There was not much to shout about after a slow moving day saw the three South Africans fade from the picture at the Memorial Tournament.
Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen and Rory Sabbatini all failed to break 70 in round three and will be playing for improved prize money with a win all but gone from the equation.
Grace hit 10 of 14 fairways and 17 of 18 greens in regulation but settled for a 70 on Saturday to sit at -6 and eight behind Bryson DeChambeau. For the second day in a row, he made the 200-yard par-three 4th look easy after sinking his birdie try from just seven feet.
A three-button, the 6th dropped him back to level for the day but he moved to red figures on the next thanks to an up-and-down following a superbly played chip to six feet.
Another three-putt, this time on the 9th, prevented any momentum from being built as he drifted from the picture. A tap-in on the 11th helped him back into red numbers before another par-three birdie on the 12th. Grace then finished with a string of pars to share 28th place with 18 to play.
Sabbatini dropped 22 places after a 73 with Oosthuizen, who hit just nine greens in regulation, dropping 28 places to T52 after a 74.
The Memorial Tournament:
202 – Bryson DeChambeau 69-67-66
203 – Patrick Cantlay 68-69-66, Kyle Stanley 67-66-70, Joaquin Niemann (CHI) 65-68-70
204 – An Byeong-Hun (KOR) 68-67-69
206 – Justin Rose (ENG) 71-66-69
207 – Kim Whee (KOR) 73-67-67, JB Holmes 70-66-71, Tiger Woods 72-67-68, Hideki Matsuyama (JPN) 65-71-71
208 – Rory McIlroy (NIR) 74-70-64, David Lingmerth (SWE) 69-73-66, Ryan Moore 71-69-68, Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA) 71-68-69, Adam Scott (AUS) 72-66-70, Tom Hoge 71-67-70, Julian Suri 71-67-70, Keegan Bradley 68-70-70, Kim Si-woo (KOR) 71-67-70
