After a grueling round Friday due to strong winds, scoring conditions were nearly perfect for Saturday's third round at the 2025 Player's Championship, the PGA Tour's final signature event of the season.

Scheffler bounced back with two birdies and a bogey over the next six holes, but he gave it all back — and then some — on the par-3 eighth. He found water off the tee, then missed an 11-foot putt that would’ve saved bogey, carding a 5.

Scheffler made his triple-bogey 7 at the first when his greenside-bunker third shot went over the green and his next chip came back to him. He missed a 16-foot putt for double bogey. Through 16 holes, Scheffler and Thomas were both three over on a day when Russell Henley shot 61 and leader Tommy Fleetwood scored 63.