Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia posted a pair of 6-under 66s on Friday to vault to the highest of the leaderboard on the 51st Gamers Championship.
Lee has but to win on the PGA Tour, along with his largest victory thus far being the 2021 Scottish Open. The Aussie defeated Thomas Detry and Matthew Fitzpatrick at The Renaissance Membership then and has two different DP World Tour victories to his identify.
Bhatia, in the meantime, beat Denny McCarthy in a playoff final yr to win the Valero Texas Open. His victory at TPC San Antonio punched his ticket to Augusta Nationwide the next week, as Bhatia turned the primary Drive, Chip, and Putt participant to compete in The Masters.
However a win for both of these gamers at TPC Sawgrass would vault them into a unique tier on the PGA Tour. They’re each younger, possess super expertise, however have but to win an enormous occasion. That might all change this weekend at TPC Sawgrass.
The Gamers Championship Spherical 3 Tee Occasions (ET):
8:25 a.m. — Shane Lowry, Danny Walker
8:35 a.m. — C.T Pan, Justin Decrease
8:45 a.m. — Tom Kim, Mac Meissner
8:55 a.m. — Daniel Berger, Xander Schauffele
9:05 a.m. — Rico Hoey, Jesper Svensson
9:15 a.m. — Aaron Rai, Sungjae Im
9:25 a.m. — Russell Henley, Corey Conners
9:35 a.m. — Matt Kuchar, Joel Dahmen
9:50 a.m. — Austin Eckroat, Keegan Bradley
10:00 a.m. — Matthieu Pavon, Camilo Villegas
10:10 a.m. — Byeong Hun An, Kurt Kitayama
10:20 a.m. — Ryan Fox, Denny McCarthy
10:30 a.m. — Hayden Springer, Will Chandler
10:40 a.m. — J.T. Poston, Chris Kirk
10:50 a.m. — Jordan Spieth, Tom Hoge
11:00 a.m. — Ryan Gerard, Joe Highsmith
11:15 a.m. — Jhonattan Vegas, Trey Mullinax
11:25 a.m. — Chandler Phillips, Si Woo Kim
11:35 a.m. — Isaiah Salinda, Sami Valimaki
11:45 a.m. — Sahith Theegala, Davis Thompson
11:55 a.m. — Davis Riley, Justin Thomas
12:05 p.m. — Cameron Younger, Carson Younger
12:15 p.m. — Robert MacIntyre, Bud Cauley
12:25 p.m. — Matt McCarty, Stephan Jaeger
12:40 p.m. — Max McGreevy, Beau Hossler
12:50 p.m. — Patrick Cantlay, Sam Ryder
1:00 p.m. — Taylor Moore, Rickie Fowler
1:10 p.m. — Taylor Pendrith, Scottie Scheffler
1:20 p.m. — Sepp Straka, Charley Hoffman
1:30 p.m. — Harris English, Billy Horschel
1:40 p.m. — Jacob Bridgeman, Emiliano Grillo
1:55 p.m. — Tommy Fleetwood, Jake Knapp
2:05 p.m. — Lucas Glover, Will Zalatoris
2:15 p.m. — Collin Morikawa, Alex Smalley
2:25 p.m. — J.J. Spaun, Rory McIlroy
2:35 p.m. — Min Woo Lee, Akshay Bhatia
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