{"id":1311710,"date":"2019-06-22T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/chez-reavie-shoots-63-takes-a-6-stroke-lead-at-travelers\/"},"modified":"2019-06-22T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:28:00","slug":"chez-reavie-shoots-63-takes-a-6-stroke-lead-at-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/chez-reavie-shoots-63-takes-a-6-stroke-lead-at-travelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chez Reavie shoots 63, takes a 6-stroke lead at Travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chez Reavie hits his second shot on the 18th hole during the third round of the Travelers Championship golf tournament, Saturday, June 22, 2019, in Cromwell, Conn. (AP Photo\/Jessica Hill)<\/strong>
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CROMWELL, Conn. \u2014 Chez Reavie was plodding along during the third round of the Travelers Championship, watching playing partner Zack Sucher extend his lead.<\/p>\n

Then came the turn, both for the round and in the fortunes of the two players.<\/p>\n

Coming off a third-place tie last week in the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, the 37-year-old Reavie matched a tournament record with a back-nine 28 to shoot a 7-under 63. He took advantage of Sucher\u2019s problems and turned a six-stroke deficit into a six-stroke lead heading into Sunday.<\/p>\n

The 2008 Canadian Open winner for his lone PGA Tour title, Reavie had a 16-under 194 total at TPC River Highlands.<\/p>\n

He birdied Nos. 8, 10-13, 15 and 17-18 and has the largest 54-hole lead in Travelers history.<\/p>\n

\u201cZach got some tough breaks early,\u201d Reavie said. \u201cI was able to kind of keep plugging along and make a few putts and the rest was history. I kind of caught fire at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sucher had a 71 to drop into a tie for second with Keegan Bradley (69) at 10 under.<\/p>\n

Looking for his first PGA Tour win, Sucher \u2014 the 32-year-old former college star at Alabama-Birmingham \u2014 seemed to have it all going his way, until he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

He took a share of the lead in the last group Thursday night, came into Saturday with a two-shot advantage and shot 31 on the front nine.<\/p>\n

But his drive on the 10th hole went left, hit a tree and bounced backward landing in the rough just 154 yards from the tee. He ended up with a bogey on that hole.<\/p>\n

He needed two shots to get out of a plugged lie at the lip of a green-side bunker on the 11th and ended with a double bogey, and put his ball into two bunkers on the par-4 13th for another double.<\/p>\n

It took just a half-hour for Sucher to go from five strokes ahead of Bradley to four strokes behind Reavie.<\/p>\n

\u201cTen was awful and I deserved bogey, but man, three straight holes I hit shots that weren\u2019t that far off all behind the lip, so two of them plug and, yeah, rough, that\u2019s all you can say about it,\u201d Sucher said. \u201cOther than those three holes, it was a great day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reavie needed just 23 putts in the round, consistently putting his approaches near the pin, despite a strong wind.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn nine and 10, I kind of started to get a feel for the wind and how it was affecting my golf ball,\u201d he said. \u201cFortunately, today it kind of stayed steady in the same direction, so I just kind of navigated around in my yardage book to figure out where it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roberto Diaz (67) and Jason Day (68) were tied for fourth, seven shots back. But Day said he does not think that\u2019s an insurmountable deficit on course where Bubba Watson overcame a six-stroke final-round deficit a year ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of emotions that come with Sundays, but I think Chez has been there and won before,\u201d Day said. \u201cBut every win is different and how you feel is different, so I just try to stick to what I am doing right now, and hopefully, the chips fall my way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brooks Koepka, coming off his runner-up finish at Pebble Beach, shot a 72 and was 1 under.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to focus,\u201d Koepka said. \u201cI don\u2019t think I am even over the PGA and then to exert all your energy last week \u2014 I\u2019m just fried. I caught myself yawning out on the golf course.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever done that before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watson was looking for his fourth win in Connecticut to tie the record of Billy Casper. He closed his round of 73 with about a 25-foot putt for birdie to move to 2 under.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how golf is,\u201d Watson said. \u201cYou don\u2019t like golf and then you make that long putt and you\u2019re ready to play the next day. I\u2019d love to shoot that Jim Furyk round (58) just to have a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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