Adam Schenk shot a 3-under-par 67 to move up three spots into a tie with co-leader Harry Hall, who had led after 36 holes, on Saturday in the third round of the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas.Schenk sank a 16-foot birdie putt on the par-4 No. 18 to move to 10-under 200.He had started the round with birdies at the first two holes, then a bogey at the par-4 No 4 was balanced by his play at No 11, where his approach shot from 110 yards stopped 7 inches from the hole for a tap-in birdie."It played tough today,” Schenk said. "The greens were really firm. They’re really baked out. It feels like walking on concrete. We just did a really good job managing everything today. It was one of those days where right where we were looking was right where I actually hit it. It doesn’t happen very often, but it’s nice when it does.”Schenk, who joined the tour in 2018, is going for his first victory. He has one runner-up, one third-place finish and 10 top-10 finishes."Winning would be really cool,” Schenk said. "If I do, that’s awesome. If I don’t, that’s OK, too. I’ll learn from it."But I’ll just go take care of my business tomorrow. Whatever happens, happens. I can’t control it. So I can just only control myself, and I’ll just try and do that to the best of my abilities.”He is tied with Englishman Hall, a PGA Tour rookie who made a 9-foot, 7-inch birdie putt at the par-4 17th hole for an adventurous 2-over 72.Hall made consecutive double bogeys at the par-4 Nos 6-7 but rallied with two birdies ona bogey-free back nine (Nos 12, 17)."I’m never going to stop fighting,” Hall said."I’m always going to keep trying. Like I said yesterday, this game brings you new challenges every day, and I’m equipped to deal with them. And I think I showed that today, and I kept a lot of patience, and I kept to my game plan. It helps, after two double bogeys, I was still in the tournament. It left me with some hope. I managed to bring it back a little bit.”
May 28, 2023 | 11:03 PM