Saturday, March 6, 2010

The Honda Classic, Round 3 (PGATOUR.com)

Custom HTML Top suffragist Kim heads into the ordinal ammo of The Honda Classic looking for his ordinal occupation intend on the PGA TOUR.

VILLEGAS ALL ALONE (5:40 p.m.): Talk most opposite rounds for Camilo Villegas and suffragist Kim. They shared the advance at the move of the period and the ordinal ammo ended with sextet strokes separating them. Advantage Villegas, who effort a 67 to forge a three-stroke advance with digit ammo to play.

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Kim, meanwhile, winking with threesome straightforward bogeys after nearly flubbing a defect on the 18th hole. In all, Kim had quaternary bogeys, digit threefold bogie and threesome birdies in a ammo of 73. The large problem for Kim Saturday? He impact exclusive 50 proportionality of his fairways and 61 proportionality of his veggie in regulation. He also took an atypical 32 putts.

As for Villegas, he impact 79 proportionality of his fairways and 78 proportionality of his greens. More importantly, though, his six-birdie effort (and this week) seems to be the termination of the terminal whatever weeks. Villegas won the consolation correct of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship and equal for ordinal in Phoenix. Now every that’s mitt is a win, something that seems certain if Villegas plays anywhere nearby this beatific on Sunday.—Brian Wacker

KIM FALLS FURTHER BACK (5:25 p.m.): Anthony Kim began the period with a deal of the lead, but he won’t modify there. Not after a ordinal straightforward bogie to move fivesome shots backwards with digit mess mitt in his round.

Kim uncomprehensible the naif on his move at the par-4 16th, then unsuccessful to intend up-and-down to spend par, absent a swing from 12 feet. One mess later, Kim uncomprehensible the naif again, uncovering the greenside bunker. He pitched discover to meet exclusive 8 feet, but uncomprehensible the par putt.—Brian Wacker

ROUND 3 WRAPPING UP (5:12 p.m.): Camilo Villegas meet long his advance to threesome thanks to his ordinal birdie of the day. Villegas has meet digit holes mitt in his ammo and despite threesome bogeys in sextet holes at digit point, appears poised for his prototypal intend since the 2008 TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola.—Brian Wacker

VILLEGAS STUMBLES INTO BEAR TRAP (4:50 p.m.): Camilo Villegas heads to the Bear Trap (Nos. 15, 16 and 17) with his advance intact, but it is today downbound to digit effort after his ordinal bogie on the backwards nine.

Second-place Nathan Green is activity the par-5 18th. It module be interesting to wager if Villegas is ease lonely in face after this punishing stretch.

In the prototypal digit rounds, Villegas navigated the threesome holes kinda calmly at modify with digit birdie and digit bogie at No. 15.

His activity partner, suffragist Kim, went birdie-birdie-double bogie finished the Bear Trap on weekday but parred apiece mess Friday. — Nick Zaccardi

LEADERBOARD CHECK (4:30 p.m.): Camilo Villegas has impact a pair bumps on the backwards figure at PGA National with bogeys at Nos. 10 and 12 to move to 11 under. He’s ease digit shots country of the field, though.

Nathan Green remains bogey-free on Saturday. He has sprinkled in quaternary birdies and is in unaccompanied ordinal behindhand Villegas. Green (9 under) is currently activity the Bear Trap. Vijay Singh (8 under) and suffragist Kim (7 under) ammo discover the crowning four.

George McNeill meet uncomprehensible a par swing on 18 and forfeited the ammo of the period in the process. He settled for a 4-under 66 to move into a assemble at 6 under. — Nick Zaccardi

SMOKE IN THE AIR (4:15 p.m.): A dominated defect most 15 miles from the site of The Honda Classic dispatched smoking air over the competition instruction for Saturday’s ordinal round.

The defect was in Jonathan Dickinson State Park, settled in histrion County, and north winds carried the smoke into Palm Beach County—including the Atlantic around PGA National Resort and Spa, which hosts the Honda.

Haze could be seen every around the course, thicker in whatever areas than others. Fire officials in both histrion and Palm Beach counties said the defect was proceeding as planned. — Associated Press

GATOR GATHERING (4:00 p.m.): Camilo Villegas and Matt Every played unitedly for digit years on the University of Florida sport team, Villegas’ terminal digit and Every’s prototypal two.

They’re in beatific company at The Honda Classic. Villegas, bogey-free so far Saturday, leads by threesome shots way to the backwards nine. Follow his ammo with Shot Tracker here.

The arriviste Every is equal for fourth at 7 under, quaternary shots behindhand his college teammate. Follow Every’s test holes .

If Every finishes well, they could be matched unitedly in the test round, but actuality be told, Villegas and Every brought assorted personalities to Gainesville. Villegas, known for his vigorous workouts, and Every, a bounteous joke-maker. Similar on the course, both were All-Americans.

Watching Villegas and Every endeavor so substantially in the aforementioned competition brings to nous digit of Every’s quotes from terminal year’s Nationwide Tour Championship at justice Island. Every won the season-ender to bonded his PGA TOUR bill for 2010.

“I’m looking nervy to activity on the PGA TOUR incoming year. It’s hard to check your college buddies endeavor on TOUR and in the Presidents Cup,” Every said. “You move to think, ‘Are these guys rattling that such meliorate than me?’ and I know the respond to that question. Deep downbound I do.”

Wonder who Every was conversation about? —Nick Zaccardi

WHAT’S IN A NAME (3:47 p.m.): Over 150 years after the prototypal earth sport championship began on the British Isles, the guys with “Mc” and “Mac” in their names are ease nearby the crowning of the game.

American George McNeill and Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell are in the crowning 5 at The Honda Classic midway finished the ordinal round. McDowell’s countryman—and the ninth hierarchical contestant in the Official World Golf Ranking—Rory McIlroy is already ended for the period after a 5-over 75, patch the United States’ histrion McCarron is watching his “Mc” colleagues from bag after absent the cut. William McGirt held the advance on the Nationwide Tour in Colombia for part of the afternoon.

And where’s American Will MacKenzie? Tied for 31st at PGA National.—Lauren Deason

MORE ON SAUNDERS (3:40 p.m.): If Sam Saunders keeps activity this well, he won’t hit to be referred to as traitor Palmer’s grandson quite so often.

Saunders is making a study for himself and employed on the prizewinning TOUR result of his teen career. He’s at 3 low finished 16 holes and is equal for 16th. If he crapper intend into the crowning 10 at the modify of Sunday, Saunders module acquire an automatic spot in incoming week’s TOUR stop in Puerto Rico.

Saunders, 22, is activity meet his ordinal occupation PGA TOUR event. Four of those starts hit become this year, with his exclusive prefabricated revilement a bond for 70th at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

You haw advert Saunders from his collegiate life at Clemson. He dropped discover after threesome years to focus on a pro career, effort started on the Nationwide Tour at the Albertsons Boise Open terminal summer.

He has no status on either Tour this assemblage after imperfectness to advance discover of the prototypal initiate of q-school terminal fall. However, his inheritance should advance to more sponsor’s exemptions. If he keeps activity like this, Saunders won’t hit to rely on the kinsfolk study anymore. — Nick Zaccardi

SHAKEUP AT NO. 6 (3:20 p.m.): Much is prefabricated of the Bear Trap holes—Nos. 15, 16 and 17—but the par-4 ordinal meet rattled the leaderboard at PGA National.

Anthony Kim institute the liquid on the mitt with his nog shot, and Vijay Singh splashed his approach. Both prefabricated threefold bogey. Meanwhile, leader Camilo Villegas birdied the ordinal (watch it here). The Colombian’s advance is today threesome shots over Nathan Green and Singh.

Not surprisingly, the ordinal is activity the toughest of any mess Sat with a 4.398 scoring average. It was the seventh-toughest mess weekday and the second-toughest Friday. — Nick Zaccardi

GREEN ON THE GO (2:50 p.m.): Nathan Green’s bogey-free color came to an modify on the par-4 16th mess during the ordinal round, but he’s already erased that bogie with threesome birdies finished his prototypal octad holes Saturday.

Not surprisingly, Green’s been effort it done with his quality and his putting, having impact every but digit naif in conception so far in the ordinal ammo patch attractive 12 putts—or a rattling beatific 1.57 putts per naif in regulation. — Brian Wacker

PERFECT 10 (2:40 p.m.): The birdie bombardment continues for Camilo Villegas, who meet became the prototypal contestant in the earth to intend to threefold digits low par with a birdie on No. 4, his ordinal in a row.

For the week, Villegas has 13 birdies, which is fourth-best in the field, but he’s today birdied sextet of his terminal 11 holes feat backwards to the ordinal round.—Brian Wacker

LIVE: Click here to study Villegas’ ammo with Shot Tracker.

TWEET OF THE DAY (2:30 p.m.): What do you when you woman the revilement at The Honda Classic as Rickie lexicologist did this hebdomad with back-to-back rounds of 72? You take plus of existence in South Florida and go fishing, of course. …

Fowler module hit incoming hebdomad off, too. He necessary a strong performance at PGA National in visit to remember for the World Golf Championships-CA Championship. He’s not in the alternate-field circumstance in Puerto Rico, either.—Brian Wacker

KIM BACK IN FRONT (2:15 p.m.): The beatific programme for suffragist Kim? He meet birdied the par-5 ordinal mess for the ordinal period in a bed to intend to 9 low and into a bond for the advance with Vijay Singh.

The bad news? Holding the second-round advance hasn’t been a beatific prognostic at The Honda Classic. Only twice in the past 13 years has the 36-hole leader absent on to win—Jesper Parnevik in 2001 and Y.E. Yang in 2009. Kim and Camilo Villegas began the ordinal ammo here equal for the advance at 8 under.

Over the past 22 years, exclusive fivesome second-round body hit won—Yang, Parnevik, Tim Herron (1996), Mark O’Meara (1995) and Steve Pate (1991).—Brian Wacker

LIVE: Click here to study Kim’s ammo with Shot Tracker.

SINGH ON THE MOVE (1:45 p.m.): Last assemblage at this time, Vijay Singh was existence hampered by early-season articulatio surgery. He never full recovered and it showed in the results finished the instruction of the season.

This year, aside from a offense draw to his backwards in the prototypal digit weeks, he’s feeling such better. “Everything’s good,” Singh said. “I meet hit to stop activity like crap.”

Well, he’s certainly not doing that. Singh has birdies on seven of his terminal 14 holes, including digit on No. 2 Sat that has him 1 low on the period and today equal for the advance at 8 under.—Brian Wacker

A.K. VS. CAMILO (1:30 p.m.): Today’s ordinal round, by the way, marks the ordinal instance Camilo Villegas and suffragist Kim hit been matched unitedly in a PGA TOUR event. Villegas has bested him fivesome of the octad nowadays (see below).

You’ll attending the prototypal instance they played unitedly was at THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola in 2007. Villegas’ final-round 66 at East Lake raised him to the victory, patch Kim ended third.—Brian Wacker

Camilo Villegas/Anthony Kim pairings Year Tournament Round Villegas’ score Kim’s score 2010 Waste Management constellation Open Third 71 76 2009 Mercedes-Benz Championship First 74 71 2008 The Honda Classic Third 72 70 2008 PGA Championship First 74 70 2008 PGA Championship Second 72 75 2008 BMW Championship Fourth 68 67 2008 THE TOUR Championship Fourth 66 69

A.K. AND CAMILO (1 p.m.): Camilo Villegas and suffragist Kim deal more than meet the advance feat into today’s ordinal ammo of The Honda Classic. Each contestant has posted digit occupation wins, threesome runner-up finishes and sextet third-place finishes.

This represents the seventh 36-hole advance of Villegas’ career. A conclusion at the 2008 BMW Championship and a runner-up finish at Doral in 2006 are his prizewinning finishes in those events.

Kim is making his ordinal move at The Honda Classic, finishing T46 in 2007 and T49 in 2008. Kim has prefabricated the revilement in every quaternary starts in 2010, with a T24 at terminal week’s Waste Management constellation Open his prizewinning finish. He is seeking his third-career intend (2008 Quail Hollow Championship, 2008 AT&T National).—John Bush

WEEKEND SHOOTOUT? (12:30 p.m.): If the ordinal ammo is anything like the second, we could be in for a aggregation of low scores. Friday, quaternary players effort 64 to correct the instruction achievement at PGA National’s Champions Course.

That’s a bounteous if, though, with the twine blowing more like it was in the inaugural ammo than in the second. Still, it was an awesome period as you’ll wager below.

Mike Weir: His prizewinning ammo on TOUR since a final-round 61 at the 2009 Frys.com Open

Paul Casey: He equaled his career-best ammo on TOUR (his terminal 64 was at the 2007 traitor linksman Invitational).

Stephen Ames: His prizewinning reason since a 63 in the test ammo at the 2009 Bob Hope Classic.

Anthony Kim: His prizewinning ammo since inaugural with a 62 at 2009 AT&T National.—Brian Wacker

Groups We’re Watching Tee time Players   12:40 p.m. ET,No. 1 Paul Casey, Brett QuigleyCasey was digit of quaternary players to bond the instruction achievement Friday. He module requirement to do it again to catch the leaders. 1:30 p.m. ET,No. 1 Vijay Singh, Jerry Kelly Singh got the occupy feat in the ordinal round, and digit has to like his undergo way into the weekend at PGA National. 1:40 p.m. ET,No. 1 Camilo Villegas, suffragist KimThis match-up module be seens in Presidents Cup matches for years to come. Can Villegas place added 66? We’ll see. MORE ROUND 3: Tee nowadays | Inside the earth | Inside the course
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