CT Pan and Aaron Rai are neck and neck at the top of the John Deere Classic leaderboard, having surged past early frontrunner Hayden Springer in Illinois.
William AllenWAS_AllenUpdate: Jul 6th, 2024 04:56 EDT0
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Taiwan’s CT Pan and England’s Aaron Rai are tied for the lead heading into round three of the 2024 John Deere Classic, after both registered eight-under rounds of 63 on Friday. Pan and Rai go into the weekend on 14-under, with England’s Harry Hall one stroke behind in Silvis, Illinois.
Can Rai go one better than at the Rocket Mortgage?
Ranked 59 in the world, Rai is chasing his first ever PGA Tour win, having come second to Australia’s Cam Davis at last week’s Rocket Mortgage Classic.
The US’s Hayden Springer had been the frontrunner after day one at the John Deere Classic, having scored 59 to become only the 14th player in PGA Tour history to post a sub-60 round. However, he slipped to joint-fourth in Friday when he could only manage an even-par 71. Springer is joined on 12-under by five players: compatriots Eric Cole, Davis Thompson, Denny McCarthy and Luke Clanton, and South Korea’s Sungjae Im.
The John Deere Classic’s defending champion, Austria’s Sepp Straka, is down in joint-59th after just making the 5-under cut. Two-time tournament winner Jordan Spieth is one shot better off than Straka, and is currently in a tie for 47th place.
Who missed the cut at the John Deere Classic?
Nick Dunlap, Harry Higgs, Kevin Kisner, Maverick McNealy, Peter Malnati and Davis Riley are among the notable players who won’t be involved this weekend, having failed to stay above the cut line in the opening two rounds.
John Deere Classic 2024: round three tee times, Saturday July 6
7:55am ET: Thorbjorn Olesen, Wilson Furr
8:06am ET: Stewart Cink, Justin Suh, Ryan Palmer
8:17am ET: Kevin Streelman, Jake Knapp, Nico Echavarria
8:28am ET: Blaine Hale Jr, Bud Cauley, Kevin Chappell
8:39am ET: James Hahn, Matt NeSmith, Pierceson Coody
8:50am ET: Henrik Norlander, Brice Garnett, Sepp Straka
9:01am ET: Kyle Westmoreland, Joel Dahmen, Bill Haas
9:17am ET: Hayden Buckley, Roger Sloan, David Lipsky
9:28am ET: Scott Gutschewski, Jordan Spieth, Sam Stevens
9:39am ET: Kevin Dougherty, Mark Hubbard, Sam Ryder
9:50am ET: Doug Ghim, Ben Kohles, Jason Day
10:01am ET: SH Kim, JT Poston, Zac Blair
10:12am ET: Dylan Frittelli, Mac Meissner, Ben Griffin
10:23am ET: Trace Crowe, Adrien Dumont de Chassart, Ben Taylor
10:39am ET: Austin Smotherman, Ben Silverman, Patrick Rodgers
10:50am ET: Justin Lower, Ryo Hisatsune, Seamus Power
11:01am ET: Lee Hodges, Robby Shelton, Chesson Hadley
11:12am ET: JJ Spaun, Carson Young, Sami Valimaki
11:23am ET: Keith Mitchell, Jhonattan Vegas, Zach Johnson
11:34am ET: Max Greyserman, Lucas Glover, Beau Hossler
11:45am ET: Andrew Novak, Michael Thorbjornsen, Chandler Phillips
12:01pm ET: Rico Hoey, Chan Kim, Joshua Creel
12:12pm ET: Adam Svensson, Brendon Todd, Kevin Yu
12:23pm ET: Luke Clanton (a), Sungjae Im, Hayden Springer
12:34pm ET: Eric Cole, Davis Thompson, Denny McCarthy
12:45pm ET: CT Pan, Aaron Rai, Harry Hall
Third-round hole locations for the John Deere Classic. pic.twitter.com/UaYhbIogGR
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