IRELAND'S SHANE LOWRY ILLUMINATED THE THIRD ROUND OF THE PLAYERS TITLE WITH A STAGGERING OPENING IN-ONE AS PAUL CASEY PUT HIMSELF IN CONFLICT WITH AN INTRUDER FREE SUNDAY AT TPC SAWGRASS IN FLORIDA.
The PGA Visit's $20m leader competition will complete on Monday after storms upset play on the initial three days.
Play will continue at 08:00 (12:00 GMT) with each of the 71 players left in the field to finish their third adjusts.
India's Anirban Lahiri leads on nine under, with Casey two behind.
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A British bloke has always lost the Players, with just Sandy Lyle in 1987 and Rory McIlroy in 2019 from the UK winning in its 48-year history.
Yet, Casey, who completed joint fifth last year, has set himself in prime situation to challenge after a run, extending back to cycle one, of 42 openings without dropping a shot.
He was among those starting in close to frigid temperatures at 08:15 on Sunday morning as he finished a three-under 69 in cycle two, which incorporated a 53-foot birdie putt on the standard three seventeenth 'island opening'.
"That birdie on 17 was loads of tomfoolery," he said. "It was a drawn out day. I began in obscurity and returned home in obscurity. Be that as it may, it was useful. It wasn't my best ball striking, yet I putted all around well, and that has been the essence up to this point this year."
He then, at that point, had two birdies and seven standards as he finished nine holes of cycle three preceding obscurity finished play.
The cheers that welcomed that Casey's birdie were clearly, however nothing contrasted with those that followed Lowry's expert on the Arena Course's unique opening, which reverberated through the trees.
The 2019 Open hero let out a thunder of enjoyment prior to knocking chests with playing accomplice Ian Poulter and afterward high-fiving fans on his way down the pathway round the lake.
"Extraordinary things happen now and again," he said. "It's cool to do it there, one of the most notorious openings in golf.
"Not just that, it set me back in the competition.
"I played the seventeenth opening two times [on Sunday] and did it in three shots, so it doesn't owe me anything," he added, alluding to his birdie in cycle two.
Lowry followed his ideal opening with an intruder on the eighteenth, however offered reparations for that with birdies on the first and second to end the day close by Britain's Tommy Fleetwood, four off the lead on five under.
Unheralded Lahiri, positioned 322 on the planet, is that pioneer. He hustled to the highest point of the leaderboard with five birdies in the initial nine holes of his third round and will emerge on Monday morning with seven openings left to play.
Americans Tom Hoge and Harold Varner III have both played nine holes and are one back at eight under.
Colombia's Sebastian Munoz checked six birdies in the 14 openings he figured out how to jump up the leaderboard and join American Sam Consumes and Casey on seven under.
Italian Francesco Molinari likewise rose up out of the pack, and is in a gathering on six under subsequent to playing 15 openings in five under standard.
No player has brought home progressive Players championships. Notwithstanding, last year's victor Justin Thomas is as yet in a mess on four under, alongside individual American Patrick Reed, Britain's Tyrrell Hatton and Scotland's Russell Knox.
There will be live text inclusion of the finish of the third round from 12:00 GMT on the BBC Game site, with the last round from 17:00
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