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Sam Burns came into Sunday’s perfect round on the AT&T Byron Nelson atop the leaderboard. Nevertheless 18 holes and one weather stoppage later, K.H. Lee towered above the self-discipline.
His six-under 66 place him at 25 under for the match, three strokes above Burns and four above Patton Kizzire, Daniel Berger, Scott Stallings and Charl Schwartzel. It used to be the ending contact on a brilliantly constant four days from Lee, who shot a 65 in every of the first two rounds and a 67 within the third.
Lee acknowledged after his winning round that it’s a truly long time with out a obtain and he’s been waiting patiently to bear atop the leaderboard, so he used to be angry to procure over that high-tail:
He used to be awesome Sunday, ending with eight birdies to trusty two bogeys. Overall he averaged a using distance of 269 yards, had a using accuracy of 57.1 percent, hit 77.7 percent of greens in law and obtained 1.851 strokes striking, per PGATour.com.
And he hit one of the significant prettiest photographs on the day.
Simplest the weather temporarily slowed him down:
Nevertheless no longer for trusty.
As for the comfort of the self-discipline, Jordan Spieth (-18)—who came into the day three strokes off the lead—shot a one-under 71 and done in a tie for ninth.
“At the novel time used to be a dinky disappointing. Handsome used to be anxious,” he advised journalists after the round. “What a fight. We build no longer in total procure rain in Texas without electricity very on the general, and so that used to be positively a test. Nevertheless it used to be stress-free.”
Burns, who shot trusty two under for the day, is often equally disappointed after failing to defend on to his one-stroke lead coming into Sunday.
After which there used to be Kizzire, who had the round of the day, taking pictures nine under. It wasn’t enough to score Lee, on the opposite hand.
Up next is the PGA Championship on the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island in South Carolina.
