2025 PGA Championship - Round 3 Recap & Final Round Projected Finish
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Saturday Round 3s are known as Moving Day in the golf community, but Moving would be an understatement for all the action that occurred today at Quail Hollow. It all started at 8AM EST when the horn blew as Rory McIlroy and Xander Schauffele were headed to the first tee to start their 3rd Rounds. Inclement/Dangerous weather distrubed the preceedings causing the tournament to shift tee times and pairings to split tees starting at 11AM on both the 1st and 10th tees. On course reporter asked Scottie Scheffler what he thought of his new pairing on Saturday, who was suppose to only play with Max Homa and he said something to the effect of, “Who is it?”. The other player happened to be Si Woo Kim, but showed just how much the players were reacting to the situation at hand over expecting the usual Saturday routines.
Once play began, the leaderboard got tight very quickly after overnight leader Jhonthan Vegas started bogey-bogey and soon it looked like a jumbled up race similar to that of the Preakness Stakes, but just as Journalism emerged from the pack at the favorite for the win, Scottie Scheffler played brillantly all day, highlighted by playing the final 5 holes in 5 under par including the Green Mile in 2 under in route to the low round of the day 6 under 65. Scottie heads into Sunday not only jail free but 3 shots clear of 2nd place held by Alex Noren who is playing in only his 2nd start of 2025 after an injury riddled 2024.
Danger zone for the rest of the field when Scottie is #1 in TG, OTT and APP. Add in Top 15% in Putting for the day and easy to see why he had the round of the day and now with over a 75% chance (-575 odds via Seminole HardRock) to hoist his first Wanamaker.
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Winners starting position on Sunday:
15/15 Top 7
14/15 Top 4
11/15 Top 2
9/15 Leader
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14/15 4 or less
13/15 2 or less
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