“The extra instances you get it flawed or it does not occur for you, you begin to not worry it,” Fleetwood stated of his probabilities of successful after narrowly lacking out on victory on the St Jude Championship and Vacationers Championship earlier this season.

“Expertise is one thing you’ll be able to’t practise. It is all to play for and a tremendous alternative.

“All people competing this week needed to be in that last pair on Sunday and I am a kind of guys. Hopefully I’m stood on the 18th inexperienced with the trophy.”

And on a leaderboard stacked with nice potential storylines, US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley is on 13 below after taking pictures the low spherical of the day, a seven-under 63 at East Lake in Atlanta.

Bradley, who’s at the moment eleventh on the US rating checklist, has already stated he faces “the choice of his life” as he contemplates naming himself as one in every of his six picks to finish the 12-strong US crew for subsequent month’s contest towards Europe at Bethpage Black in New York.

Arnold Palmer was the final enjoying captain on a Ryder Cup crew in 1963 when the competition was not the behemoth it has change into.

That decision can be made public on Wednesday, 27 August and Cantlay have to be in Bradley’s reckoning too.

Cantlay was fifth on the planet heading into the 2023 Ryder Cup, the place he grew to become one thing of a pantomime villain over his determination to not put on a cap. Since then, he has steadily fallen down the rankings to twenty third.

And he has missed out on automated qualification for the Ryder Cup, that means he wants a captain’s decide from Bradley to make his third successive US crew.

The 33-year-old, who received the Tour Championship in 2021, closed with a hat-trick of birdies to cap a formidable bogey-free 64.

“I really feel like I am placing it nicely and answerable for my golf ball,” he stated.

“I am precisely the place I wish to be going into Sunday and I will preserve sticking to my course of.”

The leaders will even have a watch on world primary Scottie Scheffler, who’s lurking on 12 below after a 66.

Scheffler opened with successive bogeys however 5 birdies in his subsequent eight holes lifted him to 11 below.

Nonetheless, he missed a number of different brief birdie putts and after a wayward eight-foot try on the sixteenth, he angrily threw his putter at his bag as his frustrations boiled over.

Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre appeared to be surging into competition when he reached 11 below with a birdie on the tenth however he too double-bogeyed the fifteenth after hitting his tee shot into water as he posted a 72 to finish on eight below.

Northern Eire’s Rory McIlroy briefly flickered, attending to 9 below with a birdie on the thirteenth however a poor end with successive bogeys noticed him finish on six below total.

Each of these gamers have secured their Ryder Cup spots however a number of European gamers can be trying to give their captain Luke Donald a well timed reminder of their high quality on Sunday.

Eire’s Shane Lowry, who seems more likely to be knocked out of the ultimate qualifying spot for the European Ryder Cup crew by Rasmus Hojgaard on the British Masters, is the best positioned of these at 9 below par.

Lowry can’t enhance his rating on the Tour Championship, whereas Hojgaard, who’s 14th on the Belfry heading into the ultimate spherical, must be within the high 29 to nick that last automated spot.

Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg and Viktor Hovland of Norway are at 5 and 4 below respectively and require Donald to offer them the nod.

The identical goes for Sepp Straka, who is ready to complete eighth, above Aberg and Hovland within the qualification standings. The Austrian has received twice on the PGA Tour this 12 months, however has had a poor week in Atlanta and is backside of the 30-man subject on six over par.

You possibly can observe the ultimate spherical of the Tour Championship by way of BBC Sport’s stay textual content web page from 18:30 BST on Sunday.