Akshay Bhatia (T1/-17) has his second career 54-hole lead/co-lead on the PGA TOUR and first since the 2024 Valero Texas Open, which he went on to win (led outright after each of the first three rounds and won in a playoff).
Related: Akshay Bhatia, Aaton Rai show the wat at Rocket Mortgage Classic
Is one of the six players with multiple 54-hole leads/co-leads on TOUR this season (most: 5, Scottie Scheffler).
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Played in the final group in the final round at last week’s Travelers Championship and went on to finish T5; first player to play in the final group in the final round in consecutive weeks since Xander Schauffele at the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship and 2024 PGA Championship.
Win at the Valero Texas Open was his second career PGA TOUR title (first: 2023 Barracuda Championship).
Only player in the field bogey-free through 54 holes at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
Is making his second start at the Rocket Mortgage Classic; missed the cut in his tournament debut in 2023.
Aaron Rai (T1/-17) is with his first career 54-hole lead/co-lead on TOUR; second time playing in the final group in the final round (first: 2022 Farmers Insurance Open; finished T6).
In only previous Rocket Mortgage Classic start, finished T9 in 2023 at 18-under 270.
Has two top-10s this season: T4/THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson, T7/Texas Children’s Houston Open.
With a win, 2021 Rocket Mortgage Classic winner Cam Davis (T3/-16) would become the first player to win the event multiple times.
Cameron Young (T3/-16) has finished runner-up seven times since joining the PGA TOUR at the start of the 2021-22 season, the most of any player without a win in that span; Scottie Scheffler leads the TOUR with eight runner-up finishes in that span.
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Luke Clanton (A), who recently completed his sophomore year at Florida State, enters the final round T7 and three strokes back of the lead; Clanton is the second amateur this season to be in the top 10 through 54 holes (Nick Dunlap led The American Express and went on to win, becoming the first amateur to win on TOUR since Phil Mickelson in 1991).
