St Jude Championship: Pendrith leads Canucks, Fleetwood clings to lead...Saturday results

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Taylor Pendrith with his week's best 65 has moved up 21 places T10 -7 to lead a struggling Canadian group after moving day Saturday in Memphis at the St Jude Championship.

Corey Conners T41 E 70

Nick Taylor T48 +2 72

Mac Hughes T48 E 70

All lost ground, Hughes will now decide his season on Sunday, trying to make the top 50.

Tommy Fleetwood 63 64 69 -14 clings to his lead, once again in position to win his first PGA Tour event.

Good guy Justin Rose continues his terrific season at 41, 2nd 64 66 67 -13 will play with his Ryder Cup companion in a very popular final pairing.

Set to spoil the party once again, Scott Scheffler, who is Fed Ex Cup locked in at #1 67 66 65 -12 will be in the penultimate paring with surprise US Open winner JJ Spaun 68 66 65 -11 as TPC Southwind in fair conditions proves no test for this best top 70.

Scheffler who has pleased TV,  the Tour, the sponsors and his fans by deciding to play unlike Rory, is the last guy these playoffs need to win again, to provide any drama at all, however he is the odds on favourite to so just that.

So I say come on Rosey, come on Tommy !! 

Bryan Angus

Scotsman Forrest leads by 3 in Aberdeen...Saturday results

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On a windy day on Trump International Links in Aberdeen where the low score was a 68, Scotland's Grant Forrest is doing his countrymen proud, leading the Nexo Scottish Championship by 3 shots after 54 mainly dry but very windy holes.

He showed nerves of steel to fight back and the Scot led by one at the halfway stage, but found himself overhauled by playing partner Jordan Smith just after the turn following a run of bogey-par-bogey from the eighth.

That left him at -5, however, he returned to the summit alongside Smith, who bogeyed the 11th, with Todd Clements and Kristoffer Reitan also climbing into the share of the lead.

However, Forrest was the only player to jump out of the group at -5, with three birdies in his final five holes helping him to a -8 total

Norway's Reitan carded the lowest round of the day with a 68, Englishman Clements signed for a 69 and Dutchman Daan Huizing joined the pair in a tie for second at five under.

Forrest had to remain patient as the Aberdeenshire coastline course was battered by wind once again, starting seven straight pars.

Reitan rolled in six birdies and two dropped shots in his 68, Clements mixed an eagle, four birdies and three bogeys and Huizing picked up five shots, a double bogey and a dropped shot to reach -5

English pair Joe Dean and Andy Sullivan and Dane Jacob Skov Olesen all carded 70 to sit a further two shots adrift in a share of fifth at -3

Eddie Pepperell is in solo eighth at -2, while Finn, Oliver Lindell, John Parry, Scotland's Ryan Lumsden and American Davis Bryant are at -1

edit>>>>>Canada's Aaron Cockerill was out early fighting the gusting wind coming in with a +6 78 T56 with the scoring average on the par 72, settling at 74.5

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Fleetwood in command, Canadian scores, weather delay St Jude Championship....Saturday leaderboard.

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Tommy Fleetwood is one of the top headliners on the DP World Tour with 7 wins and an enviable reputation at the Ryder Cup, at #15 in the world and 9th in Fed Ex Cup, he is locked in to to Tour Championship, playing all the big events on the PGA Tour, but is still looking for that 1st win in America.

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Tommy Fleetwood is yet to win a PGA Tour event

With 63 64 he has scorched TPC Southwind, down in Memphis for a -13 total and a 4 shot lead after 36 holes.

Stormy weather blew into Memphis late on Friday, forcing both players and spectators off the course. Players will arrive to complete their 2nd round at 730 CT this morning.

>>>>>At approximately 950CT round 3 begins in threesomes off split tees #1,#10 with a hot but dry breezy weekend ahead.>>>>

Canadians

Nick Taylor T31 67 71 -2

Taylor Pendrith T31 69 69 -2

Corey Conners T39 71 68 -1

Mac Hughes T48  71 69 E   Mac began the week #59 and is now #63 after 36 holes. He will need an exceptional weekend to crack the top 50, or his regular season will end. 

Bryan Angus

Cockerill makes the cut, Scotsman Forrest leads Scottish Open.. Saturday leaderboard

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Grant Forrest delighted the home crowd with a new course record as he opened a one shot lead at the halfway stage of the Nexo Championship.

The Scot, who is based in North Berwick, made a rapid start with four birdies in his first five holes during his stunning 66 on the Old Course at Trump International Golf Links on Friday, overhauling Richard Sterne previous mark from the first round by a stroke.

Forrest admitted he has been struggling during the 2025 DP World Tour campaign, but home comforts after a three-week break has seemed to do the trick as he climbed up to -7 in Aberdeenshire, one clear of Englishman Jordan Smith.

"Yeah it was, tough again today," Forrest said. "The wind was up, just played brilliant to be honest. Gave myself loads of really good chances and controlled my ball really well.

"Rolled a couple of putts in and left a couple out there, and overall great day.

"You don't get too many of those days where things really happen for you. This season has been a bit of a struggle for the most part, so just to play some really good golf is really encouraging.

Smith bounced back to record successive 69s with a closing birdie to sit in solo second -6.

"I'm over the moon, so happy," he said. "I've just played really nicely, holed some really nice putts and controlled the ball pretty well into most of the holes too.

"It's mentally really, really, really tough. It's just draining. You've got to be on it for the whole round and you can't really relax."

Sterne birdied the last in his +1 73 to climb into third at -4, while Dutchman Daan Huizing was flawless in his 69 at -3

English pair Todd Clements and Alex Fitzpatrick sit one shot further back alongside South African Justin Harding, Australia's David Micheluzzi and Finn Oliver Lindell all at -2.

edit>>>> Canada's Aaron Cockerill with 74, 72 made the cut which fell at +4.

WEATHER : Saturday. partly sunny, windy 15-20mph WSW, 18*c

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Nick Taylor leads Canadians at St Jude Championship.. Friday leaderboard/ tee times

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Nick Taylor leads the Canadian contingent at the St Jude Championship with an opening -3 67 on TPC Southwind, in Memphis.

The leader at -8 is lefty Akshay Bhatia -8 62.

Taylor Pendrith T27 -1 69

Mac Hughes T48 +1 71

Corey Conners T48 1 +1 71

Hughes is at #59 in the FedEx Cup standings needing to make the top 50 to get into the BMW next week as are many in the 70 man field.

Bryan Angus

Sterne sets record, Cockerill T56, Nexo Scottish Championship...Friday leaderboard

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Richard Sterne revealed losing "seven or eight balls" was the catalyst for setting a new course record at Trump International Golf Links and holding the first round lead in the Nexo Championship.

The South African without a win since 2013 and now ranked #1049, fell victim to strong winds caused by Storm Floris which battered the Aberdeenshire coastline during Tuesday's practice round as he needed to restock his bag with new balls.56

However, the 43-year-old took advantage of calmer conditions on the first morning of the tournament, carding five birdies in a flawless -5 67 to earn a one shot lead and break the course record of 68.

Norwegian Andreas Halvorsen and South African Thomas Aiken, who teed off together in the opening group, should have joined Sterne at -5, but both players bogeyed the last to sit one behind alongside South Africa's Louis Albertse at -4.

"Yeah, very happy," Sterne said. "The course is very tricky even though the wind is not as bad as it was in the practice round on Tuesday and I played well.

"I hit the ball a lot better than have done for a while, so that was quite key.

"When I was here on Tuesday, it was about double this wind and I lost about seven or eight balls. "I wasn't off to the world’s best start, but it is a lot calmer than it was then. I think Tuesday did me a bit of good.

Aiken was blemish-free after an eagle at the tenth in addition to three birdies before his blip at the last to set the initial tone at four under.

Playing partner Halvorsen, who eagled the seventh, mixed four birdie and two dropped shots in his 68. Albertse started on the back nine and carded birdies at the tenth, 14th, 17th before coolly draining another at the ninth to earn a share of second at -4.

An English quintet of John Parry, Jordan Smith, Matthew Baldwin, Joe Dean and Alex Fitzpatrick, who briefly shared the lead in the afternoon, sit one adrift at -3 alongside Spaniard Jorge Campillo, the United Arab Emirates' Adrian Otaegui and Dutchman Darius van Driel.

edit>>>> Canada's Aaron Cockerill had a double bogey six in his round but finished in the increasing wind with a birdie 4 at the 18th for +2 74 T56.

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Fed Ex Cup playoffs: St Jude Championship, 4 Canadians...TEE TIMES

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This week is the first of 2 PGA Tour playoffs, the St Jude Championship worth $20,000,000, with the top 70 in the standings moving on next week to the BMW where the financial benefits become enormous, then the final 30 to the Tour Championship.

Canadians

Corey Conners #13, Nick Taylor #18 and Taylor Pendrith #38 all look to keep their spots in the top 70 and then the final 50.

Mac Hughes #59th needs to finish solo 22nd or better to crack the top 50.

Bryan Angus