Steve Palmer's Shriners Hospitals for Children Open final-round preview

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Sky Sports Golf red button, 4.30pm Sunday

Best bets

Adam Hadwin to win the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open
1pt each-way 66-1 general

Justin Suh to win twoball
1pt 5-4 Betfair, BoyleSports

Story so far

Patrick Cantlay and Martin Laird, 18-1 and 250-1 respectively ante-post for the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, are joint-leaders going into the final round at TPC Summerlin, Las Vegas.

Cantlay, who has Shriners form figures of 1-2-2 from the previous three editions of the Shriners, has continued his love affair with this layout and become 7-4 favourite with 18 holes to play.

Matthew Wolff was the star of Saturday though - the US Open runner-up carding three back-nine eagles on his way to a ten-under-par 61. From the ninth hole to the 16th, Wolff went nine under for an eight-hole stretch, closing with two disappointing pars when flirting with a 59.

Wolff is two shots behind in a tie for third place, having moved up 37 spots on the leaderboard, but the man who denied him victory at Winged Foot last month went the other way. Bryson DeChambeau dropped from sixth place to a share of 31st. The US Open champion slumped to five over par through his opening six holes of round three. He had got all of those shots back by the time he birdied the 13th, but was level par to the clubhouse from there and is seven shots behind.

Cantlay and Laird tee off in the final twoball at 8.55pm UK and Ireland time. DeChambeau, a best-price 100-1, will be in ultra-attacking mode at 5.40pm.

Leaderboard
-20 Martin Laird, Patrick Cantlay
-18 Matthew Wolff, Wyndham Clark, Brian Harman, Austin Cook
-17 Will Zalatoris, Kevin Na
-16 Adam Hadwin, Si Woo Kim, Abraham Ancer, Harold Varner, James Hahn

Best prices
7-4 P Cantlay, 5 M Laird, 13-2 M Wolff, 12 B Harman, 20 W Zalatoris, 22 A Cook, W Clark, 25 K Na, 50 A Ancer, H Varner, S W Kim, 66 J Hahn, A Hadwin, 100 B DeChambeau, 150 bar

Final-round preview

There was much speculation that the overnight spat which developed between Matthew Fitzpatrick and Bryson DeChambeau at the halfway stage of this week's tournaments had a negative impact on joint-two-round BMW PGA pacesetter Fitzpatrick, but nobody considered any possible unsettling of the cocksure American. A Fitzpatrick 76, though, was followed by a DeChambeau 71 and both players have given themselves a Sunday mountain to climb.

Fitzpatrick voiced his concerns over DeChambeau's style of play making a mockery of golf, prompting the Californian to provide a long defence, then on Saturday the pair of them dramatically dropped their standards of the first two rounds at Wentworth and TPC Summerlin.

DeChambeau, who opened with a 62 and followed with a 67 to lurk in sixth place going into the weekend, made an awful start to round three. It is, of course, impossible to measure whether Fitzpatrick had anything to do with that - what goes on between the ears of competitors will never be known - and another imponderable is whether having Peter Malnati as a Saturday playing partner was a negative. You could not get two more contrasting characters in golf than DeChambeau and Malnati - and they both looked hugely uncomfortable in each other's company throughout.

Whatever the reasons for DeChambeau's Saturday debacle, ante-post favourite backers who go involved at the general 7-1 were left cursing, and even more so those who jumped aboard at 3-1 after 36 holes. He is not completely out of it - one firm goes just 40-1 - but even a repeat of his Thursday 62 will probably not be enough to get the job done in the forecast sunshine and calm.

The Shriners has been shabby for Racing Post Sport followers. Maybe 300-1 ante-post recommendation Justin Suh can sneak some place money from a share of 19th place - he has been peppering pins all week but is being let down by his short-game - but the search for the winner is almost certainly five selections, five losers.

Punters with the stomach to enter the fray again are pointed tentatively towards Adam Hadwin at 66-1. Hadwin and Si Woo Kim, Presidents Cup colleagues in 2017, should enjoy themselves in the 8.15pm twoball and can make inroads into their four-shot deficit. Hadwin is a strong desert golfer, with a fantastic record in the Desert Classic, and he was fourth in the Shriners last year after a final-round 63.

A bogey-free Saturday 62, in which he covered the final six holes in five under par, has sent the Canadian, who became a father at the start of the year, into Shriners Sunday full of confidence. Hadwin and Kim can board the birdie train early and go close to upsetting Cantlay and Co.

Suh, in scintillating form with his irons and desperate for a top-ten finish to earn a place in the next full-field PGA Tour event, seems a value outsider for his 7pm twoball against JT Poston.

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