Tiger Woods spent much of Saturday’s third round of the Wyndham Championship saving par with tough, if not spectacular, shots.
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“I am exclusively on the midway level”, Woods stated. “It’s going to be fun for us to go out there and duke it out”. Woods now has a +200 price on the moneyline at Bovada, with Bill Haas at +900 and both Martin Kaymer and Tom Hoge at +1200.
Woods was poised to make a run at his first win in more than two years – one that would earn him enough points to clinch a spot in the FedEx Cup playoffs opener next week in New Jersey. The 51-year-old Andrade had eight birdies and a bogey to reach 10-under 134 at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge.
Asked by a reporter if he would recognise Hoge (pronounced Ho-Gee), Woods elicited roars of laughter when he responded: “No, I wouldn’t”.
“I look on the Champions Tour leaderboard and I know every one of those guys because I played against them and I played with them”.
Davis Love III’s long victory drought is over. Love carded a four-under-par 66 to set alongside his opening round 64 while Campbell notched a second successive 65, the sole blemish a bogey on the 18th. Hoge shot 72 to drop back into a tie for 21st, but is now wiser for the experience.
But for the second straight day, the big story at Sedgefield Country Club was Woods.
He missed the cuts in the last three majors and hasn’t finished better than a tie for 17th at the Masters. He is also trying to qualify for the FedEx Cup Playoffs, which begin next week. Terry Pilkadaris of Australia is in second place after shooting a 6-under 65. That left him two strokes off the lead.
And then, playing under a hot afternoon sun that sped up those undulating greens, Woods nearly matched it. “I wasn’t quite as sharp as yesterday”.
The highlight of his round was a 10-foot eagle at the par-five 15th.
And as strong as his round was, it also easily could have been even better. “You don’t go to the cabin and think that you’ve won”.
Woods sent his tee shot on the par-3 seventh into the huge gallery that had been waiting for him to reel off some birdies and make his move, then two-putted for his first bogey.
“If I’m looking at it as a whole, I feel like I’ve done well to come back and shoot the scores that I have”, said Rory.
Djokovic recovered from a slow start and pulled away to a three-set victory over qualifier Alexandr Dolgopolov, reaching the finals of the Western & Southern Open.
He set the tone by holing a 54-foot chip shot on his first hole, the par-4 10th, for the first of his seven birdies. “I felt like I could be aggressive today”.
Luke Donald, at No. 124 on the factors record, made the reduce of three beneath. Charl Schwartzel was the ultimate bubble golfer with a No. 125 ranking entering the tournament.
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OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. – SMU senior Bryson DeChambeau advanced to the U.S. Amateur final to stay in position to become the fifth player to win the event and NCAA individual title in the same year. Japan’s Kenta Konishi, Virginia’s Derek Bard and USC’s Sean Crocker are the other semifinalists.
