Justin Rose leads by one after the third round of AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

Here are nine tidbits from the final round of The Honda Classic that gamers can use tomorrow, this weekend or down the road.  Be looking for the Emergency 9 shortly after the close of play of each round of the tournament. Grin and Bear It For the seventh time in his last 31 PGA TOUR events Justin Thomas is taking home the trophy as he defeated Luke List in a playoff to win The Honda Classic. The 2017 PGA TOUR Player of the Year collects his eighth-career TOUR victory and second of the 2017-2018 season. Thomas now has two playoff wins this season as he defeated Marc Leishman at the CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES in October. Playing in his fourth Honda Classic, he adds this victory to T3 in 2016 and a pair MCs. Thomas only squared five bogeys and a double which was offset by 15 birdies (T4) to post 272. List was the only player to make fewer bogeys (4). Thomas reinforced that it takes a deep bag to win here as he led the field in strokes-gained: tee-to-green, sand saves and scrambling. The Champion Course at PGA National played easier as the week went on as the weather improved and the wind finally quieted down. The greens were crusty, firm and not holding many shots so it is not surprising scoring was high. The lowest round of the week was 65 and all four posted were on the weekend. The tournament record of 13-under-par set by Camilo Villegas in 2010 was never in doubt. There were only For the 10th season in a row the winner came from the final pairing. Gamers’ Choices — PGA TOUR Fantasy Game presented by SERVPRO If gamers are still wondering about Fleetwood and Noren, I can’t help them! This is the bloodiest top 10 that we’ve seen this season. Gamers’ Choices — PGA TOUR One & Done presented by SERVPRO   Gamers who faded Fowler this week will live to fight another day as Woodland and Garcia backers go quietly. With the tricky weather forecasted this week it’s not a surprise the ownership of Thomas was that low. It will be the last time we see it that low! Close Encounters Luke List is accumulating some excellent scar tissue that will help him the next time he’s contending late on the weekend. All of the facets of his game were firing this week but he ran into the wrong guy in the playoff. His P2 check is the biggest he’s collected and is his second top 10 of the year. He was T5 at the CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES. … If Alex Noren returns to this event next year he might be No. 1 on my list. He was 12-under-par in three of his four rounds including posting eight-under on the weekend. He learned his lesson from the 75 he posted Friday and finished third, missing the playoff by a shot. Noren is white hot as this is his second podium finish is four TOUR starts in 2018. … Tommy Fleetwood’s first visit saw him put all four rounds at par or better including his final three in red numbers. Movers and Shakers Byeong Hun An (T5) and Derek Fathauer (T13) shared the low round on Sunday with 65. An posted his lowest round of the year and his best finish since T11 at the CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES. Does anyone else see a pattern forming here?? This was the Korean’s first trip to the Champion Course. … Fathauer tried it a different way this week. After beginning last Sunday in the top 10 at Riviera he posted 74 to slip to T16. This week he made the cut on the number and used his break to shoot 71-65. The 65 on Sunday moved him up 41 spots to finish T13. He’s now cashed a check in five of six tries at this event. Grillo Means Go Emiliano Grillo entered the week with 10 consecutive cuts made and added another this week. The Argentine fired 69-66 on the weekend to post T8. He made the cut the previous two seasons here and each Sunday he posted 77. This is his best finish on TOUR since T7 at last year’s Arnold Palmer Invitational. #Hint#Hint. Tiger Woods He stood on No. 15 tee T6 (-3) and just four shots out of the lead. His tee shot found the water, again, and his double-bogey ended any chances of sneaking in the back door. His three-putt bogey on the next hole pushed him out of the top 10 as he finished 12th. I was interested to see how his swing would hold up on Sunday if he was in the fight. For the most part, it did. Go look at the tables above and count how many of those guys he beat this week. With back-to-back top-25 finishes, the next question is will he play again before Augusta? Stay tuned. Sunday Silence It wasn’t a great afternoon for South Africans not named Dylan Frittelli (11th) as Louis Oosthuizen carded 75 of them and dropped from T8 to T24. The “other” Rory still won that head-to-head but Sabbatini posted 73 to drop out of the top 10 and cash for T17. … Daniel Berger couldn’t match his Sunday 64 from his rookie year as he also carded 75 and fell to T29. … Hudson Swafford made a birdie on the final hole to post 80. He plummeted 53 spots to T64. … Rory McIlroy’s lowest round of the week was 72 (T59) and that should keep gamers guessing before he tees it up again. It will NOT be this coming week at the WGC-Mexico Championships as he is not entered. Study Hall 2017 NCAA Nicklaus Award winner Sam Burns, playing with Woods on Sunday, posted 68 (-2). He was playing his 14th round on TOUR. His T8 finish will get the Web.com player into the Valspar Championship in two weeks. … Lucas Glover also fired 66 on Sunday for T17, his best finish since T15 at the CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES. #Pattern. … Michael Thompson (T24) just missed fulfilling his major medical exemption and will have one more start remaining to do so. … Rookie Tom Lovelady showed some serious guts this week as he was seven-over-par thru his first eight holes. He made the cut on the number, fired a bogey-free 67 on Saturday and 70 Sunday to cash T17 for his best payday. … Jason Dufner (T17) has never missed in 10 tries at the Champion Course. Strangely he only has one top 10 to show for his efforts, T9 in 2009.

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Here are nine tidbits from the third round of the BMW Championship gamers can use tomorrow, this weekend or down the road. Aronimink Golf Club just outside Philadelphia plays 7,267 yards to Par-70. Know Thy Enemy These were the top-10 selected, plus TWO, golfers in the PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf game presented by SERVPRO. I included all players who were owned by 20 percent or more. The early-morning tee times ended up being washed out and being pushed back to almost the original starting times. The course was wet and used lift, clean and replace in closely-mown areas. To put scoring in perspective, Keegan Bradley played in the final three-some, shot 66 and DROPPED three places to T6. Tee times have been moved up again for early Sunday morning but the forecast is dire regardless. Coming up Roses The Monday forecast isn’t much better for the Philadelphia metro area so if they can’t complete the tournament, 54-hole leader Justin Rose could probably connect the dots. He backed up his 63 in Round 2 with 64 in Round 3 and will be paired with Ryder Cup pal Rory McIlroy in the final round. The new favorite son of Pennsylvania bogeyed his first hole this week and has played the next 53 in 18-under. Other Half Not many guys can post 63 with a double bogey but Rory McIlroy had the perfect response after his five on the Par-3 No. 8. The second shot from the fairway on the Par-5 No. 9 landed eight feet from the flag and his subsequent putt wiped out the double. Momentum was recovered as he went out in 31 and came in with a bogey-free 32 to move into the final pairing. The Ulsterman leads the field in Strokes-Gained: Off-the-Tee. Friday’s Overnight Leader Xander Schauffele has only made three bogeys over 54 holes with one in each loop. The square on his final hole Saturday knocked him out of a spot in the final group and saddled him with one-shot deficit entering the final round. The putt that lipped out secured a spot with “Mr. 62” in the final round that Schauffele could use (heads-up) to impress Captain Furyk. People’s Choice — Bryson DeChambeau The free roll this week essentially ended with 70 in Round 2 but the man leading the FedExCup Playoff standings heading into East Lake didn’t mail it in during Round 3. With seven birdies against just one bogey, he moved up to T26 and another low one could reward his investors who were riding the streak this week. It’s not like he’s spraying it as he’s fourth in Strokes-Gained: Off-the-Tee and remains first in proximity. #Stud. 124 Wow. Wow x 2. Moving Day Although they didn’t match Fleetwood’s magnificent 62, Austin Cook and Adam Hadwin each shooting 63 will give them hope for another low round Sunday. They’ll need to pull a “Fleetwood” and go lower if they are going to make it to East Lake as both sit well outside the top 30. I’m not sure there are enough holes to make up the difference. … Quietly sneaking up the leaderboard is Francesco Molinari after 63-64. He’s now T7. … It’s also too-little-too-late for Dustin Johnson as his 64 moved him up 15 spots but he’s only T33. Moving Day: Wrong Way For the second Saturday running Keegan Bradley went backwards (T6) but he’s hardly out of it this week. He’s gone close every week of the FedExCup Playoffs and will begin the final round No. 30 as it stands. Time for another low round! … Alex Noren signed for even-par 70 and dropped from T3 to T21. … Jason Day carded 68 and plummeted from T7 to T15. Study Hall Rain and damp conditions paired with ball-in-hand for these guys will mean ridiculous scores and they didn’t disappoint in Round 3. The scoring average was 67.159, almost three-shot under-par. Of the 69 players who teed it up, they made a combined 92 bogeys! … Charles Howell III has made one bogey this week and is T26. … There were 16 bogey-free rounds bringing this week’s total to 33. … McIlroy and Bradley lead the field with 20 birdies each.

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