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Kuchar shares lead at Memorial
Matt Kuchar had two early bogeys and another on 18, but stayed atop the leaderboard. (Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)
Associated Press

Matt Kuchar finished the third round of the Memorial in a share of the lead, just how he started Saturday.

But it was a wet and wild ride for Kuchar and everyone else at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio.

Kuchar fell off the pace quickly with two bogeys only to surge back into the lead with four birdies and two par saves in a six-hole stretch. A bogey on the final hole gave him a 2-under-par 70 and a share of the lead with William McGirt (64) and Gary Woodland (69).

They were at 14-under 202, and with the starting times moved up Sunday because of a forecast for more storms, this was far from settled.

Jason Day, the No. 1 player and Muirfield Village member who has never finished in the top 25 at the Memorial, ran off two quick birdies to get within one of the lead, only to watch a chip roll back past him into the fairway on the 18th hole for a double bogey and a 68. He was three shots behind. Rory McIlroy was making headway until he dropped a shot at the last hole for a 70 that put him five back.

The other member of the modern Big Three never recovered from his mistakes. Jordan Spieth, after two quick birdies, dropped four shots in a six-hole stretch. He had a 74 and was 10 behind.

Twenty players were separated by four shots going into the final round.

Eight of them have never won on the PGA Tour. Three of them could skip US Open qualifying on Monday if they were to win. All of them would like nothing better than to shake hands with tournament host Jack Nicklaus.

Asked what it would take to win, Kuchar replied, ‘‘Your guess is as good as mine.’’

Champions — Billy Andrade used a record-setting round to join a crowded leaderboard at the Wakonda Club in Des Moines.

The Bristol, R.I., native shot a course-best 9-under 63 for a share of the second-round lead with Joe Durant and Todd Hamilton in the PGA Tour Champions’ Principal Charity Classic. Durant had a 65, and Hamilton shot a 67 to match Andrade at 10-under 134.

Andrade broke the course record of 64 set by Bart Bryant in 2013 and matched by Bill Glasson in 2014. Andrade also tied the tournament record of 9-under 62 set by Kirk Triplett in 2012 at Glen Oaks.

‘‘How about that?’’ Andrade said. ‘‘Anybody can do what I did, that’s how good everybody is. When they got hot, they can flush it out.’’

Miguel Angel Jimenez (67) and Tom Lehman (68) were two strokes back, and Senior PGA winner Rocco Mediate (67) was 8 under along with Scott McCarron (68) and first-round leader John Inman (71).

John Daly, the senior newcomer who helped draw a record opening-round crowd on Friday, shot his second straight 74 to drop to 4 over.

Andrade had a topsy-turvy trip to Iowa in 2015, shooting 66-76-66. But Andrade was able to close about as well as anyone has on this course on Saturday, posting birdies on six of the final seven holes to set the mark at a course that the senior circuit first visited in 2013.

A 20-foot birdie putt on No. 13 kicked off a strong finish for Andrade, who entered the weekend winless on the season but fifth on the money list.

‘‘This course is pretty easy. [But] when you’re off a little bit it can play really hard,’’ Andrade said. ‘‘I hit a few more fairways and I was putting well.’’

Durant made birdie on No. 18 following a chip shot that landed within a foot of the hole. Durant also birdied six of his final seven holes to put himself in contention for his first individual win on the senior tour.

Durant tied for second in Iowa last year.

‘‘I played good here last year and came up one short, and I know what I have to do on Sunday to win a golf tournament,’’ Durant said. ‘‘I just need to go out and shoot a good round of golf.’’

Hamilton, still searching for his first win since British Open in 2004, grabbed a share of the lead despite a chaotic back nine. Hamilton made par just once, but a birdie on the par-3 18th hole pulled him even with Andrade and Durant.

‘‘I haven’t been making any putts really for a while,’’ Hamilton said. ‘‘I think I might have gotten my share for sure, especially on the back nine.’’

Jimenez, who has a win and a pair of top-10s in just three senior tournaments this year, survived a double-bogey to shoot 5-under and move within a shot of the leaders entering Sunday.

Inman, the surprise two-stroke leader Friday, had a one-shot lead heading to the 17th hole. But he put his tee shot and subsequent chip from the drop zone into the water and took a triple bogey.

LPGA — Karine Icher matched the Bay Course record with a 9-under 62 to take the second-round lead in the ShopRite Classic in Galloway Township, N.J.

The 31-year-old French player, winless on the tour, had nine birdies in a 13-hole stretch in the round that started on No. 10 at Stockton Seaview. She tied the record set by Laura Davies in 2005 and matched by Jimin Kang that year and Jennifer Johnson in 2014.

‘‘I don’t realize,’’ Icher said after her lowest round on the LPGA Tour. ‘‘I just like try to play easy and not look at the scoreboard, because it doesn’t serve me. I know that. So, try to play shot after shot, and then it’s becomes like a game to make as many birdies as possible.’’

Icher began the run on Nos. 14 and 15, added two more on 17 and 18, ran off four straight on 3-6 and reached 12 under on the eighth. She had only 23 putts in the lowest round of her LPGA Tour career.

Japan’s Haru Nomura, a two-time winner this year, and South Korea’s Na Yeon Choi were a stroke back at 11 under.

Defending champion Anna Nordqvist, tied for the first-round lead after a 64, had a 68 to drop to fourth at 10 under. The Swede bogeyed the first two holes, eagled the third and had five birdies and two bogeys the rest of the way.

Stacy Lewis, the tournament winner in 2012 and 2014, followed her opening 66 with a 74 to drop to 2 under. Down to sixth in the world, the 31-year-old Lewis is winless in 49 starts since taking the North Texas LPGA Shootout in 2014 for her 11th LPGA Tour victory. She tied for second three weeks ago in Alabama, her 10th runner-up finish during the drought and her 23d overall.

Nomura had a 66, and Choi birdied five of the last eight in a 64. Defending champion Anna Nordqvist, tied for the first-round lead after a 64, had a 68 to drop to fourth at 10 under.

European — Matthew Fitzpatrick will take a five-stroke lead into the final round of the Nordea Masters in Stockholm, ahead of defending champion Alex Noren of Sweden and Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts. The Englishman, who started with an overnight three-shot advantage, had five birdies in his round of 68.