DETROIT (AP) 鈥� has put himself in a position to win on the PGA Tour for the first time in more than two years and to earn a postseason bid.
Riley shot a 7-under 63 to reach 15 under on Saturday and took a one-shot lead at Detroit Golf Club, where the relatively easy course will give a lot of players on the tightly-packed leaderboard a chance to win .
Riley closed with consecutive birdies, making a 54-foot putt at No. 17 and a 10-footer at 18 to pull into a first-place tie with
Riley is aiming for his third career win and first since the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge 鈥� and to get into the postseason.
He has missed 10 cuts, including last week鈥檚 3M Open, and is No. 146 in the FedEx Cup standings.
The Rocket Classic and next week鈥檚 Wyndham Championship are the last two tournaments left before the top 70 advance to playoffs.
Riley had an opportunity to win the season-opening Sony Open as the before closing with a 71 and falling into a tie for sixth.
鈥淭here鈥檚 been a lot of ups and downs,鈥� he said. 鈥淚鈥檓 just excited that I鈥檝e started to put the things together and have a chance.鈥�
(64) had a strong round with seven birdies, but missed a 9-foot putt to bogey 18 and lost a share of the lead.
(61), (66), Rickie Fowler (67) and (68) were three shots back.
(67) is in a group another stroke back, going into the final round on Sunday.
Hojgaard became the third player in as many days to match the course record with a 61, giving him the lead before Brennan’s birdies put him ahead.
First-round leader opened with a 61 before plummeting to 4 under with a 71 and 74.
Young matched the mark on the second day, putting the third-ranked player in the world in a three-way tie for the second-round lead with Patrick Cantlay and Patrick Fishburn.
Young, playing for the first time since a second-place finish at the British Open, was in the final group on Saturday and had a rough round.
He missed 11-foot putts at Nos. 1 and 3, settling for par. His drive at No. 2 went wide right, landing on a berm with the ball above his feet, leading to another par.
The 24-year-old Brennan, a former Wake Forest star, is shooting for his second win and first since last year’s Bank of Utah Championship in his first start as a professional.
Brennan also has a chance to improve his shot at being in the postseason after entering the tournament No. 106 in the FedEx Cup standings. He made eight straight birdies, one shy of the , on Thursday to open with a 65 and shot a 67 on Friday.
Hojgaard of Denmark is vying for his first win on the PGA Tour after missing the cut in his last three starts 鈥� and just making it to the weekend at 3 under in Detroit.
Kirk, who was in a three-way playoff at last year’s Rocket Classic before Aldrich Potgieter won it, earned his sixth career victory at the The Sentry early in 2024. Fowler’s sixth and last win was the .
is moving to a new model for 2028, effectively creating two tours and Rocket Mortgage decided not to exercise its option to host another tournament next year.
The Detroit-based company isn’t interested in continuing to spend $15 million a year to be part of the second tier in the new era and didn鈥檛 want to double the costs to be part of the elite tier.
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