How to Watch the Puerto Rico Open, Round 3: TV times, live scores, tee times

Our experts didn’t agree on the winner. What they did agree on is that it will be one of the sport’s biggest names. No surprise winner here.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Even without spectators in November, the Masters Tournament promised to deliver more drama with 10 players separated by a single shot going into a weekend filled with possibilities. And then Dustin Johnson turned it into a one-man show. RELATED: Leaderboard | Rory finding his stride | DeChambeau battles dizziness to make cut The reigning FedExCup champion looked every bit the part Saturday, racing away from a five-way share of the lead with an explosive start — 4 under through four holes — and never letting his foot off the gas until he had a 7-under 65 and matched the 54-hole Masters record. More importantly, Johnson had a four-shot lead. Sunday will be the third time Johnson takes a solo lead into the final round of a major, along with two other majors where he was tied for the lead. His only major was the 2016 U.S. Open when he came from behind. Most recently, he had a one-shot lead at Harding Park in the PGA Championship this summer, closed with a 68 and lost to a 64 by Collin Morikawa. This effort was master class. Johnson used putter from above a slope to the right of the 18th green to 5 feet and holed that for a par to cap off another bogey-free round and reach 16-under 200. That ties the record set by Jordan Spieth in 2015, when he went on to a four-shot victory over Justin Rose and Phil Mickelson. Not all the players chasing Johnson are as familiar. Two of them are Masters rookies. Sungjae Im, the supreme ball-striker from South Korea who won his first PGA TOUR title two weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down golf in the spring, birdied the last hole for 68. Abraham Ancer of Mexico saved par on the 18th for a 69. They were at 12-under 204, along with Cameron Smith of Australia. Smith opened with 12 pars before running off three straight birdies and scrambling his way home to a 69. Justin Thomas and Jon Rahm had their chances only to make untimely mistakes. Rahm nearly topped his second shot on the par-5 eighth and hit his next one off a tree and into the bushes on his way to a double bogey. Thomas sailed his second shot over the 15th green and into the water, making bogey on a par 5 where he was hoping to make up ground. Both bogeyed the 18th hole. Thomas shot 71, Rahm had a 72. Asked to describe his day, Rahm didn’t mince words. "Seriously? How would I describe? Pretty awful," he said. Defending champion Tiger Woods will stick around Sunday to present the green jacket, and he’ll have to leave his at Augusta National until he returns. Woods was 4 under through 10 holes to start the Masters, and he picked up only one more shot over the next 44 holes. He finished off a 71 in the second round, had a 72 in the third round and was 11 shots behind. It likely didn’t help the 44-year-old Woods to go 26 holes on soft turf of a hilly course, "It’s just part of the deal," he said. "If you have long days like this, I’m going to get a little bit sore, which I definitely am." U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau was more dizzy than sore. He felt so odd on Thursday night that he had another COVID-19 test to be sure — it came back negative — and the betting favorite of this Masters was in the middle of the pack. The scoring has been low all week. The 36-hole cut Saturday morning was at even-par 144, the lowest in Masters history, another update to the club’s record book. Still in front of Johnson is a chance to set the 72-hole record. All he cares about is a green jacket, and given his past experience, he knows better than to look ahead. "I feel like I’m swinging well and I’ve got a lot of confidence in what I’m doing. Everything is going well," he said. "There’s a lot of really good players right around me. I’m going to have play aggressive when I can and play smart when I can’t.” He was aggressive at the start. First, he drilled a 5-iron he nearly holed for an albatross on the par-5 second, leaving him a tap-in eagle. He followed that with a lofted pitch to 5 feet for birdie on No. 3, and a 40-foot birdie putt up the slope on the par-3 fourth hole as the lead began to grow. Thomas was within two shots until he made mistakes and Johnson kept going. Johnson had two-putt birdies on the par 5s on the back nine, and he hasn’t made a bogey since the sixth hole of his second round.

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ORLANDO, Fla. – Question: If you’re a putter, how do you work your way into the bag of world No. 1 golfer Jon Rahm? You win your tryout, that’s how. We jest, of course. Rahm said Friday after a second-round, 2-under 70 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational (28 putts) that there is very little difference between the gamer he had been using (Odyssey White Hot OG Rossie S prototype) and the one that he is using now, which he switched to for the fourth round at The Genesis Invitational at Riviera two weeks ago. Rahm’s new putter – an Odyssey White Hot OG #7S – had a nice debut at Riviera, where Rahm made four birdies and an eagle in a final-round 65. At Bay Hill Club & Lodge, which he is playing for the first time, Rahm has made nine birdies over two rounds, but ranked outside the top 100 in Strokes Gained: Putting as of mid-day Friday. (A missed 10-inch putt Thursday didn’t help.) Over two rounds at Bay Hill, he had 60 putts and made 126 total feet of putts. His longest made putt on Friday was 11 feet, on the fourth hole. Rahm said the two putters are similar except for their appearance. The Rossie is a rounder mallet-type club, while the OG #7S has two protruding fangs. Choosing one came down to this: He stood 40 feet from the hole, devoted one putt to each putter, and said to himself, ‘Whichever one I make it with first, I’m going with.’” Hello, OG #7S. It has some work to do to make up ground, as the Rossie won him the 2021 U.S. Open. “When I chose to play the Rossie, which was the one I was playing up until this week, or the Sunday of L.A., I was right in between the two of them,” Rahm said. “I could have picked either/or when I did. Both of them felt great. So I knew (the OG #7S) was always a good backup.” Thus far in 2021-22, Rahm ranks first in Strokes Gained: Off-The-Tee and second in Strokes Gained: Tee-To-Green, but 88th in Strokes Gained: Putting. Part of that he chalks up to challenging greens on the West Coast. “It’s not necessarily that things are bad,” he said. “I’ve seen a lot of putts graze the hole and not go in. It’s golf sometimes, especially on the West Coast. I’m not too concerned about it.” Rahm has a putting green downstairs at home in Arizona, and sometimes he’ll hit putts using both of the putters that have been in his bag of late. Sometimes a new look can spark something. “It’s essentially just to trick the mind, right?” Rahm said as he heads into the weekend. “The (putter) swing should be exactly the same, it just looks a little different. … There’s no difference between them.”

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