Ian Poulter will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the RBC Heritage. Here’s what You Oughta Know for Sunday at Harbour Town:
• First, a programming note: Tee times have been moved up Sunday in an effort to beat afternoon thunderstorms. Players with go off Nos. 1 and 10 in threesomes starting at 7 a.m. ET. Poulter, Si Woo Kim and Luke List will go off at 9 a.m.
• What a year it’s been for Poulter. It was at this time last year he thought he lost his PGA Tour card with the expiration of his medical extension. He’s now hunting his second win in three weeks. With a victory Sunday, he could move as high as 21st in the Official World Golf Ranking.
• Poulter is 1 for 3 in his career with the 54-hole lead. The one conversion came three weeks ago in Houston, when he defeated Beau Hossler in a playoff to win for the first time in five years.
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• Poulter has just two bogeys this week. He’s a tournament-best 17-for-19 scrambing, seventh in strokes gained-putting, and ninth in strokes gained-tee to green.
• The defending Players champion, Kim is looking to become just the third international player since World War II to win three times before the age of 23. He would join Rory McIlroy and Sergio Garcia.
• Two back, Billy Horschel has missed five of his last six cuts and was a combined 29 over in his last five events. Horschel’s last win came in a playoff over Jason Day at last year’s Byron Nelson.
• This is the fourth time List has been inside the top-10 through 54 holes on the PGA Tour this season. List notably lost the Honda Classic to Justin Thomas in a playoff. He is first in the field in strokes gained-tee to green this week.
• Unfortunately for Poulter, and fortunately for the chase pack, four of the last five winners of this event were four shots back after 54 holes.
Information courtesy the Golf Channel Editorial Research Unit
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