JT Poston (1st/-19) at the Barbasol Championship, held his second 54-hole lead/co-lead of his PGA Tour career (2020 Sanderson Farms Championship/3rd).
This includes matching back-to-back rounds of 6-under 66, he has now played his last 41 holes without a bogey.
The lone bogey through 54 holes came during his opening round on the par-4 13th hole.
He has advanced to the weekend in all four Barbasol Championship appearances. (T42/2017, 5th/2018, T29/2019, TBD/2021).
Poston owns five top-25s in 25 starts this season, led by a third-place finish at the Sanderson Farms Championship.
His lone PGA Tour win came at the 2019 Wyndham Championship, going bogey-free en route to victory.
James Hahn equalled his best score in Barbasol Championship history with a 12-under 60.
Hahn tops his previous-low round and the current-course record by two strokes.
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Defending champion Jim Herman birdied five out of the last seven holes to trail by five.
Anirban Lahiri shot a 68 to slip back to T18. He is chasing his third top-10 of season before heading to the Tokyo Olympics.
Monday qualifier, Bobby Bai is T24 following a 68. He is making his PGA Tour debut on U.S. soil this week.
Preferred lies have been utilized for the first three rounds.
James Hahn marked the 41st 60 in PGA Tour history (there have been 12 sub-60 scores).
He posted the Tour’s lowest score since the second round of The Northern Trust in 2020 (Scottie Scheffler/59, Dustin Johnson/60).
His previous-low score on Tour was 62 (set three times; most recently at the 2018 Sony Open in Hawaii/R4).
He has a career-best four eagles this week, including Nos. 5 and 15 in the third round.
James Hahn third-round 60 included 22 putts, equaling his career-best total in a round. It topped the Keene Trace Golf Club (Champions) 18-hole record by two strokes.
James Hahn is seeking his third PGA Tour win in his 206th start (2015 The Genesis Invitational, 2016 Wells Fargo Championship).
This week snaps a streak of eight missed cuts (previous made cut: 2021 THE PLAYERS Championship/T41).
Coming off a T4 finish at last week’s John Deere Classic, Luke List (2nd) trails by one as he seeks his first PGA Tour victory in his 194th start.
Text courtesy: PGA Tour
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