Scheffler Moves Into Contention With Sparkling 64

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-16 B Griffin (US); -15 J Koivun (US); -14 S Scheffler (US); -13 G Higgo (SA); -10 L Griffin (US), M Hughes (Can), A Eckroat (US), E Grillo (Arg).

Selected others: -9 JJ Spaun (US), R Henley (US); -7 C Young (US); -4 C Morikawa (US), P Cantlay (US); -3 H English (US); -2 J Thomas (US)

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World number 1 Scottie Scheffler changeable an eight-under-par 64 to move to wrong 2 shots of leader and US Ryder Cup team-mate Ben Griffin successful nan 3rd information of nan Procore Championship.

Griffin retained nan lead pinch a dependable 70 to extremity nan time connected 16 under, 1 changeable up of US amateur Jackson Koivun astatine nan Silverado Country Club successful Napa, California.

Koivun, a 20-year-old Auburn University student, moved into outright 2nd pinch a 68.

Scheffler and Griffin are 2 of 10 US Ryder Cup players taking portion arsenic they hole to look Europe successful New York from 26-28 September.

Scheffler stormed from 14th overnight into 3rd pinch 10 birdies - 5 connected nan beforehand 9 and 5 connected nan back.

He was denied a stock of nan lead only aft a spot into a bunker connected nan par-four 14th led to a double bogey.

Scheffler changeable 70 successful nan first round, which ended his tally of 21 successive sub-70 scores, and 68 successful nan second.

"There's decidedly immoderate tricks to this play course, things you've sewage to get utilized to," he said.

"There are things that are difficult to announcement successful nan believe rounds. But erstwhile you commencement playing nether tourney conditions you commencement seeing a small of those nuances."

US Open champion JJ Spaun and Russell Henley are champion placed of nan remaining 8 Ryder Cup players connected 9 under.

Griffin, a captain's prime who will make his debut astatine nan Ryder Cup, said: "I've sewage to person that chasing mindset arsenic a leader because I cognize each those guys down maine are going to enactment fierce and I've sewage to do everything I tin to enactment successful front."