Beau Hossler shot a third-round 65 Saturday to vault into a three-way tie for the lead with Andrew Putnam and Tom Hoge at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in Pebble Beach, Calif.
Hossler recorded an eagle on his way to a bogey-free round on the Pebble Beach Golf Links. Putnam and Hoge shot matching 4-under 68s as all three players sit at 15-under 200 after 54 holes.
Patrick Cantlay (third-round 68), Jordan Spieth (63) and Joel Dahmen (66) sit tied for fourth at 14 under, one stroke back. Irishman Seamus Power, the second-round leader, is alone in seventh at 13 under, two shots back.
Australian Jason Day (70) and Denny McCarthy (66) are four shots back in a tie for eighth.
Hossler has shot back-to-back 65s after an opening 70. Playing “conservatively” Saturday, he finished with a flurry, posting four birdies in his last six holes. Hossler jumped 14 spots up the leaderboard on moving day.
“Pebble can give and take so quickly, right?” Hossler said. “I was glad to be on the receiving end today. I hit it well, played really conservatively, frankly, as even though it might not look like it and was fortunate to not have any misses really get me in significant trouble. It was as fairly stress free as you can be around here.”
Hoge posted his bogey-free round on Spyglass Hill Golf Club, getting two birdies in his final five holes.
“I don’t know what it is, but I always seem to shoot better scores at Spyglass than I have at some of the others,” Hoge said. “I don’t know, I mean, it certainly is an advantage just from the way the scoring averages are and all the golf courses, but I seem to play Spyglass a little bit better, so it was a good one for me today.”
Putnam had a chaotic round on Pebble Beach Golf Links. Starting on No. 14, he settled down after posting a bogey and double-bogey in consecutive holes. He would finish the round with seven birdies, including five in a row on Nos. 4-8.
“It was pretty ugly, that first nine,” Putnam said. “It was a really bad start, a 3-putt, kind of a stupid mistake and then kind of got a bad break, ball got kind of buried up in a lip. So it can happen out here. And kind of kept it in play and started hitting some good shots, and the putter started working pretty good on that front side.”
Spieth vaulted 34 spots up the leaderboard playing on Pebble Beach. He opened with two birdies, added an eagle on No. 6, and finished the round with eight birdies against a bogey on No. 13.
Pebble Beach hosts the final round on Sunday.
–Field Level Media
