Rookie Riley holds Valspar lead with Lowry ten back heading into final day

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shot a blazing 62 on Saturday to vault to the top of the leaderboard Saturday owning the 54-hole scoring record at the Valspar Championship at Palm Harbour, Florida.

Justin Thomas, on the strength of a third consecutive 66, and defending champion Sam Burns sit three shots back at 15 under.is ten shots off the lead heading into the final day after carding a round of 68 for the second consecutive day. The Offaly man carded three birdies and a bogey on his opening nine holes, picking up one further stroke on his second nine.

“I struggled a little bit with my approach play. I wasn’t as clean as I would like to the first two days, but thankfully the putter was there,” Riley said afterward. “And that’s what I’ve been telling myself is just give myself look. I feel really comfortable with the putter on these greens and if you just get me on the greens, I have a chance.”

“Today was a completely new day and we were trying to put one foot in front of the other one and that was the entire goal of today,” NeSmith said. “I think we accomplished that pretty well and I’m excited to try and do the same thing tomorrow.”

 

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