Saturday, September 12, 2009

No one can hold that Tiger! Woods

goes seven clear with 9-under 62

Tiger Woods is back in business. Not that he's ever been away. He has shot into a seven-stroke lead in the US PGA Tour's BMW Championship at Cog Hill with a brilliant round - his lowest of the year - of nine-under-par course record score 62.
Tiger simply spreadeagled the 68-man field in this the third and penultimate FedEx Cup play-off event.
Woods also tied the tournament record, set last year by Jim Furyk outside St. Louis at Bellerive.
A course renovated by Rees Jones with hopes of landing a U.S. Open was no match for Woods. He never came close to missing a green in regulation.
His shot of the day was a three-wood from just over 300 yards to within 10 feet of the flagstick at the par-5 ninth for an eagle.
Woods is at 16-under 197 after 54 holes and has his largest lead on the US PGA Tour since he was eight shots in front in the Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines early last year.
He will play in the final pairing Sunday with Brandt Snedeker, who had a 66. Marc Leishman had a 68 and joined Snedeker at 9-under 204, both of them hopeful of finishing high enough to get into the Tour Championship.
THIRD ROUND TOTALS
Par 213 (3x71)
197 Tiger Woods 68 67 62
204 Marc Leishman (Aus) 67 69 68, Brandt Snedeker 69 69 66
205 Matt Kuchar 71 68 66, Padraig Harrington (Irl) 68 68 69
206 John Senden (Aus) 70 70 66, Mark Wilson 69 66 71
207 Jim Furyk 70 70 67, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 71 68 68, Bubba Watson 69 68 70, Luke Donald (Eng) 70 69 68
208 Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 66 70 72, Zach Johnson 73 65 70, Sean O'Hair 70 68 70, Bo Van Pelt 67 69 72, David Toms 68 71 69, Ian Poulter (Eng) 69 71 68
209 Kevin Na 72 72 65, Kevin Sutherland 75 67 67
210 Phil Mickelson 71 69 70, Anthony Kim 69 69 72, Bill Haas 71 68 71
211 Steve Marino 66 77 68, Heath Slocum 70 69 72, Charles Howell III 69 72 70
212 John Rollins 73 65 74, Chad Campbell 70 70 72, Mike Weir (Can) 72 69 71, Stephen Ames (Can) 76 67 69
213 Dustin Johnson 69 73 71, Brian Davis (Eng) 71 70 72, Steve Stricker 72 73 68, Fredrik Jacobson (Swe) 72 71 70, Jason Dufner 74 70 69, Camilo Villegas (Col) 68 74 71, John Mallinger 68 76 69
214 Nick Watney 70 71 73, Bryce Molder 70 73 71
215 Hunter Mahan 73 73 69, Jeff Overton 72 68 75, Retief Goosen (Rsa) 72 72 71
216 Charlie Wi (Kor) 71 73 72, Kenny Perry 77 69 70, Pat Perez 72 71 73, Charley Hoffman 73 71 72, Robert Allenby (Aus) 75 74 67, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 68 73 75, Stewart Cink 72 74 70
217 Justin Leonard 73 69 75, Angel Cabrera (Arg) 73 75 69, Scott Verplank 70 75 72, Webb Simpson 70 74 73
218 Jerry Kelly 76 73 69, Davis Love III 74 77 67, Ryan Moore 71 72 75
219 Paul Goydos 74 72 73, Ernie Els (Rsa) 75 67 77, Brian Gay 73 71 75, Jason Day (Aus) 71 73 75, Jason Bohn 71 74 74
220 Ben Crane 75 69 76, Nathan Green (Aus) 73 74 73, Lucas Glover 74 75 71, Woody Austin 76 72 72, Tim Clark (Rsa) 78 69 73
221 Jonathan Byrd 69 79 73
222 Y.E. Yang (Kor) 71 78 73
223 J.B. Holmes 78 73 72

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