Saturday On the links Professional golf results

BMW CHAMPIONSHIP

LAKE FOREST, ILL.

Jason Day shot a 2-under 69 at the BMW Championship, good enough to take a six-stroke lead into the final round. Instead of running away from the field, as he had in the first two rounds after shooting 61 and 63, Day spent most of Saturday running in place. He made his first bogey in 20 holes at the sixth, then piled on three more to offset a half-dozen birdies. He wasn’t alone struggling to stay consistent in cool, windy conditions at Conway Farms. While the pack pursuing the FedEx Cup leader got no closer, there was a reshuffling of names. Scott Piercy moved up four spots from sixth into second place alongside rookie Daniel Berger. World No.1 Rory McIlroy climbed from ninth to claim fourth place by himself. Brendon Todd, playing alongside Day and Berger in the lead group, made the biggest slide, falling from second to 18th.

WEB.COM TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

DAVIDSON, N.C.

Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo shot a 4-under 68 on Saturday for a share of the third-round lead with Eric Axley in the Web.com Tour Finals’ Small Business Connection Championship. Axley had a 70 to match Grillo at 14-under 202 at River Run. The tournament is second in the four-event series features the top 75 players from the Web.com Tour money list, Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings and non-members of the tour such as Grillo who earned enough money to have placed in the top 200 had they been eligible to receive points. The top 25 players on Web.com regular-season money list earned PGA Tour cards. They are competing against each other for tour priority, with regular-season earnings counting. The other players are fighting for another 25 cards based on series earnings. Grillo lost in a playoff in the PGA Tour’s Puerto Rico Open in March. Axley, the 2006 Texas Open winner, was 189th in the FedEx Cup standings. Brett Stegmaier, the leader after each of the first two rounds, had a 73 to drop into a tie for third with Kyle Stanley (65) at 12 under. Stegmaier was 69th on the Web.com Tour regular-season money list. Stanley, the 2012 Phoenix Open winner, was 181st in FedEx Cup standings.

SOLHEIM CUP

ST. LEON-ROT, GERMANY

Lexi Thompson and Cristie Kerr earned a point for the United States to trail Europe 8-5 in the Solheim Cup before the other fourball matches were suspended Saturday due to bad light. The American duo defeated Spanish pair Carlota Ciganda and Azahara Munoz 3 and 2 to reduce the Europeans’ lead after a good morning for the home team. The U.S. held a slight advantage in the three remaining fourball matches, which will be resumed this morning at St. Leon-Rot Golf Club in Germany.

Associated Press