Long day ahead with Matt Every and Sung Kang atop PGA tournament

Matt Every opened the rain-delayed third round at the PGA Tour’s Byron Nelson in Dallas with an eagle, then had four birdies in a span of five holes to take the lead from Sung Kang before play was suspended because of darkness Saturday night with that lead group through nine holes.

The start of play at Trinity Forest was delayed six hours because of heavy rain overnight and into the morning.

“It was like a normal round of golf for me, it felt like it,” said Every, whose two PGA Tour victories were at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, in 2014 and 2015.

Kang matched the course record with a 61 in the second round to take a four-stroke lead over Every into Saturday.

Every had a 6-under-par 30 on the front nine Saturday to get to 18 under, a stroke ahead of Kang after he was 1 under for the day.

Tyler Duncan, also in the final threesome with Every and Kang, was 3 under and was third at 15 under.

“It was playing super easy, so it wasn’t like I had time to be nervous about anything,” Every said. “I just needed to keep making birdies.”

The final threesome will have 27 holes to play Sunday, when the third round will be finished before the fourth begins. Only 12 of 83 players finished the third round.

PGA Tour Champions: Steve Stricker birdied the final hole for a 2-under 70 and held on to the lead after three rounds at the Regions Tradition in Birmingham, Ala., with Bernhard Langer among three players two strokes back.

Stricker heads into the final round of the first of five PGA Tour Champions majors at 14-under 202. Langer, who won the Tradition in 2016 and 2017, shot a 68. David Toms had a 70 and Billy Andrade a 69 for a three-way tie for second.

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