Leishman well placed in Utah

BY Bruce Young | Nationwide Tour | 2008 Utah Championship | Round Three | 07 Sep 2008

Marc Leishman

(Photo: Anthony Powter)

Australian Marc Leishman heads into tomorrow’s final round of the Utah Championship in Sandy, Utah, trailing overnight leader Brendon Todd by just one shot and has an opportunity to move within striking distance of PGA Tour status.

A win tomorrow and the accompanying US$99,000 would take Leishman’s earnings on the 2008 Nationwide Tour to US$171,000, just US$25,000 or so short of where he would need to be to earn one of the 25 2009 PGA Tour cards available at the completion of the Tour Championship in early November.

A three time winner on the Von Nida Tour in Australia and with success also on the Korean Tour, Leishman is in his first full season on the Nationwide Tour after playing just eight events there last year. Leishman has been a professional since September 2005 following an outstanding amateur career.

On the very low scoring Willow Creek Country Club, Leishman led after his second round of 63 but a late bogey at the par five 16th cost him a chance of maintaining that lead into round four.

With six events remaining on the Nationwide Tour schedule including the end of year Tour Championship, a win this week would have Leishman well placed to advance to the higher level next season.

Scott Gardiner continued some better form of late when he recorded a third round of 67 and is in a share of 10th leading into tomorrow’s final round.

Top 10
AUS/NZ

Position	Score	Player	R 1	R 2	R 3	R 4	Total
1	-22	Brendon Todd	64	66	65	67	262
T2	-16	Brian Smock	68	68	66	66	268
T2	-16	Jeff Klauk	70	67	66	65	268
T2	-16	Kyle Thompson	64	65	68	71	268
T2	-16	Marc Leishman	65	63	68	72	268
T2	-16	Ryan Hietala	67	68	67	66	268
T2	-16	Won Joon Lee	68	66	70	64	268
T8	-15	Clay Ogden	68	67	68	66	269
T8	-15	David Mathis	67	68	69	65	269
T8	-15	Jonathan Fricke	68	68	64	69	269
T8	-15	Matt Hansen	68	69	65	67	269
T8	-15	Scott Gardiner	68	68	67	66	269
T8	-15	Spencer Levin	67	67	68	67	269
T14	-14	Chris Nallen	66	65	72	67	270
T14	-14	Darron Stiles	71	65	66	68	270
T14	-14	Mark Brooks	68	66	69	67	270
T14	-14	Rob Grube	70	68	63	69	270
T14	-14	Roger Tambellini	68	66	68	68	270
T19	-13	Bob May	67	70	68	66	271
T19	-13	Bryce Molder	69	68	68	66	271
T19	-13	Jeff Curl	66	68	67	70	271
T19	-13	Jimmy Walker	67	69	65	70	271
T19	-13	Matt Weibring	67	67	69	68	271
T24	-12	David Branshaw	63	72	68	69	272
T24	-12	Fran Quinn	73	65	67	67	272
T24	-12	Jeff Wood	68	67	72	65	272
T24	-12	Peter Tomasulo	67	69	68	68	272
T28	-11	Bubba Dickerson	65	69	67	72	273
T28	-11	Fabian Gomez	67	67	74	65	273
T28	-11	Jeff Gove	71	66	68	68	273
T28	-11	Michael Putnam	71	63	69	70	273
T28	-11	Steve Allan	67	70	68	68	273
T33	-10	Jarrod Lyle	67	68	74	65	274
T33	-10	Justin Hicks	68	69	69	68	274
T35	-9	Blake Adams	67	65	71	72	275
T35	-9	Brock Mackenzie	66	71	69	69	275
T35	-9	D.j. Brigman	66	69	69	71	275
T35	-9	Daniel Summerhays	66	68	72	69	275
T35	-9	Jason Schultz	70	67	72	66	275
T35	-9	Miguel Angel Carballo	67	70	71	67	275
T35	-9	Oskar Bergman	67	70	69	69	275
T35	-9	Tom Carter	69	69	68	69	275
T35	-9	Tom Johnson	70	68	66	71	275
T44	-8	Bret Guetz	67	69	70	70	276
T44	-8	Skip Kendall	72	65	69	70	276
T44	-8	Vance Veazey	66	70	70	70	276
T47	-7	Bobby Clampett	66	67	71	73	277
T47	-7	Kenny Kim	69	69	65	74	277
T47	-7	Kim Felton	68	70	71	68	277
T50	-6	Arjun Atwal	68	69	74	67	278
T50	-6	Chris Stroud	67	69	70	72	278
T50	-6	Gary Christian	68	66	72	72	278
T53	-5	Bill Lunde	68	66	73	72	279
T53	-5	Colt Knost	65	72	69	73	279
T53	-5	James Oh	66	70	74	69	279
T53	-5	Kris Cox	68	70	69	72	279
T53	-5	Ricky Barnes	66	68	74	71	279
T58	-4	D.a. Points	69	69	73	69	280
T58	-4	Jeff Gallagher	68	70	72	70	280
T58	-4	Kris Blanks	71	64	77	68	280
T58	-4	Paul Gow	68	70	71	71	280
62	-3	B.j. Staten	69	68	76	68	281
63	-2	Dave Schultz	65	72	71	74	282
Cut Ev
CUT	-3	Alex Prugh	67	72	-	-	139
CUT	-3	Ben Bates	69	70	-	-	139
CUT	-3	Brendon De Jonge	69	70	-	-	139
CUT	-3	Craig Kanada	70	69	-	-	139
CUT	-3	David Mckenzie	67	72	-	-	139
CUT	-3	J.l. Lewis	68	71	-	-	139
CUT	-3	Jay Don Blake	72	67	-	-	139
CUT	-3	Jim Rutledge	70	69	-	-	139
CUT	-3	John Kimbell	70	69	-	-	139
CUT	-3	Keoke Cotner	69	70	-	-	139
CUT	-3	Tee Mccabe	69	70	-	-	139
CUT	-3	Wade Ormsby	68	71	-	-	139
CUT	-3	Webb Simpson	70	69	-	-	139
CUT	-2	Bob Burns	70	70	-	-	140
CUT	-2	Bradley Iles	70	70	-	-	140
CUT	-2	Chris Parra	71	69	-	-	140
CUT	-2	Corey Prugh	74	66	-	-	140
CUT	-2	Garrett Willis	70	70	-	-	140
CUT	-2	Henrik Bjornstad	68	72	-	-	140
CUT	-2	Jason Enloe	72	68	-	-	140
CUT	-2	Jeff Brehaut	70	70	-	-	140
CUT	-2	Jon Rusk	70	70	-	-	140
CUT	-2	Josh Broadaway	69	71	-	-	140
CUT	-2	Nick Malinowski	71	69	-	-	140
CUT	-2	Rich Barcelo	73	67	-	-	140
CUT	-2	Rob Bradley	70	70	-	-	140
CUT	-1	Andre Stolz	70	71	-	-	141
CUT	-1	Andrew Bonhomme	70	71	-	-	141
CUT	-1	Andrew Dresser	71	70	-	-	141
CUT	-1	Aron Price	75	66	-	-	141
CUT	-1	Chris Kirk	69	72	-	-	141
CUT	-1	Chris Thompson	71	70	-	-	141
CUT	-1	Doug Barron	70	71	-	-	141
CUT	-1	Michael Boyd	67	74	-	-	141
CUT	-1	Scott H. Anderson	72	69	-	-	141
CUT	-1	Scott Piercy	70	71	-	-	141
CUT	Ev	Jesse Mueller	71	71	-	-	142
CUT	Ev	Jerod Turner	67	75	-	-	142
CUT	Ev	Bob Sowards	69	73	-	-	142
CUT	Ev	Brad Elder	73	69	-	-	142
CUT	Ev	Bryan Decorso	72	70	-	-	142
CUT	Ev	Casey Wittenberg	73	69	-	-	142
CUT	Ev	Geoffrey Sisk	71	71	-	-	142
CUT	Ev	J.j. Killeen	73	69	-	-	142
CUT	Ev	Matt Bettencourt	70	72	-	-	142
CUT	Ev	Rick Price	69	73	-	-	142
CUT	Ev	Scott Parel	70	72	-	-	142
CUT	Ev	Todd Fischer	71	71	-	-	142
CUT	Ev	Tommy Gainey	71	71	-	-	142
CUT	+1	Anders Hultman	72	71	-	-	143
CUT	+1	Brian Stuard	69	74	-	-	143
CUT	+1	David Morland Iv	70	73	-	-	143
CUT	+1	Kevin Johnson	71	72	-	-	143
CUT	+1	Sebastian Fernandez	71	72	-	-	143
CUT	+2	Brendan Steele	72	72	-	-	144
CUT	+2	David Hearn	69	75	-	-	144
CUT	+2	Esteban Toledo	70	74	-	-	144
CUT	+2	Ewan Porter	67	77	-	-	144
CUT	+2	Joe Daley	72	72	-	-	144
CUT	+2	Jon Turcott	71	73	-	-	144
CUT	+2	Keith Nolan	70	74	-	-	144
CUT	+2	Scott Gutschewski	70	74	-	-	144
CUT	+3	Chad Ginn	69	76	-	-	145
CUT	+3	Chris Smith	73	72	-	-	145
CUT	+3	Craig Bowden	73	72	-	-	145
CUT	+3	Jeremy Anderson	71	74	-	-	145
CUT	+3	Kelly Grunewald	69	76	-	-	145
CUT	+3	Reid Edstrom	68	77	-	-	145
CUT	+3	Tyler Aldridge	69	76	-	-	145
CUT	+4	Chris Tidland	72	74	-	-	146
CUT	+4	Gibby Gilbert	73	73	-	-	146
CUT	+4	Keith Clearwater	72	74	-	-	146
CUT	+5	Randy Leen	70	77	-	-	147
CUT	+6	Dustin Bray	76	72	-	-	148
CUT	+6	Josh Mccumber	72	76	-	-	148
CUT	+6	Scott Gordon	78	70	-	-	148
CUT	+7	Chris Moody	74	75	-	-	149
CUT	+7	Grant Waite	75	74	-	-	149
CUT	+7	Ian Leggatt	78	71	-	-	149
CUT	+7	Scott Dunlap	73	76	-	-	149
CUT	+8	Garrett Osborn	72	78	-	-	150
CUT	+8	Jim Herman	73	77	-	-	150
CUT	+8	Keith Huber	76	74	-	-	150
CUT	+9	Boyd Summerhays	75	76	-	-	151
CUT	+9	Brad Fritsch	74	77	-	-	151
CUT	+9	Hunter Haas	77	74	-	-	151
CUT	+10	Dan Arroyo	76	76	-	-	152
CUT	+11	David Lutterus	73

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Leishman well placed in Utah

BY Bruce Young | Nationwide Tour | 2008 Utah Championship | Round Three | 07 Sep 2008