Brooks Koepka, who is looking for a PGA three-peat, reads a putt during Friday's second round.
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Haotong Li leads. Brooks Koepka is in perfect position for a three-peat and several other marquee names are still in the mix through 36 holes at the PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park. It’s all set up for what should be a riveting Moving Day in San Francisco.
Here’s the latest from the third round of the PGA Championship. This article will be updated frequently when play gets underway. (You may need to refresh the page.)
Saturday’s PGA Championship quick links
— Leaderboard
— Saturday tee times, pairings
— Get to know TPC Harding Park
— Meet 36-hole leader Haotong Li
— 3 things to know about Round 2
How to watch the third round of the PGA Championship on Saturday
ESPN+ will stream two hours of coverage from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. ET, before the action switches to TV. ESPN will air the action from 1-4 p.m., with CBS taking over the coverage from 4-10 p.m.
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Tiger opens with three-straight pars
Tiger Woods is on the course for the third round of the 2020 PGA Championship, albeit after starting with a much earlier tee time than he would have liked.
So far, there’s no movement on Tiger’s scorecard. He made par on the first three holes at TPC Harding Park, having left himself long birdie putts on each hole that lead to tap-in pars. He’ll need to get some birdies dropping soon to stay within reach of the lead.
Elsewhere on the course, Justin Thomas surrendered his first shot of the day and now sits at three under for the tournament, five off Haotong Li’s lead. Jordan Spieth has fallen to four over.
Follow along with live scores on our leaderboard here.
Justin Thomas is on fire Saturday at the PGA
The World No. 1 is making a big statement early in third round. Thomas is five under through his first seven holes and rocketing up the leaderboard. The 2017 PGA champion started the day at one over, but now he’s at four under and firmly in contention. If he drops a few more birdies before the leaders start, things could get really interesting.
Follow along with live scores on our leaderboard here.
How to get to tickets to the 2021 PGA Championship (you need to act fast!)
Fans are not permitted at this year’s PGA Championship, but that hopefully won’t be the case at next year’s event, which begins in May 2021, just nine months from now. Here’s everything you need to know to get tickets to the 2021 PGA Championship.
The 2021 PGA Championship will be held at Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course in South Carolina, the site of Rory McIlroy’s 2012 PGA Championship victory, the first Wanamaker win of his career.
The tournament will run May 17-23, but if you want to be among the lucky throngs of fans outside the ropes, you need to act fast. Really, really fast… Read the complete story here.
Spieth struggles early in Round 3; Tiger Woods tees off soon
Jordan Spieth fought admirably in Friday’s second round, clawing out a two-under 68 to make the cut on the number. But the three-time major champion couldn’t keep the mojo going early on Saturday. Spieth opened with back-to-back bogeys on 1 and 2 to fall to three over.
Spieth’s friend and third round playing partner, Justin Thomas, made birdie at 2 to improve his score to even par. Tiger Woods is set to tee off for the third round at 1:00 p.m. ET alongside Keith Mitchell.
Follow along with live scores on our leaderboard here.
Tee times, pairings for Saturday’s third round
Tee times for the third round begin at 11:10 a.m. ET, with the final group teeing off at 6 p.m. ET. Below are the final four groups to tee off (all times ET).
5:30 p.m. – Mike Lorenzo-Vera, Cameron Champ
5:40 p.m. – Brooks Koepka, Justin Rose
5:50 p.m. – Jason Day, Daniel Berger
6 p.m. – Haotong LI, Tommy Fleetwood
See all of the tee times and pairings here.
Haotong Li — mercurial, talented and supremely confident — is your PGA Championship leader
Haotong Li is much like the weather around Harding Park: mercurial and prone to bluster. He doesn’t lack for confidence — he has carried a wedge stamped with HAOTONG IS THE MOST HANDSOME MAN IN CHINA — and is known in Tour circles for having a revolving door of caddies. Li, 25, was the talk of the 2019 Presidents Cup, the brightest spotlight under which he has competed, until now, given he holds the 36-hole lead at the 102nd PGA Championship.
Capt. Ernie Els benched Li for the first two days at Royal Melbourne and then, when Els reluctantly called Li’s number, he shot a 41 on the front nine during Saturday morning foursomes. Li was then dispatched by Dustin Johnson in singles, the moment when the U.S. team tied up the Cup on the way to a comeback victory. Later that day, Li had heads shaking on social media when he was spotted scrolling on his cell phone during Els’s emotional speech at the closing ceremonies.
There is no denying Li’s talent. In 2017, he roared home in 63 to nearly steal the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. At the tender age of 25 he has two European Tour victories, including the 2016 China Open, which made him a larger-than-life figure in his home country. “He’s like a god over there,” says Els, partially explaining the stamping on Li’s wedge. Another revealing moment came at the 2017 French Open, when Li chucked his broken putter into a pond on the 11th hole and his mother, not knowing it was damaged, waded into the murky water to retrieve it.
Now, Li is on the verge a big-time breakthrough, having shot a bogeyless 65 on Friday (missing 14 fairways!) to roar to the top of the leaderboard at the PGA Championship. And don’t think he doesn’t know it: At 5:30 p.m. local time, more than five hours after he’d finished his second round, Li was still entrenched on the range, banging ball after ball into the cool evening air. In his last six rounds on Tour, Li posted a score better than 73 only once, falling all the way to 114th in the World Ranking. But the volatility in his game is part of Li’s secret.
“He’s got all the weapons in the bag,” says Adam Scott, a Presidents Cup teammate. “You know, I guess I’d call it erratic, but he’s got all the tools, as you see through two rounds here. He’s got the arsenal to take it low but we don’t see that kind of consistency out of him, and that probably matches his personality a little bit. He’s young, and that’s kind of golf he plays. He plays pretty much all guns blazing, and when it comes off, it’s really good.”
Read Alan Shipnuck’s complete Li profile here.
Haotong Li in the second round of the PGA Championship
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Rickie Fowler, Sergio Garcia among notables to miss the cut at PGA
The weekend is officially here and only 79 players will take part at the PGA Championship.
The cutline was set at one over late Friday evening, eliminating most the field, including all 20 PGA club professionals. Tiger Woods himself flirted with the cutline Friday after shooting 72, but his 68 from Thursday proved just enough to help him get through. A late birdie-par-par finish helped his cause. He’ll begin his third round early Saturday.
Rickie Fowler was not so lucky. Fowler made a great run to get back inside the cutline Friday afternoon but a costly whiff on a short putt is what he’s likely thinking about right now. It led to a double bogey on the par-4 6th hole. Another bogey on the difficult 8th did him in.
Other notables to miss the cut:
Tyrrell Hatton, three over
Sergio Garcia, six over
Marc Leishman, two over
Jim Furyk, two over
Henrik Stenson, two over
Kevin Na, three over
Matt Kuchar, three over
Max Homa, five over
Matt Fitzpatrick, four over
Graeme McDowell, six over
Danny Willett, seven over
Tiger Woods will need to make some putts to get back into contention.
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Can Tiger Woods still play his way into contention at the PGA Championship?
Tiger Woods’ re-emergence last month at the Memorial was a play in three acts. First, he came out red-hot. He birdied two of the first three holes, surged to the top of the leaderboard and sent golf fans into a tizzy.
Then he faltered on Friday, looking out of sorts all round before a furious rally to make the cut.
Over the weekend, his game stalled out en route to a T40 finish.
So far, Woods’ week at the PGA Championship is following the same script. On Thursday, he came out hot and worked his way into the mix with a two-under 68. Friday he took a step back with a two-over 72. Now he’s even par heading to the weekend, one shot inside the cut line and eight shots off the lead. T45.
So far, it’s tracking pretty similar. But Woods didn’t fly cross-country to finish T40 again — so how does he keep this weekend from continuing on the same trajectory? Here’s the blueprint for Saturday and Sunday at TPC Harding Park.
Get hot with the putter
One of the bigger equipment-related surprises of the week came when Woods benched his trusty Scotty Cameron. The move seemed to pay off on Day 1, when he made 115 feet of putts and finished 36th in the field in Strokes Gained: Putting.
Day 2 was another story. Woods looked out of sorts on the greens from the first hole, where he missed a seven-footer for birdie, and missed a handful more good looks on the opening nine. Through seven holes he’d holed just eight feet of putts.
Woods attributed the poor putting to a combination of factors. For one thing, he and Justin Thomas agreed that the practice green was significantly faster than greens on the course, and it took some time to make the adjustment. He got tentative on some grainier putts, too, afraid to send them too far past the hole. Afternoon gusts made it trickier to calculate. And the greens got slower as the day went on, too.
Read Dylan Dethier’s complete Woods recap here.
Brooks Koepka says no reason to worry about mid-round treatment at PGA
No one has slowed Brooks Koepka at the PGA Championship the past two years. Brooks Koepka won’t slow Brooks Koepka this year.
Three times on the back nine at TPC Harding Park on Friday, the two-time defending champion laid on his back while receiving treatment on his left hip. Three times, he got up. Koepka birdied the 18th hole, shot a two-under 68 and is two shots behind leader Haotong Li after Friday’s second round.
“It’s fine,” Koepka said. “I woke up this morning, it was tight, and worked out and it got even tighter and then we loosened it up. It was a little tight when I was hitting balls on the range, but it’s nothing to be worried about. We’ll loosen it up again and it will be a lot better.”
Koepka said his surgically repaired left knee was not the focus of the treatment.
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