Chasing his first win on the PGA Tour, India’s Anirban Lahiri will take a one-shot lead on the final day of The Players Championship after completing the third round with a 5-under 67 on Monday morning.
Lahiri also scored a bogey on 15 and a birdie on 16 and his remaining seven holes after leading 9-under 207 from Sebastian Munoz (65), Doug Ghim (68), Paul Casey (69) and Sam Burns (71) Equally completed. ) in the Tour’s flagship USD 20 million tournament.
It will be only the second time in his career that an Indian will maintain a 54-hole lead as he looks to join the country’s Arjun Atwal (2010 Wyndham Championships) as the only Indian to win on the PGA Tour.
He is also bidding to become the third Asian to win The Players after Korea’s KJ Choi (2011) and Si Woo Kim (2017).
“There’s not much to get ahead of myself. I’m just trying to stay in the moment and just do what I need to do next. I think the short turnaround time really helps.” because you really don’t have time to do anything else.”
“You’re just on a schedule and you’re trying to make sure you’re resting and preparing and feeling and doing all the things that you need to do. It’s really I’ve been great, said Lahiri, who will be out with Ghim and Munoz in the final group at 1.01 p.m. local time.
Lahiri, whose best performance on the tour was a T2 at the 2017 Memorial Tournament, entered the final round at the 2016 CIMB Classic in Malaysia and finished third.
The welcome change in form has put Lahiri in a good place as he seeks his career success despite struggling throughout the season without a single top-10.
And it seems that all he did for a change in fortunes was adding 3.5 grams of weight to his barbell and making a slight adjustment to keep a more open stance at address.
“I love golf, and you’re not happy when you know you can play well and you don’t. Then when you start playing well again and you start hitting that way The way you want to hit it again, you’re happy. I mean, it’s so easy.”
“I’m at the place right now where I’m hitting it good, I’m looking good at it, I feel good at it, and it makes me happy,” he said.
“My humiliation was much the same as when I came here seven years ago. Basically that’s what we thought and talked and said, let’s experiment. It can’t be worse than what it is. I’m hitting it so bad to be honest.
“I was like, you know what, let’s just throw on some lead tape and see what happens because I thought I was swinging well, and yeah, it made a difference.”
South Africa’s Louis Osthuizen, who entered the final round three shots behind Lahiri, is not surprised to see the Indian challenge for his first win among the players.
“He’s a great player. He’s obviously gone through a lot of things and wasn’t playing well there for a while, but when he gets going, he can hit fewer shots.”
“He’s really a fighter. You know, he doesn’t get down on himself. He goes and just plays and whatever happens, he’s focused on the next shot and the next hole. He’s a great,” Osthuizen said Character, who has previously been in two international teams in the President’s Cup with Lahiri.
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