Day three digest: 2021 WGC-FedEx St Jude Invitational

Everything you need to know from day three in Memphis.

Harris stayed at full throttle, Bryson battled into contention, Rory was in safe hands and everybody was getting hot under the collar in round three of the 2021 WGC-FedEx St Jude Invitational.

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English at full throttle

Harris English carded a bogey free 65 to maintain his two shot advantage after 54 holes as he looks for a first World Golf Championships title. Bryson DeChambeau piled on the pressure as he caught him at the top of the leaderboard but the American birdied two of his last three holes to lead by two for the third day in a row. "There's a lot of good players behind me and my goal is just stick to my strategy and execute and whatever happens, happens," he said. "I can't control what everybody else is doing."

Bryson happy to take position over perfection

DeChambeau was delighted with his scoring if not his swing as he moved within two shots of the lead. The American is known as something of a perfectionist, with his scientific approach to the game focusing on getting him to the highest possible level with every club in the bag. But there are no pictures on the scorecard and after signing for a 63, which matches his lowest round on the European Tour, the Major Championship winner was happy to be at 16 under. "It was beautiful to be able to score really well," he said. "I didn't feel like my ball striking was perfect but I got it around really well and I was very pleased with it."

Rory embraces his gift

Rory McIlroy's driving accuracy percentage for the 2021 Race to Dubai up until this week has been 47.94. On Saturday it was 85.71. So what has the Northern Irishman been doing differently? He's been trusting his natural game. "I was trying to go away from using my talent and my hands and trying to just sort of do it all with body turn and try to make it very mechanically efficient," he said. "But I sort of came to the realisation that I'm pretty good with my hands and I'm pretty good at matching it up and it's OK to rely on your talent. I've always been a little uneasy with the "talented" tag because I feel like I work hard and it was probably a part of my mentality and my ego to go, 'no, I'm going to drive the ball well with hard work and dedication'. But if that's my talent, I may as well use it to the best of my ability." Your talent has never been in question, Rors.

Anything you can do............

Playing partners Ian Poulter and Abraham Ancer were taking no prisoners at the second. Poulter put his approach to three feet from 113 yards so Ancer decided to hit the flag from 108. These boys are good.

The heat is on

After two days in the mid to high 20s, the mercury topped 30 degrees on Saturday as we got some proper Tennessee weather. As a Florida resident, McIlroy is used to the heat in the southern United States but he compared conditions to the Olympics in Tokyo. "This is what it was like in Tokyo last week, so I'm sort of accustomed to it at this point," he said. "And then living in south Florida in the summer as well, it's pretty toasty. Got used to it, I guess. It's certainly a little warmer. There was a few more drips of sweat coming off my nose when I was warming up on the range this morning." Poults also lives in Florida but he was feeling the heat too.