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Bubba Watson, Jason Kokrak and Chez Reavie – which one of these players doesn’t belong?
Bubba Watson hits from the eighteenth hole rough during the third round of the Northern Trust Open golf tournament at Riviera Country Club.
He apparently is traffic phobic. Spear, a 5-foot-7 guard from Indianapolis, is a senior at Lawrence Central where she averaged 8 points, five assists and three rebounds per game this past season for the Bears. He was giving himself 2 1/2 hours to go 17 miles.
“That’s one of the loudest cheers I’ve had in a while”, said McIlroy, who attracted large and boisterous third-round galleries.
“I feel like my iron game is sharp”.
“I couldn’t believe it”, McIlroy said. “I just want to have the opportunity to win tomorrow and that’s all I’ll be focussing on”. Not many majors have the potential for more high-level drama.
Rory McIlroy closed with a flurry on Saturday. All are ranked among the top 20 in the world golf rankings.
Dustin Johnson, who lost to Watson at Riviera by two strokes in 2014, is tied for second with second-round leader Jason Kokrak, who shot 70, and Chez Reavie, who had a 69.
Numerous are the storylines. The 34-year-old, who hasn’t won on the PGA Tour since 2008, has been consistent all weekend, with his highest score being a 67 on Friday. McIlroy could prevail in his first-ever appearance. Johnson has been runner-up each of the last two years. A Choi triumph would be his ninth on tour and the second straight at Riviera for a South Korean.
“You’ve covered all the stories”. The best round among the top nine on the board is 66, which likely would be a winning finish come late Sunday afternoon.
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“The joke was when I got on the green …” “You’ve just got to go out and set yourself a number. It’s not that brutal hard and fast stuff where your slight miss is really punished and you can’t get it up-and-down”.
The American left-hander used his booming length off the tee and his creativity around the greens to good advantage as he fired a four-under-par 67 at a sun-splashed Riviera Country Club, a venue he has always relished playing.
Asked if he’s sitting courtside with Ballmer, Watson said: “No, he sits too far”. “Like getting up-and-down on 18, something insane like that”. He bogeyed the par-four third and didn’t hit his first fairway until the eighth hole. The 10th is the hole that causes the most hiccups here, and where James Hahn won the playoff a year ago.
It didn’t start well, with McIlroy three-putting for par on the easiest hole of the course, the 503-yard, par-five first that yielded 45 birdies, four eagles and 24 pars Saturday and 241 birdies, 29 eagles and 89 pars in the first three rounds.
“I don’t think I think about the six, ” she said.
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“Yesterday I felt like I hit it really well, just didn’t hole any putts. Around here, I guess being a past champion, they respect it. They know you can play, and they appreciate a past champion around here, just like any golf tournament would”. “Just haven’t made any putts on that hole”.
