Robinson
has
a
three-shot
lead;
Tattar
up
by
five.
September
3,
2023
by
Kingsley
Flett
in
Analysis,
Recap
with
comments
Robinson
at
the
2023
PDGA
Pro
World
Championships.
Photo:
DGPT
For
the
fourth
round
in
a
row,
the
top
of
the
MPO
leaderboard
at
the
Pro
World
Championships
has
been
shuffled
more
than
a
deck
of
cards
at
a
poker
game.
Of
the
lead
card
that
took
the
course
on
Saturday,
only
the
tournament
leader
heading
into
championship
Sunday,
Isaac
Robinson,
stays
in
the
top
four.
Just
like
between
rounds
three
and
four,
three
lead
card
members
have
been
swapped
out
for
fresh
contenders:
this
time
all
from
the
third
card.
The
story
of
Chris
Dickerson’s
round
is
the
least-sad
of
three
sorry
tales:
he
fared
relatively
well
compared
to
the
other
two
who
slipped
out
of
the
top
card,
dropping
only
to
the
chase
card,
five
strokes
off
the
pace.
James
Proctor
fell
14
places
down
to
17th
after
his
2-under-par
round
that
included
three
bogeys
and
a
double
bogey
on
hole
11.
On
the
same
hole,
Cole
Redalen,
the
leader
after
three
rounds,
threw
his
putt
wide
of
the
basket
and
long
into
OB
to
also
score
a
double
bogey.
In
Redalen’s
case,
though,
the
damage
had
already
been
done.
The
round
three
leader
had
already
bogeyed
four
holes
on
his
way
to
3-over-par
for
the
day
and
a
slide
down
to
a
share
of
23rd
place.
Dickerson
was
one
of
five
other
players
besides
Robinson
to
either
hold
or
share
the
lead
during
the
round.
Eagle
McMahon
topped
the
table
for
much
of
the
early
part
of
the
round
on
his
way
to
a
new
course
record,
a
sparkling
14-under
49.
Calvin
Heimburg
grabbed
the
outright
lead
off
the
third
card
with
a
birdie
on
hole
14
and
either
held
or
shared
the
number
one
spot
until
an
inexplicable
mistake
on
the
tee
of
hole
18.
“You
just
can’t
throw
it
OB,
especially
not
right
and
that’s
what
I
did,”
said
Heimburg
after
the
round.
After
re-teeing
and
making
the
correction
to
land
in
the
center
fairway,
Heimburg
then
threw
his
approach
20
feet
wide
and
missed
the
testing
putt
to
save
bogey,
dropping
from
a
share
of
the
lead
to
what
would
become
a
3-stroke
deficit
after
Robinson
birdied
the
same
hole.
Heimburg,
frustrated,
paced
off
to
the
edge
of
the
circle
and
shook
his
head.
Nowhere
near
as
upset
as
Dickerson
became,
though.
After
missing
a
Circle
2
putt
for
the
outright
lead,
Dickerson
had
his
comebacker
from
inside
the
bullseye
lift
a
little
too
high
into
the
chains
and
fall
out
right.
Dickerson
followed
the
bogey
up
by
throwing
OB
off
the
next
tee
for
another
bogey.
Then,
after
missing
the
mando
on
hole
13
and
dropping
four
strokes
off
the
pace
back
to
a
share
of
8th
place,
Dickerson
gave
one
of
the
trees
surrounding
the
basket
a
little
short-armed
jab
that
had
some
anger
behind
it.
The
immediate
reaction
of
the
DGN
commentary
team
was
to
ask
the
question,
“Which
hand
did
he
punch
the
tree
with?”
followed
by
“Oh,
OK,
it
was
only
his
left
hand.”
While
most
of
the
lead
card
were
tumbling
down
the
board,
a
couple
of
players
were
making
themselves
known.
After
Evan
Scott
buried
a
50
foot
putt
off
one
knee
to
the
elevated
basket
on
hole
13,
it
became
apparent
that
it
wasn’t
only
Heimburg
who
was
lighting
it
up
from
the
third
card.
Scott,
who
sits
three
shots
back
in
second
place
after
finishing
with
a
12-under,
was
asked
after
the
round
about
the
benefit
of
playing
alongside
someone
like
Calvin
when
he’s
on
fire.
“I
think
it
helped
me
out
a
lot,”
Scott
said.
“Calvin
was
playing
really
good
the
whole
time.
I
was
chasing
him
the
entire
round.
It
makes
it
a
little
easier
for
me
when
I’m
chasing
somebody.
I
think
I
only
missed
one
or
two
putts
that
I’d
like
to
have
back
so
my
putting
felt
really
good
all
day.
I
was
just
consistent
and
didn’t
do
anything
stupid
and
kept
birdieing.”
Scott’s
other
third
cardmate,
Kyle
Klein,
looked
like
he
was
also
following
the
‘don’t
do
anything
stupid’
doctrine.
He
stayed
in
bounds
all
day,
keeping
a
clean
sheet
to
go
with
his
11
birdies
on
his
way
to
a
three-way
tie
for
third
with
Heimburg
and
Anthony
Barela.
Isaac
Robinson
stayed
mostly
in-bounds,
too,
only
crossing
the
rope
on
hole
4
but
managing
to
save
his
par.
Robinson
stayed
in
sight
of
the
lead
all
day,
shared
it
with
Heimburg
for
much
of
the
back
nine,
then
jumped
up
by
two
after
Heimburg’s
mishaps
on
18.
A
birdie
on
18
gave
the
tournament
its
first
clear
leader
after
four
days.
“It’s
a
little
unreal,
unbelievable,”
Robinson
said
after
the
round.
“It
felt
really
good.
At
the
start,
I
wasn’t
throwing
bad
shots,
I
just
wasn’t
throwing
good
shots
on
the
first
three
or
four
holes.
I
told
my
dad
that
I
was
going
to
need
to
get
some
birdies
soon
and
thankfully
those
birdies
started
coming.
Those
guys
on
the
third
card
shredded
today.
I
was
watching
scores
the
whole
time.
If
they
are
bringing
that
kind
of
game
tomorrow,
I’m
going
to
have
to
keep
doing
what
I’m
doing
and
shoot
just
as
well
today.
I
think
10-down
is
going
to
be
the
mark
tomorrow.
I’m
going
to
try
to
shoot
that
and
go
over
it
if
I
can.”
10-under-par
does
seem
to
be
the
magic
number:
so
far
Evan
Scott
has
averaged
10.5-under-par
over
two
rounds
on
the
Fox
Run
Meadows
course,
Kyle
Klein
10-under,
Heimburg
8.5-under,
and
Robinson
9-under.
Robinson
is
in
a
great
position:
a
three-stroke
or
better
lead
has
almost
always
been
safe
going
into
the
final
round
of
Worlds.
Except,
of
course,
last
year,
when
Aaron
Gossage
had
a
three
shot
lead
and
ended
up
losing
in
a
playoff
to
Paul
McBeth.
But
as
we
have
seen
so
far
this
week
on
hole
18
at
Fox
Run
Meadows,
Isaac
Robinson
—
or
whoever
else
is
standing
on
that
teebox
with
the
lead
—
will
want
at
least
a
three-stroke
cushion
to
feel
safe.
Hole
18
Bites
Again
as
Tattar
Extends
Her
Lead
by
One
The
term
‘unforced
error’
is
a
needless
distinction
in
disc
golf
because
strictly
they
are
all
unforced
errors.
Even
so,
some
errors
are
more
unforced
than
others.
For
the
first
three
rounds
of
the
Pro
Worlds,
Kristin
Tattar
had
barely
made
any
errors,
let
alone
unforced
ones;
by
hole
9
of
round
four,
the
defending
World
Champ
had
made
at
least
three.
With
an
opportunity
to
create
a
two-stroke
swing
on
hole
one
after
Missy
Gannon
had
thrown
OB
off
the
tee,
Tattar
putted
low
and
into
the
cage
from
well
inside
the
circle,
limiting
Gannon’s
damage
to
one
stroke.
Then,
on
hole
7,
there
was
another
two
shot
swing
up
for
grabs
for
Tattar
as
Gannon
again
went
OB
off
the
tee,
but
Tattar’s
approach
faded
left
into
OB
and
she
failed
to
save
par,
matching
bogeys
with
Gannon.
On
hole
9,
Tattar
threw
her
worst
drive
of
the
tournament,
releasing
the
backhand
so
early
that
it
crossed
into
OB
barely
halfway
down
the
fairway.
Tattar’s
bogey
on
this
hole
meant
that
lead
she
had
stretched
to
five
strokes
was
back
to
four.
Gannon
then
lowered
the
gap
to
three
with
a
birdie
on
hole
10,
and
almost
took
another
stroke
on
hole
11
save
for
Tattar’s
50-foot
downhill
birdie
make.
The
gap
between
the
pair
remained
unchanged
until
the
pivotal
hole
14.
Tattar
threw
her
drive
long
and
out
of
bounds
and
then
failed
to
draw
metal
on
the
par-save
putt.
Gannon
putted
in
for
birdie
from
16
feet.
The
lead,
which
had
been
at
nine
strokes
early
in
round
three,
was
down
to
one,
and
all
the
momentum
was
with
Gannon.
Tattar’s
caddie
and
partner,
Silver
Lätt,
put
a
reassuring
arm
around
her
shoulder
as
Tattar
was
confronted
with
her
most
testing
moment
of
the
tournament
so
far.
As
champions
often
do,
Tattar
responded
on
the
next
hole
by
lacing
a
forehand
down
the
tunnel
to
the
edge
of
circle
1
and
jamming
a
birdie
putt.
The
lead
was
back
to
two,
which
held
until
Missy
Gannon
stood
on
the
tee
of
18.
“I
threw
a
bit
of
a
glidey
disc
of
the
tee
of
18,”
Gannon
said
after
the
round.
“I
just
misreleased
it
a
little
bit,
too
much
hyzer,
otherwise,
the
disc
choice
was
right.”
Gannon’s
drive
sailed
too
high,
crossing
the
fairway
all
the
way
and
sliding
out
of
bounds
on
the
left.
Then
she
made
another
miscalculation
with
her
approach
and
attempt
to
save
bogey.
“The
headwind
kind
of
snuck
up
on
me,”
she
said.
“There
was
no
wind,
then
all
of
a
sudden
when
I
released
it,
I
felt
the
headwind.
So
unlucky
timing
in
a
way.”
Gannon’s
approach
turned
over
and
she
again
crossed
the
OB
line,
this
time
to
the
right
of
the
basket,
well
out
of
putting
range.
The
double
bogey
was
devastating.
After
an
absorbing
three-hour
battle
where
Gannon
managed
to
claw
back
to
within
two
strokes,
Tattar’s
lead
was
one
larger
than
the
four
she
had
started
the
round
with.
Although
relieved
at
the
late
turn
of
events,
it
had
clearly
been
a
tough
day
for
the
defending
champ.
“Today
was
a
battle
on
the
course,”
Tattar
said.
“At
least
it
felt
like
that
to
me.
It
probably
showed
as
well.
It’s
not
nice
to
miss
short
putts.
It
messes
with
your
confidence.
But
I
was
trying
to
battle
through
it
and
finish
strong.
Of
course,
making
the
long
putt
on
11
helped,
but
I
still
have
that
little
bit
of
a
shaky
feeling
inside
and
I
don’t
know
why
but
it
was
there.
I
was
just
trying
to
stay
calm
and
tell
myself,
‘It’s
just
disc
golf,
you
have
practised,
you
know
how
to
do
it,
just
pick
yourself
up
and
keep
going
no
matter
what
comes
in
your
way,’
and
that’s
what
I
did.
I
could
have
gone
either
way
but
fortunately
it
worked
out
in
my
favor.”
The
sad
part
about
this
absorbing
battle
is
that
we
only
get
one
more
round
to
enjoy
it.
Both
players
are
averaging
unprecedented
1000-rated
rounds
for
the
tournament
so
far.
There
are
other
players
out
there
pushing
them,
though.
As
easy
as
it
is
to
get
wholly
focused
on
the
battle
between
the
top
two,
there
is
also
a
close
battle
going
on
for
that
final
spot
on
the
podium
between
Norway’s
Lykke
Lorentzen,
Texas’
Holyn
Handley,
and
Finland’s
Henna
Blomroos
and
Eveliina
Salonen.
It
is
a
true
World
championship
and
we
have
one
round
to
go.
