Lucas Glover shoots a 65 for a one-shot lead at PGA event in Las Vegas

One long putt got Lucas Glover going Saturday and put him in position for his first PGA Tour victory in five years.

Glover was even par for his round when he holed a 45-foot birdie putt on No. 8, followed with a 9-foot eagle putt on the next hole and made a pair of birdies and a key par putt in the closing holes for a six-under-par 65 in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

Glover had a one-shot lead over Brooks Koepka (70) and Rod Pampling (71).

“That eighth hole was kind of the catapult,” Glover said. “I made that long one, and two great shots into 9 and turned in 3 under and kept it going.”

Playing in the final group, Koepka and Pampling were slowed by mistakes and wound up letting a dozen or so players back into the mix. Twenty players were separated by four shots going into the final round at the TPC Summerlin.

“We’ve got a shootout ahead of us tomorrow,” said Glover, who was at 15-under 198. “I like where I stand, but you’re going to have to play good tomorrow.”

Glover pulled ahead when he got up-and-down on the short par-four 15th, two-putted from birdie from about 50 feet on the 16th hole and then made a five-foot par putt on the par-three 17th. The short putts are what has hurt Glover the most during the five years since the former U.S. Open champion last won at Quail Hollow.

He recently switched to a claw grip to get his shoulders more involved.

“I’ve really been working hard, and it’s starting to pay off,” Glover said. “Eighteen holes tomorrow, and see how many we can make because I’m going to have make some.”

Russell Henley made eight birdies — only one of them from under 10 feet — for a 63, and Geoff Ogilvy ran off four straight birdies late in his round for a 65. They were two shots behind.

The group at 12-under 201 included Las Vegas resident Scott Piercy, Harris English and Pat Perez, who missed eight months this year with shoulder surgery. Another Las Vegas resident, Ryan Moore, was in the large group at 11 under.

Byrum, McCarron share Champions Tour lead

Scott McCarron and Tom Byrum shared the Dominion Charity Classic lead Saturday, with Bernhard Langer two strokes back in the second of three PGA Tour Champions playoff events.

McCarron shot his second straight five-under 67, and Byrum had a 69 to reach 10-under 134 on the Country Club of Virginia’s James River Course in Richmond. Langer also had a 69 in his return for a left knee injury that forced him to withdraw from the playoff opener last week in California.

McCarron birdied the par-five 16th and 18th for the second day in a row, holing a 12-footer on 18. Byrum closed birdie-bogey-birdie, making a 20-footer on 18 to tie McCarron.

Langer is fighting the knee injury that he re-aggravated at home doing routine spinning. The 59-year-old German star leads the Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs standings, had a tour-high our victories and has wrapped up the season money title with $2,697,459.

The playoff field was cut from 72 to 54 for the event, and Tom Lehman dropped out because of an elbow injury. The top 36 after the week will qualify for the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship next week in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Each dollar earned in the first two events is worth two points — first place is worth $305,000 and 610,000 points this week — and is added to the regular-season total. At the Charles Schwab Championship, points will be reset so that the top five only have to win to capture the Charles Schwab Cup.

Feng moves into LPGA lead in Japan

Shanshan Feng shot an eight-under 64 to take the TOTO Japan Classic lead, putting the Chinese star in position to close the Asian swing with consecutive victories.

Feng birdied the final two holes for a one-stroke advantage over Ariya Jutanugarn, the Thai player who leads the LPGA Tour with five victories and would wrap up the player of the year award with a victory.

Jutanugarn had a 68 on another chilly day at Taiheiyo Club in Ibaraki during the tour’s first tournament in the Tokyo area since 1991. Norway’s Suzann Pettersen (66) and South Korea’s Soo-Yun Kang (69) were at nine under.

Feng won last week in steamy conditions in Malaysia. She has finished no worse than a tie for fourth in her last six events. She started the run with the Olympic bronze medal in Rio, tied for fourth at Evian in France, opened the Asia trip at home in China with a fourth-place tie, was second in Taiwan and tied for third in South Korea before winning. After winning Sunday, she took off Monday and Tuesday.

The five-time LPGA Tour winner two-putted for birdie on the par-five 17th, then capped the bogey-free round with a 10-footer on the par-four 18th that caught the left edge, circled the cup and fell in to get her to 11-under 133. She birdied three of the first six and had three in a row on Nos. 12-14.

The second-ranked Jutanugarn had six birdies and two bogeys. She has a 13-point lead over Lydia Ko in the player of the year standings. The top-ranked Ko was tied for 52nd at 1 over after a 71.

Olesen running away at Turkish Airlines Open

Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen shot a three-under 69 to extend his lead to seven strokes in the Turkish Airlines Open.

Olesen had an 18-under 195 total at Regnum Carya in Antalya.

American David Lipsky (66) was tied for second with Austria’s Bernd Wiesberger (66), China’s Li Haotong (68), Italy’s Matteo Manassero (68) and England’s David Horsey (68).