“The body is normally fine to play two rounds of golf”, said Henrik Stenson, the reigning Open Championship victor, who needs to play 36 holes. Players will have an easy time stopping balls for the rest of the tournament but how the greens hold up will be a factor.
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Summerhays would have liked to have played more golf on Saturday, but it wasn’t in the cards.
Pensacola resident Bubba Watson made gains on the front nine of his third round at the 2016 PGA Championship. Hopefully, I can get to 10 or 11 and have a shot..
Walker’s birdies put him at 13 under for the tournament.
Saturday’s pairings will carry over into both rounds on Sunday.
And Rose was celebrating his 36th birthday by playing the first 12 holes of his third round in one under par, after making the cut on the mark of two over on Friday. Branden Grace, who shot a final-round 67, was fourth and the leader in the clubhouse.
The three players in front played their entire third round in the morning as the tournament played catch up after heavy rains forced a suspension of the third round on Saturday. The Northern Irishman’s last major win came at the 2014 PGA Championship in Kentucky.
“The forecast is similar to what it has been the previous two days, with a chance of rain in the afternoon, summer showers”.
Even so, the world’s No. 1 player was in solid shape to try to join Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back PGA champions in the stroke-play era.
The last time Mickelson won a major – or any other PGA Tour event – was the 2013 Open Championship.
Robert Streb, who matched the all-time major record low Friday with a seven-under par 63, and fellow American Jimmy Walker shared the lead on nine-under with top-ranked defending champion Jason Day of Australia and Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo. It was just an average day, as I said.
Saturday’s hazardous weather suspended play at 2:14 p.m. A decision was made before 6 p.m.to finally call play for the day.
The final round will begin at 8:40 a.m., while third round play is still ongoing.
“I had a second and two thirds at the Open before this year, so I didn’t feel like I had anything to lose there – and I certainly don’t have anything to lose here”.
Kerry Haigh, the PGA of America’s chief championships officer, said no consideration was given to Saturday’s play having a two-tee start with threesomes, which would have accelerated play and had more players finish.
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SPRINGFIELD, N.J. – After a awful time on the greens during the first round of the PGA Championship, Rory McIlroy returned to Baltusrol Golf Club on Thursday evening to work on his putting.
