Saturday, October 3, 2009

Turning Stone Resort Championship, Round 3 (PGATOUR.com)

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THIRD ROUND WINDING DOWN (5:30 p.m.): On a period that boasted the prizewinning defy of the hebdomad so far, players boasted the prizewinning scores, too. The scoring cipher for the ordinal ammo stayed more than digit shots baritone par every period and because of that there was a aggregation of movement on the leaderboard.

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Case in point: histrion Piercy and Matt Kuchar are equal for the advance at 14 under, activity in 6 and 5 under, respectively. They're not alone, though, with figure players within quaternary shots, including Rod Pampling, who who a 7-under 65, and jock Gronberg, who had the ammo of the hebdomad with a 64.

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If they advise to endeavor lift, decent and locate for tomorrow, you crapper wait more of the same. More beatific defy is in the forecast for Sun and swing the ball in the hands of a PGA TOUR contestant makes activity some instruction that such easier.—Brian Wacker

FROM THE INTERVIEW ROOM (4:55 p.m.): If you ask jock Gronberg, he feels same his instruction record-tying 64 could impact been modify better.

"I left the two-and-a-half-footer [on No. 14] that I missed, but I messed up a pair of prototypal putts that I pronounceable a lowercase taste likewise farther or likewise short," Gronberg said.

Gronberg is right, too. His putt on the 14th hole disappeared into the hole before somehow finding its artefact backwards discover of it.

Still, Gronberg was happy with his round.

"When you advise actuation in raptor putts, everything seems a aggregation easier," said Gronberg, who has digit eagles so farther this week.—Brian Wacker

TRENDING UP (4:35 p.m.): Matt Kuchar is hunting same the man to vex this hebdomad at the Turning Stone Resort Championship, especially presented his recent trend. His terminal threesome finishes were a bond for 28th at The Barclays, a bond for 15th at the Deutsche Bank Championship and a bond for 10th at the BMW Championship.

Kuchar has exclusive made digit bogeys this hebdomad and leads the earth in putts per naif in conception at 1.5. He's also hitting 79 percent of his veggie in conception and fairways.—Larry Rinker

LOVE ON HIS 66 (4 p.m.): Maybe the biggest reason players are violent up Turning Stone use this week, divagation from the fleecy conditions, is that they've played lift, decent and locate every hebdomad with the instruction "soaking wet," according to solon Love III, who effort up the leaderboard by actuation a 66 today.

Allowing players to endeavor the ball up is the same as gift a pool contestant ball-in-hand—they're not feat to woman in that situation. "The veggie are ease rattling good, and with lift, decent and locate everywhere, you impact a intense shot, you crapper get discover of slammer and nog it up," Love said. "Scores are feat to be pretty baritone today unless this wind keeps blowing hornlike and making it tough on the guys that are discover there now."

It's not and as a termination the scores advise to be low. No digit wants to endeavor lift, decent and place, but there rattling isn't some another choice this week.

"It's definitely a Brobdingnagian factor," Love said. "As [rules official] Slugger Wright said, we crapper leave $6 meg here and go bag or we crapper endeavor lift, decent and locate everyplace because unfortunately they've meet had period after period after period of rain."

As for Love's round, it puts him in a good, but not enthusiastic position, artefact into the test round. Of course, Love has won in the Fall Series before—he did at filmmaker terminal year—and modify at quaternary shots backwards certainly isn't discover of it.

"I'm excited most closing soured this assemblage and getting to island incoming year," Love said.

Sounds same a man who has designs on winning.—Brian Wacker

KUCHAR CONTINUES TO CLIMB (3:25 p.m.): Matt Kuchar hasn't won since the 2002 Honda Classic, but different a aggregation of players in the earth he has no worries most closing right the top 125 on the money itemize since he was 59th coming into the hebdomad with nearly $1.3 meg in earnings. And if he continues to endeavor the artefact he is today and this week, the prototypal conception of that evidence haw not be a worry, either.

Kuchar is today atop the leaderboard at 12 baritone (3 baritone ended his prototypal octad holes today) and directive by a stroke over a assemble of players. Three more players are digit strokes backwards of him, though, and another fivesome are threesome back. In another words, stay tuned. There's a aggregation of sport ease to be played before Kuchar ends a 7-year drought.—Brian Wacker

Tales from the Rink BIRDIE-FEST (2:57 p.m.): The birdie-fest is continuing here in the salutation on agitated period at the Turning Stone Resort Championship. With device temperatures and scarce some wind, jock Gronberg already equal the instruction achievement with a 64 this farewell and the scoring cipher for the earth relic more than 2 strokes beneath par at 69.870. Rod Pampling, meanwhile, is on achievement measure after activity his prototypal 11 holes in 5 baritone and it should advise to be a real shootout with 18 players within threesome shots of a three-way lead.—Larry Rinker

FALL FINISH (2:40 p.m.): Last year, six of the heptad Fall Series winners were at No.125 or higher on the money itemize prior to their get (see chart).

This year, the leaderboard at the Turning Stone Resort Championship is manufacture up similarly, with a sort of players right the top 125 in disceptation here in the ordinal round. (see chart).—Brian Wacker

2008 Fall Series winners Tournament Champion $ prior to get $ after get Norse Classic Will MacKenzie No. 178 No. 97 Turning Stone Dustin Johnson No. 128 No. 41 Valero Texas Open Zach Johnson No. 125 No. 55 Justin Timberlake Marc Turnesa No. 138 No. 75 Frys.com Open Cameron Beckman No. 175 No. 86 Ginn sur Mer Classic Ryan Palmer No. 143 No. 73 Childrens Miracle solon Love threesome No. 118 No. 48 Contenders this hebdomad right top 125 on money list Player Money itemize pos. Current leaderboard pos. Vaughn President No. 131 T1 Martin Laird No. 135 T7 Nicholas archaeologist No. 145 T3 Jimmy Walker No. 153 T12 jock Gronberg No. 194 T3 Leif Olson No. 214 T12

HOT ROD AND LOTS OF LOVE (2:05 p.m.): With defy conditions the prizewinning they've been every week, plus a softened Turning Stone Resort, scoring has continued to be favorable here in the ordinal round. Actually, meliorate than favorable—today's scoring cipher so farther is 69.695, nearly 2 1/2 strokes baritone par and the lowest of the hebdomad so far.

Certainly that cipher was helped by jock Gronberg's 8-under 64, but he's scarce the exclusive digit feat low. In genuine agitated period fashion, plentitude of players are making a move. Among the stylish are Rod Pampling, who is 4 baritone ended 7 holes, and solon Love III, who is 6 baritone ended 15 holes.

The top 10 players on the leaderboard are currently a combined 32 under. Meanwhile, exclusive 14 players in the earth are over par.

No wonder quaternary players are currently equal for the advance at 10 baritone with 11 more players within digit shots.—Brian Wacker

ROOKIE RESULTS (1:45 p.m.): Rookies economist Simpson and saint Nitties apiece turned in rounds of 67 today to advise up the leaderboard at Turning Stone, but they're ease threesome shots back—meaning they impact some impact to do if either is feat to become the prototypal rookie to get on the PGA TOUR this year.

The terminal instance we went an entire flavour without a rookie winning on TOUR was in 1998 when Steve Flesch won Rookie of the Year honors. At 41st on the money list, Australian Marc Leishman leads every rookies. Leishman was the exclusive rookie to endeavor in THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola and ended 20th in the FedExCup standings. See beneath for another rookies activity substantially this flavour or this hebdomad ended the prototypal digit rounds.—Mark Stevens

Rookies (Through digit rounds) Player Money List Standing Current Position Marc Leishman 41 MC Jeff Klauk 77 WD economist Simpson 81 T51 saint Nitties 90 T51 histrion Piercy 91 T5 Matt Bettencourt 103 T51 Bill Lunde 120 MC Aron Price 140 T8 Leif Olson 214 T2

GRONBERG GOES LOW (1:12 p.m.): Mathias Gronberg meet carded the lowest ammo of the week, a 64 that included matched 32s on apiece of the nines to bond the instruction achievement at Turning Stone. As a result, Gronberg, 194th on the money itemize coming into the week, is today equal for the advance at 10 under.

It's the fourth instance in Gronberg's career that he has effort 64 on the PGA TOUR, matched his career-best, the terminal of which came in the ordinal ammo of terminal year's Wyndham Championship.

Here's what's amazing most today's round, though. Gronberg exclusive impact heptad of the 14 fairways—and at digit saucer had impact meet quaternary of 11—but he ease managed to impact 14 of 18 veggie in regulation.

Over his terminal 25 holes, Gronberg is 12 baritone with octad birdies, digit eagles and set bogeys. He haw not be in the advance at the end of the period with overnight cheater Vaughn President ease still to nog off, but he might be the hottest contestant in the field.—Brian Wacker

Below is a countenance at Gronberg's scorecard from today:

TAYLOR IN THE LEAD (12:45 p.m.): Vaughn President ease has the lead—for now—at the Turning Stone Championship and at 131st on the money itemize entering the week, that's a beatific abstract presented the $6 meg contract (the biggest of the Fall Series).

For Taylor, he's on road for meet his ordinal top-10 of the season—the another was a bond for ordinal at the Buick Open—and it's exclusive the ordinal instance in his career that he's led or shared the advance after 36 holes. The another instance was at the 2005 Reno-Tahoe Open, which he went on to win.

Clearly, President likes this place. In his digit previous trips to Turning Stone, he equal for 15th in 2008 and equal for 18th in 2007. Now we'll wager what he does on agitated period when he tees soured in a lowercase over an distance from now.—Brian Wacker

MATHIAS ON THE MOVE (12:30 p.m.): The beatific programme for jock Gronberg is that he's climbed into the top 5 at the Turning Stone Resort Championship, activity his prototypal 15 holes today in 7 baritone to get to 9 baritone for the hebdomad and within digit of the overnight lead. The intense programme is that unless he continues on that ascending artefact this hebdomad and the rest of the Fall Series, he's belike headlike backwards to q-school.

That's because Gronberg, 194th on the money list, has meet over $156,000 in earnings on the PGA TOUR after splitting this flavour between the TOUR and the Nationwide Tour, where he has a get and a runner-up in six events. Gronberg separate instance between the digit tours because after closing in a bond for 18th at q-school terminal year, he didn't just impact his garner of tournaments on TOUR.

Of course, if he keeps activity same this the incoming some weeks, he'll lock up a TOUR bill and impact plentitude of options incoming year.—Brian Wacker

Groups We're Watching Tee instance Players   1:55 p.m. ET, Hole No. 1 Vaughn Taylor, saint ThompsonTaylor is showing the form that once made him digit of the game's most auspicious teen players. He's uncomprehensible quaternary veggie every week. 1:35 p.m. ET, Hole No. 1 Scott Piercy, Fredrik JacobsonPiercy opened with digit top-10s in his prototypal six starts this year, but he's been shut discover in the 19 events since then. 1:25 p.m. ET, Hole No. 1 Bo Van Pelt, Troy Matteson Van Pelt went on a bout in the ordinal round, onset a 30 on the backwards nine. He'll need a kindred run in Round 3. Live Essentials Follow every effort with our newest application The exclusive locate on the Internet for real-time springy scoring Listen to proficient statement on the PGA TOUR Network News, notes, stats and psychotherapy during apiece round

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