Charting the leader (stats entering week)

Chandler Blanchet (first/-23)

• Rallies back from 1-over par front-nine with 4-under par back-nine to post a third-round 3-under 69; enters the final round with a four-stroke lead over two-time Korn Ferry Tour winner Neal Shipley and Class of 2023 graduate Kevin Dougherty
• Holds the first 54-hole lead/co-lead of his Korn Ferry Tour career (previous best 54-hole position: T3/twice/2025 Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank/finished T9; 2020 Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank and Intermountain Health/finished T36)
• 23-under 193 matches the 54-hole tournament scoring record at the Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Hiland Dairy Foods (other: 2015/Dawie van der Walt); broke the 36-hole tournament scoring record by four strokes with 20-under 124 (previous: 128/2015/Dawie van der Walt)
• Tied the second-lowest opening 36-hole score in Korn Ferry Tour history with 20-under 124, only trailing Stephan Jaeger/123/2016 Ellie Mae Classic
• 20-under par marked the lowest 36-hole score relative to par in consecutive rounds in Korn Ferry Tour history, breaking the previous of record of 19-under par shared by four players (Johnny Keefer/2025 Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard/R2-R3, Matt McCarty/2024 Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank and Intermountain Health/R2-R3, Kevin Chappell/2010 Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic/R1-R2, Webb Simpson/2008 Chattanooga Classic/R1-R2)
• Owns eight top-25 finishes in 14 starts this season, highlighted by two top-10s (T9/Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank; T7/Memorial Health Championship presented by LRS)
• Began the 2025 season with conditional status after a No. 84 finish on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List
• Won the 2023 Totalplay Cup on PGA TOUR Latinoamérica (now PGA TOUR Americas) to secure fully exempt status on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2024; recorded five top-10 finishes, including two victories, en route to earning Player of the Year honors
• Played collegiately for four seasons at the University of West Florida (2014-18), winning an individual national title at the 2017 NCAA Division II Championships and the 2017 Division II Jack Nicklaus Award, presented to the top Division II golfer

Additional notes

• Class of 2023 Korn Ferry Tour graduate, Kevin Dougherty (T2/-19), cards the low round of the day in 10-under 62 via 11 birdies against one bogey; notably birdied No. 12 – the toughest hole at Highland Springs Country Club in the third round – which only yielded eight birdies in Round 3.
• Dougherty is seeking his first Korn Ferry Tour victory, as he was one of 14 players in the Class of 2023 to earn membership on the PGA TOUR without a win that season; matched his career-best finish on the Korn Ferry Tour with a runner-up finish at last week’s The Ascendant presented by Blue.
• Neal Shipley (T2/-19), who is seeking his third victory of the season this week, posts 4-under 68 via six birdies against two bogeys and establishes a new career-high 54-hole position (previous: T6/2025 Memorial Health Championship presented by LRS/finished T5).
• Should Shipley go on to win, he will earn an immediate promotion to the PGA TOUR via the Three-Victory Promotion; would become the 14th player in Korn Ferry Tour history to achieve the feat (most recent: 2024/Matt McCarty).
• Rookie Brendan Valdes (fourth/-17), who finished No. 2 in the 2025 PGA TOUR University Ranking, stands inside the top five through 54 holes for the first time in five career starts; stood T14 after the third round in his only previous made cut this season at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open, and finished T13 to collect his first career top-25 finish.
• First-year member Travis Trace (T5/-16) stands inside the top 10 for the second time this season and establishes his career-best positioning after the third round (previous: T6/BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX/finished T7).
• Trace is making his seventh start of the season this week after starting the year with conditional status through Final Stage of 2024 PGA TOUR Q-School; successfully climbed the priority ranking via his T7 finish at the BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX to earn additional starts this season.
• Making his second career start on the Korn Ferry Tour this week, open qualifier Harrison Ott (T5/-16) stands inside the top five following 54 holes for the first time on any PGA TOUR-sanctioned Tour since the 2022 Osprey Valley Open (T4/finished T3) on former PGA TOUR Canada (now PGA TOUR Americas).