within three shots of the lead.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – Feast or famine at Harbour Town Golf Links?
Not this year.
The RBC Heritage has turned into a smorgasbord of scoring and scores of players are filling their plates with eagles and birdies and going back for seconds and thirds. With little to no wind coming in off the sea and the small greens soft because they require constant watering due to the heat, players are devouring this tree-lined, quirky course full of doglegs that usually has players on edge.
And it hasn’t mattered that the players were on the shelf for 13 weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rust? Forget about it. Last week at the Charles Schwab Challenge there was a stampede to the finish line, with Daniel Berger coming out on top. Well, the stampede has moved to the Lowcountry.
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“I think people are hungry,” said Carlos Ortiz, who fired 63 and is tied for fifth. “They want to make money, so everybody’s trying to play good. I just think the conditions are ideal, especially yesterday morning there’s no wind, and today pretty much no wind. Greens are soft, so it’s throwing darts out there.
“Once you put yourself in position off the tee, I feel like you have short irons, and with soft greens, you have a good chance of putting it pretty close.”
On a sunlit Saturday, six players posted 63 – one shy of the PGA Tour record for most rounds of 63 or lower by a field set in round 2 of the RSM Classic in 2019. One of those 8-under 63s was posted by Tyrrell Hatton, who moved to 15 under through 54 holes and is in a four-way tie atop the leaderboard alongside Abraham Ancer (65), Ryan Palmer (66) and Webb Simpson (68).
Hatton won the Arnold Palmer Invitational before the COVID-19 pandemic halted play on the PGA Tour for 91 days.
“It wouldn’t be surprising tomorrow if someone around 20th place goes out and shoots potentially a really low score to win the tournament,” Hatton said. “If the weather’s the same, I think it will probably be another low scoring day.
“We’ve all had enough notice to try and get ready to play tournaments again. So it’s not massively surprising to see guys playing as well as they are.”
One shot back of the foursome of pace-setters were Ortiz, Berger (63) and Joel Dahmen (63). At 13 under, two back, was a large group that included Joaquin Niemann (63), Sergio Garcia (65), Chris Stroud (63), Michael Thompson (66), Ian Poulter (67), Matthew Fitzpatrick (68), Corey Conners (69) and Erik van Rooyen (66). At 12 under were five players, including Brooks Koepka (68), Dustin Johnson (67) and Bryson DeChambeau (70).
That’s 21 players within three shots of the lead.
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But don’t forget what Hatton said about someone around 20th place having a chance. Six players are tied for 22nd place at 11 under and just four shots behind, among them Tony Finau.
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy is tied for 28th at 10 under. You want to count him out? Might not be wise.
In all, 35 of the 75 players in the field are double-digits under par.
On Saturday, only eight players didn’t match or break par.
“I’m tied for fourth going into the day, and when I get on the range, I’m tied for 15th,” Palmer said. “The scores were just unbelievable out there. It just shows you, it’s so calm, guys can go low.
“I knew I had to get to 4 or 5 under today just to be up towards the top. I wasn’t sure I’d be tied for the lead, but a huge day. Huge day driving. Irons were pretty solid. Putting was there. I just didn’t make a few on the front that I could have, but overall, it’s there. I just need to put it all together for one round.
“I think I’ve got my lowest round yet ahead of me.”
He might need it to win.
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Pinkie toe healed, Carlos Ortiz ready to step into winner’s circle at RBC Heritage
Carlos Ortiz is ready for a win. He shot 8-under 63 Saturday to leap up the leaderboard at the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – Carlos Ortiz is ready to put his best foot forward as he tries to win his first PGA Tour title.
Especially now that the pinkie toe in his left foot is healed.
Ortiz raced up the leaderboard Saturday in the third round of the RBC Heritage at windless, defenseless Harbour Town Golf Links with an 8-under-par 63 that gave him a share of the lead when he finished play.
Through 54 holes, he is at 14-under 199 and in the best position to win his maiden Tour title since he tied for second in the Mayakoba Classic last November.
“That’s something I always dream of,” Ortiz said about earning his first PGA Tour victory. “I feel like I did a great job last year of putting myself in position, and I think I did a great job during these first three days to get myself in that position again. So I’m just going to enjoy tomorrow, and I’m just happy I have a chance.”
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He’s also pretty happy to be out of a walking boot. A little over nine weeks ago, Ortiz was lifting weights – barefoot, mind you – when a weight fell on his left foot and broke his pinkie toe. He wore a walking boot for six weeks and has been playing and practicing for just three weeks.
“I learned my lesson,” Ortiz, 29, smiled when asked if he’d ever lift weights again barefoot. “I struggled because on the swing you have to kind of move your weight to that side. So even though I felt like I was fine, I was still struggling mentally to like trust it and move to that side. That’s why I’ve been a little bit off, especially off the tee with a driver. Then just been working hard on trusting it.”
He also had to trust himself and remain patient when he made two double bogeys in his first five holes in Thursday’s first round. Instead of getting in position to win the famous plaid jacket that goes to the victor here, he was wondering if he’d get to the weekend.
From the sixth hole on, he’s made 17 birdies, two eagles and just three bogeys.
“I just told my caddie, like, ‘Dude, let’s just grind.’ Let’s just find our game and start getting some confidence back,” Ortiz said about going to the sixth hole after the two doubles. “That’s what we did. We just stayed patient, started hitting great shots. Starting that way was tough, but I was really proud of the way I came back.”
On Saturday, Ortiz, who won three times in 2014 on the Web.com Tour, found the fairway 10 of 14 times in regulation and cashed in by hitting 14 of the smallish greens in regulation. He chipped in from 45 feet on the second for eagle and knocked in a 7 footer for eagle on the fifth. He closed with three birdies in his last four holes.
“Pretty much textbook. I put myself in position off the tee, and after that you’ve got short irons into these greens,” Ortiz said. “They’re soft, so it’s pretty much throwing darts out there. I feel great on the greens, and that’s always good.”
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2 up, 2 down: Carlos Ortiz, Tommy Fleetwood on the rise
Golfweek’s experts dish on the two players who are up and down on the PGA and European Tours.
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Golfweek takes a look at who’s up and who’s down each week on the three major golf tours. Here are the latest rankings for men and women.
The Golfweek/Sagarin ranking for each player is in parentheses.
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Carlos Ortiz (97)
Ortiz’s tie for second on home soil at the Mayakoba Golf Classic was the best of his fledgling career. The 28-year-old shot a pair of 65s in the middle rounds and overcame a double bogey on his opening hole of the final round to shoot 66. Ortiz has been on a roll thanks to a solid all-around game, highlighted by a rank of fifth in SG: Around the Green. He had finished in the top 5 in two of last four starts (Sanderson Farms and Houston Open).
Harris English (68)
English has had an outstanding start to the 2019-20 season after suffering through his worst season last year (No. 149 in the FedEx Cup standings). Playing on a sponsor’s exemption, he finished fifth at the Mayakoba Golf Classic. It marked his Tour-best fourth top-6 finish of the season: T-3 at Greenbrier, T-4 at Houston Open, T-6 at Sanderson Farms. What’s the difference? English said he simply went back to what worked when he was playing his best golf. “Just sticking to that, not trying to reinvent the wheel and just do what I’m good at,” he said.
Down
Kevin Kisner (41)
Kisner has finished T-66 at Zozo, T-28 at the WGC-HSBC Champions and T-76 at Mayakoba. He’s only broken 70 three times in 12 rounds and shot 72, 77 and 74 on Sundays. This week’s RSM Classic is a course he’s won on before so don’t count Kiz out yet.
J.J. Spaun (177)
The San Diego State product is off to an unusually slow start in 2019-20. In six starts, he’s missed two cuts and his best result is a T-36 at Sanderson Farms. At Mayakoba’s El Camaleon, a course where he finished a season-best T-3 last year, he tied for last (T-80). He’s already shot 77 twice and 78 this year, and ranks No. 201 in SG: Tee-to-Green. No bueno.
Euro Tour
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Tommy Fleetwood (8)
It wasn’t that Fleetwood was having a bad season, more a case of a frustrating one. The Englishman finished runner-up in the Open Championship, one of seven top 10s this year, but that fifth European Tour win seemed like it would arrive in 2020. The Englishman showed his class to come from six shots off the lead to return a closing 7-under 65 and then defeated Sweden’s Marcus Kinhult in a playoff. The 28-year-old led the field in strokes gained off the tee, averaging +1.49 per round. Fleetwood is fourth in greens in regulation on Tour this year, with a 75 percent average. He’s also fifth in scoring average at 69.69 per round. He could do with improving his putter since he’s taking 30.22 putts per round to rank 171st on Tour.
Marcus Kinhult (108)
The 23-year-old Swede ranked third in stokes gained around the green in the Nedbank Golf Challenge. Kinhult averaged +1.46 strokes gained around the greens, which explains why he got into a playoff with Tommy Fleetwood. He was chasing his second victory of the season following the Betfred British Masters, which Fleetwood hosted at Hillside Golf Club. Kinhult moved to 13th on the Race to Dubai, 36 places better than last year’s ranking of 49th. He has one tournament left and no one would be surprised if he finished the year inside the top 10. The Swede got off to a slow start this season, missing six of his first eight cuts. However, he’s become more consistent as the season as wore on. He’s made the cut in his last 10 tournaments.
Down
Lucas Bjerregaard (348)
The Dane needed a good performance in the Nedbank Golf Challenge to move into the top 50 of the Race to Dubai to make the field in this week’s DP World Tour Championship, Dubai. Bjerregaard finished last and dropped from 49th to 53rd. It wasn’t what anyone would have predicted when he began the season by making the semi-finals of the WGC–Dell Technologies Match Play. However, the 28-year-old struggled the rest of the year, missing 12 cuts on both the European and PGA Tours. Bjerregaard struggled with his iron play this year. He hit an average of 66.16 percent greens this year to rank 119th on the European Tour. Last year he was third in that category, hitting 73.50 percent of greens.
Alex Noren (77)
Needed a good finish in the Nedbank to make it into the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai. The Swede finished T-44 and sits 67th on the Race to Dubai. He was sixth last year, eighth in 2017 and third the year before. In 16 European Tour events this season, Noren failed to rack up one top 10. His poor season comes down to struggles with the shortest club in his bag. He was 18th in putts per green in regulation in 2018. This year he ranks 148th. The former Oklahoma State player is one of the hardest workers in the game. He doesn’t have to look too hard to discover what he needs to work on over the winter to try to get back to his best.
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Brendon Todd wins Mayakoba Golf Classic for consecutive PGA Tour victories
Brendon Todd held on for the win at the Mayakoba Golf Classic for his second consecutive win on the PGA Tour.
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Just another manic Monday for Brendon Todd, who clinched the Mayakoba Golf Classic with a gutty par at 18 for a one-stroke victory over a trio of players and his second straight PGA Tour title.
“It’s incredible. I’m just overcome with emotion right now,” said Todd, who had to play the final four holes on Monday. “The whole final round was much more nerve-wracking than Bermuda.”
A year ago, Todd, 34, was considering hanging up his spikes. He had missed 37 of 41 cuts on the PGA Tour and sat down with his financial adviser to consider other career options. The full-swing driver yips will do that to a man.
“All of us as pros who knew him felt so bad for the struggles he went through. He went down to the bottom. He wasn’t just missing cuts. He was struggling to break 80,” said Matt Kuchar, the 2018 Mayokoba champ, who shot 62 with an ace on Sunday and finished T-14. “I think most people would have packed it up and said enough is enough at some point.”
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But on another Monday, nearly a year ago to the day, this one in Brunswick, Georgia, Todd torched the course in 61 at the Monday Qualifier for the RSM Classic and then posted four rounds in the 60s to make his decision easier. Plans to buy into a pizza franchise were put on hold and Todd spent the next six weeks in his basement rebuilding his golf swing following the tenets of instructor Bradley Hughes.
The champion with his trophy @MayakobaGolf . Hold it high, Brendon Todd. pic.twitter.com/Ix3ij6KBKD
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The Todd comeback story keeps getting better and better. After starting the year ranked No. 2006 in the world, he regained full status on the Tour at the Korn Ferry Tour Finals and then ended a five-year victory drought with his second career title at the Bermuda Championship.
At the Mayakoba Golf Classic, Todd bottled the magic to earn his third career victory after firing four rounds in the 60s at El Camaleon Golf Club for a 20-under total of 264 and a one-stroke victory over Vaughn Taylor, Carlos Ortiz and Adam Long. In doing so, Todd became the first player to win consecutive Tour events since Bryson DeChambeau, who was victorious in the first two events of the 2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs at The Northern Trust and Dell Technologies Championship.
Todd started the final round with a one-stroke lead after shooting 65 in Sunday’s third round. Todd made three birdies on the front nine and tacked on another at No. 12 to lead by two strokes. Just when it looked like he might coast to victory again, Taylor made birdie at 13 and Todd made a bogey at 14, his first of the week on the back nine, and the lead was gone. One hole later, the final threesome ran out of daylight as played was suspended at 6:11 p.m. with 12 of the 82 golfers who made the cut still on the course.
If Brooks can’t play in @PresidentsCup , Tiger should without question take Brendon Todd. Would be an asset to have the hottest player in the world on the team
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Thursday’s opening round was washed out due to heavy rain and all four rounds of the tournament were played under preferred lies. Five players were separated by just two shots when play resumed on Monday at 7:30 a.m. Todd didn’t waste time regaining the lead, drilling a 20-foot putt birdie putt at 15 to climb to 21 under. He could’ve doubled his lead one hole later after Taylor bogeyed the difficult par-4 16th, but Todd lipped out a 3-foot par putt after splashing out of a greenside bunker.
“I was literally walking around that green thinking I had a two‑shot lead and feeling pretty comfortable and that wasn’t the case,” Todd said.
The miss could’ve dented Todd’s confidence, but he found the fairway with his tee shot at 17 and made par.
“It was hard,” Todd said. “I had to dig deep.”
On the final hole, Todd missed the green left and pitched to 4 feet. Taylor, who was seeking his first win since the 2016 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, had a 15-foot birdie putt to tie Todd and left it short in the heart of the hole. He tapped in for 3-under 68 and settled for his first top-10 finish since June.
“I was a little nervous, so usually come up short when I’m nervous,” Taylor said. “Just wasn’t willing to go down there, so oh, well.”
Ortiz had to play one hole on Monday after calling it a day on the 18th hole and opting to wait to finish his round as his fellow playing competitors finished in the dark. Trying to win on home soil, he opened with a double bogey, but bounced back to make seven birdies en route to shooting 66. Ortiz received the Premio Trophy as low Mexican, and his runner-up finish was a career best.
“I was really trying to push the finish yesterday, just it was too hard to see,” said Ortiz, who was bidding for his maiden Tour title and to become the first Mexican-born Tour winner since Victor Regalado in 1978. “I thought I hit a great drive and it barely caught the rough but the wet rough was really hard. I played great. I’m pretty pleased with the way the week went.”
But not as happy as Todd, who sunk his 4-foot par putt and hoisted a trophy for the second straight Tour event. Todd takes home $1,296,000 for the win at Mayakoba, two weeks after winning $540,000 at Bermuda. He also became the first player to win twice in the fall portion of the schedule in a single season since the Tour went to a wraparound schedule in 2013-14.
“It is so surreal,” Todd said. “Harris just said to me in the scoring area, ‘It’s just amazing how fast this game can turn.’ It turned fast in the wrong direction for me in 2015, it turned fast the other direction for me, so I’m enjoying it and I’m just going to keep grinding.”
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With four holes to go at Mayakoba, Brendon Todd bidding for back-to-back PGA Tour titles
Brendon Todd is seeking back-to-back PGA Tour events. He and Vaughn Taylor share the lead at the Mayakoba Golf Classic.
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On a marathon Sunday of golf at the Mayakoba Golf Classic, Brendon Todd and Vaughn Taylor are running stride for stride and share the lead at 20 under. But a champion won’t be crowned until Monday as play was suspended due to darkness at 6:11 p.m., with the leaders on the 15th hole, their 33rd hole of the day.
What’s one more night to wait for Taylor, who last won in 2016, and his pursuers, Harris English, who hasn’t won since the 2013 Mayakoba Golf Classic, and Carlos Ortiz, who is seeking his first Tour title?
Todd, meanwhile, ended a five-year victory drought at the Tour’s last event, the Bermuda Championship, two weeks ago (there was no Tour event scheduled last week).
The 34-year-old Todd is positioned to win in back-to-back events on the PGA Tour after posting his eighth consecutive score in the 60s. When asked earlier this week to name his goals for the rest of the season, Todd said he needed to recalibrate before adding, “I guess I’d like to win again and make it to the Tour Championship.”
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He could check off the first part and take a huge step toward the latter with a victory on Monday. The last player to win consecutive Tour events was Bryson DeChambeau, who was victorious in the first two events of the 2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs at The Northern Trust and Dell Technologies Championship.
It’s a remarkable comeback for Todd, who missed 37 of 41 cuts from 2016-18 while struggling with the full-swing yips. After regaining his Tour privileges this season, Todd set an initial goal to get back into contention and see how he’d perform under the pressure.
He’s handled it with aplomb, shooting a final-round 62 to win in Bermuda and was 3 under through 14 holes in his final round at El Camaleon Golf Club. Todd made three birdies on the front nine and tacked on another at No. 12 to lead by two strokes. But Taylor made birdie at 13 and Todd made a bogey at 14, his first of the week on the back nine, and the lead was gone.
The final group called it a day after reaching the 15th green. Todd could have waited until Monday to hit his tee shot but opted to play on after the horn blew, planting his ball 10 feet from the hole at the par-3 15th while Taylor will face a testy 5-foot par putt after coming up short with his tee shot and leaving himself work to do with his chip.
“I wanted to hit the shot because I’m loose and there’s no wind,” Todd told the Golf Channel. “I thought I could get it in there close and come back and make birdie.”
Ortiz, on the other hand, was on the 18th hole and opted to wait to finish his round on Monday as his fellow playing competitors finished in the dark. The Mexico native opened with a double bogey, but bounced back to make seven birdies to get to 19 under. He’s tied with Harris English, the 36-hole leader who closed the gap with birdies at Nos. 13 and 14. Adam Long is two back at 18 under and marked his ball on the 16th green after play was suspended. Twelve golfers were remaining on the course. When asked what it would mean to win on home soil, Ortiz said, “Winning anywhere, it’s pretty special, and winning in front of my family would probably be like a dream come true.”
All four rounds of the Mayakoba Golf Classic have been played under preferred lies due to heavy rain earlier in the week that prevented play on Thursday. The field has been playing catch-up ever since. Todd fired 6-under 65 in Sunday morning’s third round to grab a one-stroke lead over Taylor and English at 17-under 196.
Todd vaulted into the lead with a chip-in at 16, one of seven birdies in his third round. His string of eight rounds in the 60s is his longest since carding eight straight in 2014, the year of his maiden victory at the AT&T Byron Nelson.
Taylor, 43, is seeking his fourth victory and first since the 2016 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He stormed out of the gate on Sunday with birdies on four of his first five holes en route to shooting 4-under 67 and a 54-hole total of 16 under. In the final round, Taylor hit 10 of 11 fairways and 11 of 14 greens in regulation before play was suspended for the day.
English, 30, endured a roller-coaster round of 3-under 68 to improve to 16 under and extend a streak of shooting par or better in all 19 rounds he’s played in the 2019-20 season. El Camaleon is a course he’s always enjoyed and he is bidding to make his own slice of tournament history. No player in the 12-year run of the tournament has won it twice. But to do so, he’ll have to catch and pass Taylor and Todd, his fellow Georgia Bulldog alum, over the final four holes. Play is scheduled to resume at 7:30 on Monday morning.
“I feel great about my game,” Todd told Golf Channel. “I feel real happy to have a chance to win this tournament coming off a win in Bermuda and I’m excited to tee it up tomorrow and see if we can get another W.”
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