Fleetwood And Cantlay Share Tour Championship Lead

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-16 P Cantlay (US), T Fleetwood (Eng); -14 R Henley (US); -13 K Bradley (US); -12 S Scheffler (US)

Selected others: -9 S Lowry (Ire), -8 J Thomas (US), R MacIntyre (Sco); -6 R McIlroy (NI), C Morikawa (US); -5 L Aberg (Swe), H Hall (Eng); -4 V Hovland (Nor); -2 J Rose (Eng)

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Tommy Fleetwood plans to "go retired and enjoy" Sunday's last information of nan $40m Tour Championship arsenic he looks to yet triumph his first PGA Tour title.

The Englishman, who has had 44 top-10 finishes connected nan American circuit, is tied for nan lead pinch Patrick Cantlay connected 16 nether par, pinch nan brace 2 clear of Russell Henley successful third.

Fleetwood, 34, joked earlier this week that he would find it "pretty funny" if he were to triumph this play to declare nan FedEx Cup and a cheque for $10m (£7.4m) successful nan season-ending event.

And he looked to beryllium successful power of his crippled connected Saturday, pinch a tally of 4 successive birdies connected nan beforehand 9 earlier he rolled successful different connected nan 13th to move 3 clear of nan section connected 16 under.

However, a "terrible" tee changeable connected nan par-three 15th recovered h2o and arsenic Fleetwood yet knocked successful for a double-bogey five, Cantlay was holing a birdie putt connected nan past to group nan target astatine 16 under.

"It was truthful disappointing," Fleetwood, who has 7 wins connected nan European-based DP World Tour, said connected Sky Sports. "But I wanted to bounce backmost because I had 3 holes to play, 21 successful nan tourney and I'm really happy pinch really I played 16 and 17."

Fleetwood birdied those holes to tie level pinch Cantlay and guarantee he would beryllium successful nan last group pinch nan American connected Sunday.

"The much times you get it incorrect aliases it doesn't hap for you, you commencement to not fearfulness it," he said of his chances of winning aft narrowly missing retired connected triumph astatine nan St Jude Championship and Travelers Championship earlier this season.

"Experience is thing you can't practise. It's each to play for and an astonishing opportunity."

"Everybody competing this week wanted to beryllium successful that last brace connected Sunday and I'm 1 of those guys. Hopefully I americium stood connected nan 18th greenish pinch nan trophy."

And connected a leaderboard stacked pinch awesome imaginable storylines, US Ryder Cup skipper Keegan Bradley is connected 13 nether aft shooting nan debased information of nan day, a seven-under 63 astatine East Lake successful Atlanta.

Bradley has already said he faces "the determination of his life" arsenic he contemplates naming himself arsenic 1 of his six picks to complete nan 12-strong US squad for adjacent month's title against Europe astatine Bethpage Black successful New York.

That telephone will beryllium made nationalist connected Wednesday, 27 August and Cantlay must beryllium successful Bradley's reckoning too.

Cantlay was 5th successful nan world heading into nan 2023 Ryder Cup, wherever he became thing of a pantomime villain complete his determination to not deterioration a cap. Since then, he has steadily fallen down nan rankings to 23rd.

And he missed retired connected automatic qualification for nan Ryder Cup, meaning he needs a captain's prime from Bradley to make his 3rd successive US team.

The 33-year-old, who won nan Tour Championship successful 2021, closed pinch a hat-trick of birdies to headdress an awesome bogey-free 64.

"I consciousness for illustration I'm striking it good and successful power of my play ball," he said.

"I'm precisely wherever I want to beryllium going into Sunday and I'll support sticking to my process."

The leaders will besides person an oculus connected world number 1 Scottie Scheffler, who is lurking connected 12 under.

Scheffler opened pinch successive bogeys but 5 birdies successful his adjacent 8 holes lifted him to 11 under.

However, he missed respective different short birdie putts and aft a bad boy eight-foot effort connected nan 16th, he angrily threw his putter astatine his container arsenic his frustrations boiled over.

Scotland's Robert MacIntyre looked to beryllium surging into contention erstwhile he reached 11 nether pinch a birdie connected nan 10th but he excessively double-bogeyed nan 15th aft hitting his tee changeable into h2o arsenic he posted a 72 to extremity connected 8 under.

Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy concisely flickered, getting to 9 nether pinch a birdie connected nan 13th but a mediocre decorativeness pinch successive bogeys saw him extremity connected six nether overall.

Both of those players person secured their Ryder Cup spots but respective European players will beryllium looking to springiness their skipper Luke Donald a timely reminder of their value connected Sunday.

Ireland's Shane Lowry, who looks apt to beryllium knocked retired of nan last qualifying spot for nan European Ryder Cup squad by Rasmus Hojgaard astatine nan British Masters, is nan highest placed of those astatine 9 nether par.

Lowry cannot amended his ranking astatine nan Tour Championship, while Hojgaard, who is 14th astatine nan Belfry heading into nan last round, needs to beryllium successful nan apical 29 to nick that last automatic spot.

Sweden's Ludvig Aberg and Viktor Hovland of Norway are astatine 5 and 4 nether respectively and require Donald to springiness them nan nod.

The aforesaid goes for Sepp Straka, who is group to decorativeness eighth, supra Aberg and Hovland successful nan qualification standings, but he has had a mediocre week successful Atlanta and is bottommost of nan 30-man section connected six complete par.

You tin travel nan last information of nan Tour Championship via BBC Sport's unrecorded matter page, which will beryllium unrecorded from 18:30 BST connected Sunday.