By Reggie Mason
Steve Stricker PGA Champions Tour 3rd Round Leader at Kaulig Companies Championship 7 15 2023.mp3
Things to Know
• Charles Schwab Cup leader Steve Stricker and Harrison Frazar, seeking his first win on PGA TOUR
Champions, share the lead entering the final round. Stricker carded the round of the day with 5-under 65.
• Saturday’s tee times were moved up two hours (starting at 7:10 a.m.) due to anticipated inclement weather.
Steve Stricker, 65-73-65 – 203 (-7)
• The Charles Schwab Cup leader seeks his fifth win of the 2023 season (13th start)
o Would be his first five-win season since joining PGA TOUR Champions in 2017
o In his last five starts on PGA TOUR Champions, he has finished 1st-1st-T2-1st-2nd
o His current mark of four wins is the most by any player this season on PGA TOUR Champions
• The 56-year-old seeks his 16th win overall on PGA TOUR Champions (60th start)
o Would remain 17th on the PGA TOUR Champions all-time wins list
o Would improve his winning percentage on PGA TOUR Champions to 26.67%
• Seeks his seventh major victory on PGA TOUR Champions
o Would move him into T4 on the list of most senior major wins
• Seeks his third major win of the 2023 season on PGA TOUR Champions
o Note: This is the fourth major of 2023
o Won the Regions Tradition (May 11-14)
o Won the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship (May 25-28)
o Finished 2nd at the U.S. Senior Open (June 29-July 2)
• With a win on Sunday, he would be the first PGA TOUR Champions player to win three majors in a year since
2017 (Bernhard Langer)
• This is his 17th time leading/co-leading entering the final round on PGA TOUR Champions
o Is 10-for-16 converting those into victories
Is 5-for-7 in 72-hole events
• Will play in the last group of the final round for the seventh time this season on PGA TOUR Champions
o Is 4-for-6 converting those into victories
Making his fifth appearance at the Kaulig Companies Championship, he won in 2021 and finished 2nd in 2022
• With a win on Sunday, he would become the sixth multi-time winner of the Kaulig Companies Championship,
joining Arnold Palmer (1984, 1985), Dave Stockton (1992, 1994), Raymond Floyd (1996, 2000), Bernhard Langer
(2014, 2015, 2016) and Jerry Kelly (2020, 2022)
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