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Alex Noren in a dispute at the PGA championship after a thigh injury

Alex Noren in a dispute at the PGA championship after a thigh injury

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Charlotte, NC-The closest competitor of the PGA championship manager Scottie Scheffler is a 42-year-old from Sweden, who played only four PGA tour rounds all year round due to a tendon injury.

That would be Alex Noren, who is 8-Unter-Par and three shots behind Scheffler after shooting a 5-under parlor 66 on Saturday.

Noren, who has 72th place in the world, played 184 PGA tour events without victory after taking second place three times.

However, he won 10 times on the DP World Tour.

“It feels good,” said Noren, being in a fight. “I brought it together.”

As he protected himself with the injury, he spent time with his family and trained his daughter's softball games.

“It was much easier to take this break when I was 42 than when I was younger,” he said. I am lucky enough to be in this position so early. ''

He called the injury a “bad injury” to Golf, but it enabled him to live a normal life at home.

Alex Noren, who is in second place in the last round, hits the second hole in the third round of the PGA championship on May 17, 2025. Getty pictures

“But I couldn't swing a club, I couldn't jump or run,” he said. “I was able to run a little slowly and live a normal life. I could train my children. Spent a lot of time with the family. It was really nice. ''

Now he has the chance to win the greatest victory of his life on Sunday when he can follow Scheffler.

Of the last 40 PGA championships, 37 of the winners were in the last round within four shots of the lead. If this is to be formed on Sunday, only Noren, Davis Riley and JT Poston would mean Have the chance to catch Scheffler.

The only time that Noren joined the last round of a big championship among the top 5 ranking on the Open Championship 2008 in Royal Birkdale (T-5 after 54, T-19).

JT Poston, who is 7, rises to the 10th hole during the third round of the PGA championship. Getty pictures

Keegan Bradley closed his third round with Par, Par against 17 and Birdie at 18-1-Unter-PAR through the treacherous “Green Mile” D route.

That brought him to 5-Unter-PAR, six shots from the lead in the last round on Sunday.

“Proud of the way I completed the last three holes,” said Bradley. What a way to end. ''

The Mudball edition has not disappeared for the week.

Keegan Bradley smiles everything after sunk a birdie on the 18th hole in the third round of the PGA championship. Jim Dedmon-Mimagn pictures

“You have to hang really hard because there are still bad mud balls out there,” said Bradley. “I had a couple who was violent. You just have to hang hard. ''

Saturday was the first time in Scheffler's great championship career that he shot the top round of the day (65).

Scheffler, who shot 69-68-65 this week, is the ninth player as a whole and first since Dustin Johnson in 2020 to shoot in the first round of a PGA championship in the first round and then improve his score in the second and third round.

Scheffler was the 54-hole leader in the two Major Major times (2022 and 2024 Masters, both of whom won).

He was three earlier times in the last group of a big championship (2022 and 2024 Masters and 2020 PGA championship).

The only big championship in which Scheffler, Bryson Dechambeau and Jon Rahm Everyone was among the top 10 rankings that entered the last round of a large championship, was in Torrey Pines at the US Open 2021.

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