Conor Purcell goes into the final round in a tie for 28th place at the PGA and DP World Tour’s co-sanctioned ISCO Championship in Louisville, Kentucky, after a Jekyll and Hyde third round.
The Portmarnock man, making his first cut in a PGA Tour sanctioned event, came into moving day with high hopes but after starting with a bogey, a disastrous triple on the fourth looked to have resigned him to a day of misery.
To his enormous credit, he regrouped and played the next five in one-under, then caught fire on the back side, reeling off five birdies in seven holes to surge up the leaderboard. But the round ended in disappointing fashion as the weather turned nasty and he closed with back-to-back bogeys, costing him a place inside the top 20 after his 54 holes while many of the others have to return on Sunday morning to complete their third rounds.
Paul Peterson had a one-stroke lead with three holes to play when darkness eventually called a halt to proceedings after lightning had caused an earlier delay.
Peterson was five-under for the round and 10-under overall. The 37-year-old PGA Tour rookie stopped playing after hitting his second shot to 30 feet on the par-4 16th.
Chan Kim, five strokes ahead entering the round, lies second. He bogeyed Nos. 11 and 12 and had yet to tee off on 13 when play was called for the day.
David Skinns and Luke List were tied for third at seven-under. Skinns made an eight-foot birdie putt on the par-4 15th to close his day, while List had a bogey-free 65 to take the clubhouse lead. Twelve players were unable to finish.
The tournament winner will receive a two-year exemption and a PGA Championship spot next year. No one in the field is in The Open Championship next week. Harry Hall, the winner in a playoff last year at Keene Trace, qualified for The Open Championship and is playing the Genesis Scottish Open.
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