Griffin goes low to extend Sanderson Farms lead

Ben Griffin fired a 6-under-par 66 to extend his lead to three shots after 54 holes of the Sanderson Farms Championship on Saturday in Mississippi.

Griffin sits at 20-under, holding a three-shot edge over China's Carl Yuan heading into Sunday's final round at the Country Club of Jackson. Three players are four shots back in a tie for third, and another two golfers are tied for sixth at 15 under, five shots off the lead.

Griffin followed his sterling 63 on Friday with another bogey-free round, posting six birdies - three on the front and three on the back.

"I felt like that was a good goal, try to get three on each side," Griffin said.

"I knew it was going to be windy, and I needed to make sure I missed it in the right spots. Felt like I left myself a lot of 20-, 30-footers, but it was on holes where I needed to do, so if I had missed it on the wrong side, I was going to be scrambling to try to make pars."

Griffin, 27, has yet to win on the PGA Tour and earned just one top-10 finish in all of 2022-23. However, he ranked a respectable 66th in the FedEx Cup Fall standings entering the week and could crack the top 60 with a win.

That would qualify Griffin for two of the tour's signature events next winter: the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Genesis Invitational.

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