[y66]

After birdieing 9, Tiger is tied for the lead with Lee Westwood with 27 holes to go.

[y66]

Wow. Lee Westwood just sank a longish putt to save bogey on 16 and stay tied for the lead with Tiger after Tiger's birdie putt grazed the cup and somehow managed to stay out.

[y66]

Tiger missed his par from 12 feet on 17 and tapped in for bogey. Lee sank his putt on the same line from 10 feet for birdie to go 2 up with 1 hole to go in the 3rd round.

Good story here by James Corrigan about Lee's amazing performance on the greens this week for which he credits a recent conversation about putting with Ian Baker Finch.

[y66]

After 54 holes at the 142nd Open Championship, Lee Westwood is in at 3 under par, 2 strokes ahead of Tiger Woods and Hunter Mahan. Looking forward to seeing Westwood play well tomorrow and perhaps win his first Open.

[heyrocky]

Can Westwood handle the pressure of the lead? Can he be the next to shake the moniker of the "greatest never to win a major"?

[FM75]

Haha.
Tomorrow the penultimate pairing will be getting some media attention. It has some history. Woods, Scott
And the ultimate pairing has no major wins. So they will be talking about that as well. Westwood, Mahan.

[y66]

Adam Scott talks here about the evolution of his mental game between his meltdown at last year's Open and his victory at this year's Master's in which he poured in a 12 footer on the second playoff hole to notch his first major championship. "You just have to be tough coming down the stretch," Scott said last week.

What a leaderboard. Anyone of those guys in the top 10 can win this thing. Go Lee!

[y66]

Ian Poulter is on fire. Eagle-birdie-birdie-birdie on his last 4 holes to get to even par at 12!

[y66]

The wind is blowing harder than it has all week (18 km/hr) but not expected to pick up.

Tiger is struggling. Westwood just birdied 5 to get back to 3 under and a 2-shot lead after hitting a gorgeous long iron into the green.

[y66]

Westwood knocks his nerve testing 2nd putt into the middle of the cup on 6 to remain at 3 under while the rest of the field is at even par or higher and falling back.

[y66]

Wow. Just when it looked like Westwood was pulling away Scott birdies 3 in a row and Westwood bogies 8 and 9 after hitting approach shots into bunkers and impossible lies just inches from the face. Fortunately, his putting is still rock solid.

[y66]

Wow. Mahan just eagled 9 and Phil rolled it in for birdie on 13. They are both at even par, 1 shot off the lead. Is this the most exciting Open ever or what?

[y66]

Scott rolls it in for birdie on 11 to take the lead at 2-under. And Mickelson birdies 14 to get to 1-under!

[y66]

Wow. Mickelson hits it to 20 feet on 16, watches it roll back and off to 70 feet away, pitches to 6 feet, drains it for par, splits the fairway on the 575 yard 17th, hits his second to 50 feet below the pin, and 2 putts to go 2-under and lead by 2!

[y66]

They're calling him Phil The Thrill on BBC Radio after he takes it right at the pin on 18, misses the bunker on the left by inches and rolls to 13 feet. And he sinks the putt to go 5-under for the day, 3-under for the championship, and pretty much claim his first claret jug. Wow!

[Cyberyeti]

And to think, if Phil had parred in on the back 9, we'd have had one of the best finishes in ages (Westwood wouldn't have needed to go pinhunting on the 16th and I guess he, Stenson and Mickelson would all have finished even par), but he was the one player to really light up the back 9, superb preformance.

[heyrocky]

To use a well-worn cliche, while others did not play as well as they might have liked, Phil won this championship. Given how the back nine has played all week, how he finished was spectacular.

[jonottawa]

I agree with Jerry Seinfeld on golf:

Starts ~ 2:40


"It's challenging trying to throw a tic tac 100 yards into a shoebox. That's not a reason to devote thousands of hours to a game that even at its highest skill level is basically Whack! Where is it? Oh dammit."

[JLOGIC]

Guess we shouldn't play bridge then

[jonottawa]

 JLOGIC, on 2013-July-24, 19:38, said:

Guess we shouldn't play bridge then

Certainly truer in my case than yours, but touché.

Playing bridge is insane in the more traditional definition of 'Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,' at least once one hits a certain age/experience level.