Louisville [US], Indian-American Sahith Thegala put himself in perfect position to bid for his first major as he was tied for third behind Xander Schauffele (68) and Collin Morikawa (67) after three rounds. Were one shot behind. The 106th PGA Championship Thegala, after going 65-67 the first two days, turned in 67 in the third to 14-under as Morikawa (winner of the 2002 PGA and 2021 Open) seeks a third major, and Schauffele seeks his first. The 15-year-old Thegala may only have one PGA Tour win to his name, but he has finished second twice this season and both times at signature events (The Sentry and RB Heritage). The 26-year-old Theegala's best major finish has been t. -9 in his Masters debut in 2023, leads par-3 scoring and plays well out of the rough and I'm the best in 3-putt avoidance this week, along with three others: 2019 Open winner Shane Lowry (62), The 2020 US Open winner, Bryson DeChambeau (67) and (66) at 13-under and two other 2013 US Open winners Justin Rose (64) and Robert McIntyre (66) at 12-under, there are eight players with a lead of less than three. Yet the man missing from the mix is ​​world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, whose streak of rounds at or under par was broken after 42 rounds. He went four over in the three holes between the second and fourth and ended the day at 2-over 73 and 7-under at T-24.Top Asians Tom Kim (68) and Hideki Matsuyama (70) were at 8-under. Scheffler came off a tense second round in the T-19th place, which included an arrest and a brief visit to jail, never recovered from his disappointing start in the third round before being carded a 66. "Too many mistakes," Scheffler told CBS, as he left to talk to reporters. "Come here expecting to have a good round and didn't. He started with par and then went double bogey-bogey-bogey for the next three holes and never recovered from there. Three couple of birdies. There were bogeys at 7-8th, 10th-11th, and 13th-14th, and finally closed with birdies for a 73 Schauffele, who lost the lead for the first time in the third round when he made double bogey at No. 15, caught With two closing birdies, Morikawa birdied the 18th hole just ahead of him, making it Schauffele's first under par score in three rounds at a major championship and also his lowest 54-hole score in a major. Schauffele advanced to the third round. /Continued on co-lead.At the Olympics in Tokyo where he won gold, and on his way to winning the 2022 Zurich Classic of New Orleans with teammate Patrick Cantlay, he reached the final round of the Wells Fargo Championship last week and advanced to the final over Rory McIlroy (68 ) who were T-19 here after three days, I Valhalla Lowry, who won in Zurich in the company of McIlroy, had a brilliant round of 6 that included nine birdies, six on the front Were. course and three more on the back nine.