<p>Shane Lowry</p>
Shane Lowry is hoping that being reunited with his first long-term caddie will give him the confidence boost he needs to start putting results on the board.
The Clara man amicably parted company with Darren Reynolds following a three-and-a-half-year stint together, and after missing the cut at the US Open, he recalled Dermot Byrne for the Travelers Championship in Connecticut.
It remains to be seen if the caddie change is for the long term, but the move appears to have worked so far.
After following a second round 65 with a bogey-free six-under 64, Lowry goes into the final round tied for fifth on 13-under, xx shots behind leaders xxx, and feeling ready to take a big step forward.
"I'm pretty happy," Lowry told Sky Sports golf after his lowest round of the season so far.
"I had a pretty slow day on Thursday, so to have like a nice round yesterday and today is nice.
"I'm not sure how far the boys are going to get ahead in front, but I've put myself in position to have a nice week anyway."
The Clara man (39) has played some great golf at times this year without much success, and he's hoping that the return of Byrne, who caddied for him for almost a decade, will put a spring back in his step.
"I've struggled to figure out what's going on because I feel like I've been playing good," Lowry said of a season marked by mediocre results since he lost a three-shot lead with three holes to go and finished second in the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches in early March.
"My stats are decent, not amazing, but I don't feel like I'm playing much bad golf, and I'm just leaving every tournament not happy, and struggling with results.
"The last few weeks have been poor, and I just need maybe that one good week to kind of give myself a kickstart for the rest of the year, and hopefully it's out there tomorrow."
As for Byrne's return, he said: "Look, obviously myself and Darren finished last week. I had a great chat with him on Saturday about it.
"We had a great three and a half years together, and we're still good friends, and he was really good to me. We experienced some great things.
"I just felt like I needed a bit of a change on the course. I felt like the five-hour rounds were quite unenjoyable at times, and I needed a bit of a change-up.
"Dermot was caddying last week for a guy called James Nicholas, who qualified for the US Open, and it was easy to ask him to do this week, because it's an easy drive up the road for him.
"So it's been nice to have him on the bag, and he's kind of changed it up a little bit and given me a bit of confidence.
"It's just nice to have an old friend on the bag, and hopefully we can go out here tomorrow and give it a run."
Halfway leader Scheffler shot xx to lead by x from Viktor Hovland, who shot xx, on xx-under.
Leona loses momentum
At Hazeltine National in Minnesota, Leona Maguire shot a one-over 73 to go into the final round of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship tied for 49th on one over.
She's 12 strokes behind South Korea's Haeran Ryu, who shot 68 to lead by a shot from Canada's Brooke Henderson on 11-under.
Halfway leader Ina Yoon shot 75 to fall two shots off the pace on nine-under, while a 71 by world number one Nelly Korda left her four shots off the lead in a tie for sixth as she bids to win the first three Majors of the season.
McKibbin shines in Turin
In Turin, Tom McKibbin shot a three-under 68 to go into the final round of the DS Automobiles Italian Open just seven shots behind Eugenio Chacarra.
The Spaniard took advantage of a four-over homeward nine of 39 by Chile's Joaquin Niemann and shot 65 to lead by two shots from the Chilean and England's Matt Wallace on 17-under.
Neimann was four under through eight holes and five clear at one stage, but after three putted the ninth for par, he made five bogeys and just one birdie on the back nine to shoot 71.
"I felt like I was playing in the fifth set of a tennis match," Niemann said at a scorching Circolo Golf Torino. "I was tired, I was hot, it was humid. I was sweating."
McKibbin, who is 135th in the Race to Dubai, shares ninth place on 10-under in his quest to move up the standings.
On the HotelPlanner Tour, Mark Power and Liam Nolan are chasing top 10 finishes in the Blot Play9 in Brittany.
Power shot a three-under 67 and Nolan a 68 to leave them tied for 12th on five under at Golf Bluegreen de Pléneuf Val André.
They're seven shots behind England's John Gough, who shot 66 to lead by two shots from France's Maxence Giboudot and Spain's Joseba Torres on 12-under.
Harrington chasing fourth successive win at Dick’s Open
On the PGA Tour Champions, Pádraig Harrington carded a five-under 67 to take a one-stroke lead into the final round as he seeks a fourth Dick’s Open win in a row at En-Joie Golf Course.
“I'm not thinking of four wins, I'm just trying to get my head around going out with the lead tomorrow, what emotions I'm going to feel,” said Harrington, who leads on 12-under from Dicky Pride and Thonchai Jaidee.
‘Today I would have liked to have got a couple more on the back, you know, give myself some comfort. Obviously 12 under. The problem with 12 under is that there's probably a bunch of guys who could shoot 6, 7, 8 under par here who are going to have a chance tomorrow. Would have been nice to get away.
“Tomorrow, just going to have to come out and play well, again, prepare myself for different scenarios, what could happen. You know, deal with it when it happens.”
He added, “The job is to go try and win it tomorrow, no matter what way I play tomorrow. That would be my goal to go out there and be really, really strong mentally.”
Mehaffey going well in Czech Open
On the Ladies European Tour, Oliva Mehaffey is just four shots behind leaders Lisa Petterson and Charlotte Heath heading into the final round of the Tipsport Czech Ladies Open.
She made an eagle and three birdies in a four-under 68 to share 11th place on nine-under at Royal Beroun Golf Club
Sara Byrne was 26th on seven under after a 68 with Aine Donegan also shooting 68 to lie a shot further back in 37th.