Also, find updates on third-round leader Jason Day and the rest of the field, including a charging Jordan Spieth.
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There was more turmoil on the back nine but two birdies in the last three holes left him a hero’s shot at nirvana.
The Swede got as low as eight-under, and his 36-hole total of seven-under 137 gave him the outright lead when he walked off the course. Organizers said the round would resume at 7 am (12:00 GMT) on Saturday. “Thirty seconds later they blew the horn, so my name was mud walking up the 18th”.
“Despite the hassle of returning to finish, Day wasn’t disappointed that the round was stopped”.
“I think it’s awesome”, said Spieth.
Day, who started the day with a two-shot lead over Spieth, stretched it early when he got up and down for birdie from a bunker at the second.
A victory this week at the PGA will make Spieth, who won the Masters and the U.S. Open, the victor of three major championships in a calendar year, a historic achievement for a golfer so young.
“The wind was down a little bit, but it was a attractive day”, said Lingmerth, who teed off in the morning.
However, Grace was keeping pace with the final pair and after making the obligatory birdie on six, holed from 15 feet on the next for his fourth birdie in the space of five holes. “It would be great to hole a few more putts, because I feel like I’m giving myself plenty of chances”. “I couldn’t even imagine being somewhere on this stage in the same sport with my brother, given we separated in what we were doing so long ago”.
“I’m still not pleased with the way I’m driving the ball at all“. With a couple chip-ins for the week, really smart course management and good speed control, we have been able to hold ourselves in there. Rory McIlroy finished with his second 71 and is 2 under for the tournament. Returning at five-under par to finish his last five holes, Lee had a disastrous triple bogey on the fifth before doubling the seventh and bogeying the eighth to card a 77 and almost fall outside the cut line.
He was frustrated not to pull the shot back at the par-five 16th, but drained a 24-footer for birdie at 17.
“It’s all about setting a realistic goal and target”, McIlroy said. “I didn’t know who I was playing with”.
But this year he has played in the final group at the US Open on Sunday despite vertigo attacks and was one shot out of a play-off at last month’s British Open before winning the following week in Canada. The projected cut was 2 over.
The year’s two-time major champion had seemed to be adrift in a birdie-and-eagle barrage beside Lake Michigan.
Jones had never led a major tournament before this weekend or finished higher than a tie for 30th position at one of golf’s big shows. Two players – Greg Norman and Vijay Singh – did it twice.
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The World No. 2 sounded ominously confident when reflecting with the same broadcaster on his masterful back nine performance and chances come Sunday.
