D8 PGACHAMPIONSHIP
At Whistling Straits, Straits Course Sheboygan, Wis. Purse: $7.5 million Yardage: 7,514; Par: 72
THIRD ROUND Nick Watney ........................... 69 68 66 — 203
Dustin Johnson ....................... 71 68 67 — 206 Rory McIlroy ........................... 71 68 67 — 206 Wenchong Liang ..................... 72 71 64 — 207 Jason Day ............................... 69 72 66 — 207 Martin Kaymer ....................... 72 68 67 — 207 Steve Elkington ...................... 71 70 67 — 208 Zach Johnson .......................... 69 70 69 — 208 Jason Dufner .......................... 73 66 69 — 208 Jim Furyk ................................ 70 68 70 — 208 Bryce Molder .......................... 72 67 70 — 209 Bubba Watson ........................ 68 71 70 — 209 Matt Kuchar ............................ 67 69 73 — 209 Simon Dyson ........................... 71 71 68 — 210 Simon Khan ............................ 69 70 71 — 210 Ernie Els .................................. 68 74 69 — 211 Seung Yul Noh ........................ 68 71 72 — 211 Stewart Cink ........................... 77 68 66 — 211 Camilo Villegas ....................... 71 71 70 — 212 D.A. Points .............................. 70 72 70 — 212 Brian Davis ............................. 71 72 69 — 212 David Horsey .......................... 72 71 69 — 212 Carl Pettersson ....................... 71 70 71 — 212 Francesco Molinari ................. 68 73 71 — 212 Stephen Gallacher .................. 71 69 72 — 212 Bo Van Pelt ............................. 73 67 72 — 212 Steve Stricker ......................... 72 72 68 — 212 David Toms ............................. 74 71 67 — 212 Vijay Singh .............................. 73 66 73 — 212 Brandt Snedeker ..................... 75 70 67 — 212 Peter Hanson .......................... 71 71 71 — 213 Robert Karlsson ...................... 71 71 71 — 213 Paul Casey .............................. 72 71 70 — 213 Kyung-tae Kim ........................ 70 72 71 — 213 Brian Gay ................................ 72 70 71 — 213 Edoardo Molinari .................... 71 72 70 — 213 Tim Clark ................................. 72 71 70 — 213 Tiger Woods ........................... 71 70 72 — 213 Heath Slocum ......................... 73 72 68 — 213 Hunter Mahan ........................ 74 71 68 — 213 K.J. Choi .................................. 74 69 71 — 214 Charl Schwartzel .................... 73 69 72 — 214 Ben Crane ............................... 73 68 73 — 214 Rickie Fowler .......................... 73 71 70 — 214 Brendon de Jonge ................... 74 66 74 — 214 Troy Matteson ........................ 72 72 70 — 214 Ryan Palmer ........................... 71 68 75 — 214 Phil Mickelson ........................ 73 69 73 — 215 Charles Howell III ................... 69 74 72 — 215 Justin Leonard ........................ 73 69 73 — 215 Gregory Bourdy ....................... 70 70 75 — 215 J.B. Holmes ............................. 72 66 77 — 215 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano .. 70 73 73 — 216 Martin Laird ............................ 70 74 72 — 216 Marc Leishman ....................... 71 73 72 — 216 Darren Clarke .......................... 74 70 72 — 216 Adam Scott ............................. 72 73 71 — 216 Kevin Na ................................. 74 71 71 — 216 Ross McGowan ....................... 73 72 71 — 216 Rhys Davies ............................ 71 71 75 — 217 Tom Lehman ........................... 74 70 73 — 217 Davis Love III .......................... 73 72 72 — 217 Ryan Moore ............................ 69 76 72 — 217 Shaun Micheel ........................ 73 69 76 — 218 Rob Labritz ............................. 73 71 74 — 218 Chad Campbell ........................ 70 70 78 — 218 Retief Goosen ......................... 76 68 74 — 218 Stuart Appleby ....................... 72 73 73 — 218 D.J. Trahan .............................. 72 73 74 — 219 Fredrik Andersson Hed ........... 74 71 74 — 219 Jeff Overton ........................... 74 71 74 — 219 Ian Poulter .............................. 72 72 77 — 221
FAILED TO QUALIFY Tim Thelen .................................. 71 75 — 146
Chris Wood .................................. 78 68 — 146 Boo Weekley ............................... 76 70 — 146 Kenny Perry ................................. 73 73 — 146 Yuta Ikeda ................................... 71 75 — 146 Louis Oosthuizen ........................ 71 75 — 146 Kevin Stadler .............................. 74 72 — 146 Soren Kjeldsen ............................ 73 73 — 146 John Merrick ............................... 70 76 — 146 Jerry Kelly ................................... 75 71 — 146 Padraig Harrington ..................... 75 71 — 146 Michael Sim ................................ 70 76 — 146 Matt Bettencourt ....................... 72 74 — 146 Fredrik Jacobson ......................... 76 70 — 146 Raphael Jacquelin ....................... 78 68 — 146 John Senden ................................ 77 70 — 147 Troy Pare ..................................... 73 74 — 147 Anders Hansen ........................... 76 71 — 147 Rory Sabbatini ............................ 76 71 — 147 Lucas Glover ................................ 74 73 — 147 Bill Haas ...................................... 73 74 — 147 Graeme McDowell ....................... 76 71 — 147 Scott Verplank ............................ 74 73 — 147 Vaughn Taylor ............................. 73 74 — 147 Sergio Garcia ............................... 78 69 — 147 Thongchai Jaidee ........................ 70 77 — 147 Mike Weir ................................... 74 74 — 148 Miguel Angel Jimenez ................ 75 73 — 148 Ben Curtis ................................... 73 75 — 148 Stephen Ames ............................ 71 77 — 148 Justin Rose ................................. 74 74 — 148 Mitch Lowe ................................. 71 77 — 148 Jimmy Walker ............................. 71 77 — 148 Alvaro Quiros .............................. 74 74 — 148 Y.E. Yang ..................................... 72 76 — 148 Danny Willett ............................. 74 74 — 148 Kevin Sutherland ........................ 74 75 — 149 Jason Bohn .................................. 77 72 — 149 Angel Cabrera ............................. 72 77 — 149 Charlie Wi ................................... 74 75 — 149 Derek Lamely .............................. 77 72 — 149 Geoff Ogilvy ................................ 74 75 — 149 Luke Donald ................................ 72 77 — 149 Hiroyuki Fujita ............................ 74 75 — 149 Anthony Kim ............................... 74 75 — 149 Ricky Barnes ............................... 75 74 — 149 Soren Hansen .............................. 77 73 — 150 Shane Lowry ............................... 71 79 — 150 Sean O'Hair ................................. 75 75 — 150 Trevor Immelman ....................... 74 76 — 150 Bill Lunde .................................... 76 74 — 150 Ryo Ishikawa ............................... 76 74 — 150 George McNeill ........................... 75 75 — 150 Oliver Wilson .............................. 76 75 — 151 Scott Hebert ............................... 75 76 — 151 Tetsuji Hiratsuka ........................ 74 77 — 151 Matt Jones .................................. 74 77 — 151 Sonny Skinner ............................. 73 78 — 151 Koumei Oda ................................. 78 74 — 152 Ross Fisher ................................. 78 74 — 152 Mike Small .................................. 78 74 — 152 Danny Balin ................................. 75 77 — 152 Stu Ingraham .............................. 77 75 — 152 Paul Goydos ................................ 80 73 — 153 Kris Blanks .................................. 73 80 — 153 Tim Petrovic ................................ 75 78 — 153 Ryan Benzel ................................ 79 74 — 153 Cameron Beckman ...................... 79 75 — 154 Kyle Flinton ................................. 76 78 — 154 David Hutsell .............................. 75 80 — 155 Henrik Stenson ........................... 80 75 — 155 Rich Steinmetz ........................... 75 80 — 155 Mark Brooks ................................ 80 75 — 155 Rob Moss .................................... 78 77 — 155 Robert McClellan ........................ 75 81 — 156 Bruce Smith ................................ 81 75 — 156 Steve Marino .............................. 74 82 — 156 Jason Schmuhl ............................ 82 74 — 156 Chip Sullivan ............................... 83 75 — 158 Keith Ohr ..................................... 78 81 — 159 Corey Pavin ................................. 79 80 — 159 Mark Sheftic ............................... 82 79 — 161 Colin Montgomerie ..................... 79 83 — 162
PGA CHAMPIONSHIP TEE TIMES SUNDAY FINAL ROUND 9:02 a.m. _ Jeff Overton, Ian Poulter 9:11 a.m. _ DJ Trahan, Fredrik Andersson Hed 9:20 a.m. _ Chad Campbell, Stuart Appleby 9:29 a.m. _ Rob Labritz, Retief Goosen 9:38 a.m. _ Ryan Moore, Shaun Micheel 9:47 a.m. _ Tom Lehman, Davis Love III 9:56 a.m. _ Ross McGowan, Rhys Davies 10:05 a.m. _ Adam Scott, Kevin Na 10:14 a.m. _ Marc Leishman, Darren Clarke 10:23 a.m. _ G. Fernandez-Castano, Martin Laird 10:32 a.m. _ Gregory Bourdy, JB Holmes 10:41 a.m. _ Charles Howell III, Justin Leonard 10:50 a.m. _ Ryan Palmer, Phil Mickelson 10:59 a.m. _ Brendon De Jonge, Troy Matteson 11:17 a.m. _ Ben Crane, Rickie Fowler 11:26 a.m. _ KJ Choi, Charl Schwartzel 11:35 a.m. _ Heath Slocum, Hunter Mahan 11:44 a.m. _ Tim Clark, Tiger Woods 11:53 a.m. _ Edoardo Molinari, Brian Gay 12:02 p.m. _ Paul Casey, Kuyng-tae Kim 12:11 p.m. _ Robert Karlsson, Peter Hanson 12:20 p.m. _ Vijay Singh, Brandt Snedeker 12:29 p.m. _ Bo Van Pelt, David Toms 12:38 p.m. _ Stephen Gallacher, Steve Stricker 12:47 p.m. _ Carl Pettersson, Francesco Molinari 12:56 p.m. _ Brian Davis, David Horsey 1:14 p.m. _ Camillo Villegas, D.A. Points 1:23 p.m. _ S.Y. Noh, Stewart Cink 1:32 p.m. _ Simon Khan, Ernie Els 1:41 p.m. _ Matt Kuchar, Simon Dyson 1:50 p.m. _ Bryce Molder, Bubba Watson 1:59 p.m. _ Jason Dufner, Jim Furyk 2:08 p.m. _ Steve Elkington, Zach Johnson 2:17 p.m. _ Jason Day, Martin Kaymer 2:26 p.m. _ Rory McIlroy, Liang Wenchong 2:35 p.m. _ Nick Watney, Dustin Johnson
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ERIC GAY/ASSOCIATED PRESS PhilMickelson plucks his ball off the lap ofMatt Reinhart after it landed there on the 11th hole.Mickelson made par on the hole, but shot a 73 to tie for 48th place. Watney leads; Johnson and McIlroy lurk pga from D1
shoot his best round of his strange season on Sunday and try to earn a Ryder Cup berth. Woods scrambled brilliantly in the morning to finish off the second round with a 70 to get within five shots, then opened the third round by stuffing his first couple of iron shots. He couldn’t make a birdie, however, and had to rally for a 72 on a day when the average scorewas71 in soft condi- tions and relative calm. Woodswoundup10 shots behind. He likely will need to finish at least in seventh place alone to make the Ryder Cup team. “I just want to play a good round and see where that puts me,” Woods said. Watney was at 13-under 203, in the lead at a major for the first time in his career afterany round. The only player among the top six not in his 20s was the biggest surprise of all—LiangWenchong, a 32-year-old from China who set the course record at Whistling Straits with a 64. He didn’t start playing the game until he was 15. Liang was at 207 along with 22- year-old Jason Day of Australia, who had a 66; and 25-year-old Martin Kaymer of Germany, who
has top 10s in the last twomajors. Kaymer had a 67. “There’s some really good players thathaven’twonamajor,”Watney said. “And all the guys that have, at one point they hadn’t won, either.Soyou’ve got to startsome- where. And hopefully, tomorrow will bemy day.” Five of the last six major champi- onshadneverwononebefore, the exception is PhilMickelson at this year’s Masters. To see so much inexperience at the top — not to mention youth—is not nearly as surprising in a year in which 27-year-old Louis Oosthuizen won the British Open at St. An- drews, and 30-year-old Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland won at Pebble Beach. “I guessyoucould say theyounger guys are starting to play a lot better,” Johnson said. “We’re starting to contend in majors. We’re definitely moving forward, that’s for sure.” Former Masters champion Zach Johnson shot a 69 and was in a group at 8-under 208 that includ- ed former U.S. Open champion Jim Furyk (70) and former PGA champion Steve Elkington (67). The course was such a pushover that 19 players shot in the 60s, and the average score was just
over 71. But at least everyone could see, ending two days of fog delays that forced some to play 30 holes on Saturday. Watney has only two PGA Tour victories, the most recent last year at Torrey Pines, and al- though he has top 10s in two majors this year, he was never a factor in either one. It sure didn’t look that way Satur- day, when he came out firing. He birdied the first twoholes with wedges inside six feet to jump past 36-hole leader Matt Kuchar, whodidn’tmake a birdie until the 16th hole and shot a 73 to fall six shots behind.Watney then ran off three straight birdies starting on the par-5 fifth, perhaps his best shot a 5-iron to 12 feet on the tricky par-3 seventh. Watney led by as many as four shots until he offered a sliver of hope at the end, driving into deep rough, hitting into more thick grass on the side of the hill, and hacking to the front of the green for a bogey. There was a scramble to keep pace, and terrific entertainment in the group that featured John- son andMcIlroy, among the most talentedyoungstersoneither side of the Atlantic. They combined for 11 birdies, with Johnson play-
SALLY JENKINS Entering the final day, it’s practically anyone’s game jenkins from D1
precise 40-year-old veteran Jim Furyk. Furyk was one of the few
men in contention who has actually lofted a trophy—none of the top sixmen on the leader board has ever won amajor. He lacked the length to take as much advantage of the course as some others, but he hung around at 8-under 208 with sheer know how. He is expert in playing courses designed by Pete Dye, theman responsible for Whistling Straits’s artful layout. Furyk lives in Ponte Vedra, Fla., near the Dye-designed Players Championship course at Sawgrass. By now he is familiar with Dye’s penchant for creating intimidating optical techniques, and knows what to tune out fromhis peripheral vision. “When you play one of his
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courses for the first time your eyes start going out this way and you’re looking at all the trouble rather than where you’re supposed to put it and sometimes it’s hard to figure out,” he said. If there was a discernible
trend or pattern on the leader board by the time the scrum-like third round was over, it was youth. The board was crammed with the names of ambitious young guns, twentysomethings who believe it’s their turn to win
amajor, fromMcIlroy to Johnson toMartin Kaymer, the lanky 25-year-old German whose 67 put himat 9 under. “We’re definitelymoving forward, that’s for sure,” Johnson said. The top two players in the
world, PhilMickelson and Tiger Woods, are each spraying the ball and dealing with off-the- course distractions,Mickelson his arthritis and his wife’s
cancer,Woods the dissolution of hismarriage in a cheating scandal. As a result, we have experienced a cluster of first- time winners, fromY.E. Yang in last year’s PGA to Graeme McDowell at the U.S. Open and Louis Oosthuizen at the British Open. It’s surely tantalizing to the cadre of lean young players in their 20s who are showing so much potential but are still undecorated.
last year at the PGA, and Graeme and Louis,”McIlroy said earlier this week. “So it would be nice to keep that trend going.” So far, however, when given a
chance to hoist a trophy, the younger set have tended to blow up instead of breaking through. Everyone will be waiting for Watney to stumble the way Johnson did at the U.S. Open, when he collapsed with a final round 82. “I gotmaybe a little impatient, startedmoving a little too fast,” Johnson said, “and tomorrow I’mreally just going to focus on being patient and hitting quality golf shots.” If anyone can be termed a
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Dustin Johnson hits his tee shot on holeNo. 2.He is tied for second at 10 under, three strokes off the lead. Watney has been knocking at
the door all season, tying for seventh at both theMasters and the British Open.McIlroy has played in just six previous majors, but he has finished in the top 10 of three of them. Johnson held a three-stroke lead in the U.S. Open. “Themajor championships
have got a lotmore wide open, it seems, in the last couple of years, the likes of Yang winning
favorite in the group, it would have to beMcIlroy. Before the British Open TomWatson told the UK golf publication Golf Magic, “The kid’s ready for a major.” ButMcIlroy followed up a course record at St. Andrews with an 80, before finishing third. Has he learned enough patience yet? “There’s going to be a lot of guys thinking that it’s the right time for themto break through and I’mdefinitely one of those guys,”McIlroy said before the tournament began. If the weather staysmild the young power hitter will have Whistling Straits’s forgivingness in his favor. “I feel as if I’m playing well enough to really give it a good go,” he said.
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ing bogey-free. McIlroy won the Quail Hollow Championship early this year by closing with a 62. He also tied a major championship record at St. Andrews when he opened with a 63.Thatwaslost in thewindaday later when he shot 80, although the kid rallied to tie for third. A victory Sunday would make McIlroy the youngest major champion since JohnMcDermott won the 1911U.S. Open at age 20. “I’ll approach it the same way as I’ve approached the last three days,”McIlroy said. “I’m going to go out there and play my game. That’s all I feel I have to do. I’ve just got to go out there and play the way I’ve been playing the last three days and just let things take care of themselves. If I hit enough good shots and hit enough good putts tomorrow, it might just be my day.” Mickelson continued to hit tee shots all over the course, and it finally caught up with him in a round of 73 that put in a tie for 48th. Woods almost certainly will end a second straight year without a major. Even giving himself a chance on Saturday was a minor miracle.He hit only five fairways, putted for
birdieononly half of his holesand made every hole an adventure. Standing behind the 17th green, whereWoods hit a 4-iron right at the flag on the dangerous left side of the green for birdie, caddie Steve Williams shook his head. “Inmy 32 years as a caddie, this is the greatest 70 I’ve ever seen,” Williams said. Before heading to the 18th tee, he added, “And if he bogeys the last hole, it will be the greatest 71 I’ve ever seen.” Woods made par, but only after hitting a huge cut with a 5-wood from a bunker that was sunken below the fairway, leaving his 60-foot birdie putt inches short. “I’m right back in the ball game,” Woods said, who finished his sec- ond round at 3-under 141, only five shots back. As has been the case for so much of the year, however, no one can ever tell who is going to show up. Two hours after he finished his second round with 25 putts, he missed birdie puttsfrominside 10 feet on the opening twoholes and soonwasspiralingdownthe lead- erboard. “I didn’t make any putts early when I stuffed them in there,” he said, “and didn’t get any momen- tum.”
—Associated Press
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