Third round in archive at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Days pass, but for now the name of the leader of the ranking on the Memphis route does not change. In fact, the American J.J. Spaun, author of another very solid lap, after the simply extraordinary one of the first day.
Will Zalatoris, FedEx St. Jude Championship
With a 68-stroke round, Spaun reached a score of -13, which allows him to maintain a one-shot lead over the Austrian Sepp Straka, who has also had a weekend worth framing so far.
More fluctuating lap for the European who eventually manages to score a 68 which keeps him in contact with the leader. The one who is continuing to climb the rankings after a modest first round is the young American Will Zalatoris.
On lap 63 yesterday, the San Francisco native followed up with an excellent 65 which allowed him to climb to -11. To keep him company in third place, when there are only 18 holes left, are fellow countryman Trey Mullinax and the phenomenal Australian Cameron Smith.
Sixth place shared by a couple of stars and stripes players made up of Tyler Duncan and Troy Merritt, while behind them the South Korean Sungjae Im rises strongly. With a wonderful lap in 63 strokes, Im was able to recover 52 positions, climbing back to the eighth at -9 after risking not to pass the cut.
There are eight other players at -9, including the interesting names of Tony Finau, Sam Burns and Matt Fitzpatrick. Josef “Sepp” Straka (born May 1, 1993 in Vienna) is a professional Austrian golfer. He plays on the North American PGA Tour.
In addition to Austrian citizenship, he also holds US citizenship Straka learned to play golf at the Fontana Golf Club in Oberwaltersdorf[1]. As a teenager he moved to Valdosta, Georgia[4], where he attended high school and then the University of Georgia.
Straka graduated from the university with a degree in business administration. In 2017 he played his first professional tournaments on the second-rate Web.com Tour, where he won his first tournament in 2018. For 2019 he was the first Austrian to qualify for the North American PGA Tour.
He played his first major at US Open 2019. At the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, he shared tenth place in 2021. In 2022 he won his first PGA Tour tournament as part of the Honda Classic.
