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Open qualifier Mathew Goggin takes one-shot lead into final round at Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS
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Mathew Goggin makes birdie on No. 16 at Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS
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Open qualifier Mathew Goggin carded the low round of the day (62) to take a one-stroke lead over Rod Pampling heading into the final round of the Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS presented by Circle K.
Mathew Goggin, 66-62 – 128 (-16)
- The 52-year-old seeks his first win on PGA Tour Champions (14th start)
- Best finish: T11 (2026 DICK’S Open)
- His T11 at the DICK’S Open was his lone top-25 finish of the 2026 season (six starts)
- Looks to become the 16th open qualifier to win on PGA Tour Champions
- Most recent: Tommy Gainey (2025 Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS)
- Goggin shot 5-under 67 on Tuesday at TPC Sawgrass (Dye’s Valley) to earn one of three qualifying spots into the field
- This is his lowest 18-hole score (62) and lowest 36-hole score (128) on PGA Tour Champions
- Previous low 18-hole score: 65 (2026 DICK’S Open, Round 2)
- Previous low 36-hole score: 134 (2026 Rogers Charity Classic)
- This is the lowest 18-hole score in Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS history
- Previous low: 63 (Ryan Armour, 2026, Round 1)
- Note: This event was played at Timuquana Country Club (Jacksonville, Florida) from 2021 to 2025
- Previous low: 63 (Ryan Armour, 2026, Round 1)
- This is the lowest 18-hole score in a PGA Tour Champions event played at the Ocean Course at Hammock Beach Resort
- Previous low: 63 (Ryan Armour, 2026, Round 1)
- Note: This course hosted the Ginn Championship in 2007 and 2008
- Previous low: 63 (Ryan Armour, 2026, Round 1)
- This is the lowest 36-hole score in Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS history (128)
- Previous low: 132 (Matt Gogel, 2025 at Timuquana Country Club)
- Matched the lowest 36-hole score of the 2026 season on PGA Tour Champions (128)
- Previous instances: Stewart Cink (Hoag Classic), Ryan Armour (Rogers Charity Classic)
- Looks to become the fifth first-time winner of the 2026 season
- Zach Johnson (James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational)
- Boo Weekley (The Insperity)
- Scott Hend (Trophy Hassan II)
- Ben Crane (American Family Insurance Championship) – team event with partner Darren Clarke
- Made 279 starts on the PGA Tour from 1998 to 2019
- Best finish: T2 (twice; 2006 BMW Championship, 2008 Memorial Tournament presented by Workday)
- Won five times on the Korn Ferry Tour (199 starts)
- Last win: 2015 Panama Championship
- With a win on Sunday, he would snap a winless streak of 4,270 days (or 11 years, 8 months, 10 days) on PGA Tour-sanctioned Tours
- This is his first time leading/co-leading entering the final round on PGA Tour Champions
- Previous best 36-hole position: T7 (2026 DICK’S Open) – finished T11
- Is one of two players in the field without a bogey or worse after 36 holes, along with Michael Wright (T3)
- Last player to play a 54-hole event without a bogey or worse on PGA Tour Champions: Bo Van Pelt (2026 DICK’S Open) – finished T5
- Is making his first appearance at Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS
Other notes
- Rod Pampling (second) sits one back at 15 under after a second-round 65. The 57-year-old seeks his third win on PGA Tour Champions (153rd start).
- Last win: 2023 SAS Championship
- Best finish of 2026: T7 (Chubb Classic)
- Vaughn Taylor and Michael Wright each sit T3 at 13 under after matching 66s on Saturday.
- Fifty-year-old Taylor seeks his first win on PGA Tour Champions (18th start).
- Best finish: T7 (2026 Portugal Invitational)
- Turned 50 years old on March 9
- Fifty-two-year-old Wright, who has played the first 36 holes without a bogey or worse, seeks his first win on PGA Tour Champions (66th start).
- Best finish: T2 (2026 Chubb Classic)
- Fifty-year-old Taylor seeks his first win on PGA Tour Champions (18th start).
- Eighteen-hole leader Ryan Armour (T5) posted 69 and enters the final round at 12 under.
- Seeking wins in back-to-back weeks, Charles Schwab No. 3 Steven Alker (T8) enters the final round at 11 under. Alker was 8 under through 13 holes in his second round before playing his final five holes in 2 over.
- Alker won last week’s Jefferson Lehigh Valley Classic for his fourth win of the season. In his last four starts, he has finished (chronologically): win-win-T2-win.
- World Golf Hall of Fame member and 69-year-old Bernhard Langer (T20) carded a bogey-free 66 to shoot his age or better for the 49th time on PGA Tour Champions.
Sprint to St. Louis presented by Compliance Solutions
- The Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS is the fourth of six events in the Sprint to St. Louis presented by Compliance Solutions.
- The three highest Charles Schwab Cup Points earners among the final five regular-season events will be deemed finalists for the Sprint to St. Louis.
- The three finalists will head to the Stifel Charity Classic, with the best finisher among them claiming the $200,000 winner-take-all prize.
Sprint to St. Louis Standings (entering Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS)
| Player | Points | |
| 1 | Zach Johnson | 690,000 |
| 2 | Steven Alker | 521,000 |
| 3 | Ryan Armour | 272,000 |
| 4 | Ben Crane | 250,120 |
| 5 | Tag Ridings | 240,460 |
| 6 | Robert Karlsson | 201,101 |
| 7 | Y.E. Yang | 187,380 |
| 8 | Henrik Stenson | 179,190 |
| 9 | Rory Sabbatini | 176,000 |
| 10 | Stewart Cink | 175,867 |





