{"id":18230,"date":"2025-08-10T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T00:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/st-jude-championship-tommy-fleetwood-leads-justin-rose-by-one-shot-after-third-round\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T00:01:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T00:01:50","slug":"st-jude-championship-tommy-fleetwood-leads-justin-rose-by-one-shot-after-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/st-jude-championship-tommy-fleetwood-leads-justin-rose-by-one-shot-after-third-round\/","title":{"rendered":"St Jude Championship: Tommy Fleetwood leads Justin Rose by one shot after third round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The world number 15 lost his lead early in the third round following a double bogey at the par-five third and a bogey at the seventh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That left Rose alone in the lead and he followed with a birdie at the seventh, but then found water at the ninth and made bogey while Fleetwood birdied the ninth to regain a share of the lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 34-year-old went clear again with a 14-foot birdie putt at the 12th and claimed another birdie on the 16th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had a three-shot lead after 17 holes, but a bogey on the last allowed Rose to pull within one with a birdie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fleetwood has had five top-five finishes this season and was runner-up behind Keegan Bradley at the Travelers Championship in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Players who finish in the top 50 of the FedEx Cup standings after Sunday&#8217;s round at TPC Southwind will advance to next week&#8217;s BMW Championship &#8211; the second of the PGA Tour&#8217;s three play-off tournaments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cvg36zgeyr2o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world number 15 lost his lead early in the third round following a double bogey at the par-five third and a bogey at the seventh. That left Rose alone in the lead and he followed with a birdie at the seventh, but then found water at the ninth and made bogey while Fleetwood birdied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18232,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18230\/revisions\/18232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}