LIV Golf LIVE: Leaderboard and results for day 3 as Carlos Ortiz beats Dustin Johnson

Few have seen Matthew Wolf decline after such an exciting start to his PGA Tour career, with his top-five claiming the US Open and the PGA Championship in 2020. He has slipped to nearly 50 places in the world rankings but his impressive serving style The ninth as a reminder of his talent. That’s the flick to make it a succession bird for the 23-year-old. It is now at -3.

4th Ortiz birds too! The Mexican is three-under through four holes, and after seeing that shot fall, Johnson misses a short one of his own par. Ortiz now has four shots ahead of Harding. Johnson returns to -6 where Reed and Grace join him.

Patrick Reed entered the competition with back-to-back finches at 5 and 6. He’s now at -6, four shots over Ortiz’s lead.

Ortiz had only one win on the PGA Tour before splitting to LIV. By a great deal of fate, on that occasion at the Houston Open in 2020, Dustin Johnson was the runner-up.

It was a great start for Carlos Ortiz. He hits a fine approach at 211 yards 3 par 3 leaving an uphill birdie hit. Confidently twist it to go to -10. Johnson can only level out while Grace, having chosen to step away from the sidelines and take a cliff, sees his momentum halted by a ghost.

Johnson couldn’t get up and down the second after this wayward approach and slipped again to -7. There are no such problems for Branden Grace, though, who is draining a baby bird to join Johnson in that tag. Ortiz has a nervous shot to save the ball but punches it to ensure he is now ahead with two shots.

Koepka puts in a great third place performance. His shot stopped at the edge of the bunker, letting an embarrassing chip fall right down the hill. Opening his face, he swung confidently toward him, and the ball bounced in front of him by no more than two feet, rolled down and almost caught her lip. He made holes in the slope to stay at -5.

Johnson and Ortiz were both off the tee per second, pulling their engines to the left and leaving themselves blind approaches.

Ortiz has 172 yards on the inside and finds the middle of the green but it will be long from there.

Johnson is on the ramp up to get out of the rough area and fly out for a long time out of the green. That would be up and down.

Ortiz rolls on that short birdie hit in the first. He played the hole to perfection and is now completely in the lead, with Johnson having to settle on a par.

Justin Harding made a great start to his run with consecutive sparrows and is at -7, two shots back.

Oosthuizen couldn’t take advantage of the par-5 1st but a good approach on the second leaves him with a good look at Birdie.

Yuki Inamori, ranked 73 in the world, hits a fine style with 3 woodcuts to green 18 and will have nothing more than tapping to move into the red zone of the tournament.