Kevin Na didn’t feel comfortable about anything Saturday except his name atop the leaderboard Saturday at The Players Championship.
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Na emerges with 1-shot lead at The Players
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The Players: Third Round Birdies and Bogeys
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Who were the winners and losers on Saturday at TPC Sawgrass? It’s time to take a closer look with another edition of birdies and bogeys.
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Portuguese-born Santos (63) wins Madeira Islands
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Ricardo Santos became the first Portuguese-born player to win on home soil by capturing the Madeira Islands Open on Sunday.
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Fowler’s horde of fans grows by two legends at TPC Sawgrass
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Fan favorite Rickie Fowler has added two iconic peers to his bandwagon. The young Californian is in
great shape at the Players Championship and Steve Elling finds Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in the
shaggy one’s corner.
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Harig: Rickie Fowler continues bright run at TPC
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Rickie Fowler felt he was under the radar coming into The Players. After a third-round 66 put him 3 shots off the 54-hole lead and with a shot to win two weeks in a row, that’s no longer the case, writes ESPN.com’s Bob Harig.
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Today’s Morning Drive Featured Guest Hosts Charlie Rymer and Jerry Foltz as well as Bill Pennington, Tom Vlach, Ken Schofield, David Feherty and Rich Lerner
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Na waggles his way to 54-hole lead at Players
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As brutal as his repeated false starts are to watch, Kevin Na has waggled himself into the 54-hole lead at The Players Championship.
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Wojciechowski: Kevin Na slow-plays way to TPC lead
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The excruciatingly painful play of Kevin Na makes golfers and TV viewers wince. Except somehow, inexplicably, he’s the 54-hole leader at The Players Championship, writes ESPN.com’s Gene Wojciechowski.
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Kuchar’s secret training for Players … tennis?
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Before Matt Kuchar’s third round at TPC Sawgrass on Saturday he had an even more challenging match to contend with – a doubles tennis bout.
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Seven notable stats from Day 3 at the Players
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Seven notable third-round Players Championship stats from Golf World contributing writer Brett Avery, who compiles the Rank and File statistical sections for the magazine’s coverage of the major championships and other significant events:
1. Two men who traditionally play their best in the third round, Matt Kuchar and Rickie Fowler, excelled Saturday and put themselves in position to win the Players Championship. Kuchar’s three-under-par 69 bore everything from a 2 to a 6 and only a bogey at the 17th, where his tee ball splashed short of the island green, cost him a share of the lead at 12-under-par 204 with Kevin Na. Kuchar has posted his best scoring average in the third round in nine of his 11 PGA Tour seasons. Fowler posted his third consecutive sub-70 third round, a day’s-best 66. It followed his 69 at New Orleans (finished T10) and a 67 last week at Wells Fargo (won). It was the first time Fowler’s shot in the 60s in the third round of three consecutive official tour starts since May and June in 2010 (Colonial, 64, T-38; Memorial, 69, second; Travelers, 69, T-13). If their 2012 form holds for Kuchar and Fowler, they may struggle in the fourth round, their worst scoring day this season. Kuchar came into this week ranked 23rd on Sunday (70.25) while Fowler stands 63rd (71.11). Leader Na? The last round is statistically his strongest, although he ranks 47th at 70.78.
2. Kuchar and Na remain the only players eligible to end one of the longest-standing droughts in Players history: No player has posted four rounds in the 60s since Steve Elkington won in 1997 (66-69-68-69). Kuchar (68-68-69) has made five cuts in eight starts at Sawgrass but Saturday was only his second weekend score in the 60s (68, fourth round in ’09). Na (67-69-67) put up his first weekend sub-70 in five tries. Elkington is joined in the all-sub-60s club at Sawgrass by the three top finishers in 1994: Greg Norman (63-67-67-67), Fuzzy Zoeller (65-67-68-67) and Jeff Maggert (65-69-69-68).
3. There’s an outside chance the tournament record at TPC Sawgrass for most birdies could be tied or broken. It was set by Fuzzy Zoeller, who made 26 in 1994 while finishing four strokes behind Greg Norman. Na (20), Fowler (19) and Kuchar (18) have an outside chance — although what’s most interesting is that they are among the less-likely candidates in a field of 144 of the world’s best. Na went into the week tied for 34th among PGA Tour players this year in total birdies (151), while Fowler stands T-39 (149) and Kuchar T-93 (122). Season leader Cameron Tringale (180) has made only a dozen at the Stadium Course, which gives him a share of 21st for the week.