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Finau, buoyed by an eagle at the par-four 11th, looked set to
enjoy sole possession of the lead at the end of the day until he
bogeyed the par-five 18th, though he still carded an excellent
seven-under-par 65 at TPC San Antonio.
The one-time PGA Tour winner joined Cauley (66) at eight-under
136, with Australian Cameron Smith in a group of three players
one shot behind.
Cauley was upbeat after hitting the front in his quest for a
breakthrough victory on the PGA Tour, after previously finishing
third on three occasions.
“I hit it a little better yesterday and didn’t quite convert on
some of the putts. Today I putted really well,” he said.
“It was windy out there. I knew I was going to miss some greens
and I was able to hit some good chips.”
Smith, one shot back, also enjoyed his fair share of good breaks
in his 65.
“It all fell into place,” he said. “Everything I hit, whether it
was a rubbish shot or a good shot, went close to the hole. My
short game was really good. I think I had three chip-ins.”
Last year's PGA Championship winner Jimmy Walker, who was
recently diagnosed with Lyme disease, also moved into contention
at his hometown event, three strokes behind.
Walker said on Friday he planned to take a break from golf to
undergo treatment for the tick-transmitted bacterial infection
that can cause headaches, fever, fatigue, rashes and, if less
untreated, can spread to the heart, joints and nervous system.
He said he started feeling fatigued late last year, but was not
diagnosed accurately until two weeks ago, just before the
Masters.
“It’s nice to know it’s something and we can do something about
it,” he told the PGA Tour official website.
“It’s something you don’t really like to tell people how tired
you are, how fatigued you are ... are you just going crazy,
getting old?”
(Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina; Editing by
Peter Rutherford)
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