Putting better than he had all week but still missing birdie chances, McIlroy rallied on the back nine to get back to 6-under heading into the final round.
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He also served as a marker during the second round of the 2004 PGA at Whistling Straits, when two players from the same threesome withdrew.
Hurt closed with a 3-under 68 at Thorny Lea Golf Club to finish at 13-under 200, three shots ahead of Brittany Benvenuto and Mexico’s Alejandra Llaneza.
Day did his part, even after failing to make birdie on the par-5 16th.
Mickelson birdied No. 17 before escaping a jam on the final hole.
Mickelson’s round Saturday seemed an exercise in exuberance. His score did not count.
Afterward, Woods had no idea where he was headed.
He playfully threw out one possibility.
“Probably at my my sports bar”, Woods said of the establishment he owns in Jupiter, Fla.
Woods has a restaurant in South Florida that opened at the start of the week. Not so astonishing when you look at his season. But there will be two of them knocking the ball around Whistling Straits in the third round Saturday.
That has left him woefully behind in FedEx Cup playoff points and leaves him very likely having to win the Wyndham Championship at Greensboro, N.C., next week to vault into the playoffs. But he might not play the Wyndham. Woods hasn’t posted a top-10 finish all year.
For five years, Martin Kaymer has been dogged by the perception that he did not win the PGA Championship so much as Dustin Johnson lost it.
And he might not even play. Spieth, No. 2 in the world, played a bogey-free round to enter Sunday in second place at 13-under. To have the control that I need to have going forward, it’s starting to come back.
“I think it’s more just building”, Woods said after he missed the cut at the PGA Championship, per Harig.
“These kids are sort of the vanguard, if you like, that grew up with Tiger Woods setting the bar”, CBS’ David Feherty said on Friday.
This is the angle that Woods will be looking at. No, it’s not really about the season, it’s about the year.
“People kept asking me this week: Is it your season [over]?” I haven’t been a pick in 20 years. “Unfortunately, I hadn’t played that much the last couple years and I’m finally able to start playing”.
It wasn’t clear what he meant by global. He is playing an exhibition with Matt Kuchar in Mexico. He was recently overheard to say that he is thinking about going into the golf design business more intensely.
That almost certainly won’t happen at Whistling Straits, where Woods was at 4 over, tied for 89th, with five holes to play when a storm hit Friday afternoon and suspended the second round.
For the first time in his career, the 39-year-old Woods has missed four cuts in a season. He had three rounds in the 80s. That’s a lot of pressure for a man searching for his game. His best week was The Greenbrier Classic.
Henderson earned $195,000 and has made $661,818 in 10 events.
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And it can’t hurt to test his game under the public glare yet again, struggles and all. Hence I took the break to try and figure it out. “As I said, ball striking sound or then putting bad or putting great then ball striking is not so solid”. I haven’t been able to consistently put both together for an entire event. “I just never had the speed right”.
