McKINNEY, Texas — Scottie Scheffler’s comfortable advantage at his hometown PGA Tour event was the same late in the third round as it was at the start, even without the dominance the No. 1 player in the Official World Golf Ranking showed over the first 36 holes.
Then he found that form again, and made a big lead even bigger at 23-under 190 through 54 holes while finishing after sunset Saturday night.
Scheffler has an eight-shot lead in the CJ Cup Byron Nelson after a 5-under-par 66 capped by birdies on three of the final five holes at TPC Craig Ranch. The last birdie came on the par-5 18th more than 13 hours after the day began with about half the field needing to complete the second round, including 18 players who hadn’t even started. There was a six-hour weather delay Friday.
Ricky Castillo (67), Adam Schenk (65) and Erik von Rooyen (65) were tied for second 15 under, with Kurt Kitiyama (68) and Jhonattan Vegas (67) another shot back.
Chattanooga resident Stephan Jaeger was tied for 52nd at 6 under after shooting a 73, having opened with a 64 before scrambling for a 70 in the second round. Fellow Baylor School graduate Luke List opened with a 70, shot a second-round 69 and missed the cut by two shots