Sunday, August 08, 2010

O'Hair and Palmer share lead as Tiger toils for a 75

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE
Phil Mickelson failed to capitalise on Tiger Woods' woeful third round at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational as he looked to close in on the world number one ranking.
Mickelson could only manage a one-over-par 71 to leave himself with work to do to end his fellow American's 270-week reign as the world's best player.
The world No 2 bogeyed the par-4 opening hole as well as eight, 14 and 15, his three birdies not enough to prevent him slipping back to five under for the tournament and in a six-way tie for 10th, four shots off the lead.
Mickelson needs a top-four finish, coupled with Woods finishing outside the top 44, to assume top spot. The 14-time major winner looks on course to do that, a third-round 75 leaving him languishing in 78th place on 11 over par.
"I'm trying to win the tournament," Mickelson said on www.pgatour.com on Saturday night.
"I'm only four back, and I fought hard today not really having much just to stay within striking distance. I found it difficult, I think the later groups found it tough today.
"We felt like we had to force the issue. If I can make some birdies tomorrow hopefully I can give those leaders the same feeling.
"I didn't play very well and made some bogeys on the back nine that were costly. I'm going to have to play better tomorrow.
"Tomorrow I've got to get the ball in play. My iron play has been good but off the tee hasn't.
"I've got to get the ball into play, attack some pins and just get a few putts to drop and I think I can put some pressure on the leaders."

THIRD ROUND TOTALS
Par 210 (3x70)
*There was no cut after three rounds.

201 Sean O'Hair 67 70 64, Ryan Palmer 70 68 63
202 Matt Kuchar 69 67 66
203 Peter Hanson (Swe) 69 66 68, Justin Leonard 68 66 69, Ernie Els (Rsa) 69 70 64
204 Hunter Mahan 71 67 66, Jeff Overton 67 70 67, Bo Van Pelt 67 68 69
205 Phil Mickelson 66 68 71, Nick Watney 68 68 69, Dustin Johnson 72 65 68, Katsumasa Miyamoto (Jpn) 71 72 62, Oliver Wilson (Eng) 71 67 67, Bubba Watson 64 71 70
206 Rory McIlroy (NIrl) 68 69 69, Retief Goosen (Rsa) 67 66 73, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 69 67 70, Lucas Glover 70 66 70, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 71 67 68, Angel Cabrera (Arg) 71 68 67
207 Kenny Perry 66 73 68, Graeme McDowell (NIrl) 66 73 68
208 Steve Stricker 68 71 69, Adam Scott (Aus) 66 70 72, Alexander Noren (Swe) 69 69 70, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 72 67 69, Ryan Moore 70 68 70, Jason Day (Aus) 69 70 69
209 Jim Furyk 72 68 69, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 73 68 68, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 70 70 69, Paul Casey (Eng) 68 68 73, Martin Laird (Sco) 70 71 68, Padraig Harrington (Irl) 69 70 70
210 Bill Haas 73 66 71, Ben Curtis 69 70 71, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 72 70 68, Rickie Fowler 68 73 69, Heath Slocum 75 68 67, Ross McGowan (Eng) 71 69 70
211 James Kingston (Rsa) 75 65 71, Zach Johnson 70 70 71, Justin Rose (Eng) 71 70 70, Stewart Cink 72 69 70, Troy Matteson 72 70 69, Scott Verplank 75 68 68
212 Ross Fisher (Eng) 70 68 74, Luke Donald (Eng) 70 69 73, Jason Bohn 71 68 73, Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 71 71 70, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 72 72 68
213 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 70 72 71, Chad Campbell 67 73 73, Ben Crane 71 70 72, Mike Weir (Can) 72 69 72, Boo Weekley 73 72 68, Alvaro Quiros (Spa) 73 66 74, Y.E. Yang (Kor) 74 68 71
214 Vijay Singh (Fij) 71 73 70, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 68 72 74
215 J.B. Holmes 74 72 69, K J Choi (Kor) 70 73 72
216 Ryo Ishikawa (Jpn) 71 73 72, Rhys Davies (Wal) 75 69 72, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 74 72 70
217 Hennie Otto (Rsa) 73 72 72, Yuta Ikeda (Jpn) 72 76 69, Tim Clark (Rsa) 70 72 75
218 Robert Karlsson (Swe) 71 74 73, Soren Hansen (Den) 71 75 72, Simon Dyson (Eng) 72 73 73, Simon Khan (Eng) 73 71 74
219 Ian Poulter (Eng) 72 70 77, David Horsey (Eng) 73 71 75, Camilo Villegas (Col) 75 73 71
220 Anthony Kim 75 76 69
221 Tiger Woods 74 72 75
225 Henrik Stenson (Swe) 79 75 71
226 Michael Jonzon (Swe) 76 74 76

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