Third-round notebook – Turning Stone Resort Championship
* Davis Love III put together the best round of the week, a 6-under 66 that vaulted him from a tie for 38th to a tie for 9th place. Love has carded scores of 75-70-66 to move up the leaderboard. His opening day total featured 37 putts. Love needed only 26 putts today.* Second-round play was not completed on Friday and so play resumed at 8:44 a.m. with 23 players returning to the course to finish their rounds. Play was completed at 9:41 a.m. Round three began at 10:36 a.m.
* Lift, clean and place conditions were in effect for round three. This is the 13th tournament in 2008 to employ lift, clean and place.
* A 54-hole cut was made due to the fact that more than 78 professionals made the 36-hole cut. The field was reduced to the low-70 and ties. A total of 71 players advanced to Sunday’s final round.
* Sunday’s final round will be played in twosomes off the 1st tee. The expected local finish time is 6 p.m. (ET). Joey Sindelar of nearby Horseheads, NY, will be the first player off the 1st tee starting at 8:10 a.m. Sindelar will play as a single.
* Charles Warren also charged into contention with a 67 that featured a 6-under 30 on the back nine. Warren rolled in eagle putts of 30 feet, 5 inches at No. 12 and then holed his third shot from 123 yards at the par-5, 18th for a second eagle. Warren is currently tied for 9th place, at 5-under 211.
* Tag Ridings’ missed par putt from 5 feet, 8 inches cost him the outright lead after 54 holes. Ridings and Charles Howell III now share the third-round lead at 8-under par. This is fifth time in his career that Howell has held/shared the 54-hole lead in a PGA TOUR event and the first time that Ridings has been in this position.
* Joe Ogilvie (68), Steve Marino (68) and Ryuji Imada (69) managed the only bogey-free rounds during the third round.
* Charles Warren became the first player this week to post two eagles in a round, doing so on Saturday at the par-5 12th and 18th holes. Jason Day leads the field this week with three eagles, recording one each round, including a 12-foot, 9-inch eagle putt on the closing hole on Saturday to cap off a 1-under 71.
* The third-round leader/co-leader has gone on to win 21 of 41 stroke-play events on the 2008 PGA TOUR, including most recently Camilo Villegas at the BMW Championship.
* Several players at the top of the leaderboard are seeking their first career win. Below is a list of some of the best career finishes:
T1. Tag Ridings 2nd 2004 Michelin Championship at Las Vegas
T3. Kyle Thompson T15 2008 Puerto Rico Open
T3. Jeff Overton 2nd 2007 Wyndham Championship
T3. Brian Davis 2nd 2008 Legends Reno-Tahoe Open,
2nd 2007 Stanford St. Jude Championship
T3. Jason Day 6th 2008 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
T7. Dustin Johnson T7 2008 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
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