Four-time major winner Rory McIlroy birdied two of the last four holes to grab a share of the lead after Saturday’s third round of the $30m US PGA Tour Memorial Tournament.
World number three McIlroy, who won at Dubai in January but hasn’t taken a US PGA title this year, fired a two-under par 70 to stand on six-under 210 after 54 holes at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio.
David Lipsky, an American chasing his first PGA title, closed with back-to-back bogeys and fell into sharing the lead with McIlroy and South Korean Kim Si-woo, who shot 71.
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One stroke back on 211 were Norway’s Viktor Hovland and Americans Wyndham Clark, Mark Hubbard, Lee Hodges and Denny McCarthy.
McIlroy, a 23-time PGA winner, had struggled after missing the cut at the Masters and sharing…