Tpc River Highlands - Thatcher Share Lead At Travelers Championship Reuters - Davis

By John Nestor

CROMWELL, Connecticut Sun Jun 24, 2012 12:54am EDT

CROMWELL, Connecticut (Reuters) - Briton Brian Davis continuing to tear upward the front seven at TPC River Highlands but it assisted your pet achieve your share belonging to the steer at the Travelers Championship following on from the third round on Saturday.

The Englishman taken a sizzling six-under par 64 to support your 54-hole head having American Roland Thatcher for a 12-under total of 198.

Davis reaped seven birdies through the first eight pockets to generate your submit twenty nine just before concluding together with just simply a birdie including a bogey over his final nine.

"It seemed to be one amongst those times I came out hot," Davis explained to reporters. "Every tavern was the right club. I seemed to possibly be striking my photographs within the correct identify when I had an uphill putt."

That has been recently the story of the week to get Davis, who have carved up the primary nine holes and in that case placed on arriving in. He is actually 11-under about the front seven the following 7 days in addition to just one-under covering the final nine.

"When many of us reach the convert this wind flow purchased a little bit along with played out somewhat difficult just the summer pockets as well as then that slipped again," Davis said.

"So I ended up being ecstatic to have hung inside for the returning nine."

Thatcher explained in half a dozen birdies and a bogey in his 65, but fell a taken about the 17th ditch that will cost him that outright lead, acquiring consumed top rated location together with several consecutive birdies on the 13th.

The frontrunners have been a couple of photographs free from Americans John Rollins (65) and James Driscoll (66), as well as Australian Stuart Appleby (67).

Defending champ Fredrik Jacobson associated with Sweden was among a group connected with half a dozen a taken further back, which includes double major-winning Irishman Padraig Harrington (65) and American Matt Kuchar (66).

"I designed eight birdies within 10 holes, that is definitely fine when it's happening," Harrington said. "I need to hold that by means of tomorrow and I must go low again."

Play started out earlier as much of the area were pressured to do their subsequent rounds following storms on Friday.

(Editing by way of Ian Ransom )