Haigh could not think of the last time the players were not paired according to their 54-hole score for the final round.
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U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson appeared certain to miss the cut after losing further ground on the back of his first-round 77.
Marc Leishman returned to face a 12-foot birdie putt on No. 18 that he left short. 10 and 11 to take a two-shot lead over defending champion Jason Day.
As overnight co-leaders Jimmy Walker and Robert Streb prepared hit the course, they were two strokes ahead of the competition.
Streb made eight birdies, with one bogey, on Friday afternoon in one of the least heralded 63s among the 30 that have been scored in major championships. Mickelson was 2-under-par in the front nine but his three bogeys in the back nine marred his performance. “It’s normally the mind that gives up before the body… the body is normally fine to play two rounds of golf”. Harrington didn’t even think he played that well and still shot a 65, his lowest ever in a PGA Championship.
Now, the most memorable moment from Mickelson’s latest visit to New Jersey may well be the triple-bogey 7 he suffered on the first hole of Friday’s second round.
A Monday finish is a real possibility as rain ended play early in the third round Saturday and the forecast Sunday is dicey at best. A HUUUUUUUUGGGE if, considering the Sunday forecast is horrific.
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.
Past year at the PGA Championship, Lahiri had finished tied fifth, becoming India’s best ever performer at a major golf championship.
McIlroy fired a one-under par 69 in the second round of the year’s final major tournament at Baltusrol, but a birdie-less 74 Thursday proved too much to overcome and he finished one shot beyond the cut line. Eventual victor Henrik Stenson shot 63 in the final round at Royal Troon.
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (AP) – The PGA Championship resumed Sunday with minimal odds that someone will be holding the Wanamaker Trophy by the end of the day.
The fourth round began at 8:40 a.m. and there will be no re-pairings because of that.
Walker won three events in 2014 and twice past year, but has not taken a title this season. Of the 86 players who made the 36-hole cut and advanced to Saturday’s play, only 37 completed their rounds.
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.
Scheduled to go off in the third-to-last group in the third round, Stenson didn’t hit a shot on Saturday because of weather delays and the suspension of play.
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“The rain really changed the way it’s played”, Mickelson said.
