Alex Smalley birdied the final hole to seize a two-shot lead after the third round of the PGA Championship on Saturday, while struggling Scottie Scheffler said the tightly packed leaderboard at Aronimink was unlike anything he had seen before. Smalley recovered from a shaky start to card a two-under-par 68 and move to six under overall, with 43 players within five shots of the lead before Sunday’s final round.
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Jhonatan Narvaez held off Andreas Leknessund to claim victory on stage eight of the Giro d’Italia. Ecuadorian Narvaez was part of a three-man breakaway, along with UAE Emirates-XRG team-mate Mikkel Bjerg and Uno-X Mobility’s Leknessund on the 156km stage, and made his move with about 10.5km left. Bjerg, having helped his team-mate, dropped off and Leknessund could not keep up with Narvaez, who went on to claim his second stage win of this year’s race – crossing the line following a gruelling final few kilometres.
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Antoine Semenyo produced a moment of individual genius to settle a bitterly disappointing FA Cup final as Manchester City beat Chelsea at Wembley. The showpiece had largely been a dismal non-event until Semenyo broke the deadlock brilliantly with 18 minutes left. Erling Haaland, had worked tirelessly with little service, but it was his cross that Semenyo met on the run with a perfect right-foot flick across Chelsea keeper Robert Sanchez.
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An unexpected duo of Maverick McNealy and Alex Smalley hold a one stroke lead over the chasing pack at the PGA Championship at Aronimink after a second round that saw some high profile casualties and criticism from defending champion Scottie Scheffler. Rory McIlroy bounced back from a poor opening round to keep his hopes of back to back major wins alive heading into the weekend in Pennsylvania.
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Jonas Vingegaard put on an impressive breakaway ride to win stage seven of the Giro d’Italia and complete his set of Grand Tour stage victories. On the famous Blockahus climb, which featured 13.6km at gradients of up to 14%, the Dane – making his debut at the event – made his move with 5.5km to go. Vingegaard did the climb in a record 38 minutes 22 seconds as he won by 13 seconds from second-placed Felix Gall, of Austria.
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