WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. – Danny Lee was overcome with nerves after qualifying for a four-man playoff at The Greenbrier Classic.

By the time he walked to the first playoff tee, he was ready.

Lee earned his first PGA Tour victory when he parred the second hole of Sunday’s sudden-death playoff, eliminating David Hearn after Kevin Kisner and Robert Streb faltered on the first playoff hole.

“All I can say is wow,” Lee said. “I finally did it.”

Lee, Hearn, Kisner and Streb were tied at 13 under after four rounds on the Old White TPC course. And Lee wasn’t in a good place mentally heading into the playoff.

“I was so nervous,” he said. “My head was blank, and I was just trying to breathe.”

For good measure, Lee said his caddie, Kurt Kowaluk, put the piece of paper indicating his playoff starting position into a mock wishing well on the par-3 18th tee.

“He put it in there so I can win it,” Lee said.

By then, Lee had his focus back.

“I felt ready,” he said. “I felt like I could really win this thing.”

The South Korean-born New Zealander earned $1.2 million and became the ninth first-time winner on the tour this season.

The former U.S. Amateur champion was competing in his 27th event this season, including his eighth in nine weeks. He is trying to qualify for the international team for the Presidents Cup in October in South Korea. He was 47th in the standings heading into The Greenbrier Classic.

“I never get tired of playing golf,” Lee said. “I mean, it’s my job, and I just love doing it, and I’m just happy to be out here every week.”

Kisner shot a 6-under 64 to get to the clubhouse at 13 under.

Hearn (67) and Lee (67) birdied No. 17 to join the playoff. Both missed birdie putts for the lead on the final hole in regulation.

Streb shot a 5-under 65 in the final round by making five birdie putts on the back nine with a 56-degree wedge after breaking his putter on the ninth hole. The putter broke when Streb tossed it at his bag next to the green.

“It hit the bottom of the bag and the (putter) head went flying,” Streb said. “It was not my intent, but that was what happened. And so I said, well, let’s see what we can do with a wedge.”

He three-putted No. 17 for bogey, but got in the playoff with a 6-foot birdie at No. 18.

Streb was allowed a replacement putter for the playoff, but he never got to use it after missing the green.

Lee and Hearn made birdie putts on the first playoff hole, also eliminating Kisner, who lost in a playoff for the third time this season.

On the second playoff hole, Hearn drove behind a tree on the par-5 17th and made bogey.

“That was probably the only bad tee shot I hit all day,” said Hearn, who is still looking for his first PGA Tour win in 164 events. “I’ve just got to keep giving myself chances like this, and it’s going to happen soon.”

Lee also missed the fairway, but reached the green in three shots and two-putted from across the green for par.

It marked the third playoff in the tournament’s six-year history.

Tiger Woods started the day seven shots behind the leaders, shot a bogey-free 67 and said he made some “nice strides” heading into next week’s British Open.

“Best I’ve hit it in a long, long, long time,” Woods said. “I had full control over all clubs. This could have been one of those special rounds.”

Woods broke a streak of 55 consecutive rounds with at least one bogey. It was his first time under par in a final round since the 2013 Tour Championship.

Lee, Hearn, James Hahn and Greg Owen earned spots at St. Andrews. There also were four spots handed out a week ago at the Travelers Championship and one more is available this week at the John Deere Classic.

Russell Henley shot 63 and finished fifth at 12 under. Seven others were at 11 under, including Chad Collins (69), who was tied for the lead before bogeying the final two holes.

Graham DeLaet had a final round 69 to finish T37.

PARIS – Bernd Wiesberger of Austria came from three shots back to win the French Open on Sunday, making five birdies on the front nine to take command as overnight leader Jaco Van Zyl faltered.

Wiesberger finished with a 6-under 65 to win by three shots ahead of James Morrison of England, who shot a 67. Van Zyl only managed a 73 to finish five shots behind Wiesberger’s total of 13-under 271.

Wiesberger found himself in the lead after four straight birdies from the fourth hole, and picked up another shot on the ninth. After eight straight pars, he finished with another birdie on the 18th.

Martin Kaymer, the 2009 champion, finished fourth after a 70.

It was Wiesberger’s third European Tour title.

It was a hot day in Bromont, Que., for the final round of the CN Future Link Quebec Championship hosted by Golf Château-Bromont. Alyssa Getty and Jason (Chan Young) Chung fired off the day’s low rounds in their respective divisions to capture the 2015 CN Future Links Quebec Championship titles.

Before Alyssa Getty of Ruthven, Ont., teed off this morning, she was tied for fifth place and sat two strokes out of the lead. After nine holes, she found herself three back, but remained focus on the task at hand.

“My game plan was to be more aggressive today than I was the other two days and I definitely got some momentum going,” said Getty of her round today.

She played the back nine at even par, bouncing back with a birdie after a bogey on 14. Her par putt on 18 secured her third CN Future Links Championship victory in two years, including back-to-back wins at this event. Earlier this season, Getty captured the CN Future Links Ontario Championship.

Getty added that there was a little extra pressure coming into this tournament as the defending champion, but she stayed calm with her sights set on the victory. “It’s crazy. I’m so excited, especially since it’s my last year of junior golf and playing well in the CN Future Links Championships has been one of my goals. I’m really happy about having won this week and at CN Future Links Ontario this season.”

Getty’s score of 2-over 74, was the lowest in the Junior Girls division on Sunday. Her 224 total for the competition put her one stroke ahead of runner-up Sarah-Ève Rhéaume. The 36-hole co-leader and Québec City, Que. native made the turn this morning with a 1-over 37, but could not hold on for the win. She concluded the tournament with a 5-over-par round of 77.

Finishing T3 at 228 were Noémie Paré of Victoriaville, Que., and Céleste Dao of Notre-Dame-de-L’Île-Perrot, Que., who carded rounds of 78 and 79, respectively.

In the Junior Boys division, Jason (Chan Young) Chung posted the low round for the second consecutive day. The Thornhill, Ont., native’s final round of 6-under 66 earned him the CN Future Links Junior Boys Quebec title with a three-day score of 11-under 205.

“It’s very surreal, I haven’t won in a couple of years,” shared Chung of the win today. “It’s really been a good past few days and I feel I’ve finally broke through with my game. It is a boost of confidence that I can hopefully take into the next couple of tournaments I will be playing. I’d like to think of it as a new chapter because I’ve never gone this low.”

Chung noted that his game plan coming into the final round was to focus on hitting fairways and greens to set him up for as many birdie chances as possible. He was able to follow though, notching eight birdies on the day. He credited his work around the greens for the victory. “I made most, if not all, of my putts from inside eight feet, so I think that’s what made the difference today.”

Finishing two strokes back in second place was Charles-Éric Bélanger with a final round 67. The Québec City, Que., product made a determined attempt to catch the leader, notching four birdies on the front nine for a 3-under 33 before adding three consecutive birdies on holes 13, 14 and 15. Third-place finisher Maxime Laoun matched Bélanger’s front nine score of 33 and went on to sign for a final round 4-under 68. The Montréal, Que., native finished the competition at 209.

Jason (Chan Young) Chung will return to the province of Quebec from August 3-6 to compete in the 2015 Canadian Junior Boys Championship at Summerlea Golf & Country Club in Vaudreuil-Dorion. Also receiving exemptions into the field were the five runners-up from this competition determined in a playoff.

Similarly, Alyssa Getty and the five finishers and ties in the Junior Girls division of the CN Future Links Quebec Championship were awarded direct entry into the field at the 2015 Canadian Junior Girls Championship to be contested from August 4-7 at Deer Park Golf Course in Yorkton, Sask. Alyssa Getty has also earned entry into a 2016 Canadian Women’s Tour event.

The CN Future Links Championships are a series of six tournaments presented by Golf Canada in partnership with CN in support of the development of junior golf. The 2015 series’ first winners were Team Canada Development Squad members Trevor Ranton (Waterloo, Ont.) and Grace St-Germain (Ottawa, Ont.) who found the podium at the championship’s Pacific edition at Pheasant Glen Golf Resort in Qualicum Beach, B.C. Ontarians Jack Simpson (Aurora, Ont.) and Alyssa Getty (Ruthven, Ont.) captured the Ontario titles in their home province at Pine Knot Golf & Country Club in Dorchester, Ont. At Cooke Municipal Golf Course in Prince Albert, Sask., Alexander Smith (Calgary, Alta.) and Development Squad member Alisha Lau (Richmond, B.C.) joined the winners circle at the Prairie Championship.

For full results from the 2015 CN Future Links Quebec Championship, please visit the tournament website here.

HALIFAX, N.S. – Abraham Ancer won the Nova Scotia Open on Sunday for his first Web.com Tour title, beating Bronson Burgoon with a 15-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff.

The 24-year-old Ancer became the tour’s fifth Mexican winner, following Keoke Cotner, Esteban Toledo, Alex Aragon and Carlos Ortiz. Ancer was born in Texas and has dual citizenship.

“It was a pretty straight putt. It was right-edge and I smoked it dead center,” Ancer said. “I’ve been waiting for this moment for a while. To win out here is tough. I don’t think it’s going to sink in for a while.”

Part of a tour-record six-way tie for the third-round lead, Ancer and Burgoon each birdied the par-4 18th in the final pairing in regulation. Ancer made a 30-footer, and Burgoon countered with a 10-footer.

“I was just trying to cozy mine in there because they can get away from you quickly,” Ancer said. “I knew it was for a potential win, but I was thinking Bronson was going to make his. It’s not the kind of putt you want to be aggressive with.”

They finished at 13-under 271 on Ashburn’s New Course.

Ancer earned $117,000 to jump from 39th to fourth on the money list with $192,945. The former University of Oklahoma player tied for second in the Brazil Champions in March.

Burgoon is winless on the tour. The 28-year-old former Texas A&M player made $$70,200 to go from 43rd to 17th with $142,575.

Jason Allred, Travis Bertoni and D.H. Lee tied for third at 12 under. Allred shot a 64, Bertoni had a 68, and Lee a 69.

Stuart Appleby closed with a 68 to tie for 36th at 6 under in his first start since surgery to repair a herniated disk. The nine-time PGA Tour winner made his first appearance on the second-tier tour since 1995.

Top Canadian in the field was Ryan Yip with a final round 71 to finish T16. Team Canada Young Pro Adam Svensson also finished with a score of 71 to finish T25. Eugene Wong had a 3-under 68 today.

SASKATOON, Sask. – Kansas City, Missouri’s Michael Letzig defeated Newport Beach, California’s J.J. Spaun and Grand Rapids, Michigan’s Clark Klaasen in a playoff on Sunday to capture the SIGA Dakota Dunes Open presented by SaskTel, his first career Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada victory.

Letzig, a veteran of 114 starts on the PGA TOUR with more than $3.3 million in career earnings on the Web.com Tour and PGA TOUR, carded a final round 3-under 69 to finish at 16-under total, then birdied the second hole of a sudden-victory playoff to earn the victory, his first win in a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event.

The win moves Letzig to fourth on the Order of Merit through four of 12 events, in position to earn status on the Web.com Tour for the 2016 season.

“I was a long way back starting the day, so I really didn’t watch the leaderboard today. I knew I played really good yesterday and my score didn’t show that, so I knew if I came out and played my game I could put a good number in,” said Letzig, who made a 15-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole, then watched as Spaun and Klaasen couldn’t match with shorter putts, giving him the win. “I had just had that putt on the first playoff hole, and I knew it was mine to win because you don’t often get second chances and those guys gave me a second chance.”

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— Mackenzie Tour (@PGATOURCanada) July 5, 2015

Letzig, who owns nine top-10 finishes on the PGA TOUR, said he felt relieved to play at the level he showed in five seasons at the game’s highest level.

“If you look at the stats, I’ve had the most success of anybody out here, so I feel like that’s a lot of pressure I’ve put on myself. I feel like I should be winning every one of these and I haven’t played well up until this week, so it was nice to get out of my own way and play my own game. It was good to play the way I believe I can play,” said Letzig.

Letzig started the day six shots behind 54-hole leader Eric Onesi, but matched Spaun’s earlier clubhouse lead of 16-under on the strength of a birdie at the 17^th hole and a par at the last.

“I hit the best shot of the week on 17. I just hooked a 6-iron in there and didn’t think there was any way to get it close to the hole without hooking one in there and just hit it perfect. I made birdie there and saw the leaderboard and knew I had a chance,” said Letzig.

Klaasen, a second year Mackenzie Tour member, looked to be in control of the tournament after reaching 18-under with a birdie on the 15^th, but bogeyed his final two holes to fall back into a tie with Letzig and Spaun. Onesi, who appeared to be out of the tournament after making a triple bogey at the par-3 6^th, came back to tie the lead with a birdie at 16, but couldn’t get up-and-down for par from a plugged lie in a greenside bunker at 18 and missed the playoff by a shot.

After three pars on the first playoff hole, the trio headed back to the 18^th. The second time around, Letzig played the par-5 more aggressively, knocking a pair of drivers just short of the green in two.

“I think the more experience you get, the more comfortable you are under pressure. I hit driver off the deck back there because I knew I wasn’t going to play up. You gotta put pressure on yourself to hit a shot if you want to win a golf tournament,” said Letzig.

Though Spaun and Klaasen both had shorter birdie putts, Letzig put the pressure on with a 15-footer and watched as neither of his competitors could match, giving him the title.

“To pull that shot off and finish it with a birdie was awesome,” Letzig added.

The win comes at an exciting time for the Letzig family, with wife Holly expected to give birth to the couple’s second child in the next two weeks. Though the baby’s due date isn’t for two weeks, Letzig had his family on standby to call PGA TOUR Tournament Director Jamie Wiles to bring Letzig home in case she went into labour.

“Every time I saw him in the cart out there, I was kind of afraid he was coming to get me. To get the whole tournament in and be here all week is awesome, but I can’t wait to get home,” said Letzig.

Top Canadian in the field was Ben Silverman with a final round 1-under 71 to finish T4. Team Canada Young Pro Mackenzie Hughes also had a 71 on the day to finish T11. Fellow teammate Corey Conners had a 1-over round of 73 on Sunday. Albin Choi had a score of 74.

STANWOOD, Mich. – Daniela Iacobelli birdied the final two holes Sunday for a one-stroke victory in the Symetra Tour’s Tullymore Classic.

The 27-year-old former Florida Tech player closed with a 6-under 66 to finish at 16-under 200 at Tullymore Golf Club. She was born in Detroit and lived in Michigan until she was a teenager.

“I think every single thought that a golfer can have,” Iacobelli said about what she was thinking standing over her birdie putt on the par-5 18th. “Straight back and straight through. Not too hard. Not too soft. Don’t peak and pray that it goes in.”

Former UCLA player Lee Lopez and Japan’s Haruka Morita-WanyaoLu and Chie Arimura tied for second. Lopez birdied six of the last seven holes for a 62, Morita-WanyaoLu had a 67, and Arimura a 68. Arimura missed a chance to force a playoff when she left her 6-foot birdie putt short on 18.

“I almost dropped to my knees,” Iacobelli said. “When I was in the tent, I was thinking how I would play in the playoff and when her putt didn’t drop it’s almost like you snap out of competition mode immediately. It took a second, but then I was doused with a lot of water so that helped.”

Iacobelli earned $15,000 to jump from 15th to second on the money list with $40,597. The final top 10 will earn 2016 LPGA Tour cards. Iacobelli also won the tour’s 2012 Daytona Beach Invitational.

“It’s one of the best feelings,” Iacobelli said. “I’ve done it in my two home states. I don’t think that I could have set up an off week any better.”

Top Canadian in the field was Sara-Maude Juneau with a final round of 4-under 68 to finish T5.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. – Jason Bohn’s main goal after barely making the cut at The Greenbrier Classic was to get some extra rest before the final round.

Sweet dreams. And try not to think about being the co-leader heading into Sunday.

Bohn shot a 9-under 61 Saturday and was at 11-under 199, tied with Sean O’Hair, Sung Joon Park and Bryce Molder on the Old White TPC course. O’Hair and Park both shot 66. Molder had a 67.

Bohn started strong with six birdies on the first 10 holes. After a bogey at No. 11, he regrouped with four more birdies over the final five holes

It’s setting up to be another close finish at the tournament, which debuted in 2010. Two were decided in playoffs and the largest margin was two shots twice.

A crowded leaderboard has 27 players within four shots of the lead. Tiger Woods wasn’t among them.

Woods struggled on the back nine, shot 71 and was seven strokes back.

Bohn’s round was his best on the PGA Tour and included 14 one-putt greens. He shot 58 in a 2001 Canadian Tour event, the Bayer Championship.

A two-time winner on the PGA Tour, Bohn has two runner-up finishes this season. On Saturday, he was just hoping to play well enough to avoid an early tee time in the final round.

“I just wanted to sleep in to be honest, so now I don’t have to get up early in the morning,” Bohn said.

Bohn had birdied the final hole in the second round Friday to make the cut on the number at 2 under. He said he’ll need a similar round on Sunday to have a chance at winning.

“You’ve just got to play very aggressive and play smart when you’re out of position – and aggressive when you’re in position,” Bohn said.

O’Hair lost to Jordan Spieth in a playoff at the Valspar Championship in March, but had missed cuts in four of his last five events.

Seeking his fifth PGA Tour win and first since 2011, O’Hair had four back-nine birdies Saturday.

“I don’t feel any pressure,” O’Hair said. “I actually feel like a weight’s been lifted off a little bit. I’m just happy to be in this situation again. This definitely beats struggling, I can promise you.”

Molder reached 11 under with a birdie at No. 9 before stringing together nine straight pars.

“Somewhere midway through the back nine I just kind of lost rhythm,” Molder said. “But my short game hung in there and kept me in it.”

Molder’s lone tour win came in a playoff at the 2011 Frys.com Open.

Park scattered four birdies in his bogey-free round. The South Korean has a runner-up finish at the Humana Challenge in his rookie season.

He doesn’t expect to be nervous Sunday as he seeks his first tour victory.

“I’ve been in this situation before,” Park said. “It’s going to be the same – another round for me.”

Justin Thomas (66), David Hearn (68), Danny Lee (68) and Chad Collins (68) were at 10 under.

Woods hasn’t been the same since shooting 66 in the first round, his lowest score of the season and matching his best in relation to par.

Woods was within four shots of the lead at the start of Saturday’s round and kept pace with two front-nine birdies.

Then all parts of his game came unraveled. He surpassed 30 putts for the second straight day.

Woods drove out-of-bounds on the par-4 11th and made double bogey. He three-putted the par-4 13th from 30 feet for bogey.

On the par-5 17th, where he had driven into water to the right in the first two rounds, his drive went 190 yards far to the left of the fairway and he made another bogey.

“I started pressing at the end trying to make some birdies and really got aggressive,” Woods said. “I hit a lot of shots close. I just need to convert on those and get some kind of string going in a positive way.”

Third round co-leaders Jhonattan Vegas (76) and Scott Langley (74) both shot 2 over on the front nine and were far back in the field.

Graham DeLaet came out of the gates running as he made five consecutive birdies to open the day and signed for a round of 67 on Saturday.

PARIS – Jaco Van Zyl will take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the French Open and a shot at a maiden European Tour title after carding a 7-under-par 64 on Saturday.

Van Zyl has won 13 times on the Sunshine Tour, and has 17 top-10 finishes on the European Tour, including two this season while playing on a medical exemption with a brace on his leg.

His bogey-free round included a tap-in seventh and final birdie on his last hole.

“Today was really a phenomenal round,” he said after reaching a 10-under total of 203.

Maximilian Kieffer of Germany, also chasing his first European Tour title, was two back after shooting a bogey-free 65 and rising seven places.

Bernd Wiesberger of Austria was alone in third at 7 under thanks to a 66.

In a three-way tie for fourth were 2009 champion Martin Kaymer (69), home favorite Victor Dubuisson (69), and Spanish Open champ James Morrison of England (68).

It was a mix of sun and clouds at Golf Château-Bromont located in Bromont, Que., for the second round of the CN Future Links Quebec Championship. Sarah-Eve Rhéaume and Annie Lacombe went low today to emerge as co-leaders in the Junior Girls division. Antoine Beaupré-Vachon took a one stroke lead in the Junior Boys division heading into Sunday’s final round.

Sarah-Eve Rhéaume carded a 3-under 69 to assume a share of the 36-hole lead. The Québec City, Que., native’s round was 10 strokes better than her first day performance and the only score in the 60s thus far in the Junior Girls division. She registered five birdies on the day, including a consecutive pair on holes 7 and 8.

Rhéaume was joined at the top of the leaderboard at 4-over 148 by Annie Lacombe of Laval, Que. The reigning Quebec Junior Girls Champion carded a 1-under 71 that included two sets of back-to-back birdies: on 13 and 14 and on the final two holes.

Sitting one stroke back in third place at 149 are opening round co-leaders Céleste Dao of Notre-Dame-de-L’Île-Perrot, Que., and Alexandra Naumovski of Hornby, Ont. They continued their identical play in round two, both signing for scores of 75. In a three-way tie for fifth at 6-over 150 are Brigitte Thibault from Rosemère, Que., and Alyssa Getty of Ruthven, Ont., – who both recorded rounds of 73 – alongside Noémie Paré of Victoriaville, Que., with a 74.

On the Junior Boys side, Antoine Beaupré-Vachon began the day one stroke back of the lead. The Montréal, Que. product quickly propelled himself to the top of the leaderboard with an impressive tally of seven birdies en route to his 5-under-par round of 67. Combined with an opening round of 70, Beaupré-Vachon now sits at 7-under 137 to hold a one shot lead.

Cullen Chung matched the leader’s 67 and also tallied seven birdies, including five on the back nine. The Westmount, Que., native currently sits in solo second place at 138. Occupying third place at 139 is Jason (Chan Young) Chung who went bogey-free across the back nine to post a 7-under-par 65 round. The Thornhill, Ont. native notched seven birdies and an eagle to tie Sam Meeks of Peterborough, Ont., for the low round of the day.

The top six CN Future Links Quebec Junior Boys competitors will earn entry into the 2015 Canadian Junior Boys Championship, to be hosted by Summerlea Golf and Country Club in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que., from August 2-6.

The top six finishers in the Junior Girls division at the CN Future Links Quebec Championship will receive exemptions into the 2015 Canadian Junior Girls Championship to be contested from August 3-7 at Deer Park Golf Course in Yorkton, Sask. The CN Future Links Quebec Junior Girls champion will also receive an exemption into a 2016 Canadian Women’s Tour event of her choice.

The final round of the CN Future Links Quebec Championship will commence tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m. ET.

For full second round results from the CN Future Links Quebec Championship and final round tee times, please visit the tournament website here.

HALIFAX, N.S. – Texan Bronson Burgoon matched the Ashburn Golf Course record with an 8-under 63 in the third round of the Nova Scotia Open and was within one shot of the lead when he posted his 10-under 203 total. The strange part was that Burgoon teed off nearly four and a half hours before the final pairing that included 36-hole leader Andrew Landry. By the time dust settled many hours later, Burgoon’s name was the first one on the board as a Web.com Tour-record six players suddenly shared the 54-hole lead.

The unpredictability of the game came to the forefront late Saturday afternoon as several players challenged for the lead, some took it outright, several shared it, others took it back and then gave it away at the end.

“I didn’t check the leaderboard until the 10th hole and I was reinvigorated. I was one-over for the day and really felt like I had thrown shots away left and right,” said Jamie Lovemark. “It was good to see. I really couldn’t believe it. I don’t know why exactly and I’m not sure anybody does.”

Lovemark managed only two bogeys and posted a 1-under par 70 that still gave him a share of the lead.

Abraham Ancer birdied seven of his final 14 holes and posted a bogey-free 64 shortly after Burgoon finished, which put him near the top of the board.

Harold Varner III closed bogey-birdie-birdie-bogey and fell into the first-place pit when he three-putted the final hole, a treacherous, uphill par-4 that measures 469 yards. Lovemark followed a few minutes later and added his 6-4 frame to the pile.

Landry held the outright lead after the first two days and surrendered it with a bogey at the first and three in his first eight holes. The 27-year-old Texan rallied with three birdies on the back, including one to close his round on 18 and move into a tie for the lead.

Korea’s D.H. Lee dropped off the pace and then took the outright lead at 11-under par with three consecutive birdies starting at No. 12 but played the final four holes in one-over and became the sixth, and final, entry in the record book.

The previous mark of five players sharing the 54-hole lead came at the 1994 New Mexico Charity Classic.

Following the leader are five more players who are tied for seventh place, just one shot back. Leading that group is 47-year-old Mark Walker, who also owned the outright lead as he played the difficult 18th hole.

Walker, who has no status on Tour this year, couldn’t hold it.

“I got the hard part out of the way – I drove it right down the middle,” said Walker, who lives in the Dallas area. “The main thing for me is to get that ball in play, and I did, perfectly. I couldn’t hit it any better.”

Walker trap-hooked his 3-iron into the trees left of the green and chipped onto the green, 40 feet from the pin.

“I played solid all day,” said Walker, who was mistake-free to that point and finished with a 2-under 69. “That being said, I don’t mind making bogey. I made a bad swing, that’s okay. I compounded my problems by three-putting. That was unacceptable.”

Joining Walker at 9-under are Travis Bertoni (67), Canada’s Ryan Yip (68), Australian Oliver Goss (68), and Alabama’s Hunter Hamrick (68).

As for Sunday’s mad dash to the finish, Lovemark summed it up best.

“Anybody can win,” he said. “If you get out there early with no wind and perfect greens, you can post a score just like those guys did today. I think everybody’s in it, which is crazy.”

Team Canada Young Pro Adam Svensson posted a 5-under 66 to climb into a tie for 12th. Fellow Canadian Eugene Wong shot 72 today.