Cadillac World Championship

IT'S ELEMENTARY FOR HOLMES! ACE ON WAY 

TO FIVE-STROKE LEAD AFTER THIRD ROUND

 FROM SKY SPORTS.COM

If anyone still had any doubt that this is J B Holmes' week to score a first victory on the US PGA Tour, it must have evaporated when he  fired a hole-in-one on his way to a two-under third round 70, to take a five shot lead in to the final day of the WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral's Blue Monster course which he reduced to 62 shots on the opening day.

Holmes holed the 207-yard par-three fourth with a seven-iron, seeing his tee-shot land 20ft short of the pin and roll perfectly in to the cup, just two groups after Dustin Johnson nailed an almost identical shot at the same hole. 
Four late birdies extended Holmes' advantage, while world No 1 Rory McIlory sits ten strokes back after another up-and-down round

Third round leaders

-11 J.B Holmes (USA)
-6 Dustin Johnson (USA)
-6 Bubba Watson (USA)
-5 Ryan Moore (USA)
-4 Bill Haas (USA)
-4 Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa)
-4 Henrik Stenson (Swe)
Selected Others
-3 Lee Westwood (Eng)
-3 Sergio Garcia (Esp)
-1 Patrick Reed (USA)
-1 Rory McIlroy (Nir)

Firm favourite
Holmes  opened by three-putting the first from just five feet, before holing the fourth to move to ten-under. The world No 41 dropped a second shot on the seventh by duffing a chip after over-hitting his approach shot over the green, with a missed putt from eight-feet seeing Holmes also bogey the 12th.
With the American’s lead back down to three, Holmes responded by firing four successive gains from the 14th to the 17th to move six clear, although a wayward tee-shot in to trees at the 18th and a 25-foot par putt running over the edge of the cup saw him finish with a dropped stroke. 
Johnson followed his ace with further gains on the fifth and eighth on his way to a three-under 69 and a share of second with compatriot Bubba Watson.
"I can't worry about what J.B. is doing," Watson said, who holed a bunker shot from behind the 18th green for birdie. "This golf course is hard enough as it is. If I start worrying about other people, I'm going to lose it."
An eagle at the par-four 16th keeps Ryan Moore within six of the lead, while Sweden's Henrik Stenson leads the European challenge a further shot back alongside former Open champion Louis Oosthuizen.
Adam Scott, who had surged into the mix after two rounds, dropped out of the picture again by carding a bogey-filled third round 75 with a double-bogey at the last to move tied-eighth alongside Sergio Garcia, Webb Simpson and Lee Westwood - who posted six birdies and four dropped shots in his 50th WGC event.
"I think 70 is a pretty good score," Westwood told Sky Sports 4. "I made a couple of mistakes out there. I hit a lot of good shots though and didn't get rewarded for some of them.
"I'm trying to keep myself in shape at the moment. I'm 42 in a couple of months but I still really feel fit and fresh and mentally sharp and keen to keep playing.
"As long as I am enjoying getting out of bed and practising and working on my game there's no reason I shouldn't carry on."
A day after apologising for throwing a club into a lake - it was later recovered by a scuba diver, McIlroy shot four birdies and as many bogeys in a third round level 72.
McIlroy got off to a good start and moved within five of the lead after birdies at the third and seventh, but hit his tee-shot at the eighth behind a tree and saw his third shot stop inches short of the water in the first to back-to-back bogeys.
A gain at the 11th was followed by two further dropped shots on the 13th and 14th, although the Northern Irishman’s chip from the bunker at the 16th to within three-feet of the cup set up a birdie putt. 

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ALL THE THIRD ROUND SCORES
par 216 (3x72)

1	J.B. Holmes	62	73	70					205
T2	Bubba Watson	71	69	70					210
T2	Dustin Johnson	68	73	69					210
4	Ryan Moore	66	71	74					211
T5	Henrik Stenson	69	71	72					212
T5	Bill Haas	74	73	65					212
T5	Louis Oosthuizen	71	74	67					212
T8	Adam Scott	70	68	75					213
T8	Sergio Garcia	73	69	71					213
T8	Webb Simpson	74	69	70					213
T8	Lee Westwood	71	72	70					213
T12	Ryan Palmer	71	70	74					215
T12	Morgan Hoffmann	73	71	71					215
T12	Rory McIlroy	73	70	72					215
T12	Victor Dubuisson	72	73	70					215
T12	Patrick Reed	71	73	71					215
T12	Shane Lowry	71	74	70					215
T18	Brooks Koepka	69	74	73					216
T18	Rickie Fowler	68	77	71					216
T18	Charley Hoffman	70	74	72					216
T18	Kevin Na	74	71	71					216
T22	John Senden	73	70	74					217
T22	Jordan Spieth	75	69	73					217
T22	Brendon Todd	72	73	72					217
T22	Jimmy Walker	71	76	70					217
T22	Brandt Snedeker	74	73	70					217
T22	Marc Warren	73	75	69					217
T22	Mikko Ilonen	78	72	67					217
T29	Jamie Donaldson	70	72	76					218
T29	Martin Kaymer	71	76	71					218
T29	Charl Schwartzel	71	72	75					218
T29	Ross Fisher	78	71	69					218
T29	Matt Kuchar	73	75	70					218
T34	Jim Furyk	70	73	76					219
T34	Sang-Moon Bae	75	71	73					219
T34	Cameron Tringale	73	74	72					219
T34	Thomas Aiken	78	69	72					219
T34	Bernd Wiesberger	74	74	71					219
T34	Phil Mickelson	74	74	71					219
T40	Alexander Levy	68	73	79					220
T40	Justin Rose	73	74	73					220
T40	Gary Woodland	70	74	76					220
T40	Paul Casey	75	73	72					220
T40	Russell Henley	74	74	72					220
T40	Hideki Matsuyama	76	72	72					220
T40	Danny Willett	73	76	71					220
T40	Jason Day	76	74	70					220
T48	Graeme McDowell	73	73	75					221
T48	Branden Grace	75	74	72					221
T48	Joost Luiten	79	69	73					221
T48	Jason Dufner	79	71	71					221
T52	Keegan Bradley	73	74	75					222
T52	Billy Horschel	72	75	75					222
T52	Luke Donald	72	76	74					222
T52	Zach Johnson	76	73	73					222
T52	Greg Chalmers	77	72	73					222
T57	David Lipsky	74	73	76					223
T57	Ian Poulter	74	78	71					223
T57	Danie Van Tonder	74	74	75					223
T60	Alexander Noren	73	77	74					224
T60	Geoff Ogilvy	74	76	74					224
T60	Robert Streb	72	80	72					224
T63	Koumei Oda	74	78	73					225
T63	Marcel Siem	78	72	75					225
65	Chris Kirk	76	77	73					226
T66	Steven Jeffress	75	74	78					227
T66	Tommy Fleetwood	77	77	73					227
68	Hunter Mahan	75	79	74					228
69	Thongchai Jaidee	80	73	76					229
70	Anirban Lahiri	80	76	74					230
71	Gary Stal	75	79	77					231
72	Stephen Gallacher	84	72	78					234
73	Hiroyuki Fujita	75	83	78					236
WD	Thomas Bjorn	WD	WD	WD