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Third-Round Leaderboard

Pos.        Player                    R1           R2           R3           Total

1              Jake Knapp           59           70           68           197 (-16)

2              Michael Kim         65           66           67           198 (-15)

T3           Russell Henley     63           70           66           199 (-14)

T3           Ben Griffin            68           65           66           199 (-14)

T3           Doug Ghim           68           63           68           199 (-14)

Leading Asian/Aussie Scores

T12         Rikuya Hoshino   70           67           65           202 (-11)

T24         Rico Hoey             66           69           68           203 (-10)

T24         Karl Vilips             68           67           68           203 (-10)

T35         Min Woo Lee       71           65           68           204 (-9)

Jake Knapp (1^st/-16)

• Marks second 54-hole lead/co-lead on TOUR: 2024 Mexico Open at VidantaWorld/Won
• Notches his third lowest 54-hole total on TOUR: 194/2024 Mexico Open at VidantaWorld/Won, 195/2024 CJ CUP Byron Nelson/8^th
• One stroke shy of the tournament-record 54-hole score: 196/Davis Love III/Country Club at Mirasol (Sunset)/2003; joins Rickie Fowler (2017) and Chris Kirk (2023) with the low 54-hole score at PGA National (The Champion)
• Seeks to become the first wire-to-wire winner (no ties) of the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches since 1996 (Tim Herron/TPC Eagle Trace); last wire-to-wire winner (no ties) on the PGA TOUR in an individual stroke play event: Lee Hodges/2023 3M Open
• With a win, would become the sixth player, and the first since Brandt Snedeker (2018 Wyndham Championship), to shoot a sub-60 round and go on to win
• Best finish in seven starts this season: T17/The Genesis Invitational
• Second career appearance at the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches (T4/2024)
• Finished No. 59 in the 2024 FedExCup after collecting four top-10 finishes in 2024

Miscellaneous notes

• Michael Kim (2^nd/-15) makes his first bogey of the week at his 51^st hole; sits No. 2 in the Aon Next 10 with a chance to play his way into next week’s Signature Event, the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard; finished T2 at WM Phoenix Open to earn a spot in last month’s Signature Event, The Genesis Invitational (T13); seeks first TOUR victory since 2018 John Deere Classic
• With birdies on his final three holes, 2014 Cognizant Classic winner Russell Henley (T3/-14), the highest ranked player in the field by Official World Golf Ranking (No. 17), looks for his fifth PGA TOUR title and first since the 2022 World Wide Technology Championship; with a win, would become the fifth multiple winner of the Cognizant Classic
• Doug Ghim (T3/-14) and Ben Griffin (T3/-14) both seek their first TOUR victories in their 151^st and 84^th respective starts on TOUR; 16 players have made the Cognizant Classic their first career win on TOUR, including two in the last three years: Sepp Straka (2022), Ausin Eckroat (2024)
• 2017 Cognizant Classic winner Rickie Fowler (T6/-13) sits three strokes back in his 15^th appearance at the event; best finish in four starts this season: T21/The American Express; seeks seventh TOUR title and first since 2023 Rocket Classic
• Taylor Montgomery (T6/-13) held the solo lead at 15-under before making a quadruple-bogey 7 at the par-3 15^th hole; enters this week requiring a 3-way tie for 13^th or better to satisfy a Major Medical Extension and earn a spot into the 2025 PLAYERS Championship
• Joe Highsmith and Max McGreevy post 7-under 64s after making the cut on the number to move from T48 to T8
• PGA TOUR rookie Rikuya Hoshino (T14/-11) was 6-under through his first seven holes en route to a 6-under 65; 6-under 29 is one stroke shy of the tournament-record front-nine score (28/Erik van Rooyen/2024)
• The day after reaching 20 points to earn PGA TOUR membership via PGA TOUR University Accelerated, amateur Luke Clanton (T24/-10) posts 1-under 70; hits 15 of 18 greens in regulation and requires 33 putts, his most in any round this week.