DETROIT — The Presidents Cup is still more than a month away, but on Saturday afternoon at Detroit Golf Club, Tony Finau and Taylor Pendrith might have been offering a preview.
Time will tell if one or both will play in September at Quail Hollow, but during the third round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Finau, the highly ranked American looking for back-to-back victories, and Pendrith, the relatively unknown Canadian looking for his first win, went back and forth over 18 holes, the momentum swinging multiple times before they walked off the 18th green tied for the lead at 21 under.
“Yeah, that's golf,” Finau said. “It's almost like a match play situation where we kind of flipped the script there on each other in the beginning. I think we both have done a great job up to this point through 54 holes of maintaining our composure and playing good golf. It was nice to have him as a playing partner today and we'll have him again tomorrow.
