“I think you better attack it every time you get a chance on the PGA Tour”.
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Day, trying to join Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners of the PGA Championship in stroke play, came out to the 18th green with his son to watch the finish and quickly found Walker.
Marc Leishman returned to face a 12-foot birdie putt on No. 18 that he left short.
Defending champion: Jason Day.
Mickelson was one of 37 players who finished Saturday, shooting 68.
When the first round of the PGA Championship was over there was plenty to talk about and a whole lot to look forward to.
The leader or co-leader after each of the first three rounds, Walker made nine pars on the front nine and was at 11-under for the tournament.
They hold a two-shot lead over reigning champion Jason Day and Emiliano Grillo, with Open victor Henrik Stenson a stroke further back in fifth.
Kevin Kisner is the clubhouse leader on five under after a five-under 65.
So now we hurry up and wait until Sunday morning for an old-fashioned major. Always the strongest field of the year, the PGA Championship is expected to have 98 of the top 100 in the world.
Walker and Streb are leading at 9-under par after tying the PGA Championship’s 36-hole scoring record of 131.
It doesn’t bode well for a course that was already on the brink of saturation following two inches of rain Monday and more than an inch of overnight rain Thursday.
Play will resume at 7 a.m.to complete the third round. “I think I hit more poor shots in the two rounds today than in the previous six or seven rounds combined”. Baltusrol has surrendered four major 63s, the most of any course, and the PGA has allowed 14 63s, as many as the USA and British Opens combined.
Stenson was fifth on 134 with Germany’s Kaymer, the 2010 PGA Championship and 2014 US Open victor, another stroke back with Americans Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed and Kisner.
Saturday’s hazardous weather suspended play at 2:14 p.m. I think it will be broken in the next two days. The golfers will play in the same groups as they did in round three.
The fourth round began at 8:40 a.m. and there will be no re-pairings because of that.
Robert Streb was the latest to post 63 late in Friday’s second round to jump into the lead with Jimmy Walker at the midway point. “Of course I try and remind myself of that, and seeing that if I now started playing well here in the middle of the summer, I hope I can continue as long as I can”. Golf has the No. 62 in major championships.
The players, when their ball lies on a closely mown area “through the green”, may mark the ball, clean it and replace it within one club length no nearer the hole or in a hazard. It’s a major championship and we want it to be run and performed as a major championship. His second-round 66 included a bogey on the par-5 18th.
It last was played in July in 1968, when Julius Boros at age 48 became the oldest major champion at Pecan Valley in San Antonio.
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The weather is not supposed to be as bad Sunday, but thunderstorms are in the forecast and the percentage increases in the afternoon, according to The Weather Channel.
