Matthew Fitzpatrick (1st/-14) fires a career-low 63 (-8), highlighted by an eagle-2 at No. 3 when he holed out from the waste area from 149 yards (previous low: 64/five times, including R2/2021 at RBC Heritage; most recently, R1/2022 TOUR Championship).
Holds the 54-hole lead/co-lead for the third time on the PGA TOUR (2019 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard/2nd, 2022 U.S. Open/Won).
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Front-nine 30 (-6) matched his low nine-hole score on TOUR (fourth instance/most recent: 2021 Palmetto Championship at Congaree).
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Made five cuts in eight prior starts at the RBC Heritage, with three top-15 results (T14/2018, T14/2020, T4/2021).
Has won seven titles on the DP World Tour, while his lone victory on the PGA TOUR is the 2022 U.S. Open at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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2022 RBC Heritage runner-up and World No. 4 Patrick Cantlay (2nd/-13) seeks to become the first player since Justin Rose at the 2023 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am to make a hole-in-one and go on to win the tournament (aced the par-3 seventh hole with a 6-iron from 200 yards in the second round).
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The last player to win a tournament one year after losing it in a playoff: Ryuji Imada at the 2008 AT&T Classic.
Closed out the third round with seven consecutive one-putts to match his most consecutive one-putts to end a round on TOUR (R2/2020 Masters Tournament).
Has only finished outside the top 10 once in five prior starts at the RBC Heritage (T3/2017, T7/2018, T3/2019, MC/2021, P2/2022).
Jordan Spieth (3rd/-12) was on track to post a bogey-free round for the second time in 27 rounds at the RBC Heritage (62/R2/2015), before making his lone bogey of the day at No. 17.
Six-time DP World Tour winner Tommy Fleetwood (T4/-11) looks for his first PGA TOUR title in his 115th TOUR start; owns four runner-up results on TOUR (most recent: 2019 Open Championship).
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With a top-10 finish this week, 36-hole leader Jimmy Walker (T4/-11), competing this season on career money exemption (top 50 in career money), would earn his second top-10 in his last 99 starts on TOUR (T6/2021 Memorial Tournament presented by Workday).
Making his tournament debut and 100th PGA TOUR start, World No. 2 Scottie Scheffler (T4/-11) would move into the top spot in the Official World Golf Ranking with a victory this week regardless of where current No. 1 Jon Rahm finishes.
