CALEDON, Ontario — Matteo Manassero and Ryan Fox every shot 6-under 64 on Saturday to share the third-round lead within the RBC Canadian Open, the ultimate occasion earlier than the U.S. Open subsequent week at Oakmont.
Manassero rebounded from a three-putt bogey on the par-4 seventeenth with a birdie on the par-5 18th — hitting an 80-yard third shot to 2 ft — to get to 14-under 196 on the North Course at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley.
“I missed the brief one on 17, and I did miss a pair extra brief ones at this time,” Manassero mentioned. “I attempt to think about them identical to a shot actually, like a driver, like a 6-iron, no matter. It is only a shot. So I do not need it to get in my head, and I do not need that to smash something or my perspective going in the direction of the subsequent photographs.”
The 32-year-old Italian participant has eight worldwide victories however none on the PGA Tour.
“I attempt to get an excellent perspective, an excellent thought course of, discuss properly to myself. Very basic items,” Manassero mentioned. “I’ve matured quite a bit and I’ve a greater perspective in the direction of, for instance, a day like tomorrow.”
Fox additionally birdied the 18th. The 38-year-old participant from New Zealand gained the Myrtle Seaside Basic final month in a playoff for his first PGA Tour title.
“To be sincere, every thing went fairly proper,” Fox mentioned. “I drove it nice. I feel in case you do this spherical right here, you give your self a number of possibilities. Had lots of good wedge photographs, holed a couple of putts early. Simply performed actually stable form of stress-free golf for essentially the most half.”
Lee Hodges, Kevin Yu and Matt McCarty have been a stroke again. Hodges and Yu shot 63, and McCarty had a 64.
Canadian Mackenzie Hughes (64) was 12 beneath with Jake Knapp (66) and Andrew Putnam (68).
“I have been placing the ball in play fairly a bit, driving it fairly good,” Hughes mentioned. “I really feel like that is taken some strain off the putter and the brief recreation. It is a huge key round right here. You begin driving it properly, you may assault and be aggressive.”
Canadian Nick Taylor, the 2023 winner at Oakville, eagled the 18th for a 69 to get to 10 beneath. Countrymen Adam Hadwin (65) and Taylor Pendrith (67) additionally have been 10 beneath.
