Shane Lowry skipped around Hilton Head in just 67 blows as he delivered a bogey-free moving day at the RBC Heritage.
Lowry is seven-under for the tournament but is still ten shots behind Matt Fitzpatrick and in a share of 29th place but he can have designs on sneaking in to the top-10 with another low round today.
The Offaly man set the tone early with a birdie at the first and he bounced into the back nine after birdies on the 8th and 9th which were complimented by a fourth birdie of the day on 13.
At the top, former champion here Fitzpatrick briefly lost his lead after three bogeys in his opening seven holes but a superb run of birdie, par, birdie, eagle from the 12th gave him a 68 for a seventeen-under total and a three shot lead over world number one Scottie Scheffler.
“The bogeys that I made today, I didn’t feel like I kind of hit it off the planet and I was scrambling and stuff,” Fitzpatrick said. “I just felt that they were holes that I didn’t really make my par on, and I felt like I was making good enough swings to make a turnaround on the back nine. Obviously, some nice momentum with the hole-outs.”
Scheffler has piled the pressure on with a 64 of his own that included five birdies in the first six holes and two birdies in his last three holes to finish.
“Good to be back in the tournament,” Scheffler said. “I was a little bit behind the 8-ball going into today, but had a nice round to put myself back in position.
“Fitzpatrick goes out today and shoots 64, that’s going to make things really hard for me,” Scheffler said. “You need a tiny bit of help, but I can’t control what those guys are going to do. If somebody shows up and shoots 28 under on this golf course, sometimes you just get beat.
“So going into today I was just going to do my best and see where that left me.”
Brian Harman, Si Woo Kim and Sepp Straka are lying in wait on thirteen-under should the final group fail to sparkle.
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