LA QUINTA, Calif. — Blades Brown looked well beyond his 18 years under increasing attention Saturday. He finished with three straight birdies that left him tied with world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, both of them one shot behind Si Woo Kim going into the final round of The American Express.Kim had a 6-under 66 and the advantage of playing La Quinta Country Club as the wind finally arrived in the Coachella Valley. Scheffler and Brown were on the Stadium Course at PGA West, the most difficult even in calm conditions. Each shot a 68 in a much different fashion.Brown, from Nashville, Tennessee, was playing his seventh consecutive round after arriving from a Korn Ferry Tour event in the Bahamas. That didn’t stop him from playing “paper, scissors, rock” with a young fan and then holing a 25-foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th, and then following with a 45-foot birdie on the 18th.Scheffler caught the worst of the wind — the fan turned on when he was on the second hole — and had two bogeys, which can be a lot for him. He was on the verge of ending with another until holing a 25-foot par putt that swirled in on the last turn.Kim was at 22-under 194, with Scheffler and Brown right behind. They all wil …
