UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio -- Another day, another leader at the U.S. Senior Open Championship.
Miguel Angel Jimenez battled gusty winds and sheets of rain on the 18th hole to shoot a 1-under 69 Saturday and grab a 1-stroke lead after the third round of the tournament at the Scioto County Club in suburban Columbus. He's at 3-under 207 after 54 holes.
Despite three bogeys on the windy back nine, the 52-year-old Spaniard finished as one of just four players who were below par for the day.
Jimenez started the day three shots off the lead. After two birdies on the front nine, he birdied the 12th before carding bogeys on the 13th and 14th, a birdie on the 15th and another bogey on the 16th. He finished with a pair of pars just as sheets of driving rain rolled in on top of the suffocating heat and humidity that's worn down the players all week.
"The conditions, they are tough today, especially because of the wind," Jimenez said. "The greens were softer on the first two rounds, but it's the gusting wind there that [makes it] not easy to choose the club, the right club. Sometimes it will go a place that you don't [want] to, you know?"
Gene Sauers also battled the wind and had an up-and-down day with four birdies and five bogeys, finishing with a 71 to put him in second place, one stroke off the lead. He shot a 68 on Thursday and 69 Friday.
"The heat, the wind, the rain on the last hole -- it was a brutal day," said Sauers, 53, who has never won a senior tournament in five seasons but has 17 top-10 finishes.
Ian Woosnam, Loren Roberts and Billy Mayfair were in a tie for third at 1-over par.
The leader after Friday's round, Joey Sindelar, shot at 77 Saturday and slipped to 2-over and into a tie for sixth place. Glen Day (Little Rock) shot a 4-over 74 and is now tied for 6th.
"Golf's hard," he said. "U.S. Open's harder. And I thought for the most part, I was pretty happy with the way I played. It wasn't horrible. Just a couple of uglies, and it played hard out there. Problem is, we've got a pretty good guy out there in the lead and a couple more really good ones right behind him."
Thursday's leader, Vijay Singh, is 6 over and nine shots off the lead after shooting 75 Friday and Saturday.
PGA
Moore holding lead
SILVIS, Ill. -- Ryan Moore shot two more rounds of 6-under 65 on Saturday to take the third-round lead in the John Deere Classic, finishing at 8:25 p.m. in nearly dark conditions.
After opening Thursday with a 65, Moore never got on the course Friday in the tournament that finally got back on schedule Saturday when the players raced to finish before dark.
Play was delayed 3 1/2 hours Thursday when an inch of rain fell, then the start was delayed five hours Friday after an overnight storm dumped another 2.4 inches on the soaked course.
Morgan Hoffman and Ben Martin each shot 62 to more within a stroke at 17 under.
Moore, 33, has four PGA Tour victories, winning the CIMB Classic in 2013 and 2014. He was third in March in the Valspar Championship and has five top-10 finishes this season.
In the third round, Moore birdied the par-4 14th, hitting a 60-yard approach to a foot, and made a 6-foot birdie putt on par-3 16th. He parred the final two holes, putting out on the par-4 18th with a large scoreboard providing just enough light to see.
Andrew Landry (Arkansas Razorbacks) shot a 4-under 67 and was 10 under going into the final round today. He was tied for 16th. Ken Duke (Arkadelphia, Henderson State) did not make the cut.
WEB.COM
Hughes leads by 1
Mackenzie Hughes shot an 8-under 64 on Saturday at the Web.com Price Cutter Charity Championship at Springfield, Mo., taking a 1-stroke lead into the final round today. Hughes was at 18-under 198.
Steve Allan (63), Xander Schauffele (64) and Richy Werenski (66) were tied for second at 17 under.
Scott Gardiner (Farmington) shot at 2-under 70 and was at 10 under going into the final round. Austin Cook (Jonesboro, Arkansas Razorbacks) had a 3-under 69 and was 9 under for three rounds.
Tag Ridings (Razorbacks), Zack Fischer (Little Rock), Sebastian Cappelen (Razorbacks) and Matt Atkins (Henderson State) did not make the cut.
Sports on 08/14/2016