Alex Smalley leads but dozens enter Sunday in contention at PGA Championship
Alex Smalley leads the PGA Championship heading into the final round after a challenging third round at Aronimink Golf Club. He managed to recover from a rough start, finishing with a score of 2-under 68. A record 22 players are within four shots of the lead, setting the stage for an exciting conclusion to the tournament.
- ▪Alex Smalley took a two-shot lead into the final round of the PGA Championship.
- ▪He is the only player to break par in each of the first three rounds.
- ▪A record 22 players are within four shots of the lead, including stars like Jon Rahm and Scottie Scheffler.
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| Original publisher | Yahoo Sports |
| Canonical URL | https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/alex-smalley-leads-dozens-enter-003221504.html |
| Publication time | Sun, 17 May 2026 00:32:21 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-17T01:10:19.091Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-17T01:10:19.091Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | vZxs_mShpHA2 · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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