Scottie Scheffler’s comfortable lead at his hometown CJ Cup Byron Nelson was the same late in the third round as it was at the start, even without the dominance the top-ranked player showed over the first 36 holes.

Then he found that form again, and made a big lead even bigger at 23 under while finishing after sunset Saturday night.

Scheffler has an eight-shot lead after a 5-under 66 capped by birdies on three of the final five holes — the last on the par-5 18th more than 13 hours after the day began with about half the field needing to complete the second round, including 18 players who hadn’t even started. There was a six-hour weather delay Friday.

Erik von Rooyen (65), Adam Schenk (65) and Ricky Castillo (67) are 15 under, with Kurt Kitiyama (68) and Jhonattan Vegas (67) another shot back.

Scheffler had his first two bogeys of the tournament and was 2 under for the day through 13 holes after missing the PGA Tour record for the lowest 36-hole score by one shot at 124 (18 under). His six-shot lead after two rounds was a Nelson record.

At the short par-4 14th, Scheffler drove the green before settling for a tap-in birdie, then put his tee shot at the long par-3 15th inside 4 feet for another birdie.

The horn for darkness had already sounded after Scheffler, Castillo and Sam Stevens teed off on 18 when the group in front was still in the fairway but cleared them to hit to try to save time. The players had the option to finish.

Scheffler couldn’t see his second shot from the rough after impact, but it reached the green. He two-putted from 31 feet for the biggest 54-hole lead on the PGA Tour since Rory McIroy also led by eight on the way to winning the 2011 U.S. Open.

Van Rooyen was in the rough beside the green on 18 in two shots and looking for another birdie that would have matched the low around of the day, only to need four strokes from there for a bogey.

LPGA Tour

Hae Ran Ryu regained control of the Black Desert Championship by holing out for eagle on the 11th hole, sending her to a 4-under 68 to maintain her two-shot lead in the LPGA Tour’s return to Utah for the first time in more than 60 years.

Ryu will be trying to win a tournament for the seventh straight year, dating to when she was an 18-year-old on the Korea LPGA.

Her biggest challenge might be Ruoning Yin, the former Women’s PGA champion who ran off 10 birdies at Black Desert for a 62, the best score of the tourney and enough to get within two shots.

Ryu started with a two-shot lead and twice had players catch her, if only briefly.

One of them was Somi Lee, who had a pair of early birdies before her round destructed with a double bogey on No. 6 and no birdies until the final hole after she had shot herself out of the tournament.

Esther Henseleit of Germany briefly caught Ryu, but only until the 24-year-old Korean stood in the 11th fairway, 82 yards away. Her wedge caught the slope with just enough spin to send it into the cup for an eagle.

Henseleit made a 10-foot birdie putt on the 17th to get within one shot. But she hit her drive into the black lava rocks and had to hit another off the tee. Her par chip from just short of the green left her 3 feet away, but she missed what looked to be a routine putt and made double bogey. That gave the German a 68 and left her three shots behind.

Ryu had a chance to expand her lead until she missed a birdie putt from about the same distance Henseleit had.

Ryu, who shared the 54-hole lead at a major last week in the Chevron Championship before closing with a 76, was at 18-under 198. Her last win last year was also at a tournament making its LPGA debut, the FM Championship.

Yin, who lost a chance to win another major last week when she three-putted in the five-way playoff at the Chevron, started the day eight shots behind and posted her 62 about the time the final group was making the turn.

LIV Golf

Anirban Lahiri had the worst kind of luck during the second round of an LIV event at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club in Incheon, South Korea.

The Indian’s approach to the ninth hole hit the flag and rebounded straight across the green and into the water. He took a double-bogey six.

That stroke of misfortune appeared to affect him on the ensuing holes, where he had a triple-bogey 7 on the 10th hole and another double-bogey 6 on the 12th en route to a 7-over 79. He had birdied three straight holes ahead of the calamity on the ninth.

Bryson DeChambeau shot 66 and had a four-shot lead over Richard Bland (69) heading into today’s final round.