Kisner ‘excited about the opportunity’ after grabbing lead

At the end of the day, Kevin Kisner led the championship at seven under par, having dropped three strokes over his last three holes.

The hot spell left DeLaet 2 under par for the tournament, still six shots back of Kisner.

This Day was moving at the PGA Championship, all right – both up and down.

Jordan Spieth will likely have to wait to complete a career Grand Slam after making only one birdie to shoot 73 and fall 11 shots behind. “I feel so lucky and so privileged to play on a course like this”.

Golf has always been about minimizing the mistakes more than rounds of 59 or 63 (his third-round tally at the U.S. Open), particularly in the throes of a white-knuckle major championship. “So it was kind of like you’re playing under the lights, which was nice”, Day said.

McIlroy was two-storkes over par heading into the hole after carding a bogey on No. 9 at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C.

Lahiri said, “I would be putting things mildly if I said I was only disappointed”. His chip ran off the green, and he made double bogey.

“Didn’t do anything great today but I didn’t do anything bad”.

So now his best chance is a Hail Mary on the weekend. I don’t know if I can be No. 1 in the world.

An 11-year PGA Tour veteran, the 35-year-old Stroud had played in 288 PGA Tour events, but had never won until capturing the Barracuda Championship last Sunday.

“I was grateful for the rain delay because I was getting exhausted”, he told the PGA Tour. “I think a big step is just understanding that no lead is safe”.

It seemed like a promising sign that he was two strokes off the lead after two rounds, earning a spot in the final group – something that hadn’t happened in a major championship since that victory two years ago at Whistling Straits.

“I was just trying to get it in the bunker, and luckily I hit it with enough speed, and it got up and out of there”.

But as he chased down Kisner on the back nine, he went backwards instead, hitting just one fairway and one green in his first six holes after the turn.

“I had to give him a hug for it”, Day said. “Because I would love to have him on the team”.

“I sent it to the clubhouse and they tried to fix it‚ but it was just right in the hozzle‚ where the shaft goes in”. On the 11th, a tap-in from less than three feet resulted in a bogey and on 12th, he went into the rough and got only to the fringe in three and ended with a second successive bogey.

The South Carolina native then saw his approach to the 18th bounce off a bridge spanning the creek which runs the length of the hole, but he was able to salvage a bogey from a hard lie in the thick rough. The top 70 and ties make the cut at Quail Hollow.