OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Robert MacIntyre was able to maintain a healthy advantage on Scottie Scheffler after Moving Day at the 2025 BMW Championship as the world’s No. 1 golfer could only knock one shot off MacIntyre’s lead entering the final round at Caves Valley Golf Club. Scheffler plotted his way around a course that started to get some of its teeth back after two straight days without rain with his typically steady play, but MacIntyre maintained his nearly flawless play, finishing the third round without piling up errors despite an early miscue by bogeying the first hole.

Scheffler’s only real misstep Saturday was leaving his approach in the bunker short of the 12th green from the fairway, leading to his lone bogey of the day. Beyond that, he made four birdies and kept inching closer to the young Scotsman, forcing MacIntyre tl prove that he could hold his nerve, which he will need to do for 18 more holes on Sunday.

Scheffler trimmed his deficit to three at multiple points, but MacIntyre seemed to always have an answer, holding up his end of the bargain well in the zoo that is a final pairing with the game’s top player. Outside of that opening bogey, MacIntyre did well scrambling for pars until he settled down — with no singular effort better than his escape from the trees on the 5th.

On the back nine, MacIntyre got a bit feisty as the crowd was unsurprisingly pulling heavily for Scheffler. That seemed to provide a bit of fuel for the 29-year-old, who delivered some Ryder Cup-worthy reactions to his two biggest putts on the back nine. The first came after a 6-foot par putt on the 14th as he answered a Scheffler birdie that had the grandstands buzzing and prompted one fan to say something that caught MacIntyre’s attention and led to quite the response. 

Then on the 18th, with Scheffler in closer, MacIntyre poured in his latest bomb on the Caves Valley greens, pushing his lead back to four shots and giving a big fist pump to show he knew how important it was to find the bottom of the club with that stroke.

Scheffler couldn’t answer with his putt, and now, he will have a significant deficit from which to battle back Sunday if he’s going to prevent MacIntyre from going wire-to-wire. 

This week has been MacIntyre’s best performance of his PGA Tour career through three rounds, as his 194 strokes at the 54-hole mark is a career-low total, besting his 2024 Scottish Open championship performance by one. He’ll hope Sunday ends in a similar result but knows he will have to contend with one more round battling Scheffler and a crowd pulling for the world No. 1 to find the winner’s circle.