Davis Remains Quietly Confident Of Driving Off With Honda Classic Victory

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Palm Beach Gardens, FL ….

Only two Australians have won in the near 50-year history of the Honda Classic and young Sydneysider Cameron Davis remains uietly-confident he can make that three ‘Down Under’ triumphs at PGA National at Palm Beach Gardens in Florida.

Davis, who celebrated his 25th birthday last week, will head to the final round of the $US 7m event sharing 14th place at level par and with Sydney’s Roseville Golf Club affiliated golfer trailing just five shots behind England’s Tommy Fleetwood.

Fleetwood, and a former European Tour No. 1, brilliantly birdied his closing two holes in posting a three-under par 67 for a five-under par tally to be one clear of American Brendan Steele (71) at four-under.

And it’s three England flags in the top-four with the former back-to-back World No. 1 duo of Lee Westwood (71) and Luke Donald (71) sharing third place in the $US 7m event.

With World No. 3 Brooks Koepka missing the cut, the 29-year old Fleetwood at No. 12 is the highest-ranked player left in the field and nothing would please the 29-year old better to win on the American continent for a first occasion.

“I’ve had chances before to win on the PGA Tour and hopefully I will continue to have chances and whether it will be tomorrow or not I will be absolutely fine with that,” said Fleetwood.

“I will sleep soundly tonight and will then wake-up in the morning, and go out tomorrow with the chance to win my first PGA event so I am really excited about that.”

And while Fleetwood curreently sits in the Honda Classic driver’s seat, the current World No. 252 ranked Davis has bravely also not ruled out winning in what is his 12th event of the 2019/20 PGA wraparound schedule since regaining full main Tour status via the finals of the secondary Korn Ferry Tour.

“It’s nice I still have a chance of winning and that is how I have to look at it because a good, solid day tomorrow will certainly go a long way,” said Davis.

“I feel like I have been playing well all year and it’s just a matter of holding it together for the four days.  Last year was a rough learning curve for me being the out here for a first full season but I got my card back through the Korn Ferry Tour and I will be making the most of it.”

After a superb bogey-free second day 67, Davis’ third round was a mix of just two birdies but also five bogeys including a bogey at the last and while he had just 28 putts in Friday’s round, the French’s Forest golfer registered 32 putts on day three.

“I had been putting really well this week so it was really frustrating with the putter today and that is what you really need to do well if you want to keep the score ticking along,” he said.

“The thing is today I just missing the ones I have been sinking the last could of days.

“It’s been three tough days out there and when you make par is a great score though when you do get birdie opportunities you feel like when make those you make a big jump up the board.”

In the 48-year history of the Honda Classic the only Australian winners have been Stuart Appleby (1997) and Adam Scott (2016).



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