SAN ANTONIO — Brandt Snedeker and Beau Hossler every shot rounds of 5-under 67 to affix J.J. Spaun and Dylan Frittelli atop the leaderboard after the third spherical of the Valero Texas Open on Saturday.
Each Spaun, who shot 69, and Frittelli (70) bogeyed the final gap to complete with a share of the lead at 10-under 206.
One other final-hole bogey saved Scott Stallings out of the lead. He additionally shot 65 and was a shot again at 9 underneath. Matt Kuchar’s bogey at 18 dropped him to eight underneath after an even-par spherical.
Spaun birdied 4 of his 5 holes heading to the 18th to take a one-shot lead. On the seventeenth he drove the inexperienced on the 303-yard par-4 and nearly made the 19-foot eagle. Nonetheless, he pushed his tee shot on 18 into the timber, punched out, then laid up wanting the stream that guards the ultimate inexperienced. He ended up with a 22-foot putt for par that he missed.
Second-round chief Ryan Palmer didn’t have a bogey Friday. On Saturday he didn’t have a birdie and dropped to twenty first place with a 5-over 77.
Full-field scores from the Valero Texas Open
With a bogey-free spherical, Snedeker was 4 underneath on the bottom. He’s searching for his first win since 2018. It will be his tenth Tour victory.
Spaun and Hossler are every searching for his first tour win and Frittelli received in 2019 on the John Deere Traditional.
Maverick McNealy matched the perfect spherical of the day with 65, and he was three photographs again with Charles Howell III (72), Si Woo Kim (68), Denny McCarthy (68), Troy Merritt (69), Aaron Rai (68), Brendon Todd (72) and Gary Woodland (72).
Hossler had three-straight birdies beginning at No. 14 when all of his strategy photographs completed lower than 10 ft from the opening. A professional since 2016 after enjoying at College of Texas, Hossler has a career-best end of second within the 2018 Houston Open and was third this 12 months at Pebble Seashore.
Stallings, a 37-year-old three-time winner on the tour, began the time out of the highest 20 and received in vary of the leaders when a 36-foot birdie dropped at No. 8 to go 7 underneath. It was his third birdie of the day, and two extra at 14 and 15 gave him a share of the lead. A victory can be his first for the reason that 2014 Farmers Insurance coverage Open and would qualify him for the Masters subsequent week. He hasn’t performed in Augusta since a missed reduce in 2014.
Kuchar was two strokes out of the lead getting into the day, however he was in a six-way tie for the lead when he walked off the second inexperienced after a 4-foot birdie putt. He took the lead with a 16-footer on the following. The lead was two with a birdie from 17 ft on the fourth. However his three-putt inside 40 ft on the fifth quickly had him again in a tie. Spaun birdied three of his first six holes and reached 10-under at No. 6.
It was the second time this week Spaun reached double digits and was on high of the leaderboard. On Friday, he reached 10 underneath and bogeyed three of 4 holes together with a misplaced stroke at No. 9. On Saturday, he double-bogeyed the ninth.
