Scheffler extends lead at Memorial Tournament

Memorial Tournament third round standings

-10 S Scheffler (United States); -6 S Straka (Ast), C Morikawa (USA), A Hadwin (Can); -4 L Aaberg (Sweden), X Schauffele (United States)

Other selected: -2 R McIlroy (NI); -1 T Fleetwood (English), S Lowry (Ireland); my S Power (Anger); +1 M Fitzpatrick (English)

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World number one Scottie Scheffler recovered from a mid-round triple bogey to extend his lead to four strokes after three rounds of the Memorial Tournament.

The overnight leader, Scheffler, 27, was two under after eight holes, but saw his three-shot lead evaporate in the ninth after hitting his tee shot into the trees.

However, the American was able to regain his composure, starting with a birdie on the next hole, and finishing with a 1-under 71 after two more birdies and a bogie on the 18th.

“I feel like today I hadn’t hit many shots off the line and I had a three-pointer on my card and all of a sudden I was one over par,” Scheffler said of his frustrating ninth hole.

“I definitely felt frustrated with the break, but overall I thought, I’m still doing great, I didn’t need to change anything, I just need to stay in the right frame of mind.”

The two-time Masters champion is 10 under par heading into Sunday’s final round at Muirfield Village in Ohio, four shots ahead of Canada’s Adam Hadwin, American Colin Morikawa and Austria’s Sepp Straka.

Morikawa and Straka shot 4-under 68s to join first-round leader Hadwin in second place after his 72.

US PGA Championship winner Xander Schauffele and Swede Ludvig Aberg are four under par and share fifth place.

The tournament is one of the PGA Tour’s flagship events, with a field of 73 players competing for a purse of $20m (£15.6m). It precedes next week’s US Open at Pinehurst.