Tiger Woods is in early action in Round 3 and has a lot of work to do to get into contention.
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Round 3 begins today at the Farmers Insurance Open. The strong field includes Jon Rahm, Tony Finau, Rory McIlroy, Patrick Reed, Xander Schauffele, Phil Mickelson and more. Here’s everything you need to know to follow the action. Leaderboard Full tee times HOW TO FOLLOW Television: Thursday-Friday, 3-7 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday, 1-3 p.m. ET (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. ET (CBS). Sunday, 1-3 p.m. ET (Golf Channel), 3-6:30 p.m. ET (CBS). PGA TOUR LIVE: Thursday-Friday, 12 p.m.-7 p.m. (Featured Groups), Saturday, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. (Featured Groups), 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (Featured Holes), Sunday, 11:15 a.m.-3 p.m. (Featured Groups), 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (Featured Holes) Radio: Thursday-Friday, 1 p.m.-7 p.m. ET. Saturday, 1 p.m.-6 p.m. ET. Sunday, 1 p.m.-6:30 p.m. ET (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio). FEATURED GROUPS 12:00 p.m. ET: Rory McIlroy, Adam Hadwin, Rory Sabbatini (Off 1st Hole) 12:00 p.m. ET: Phil Mickelson, Jason Dufner, Kevin Stadler (Off 10th Hole) MUST READS Wacky weather hits Torrey Hovland cards 65 to take lead Mack III builds experience McIlroy shelves aggressive mindset for impressive start Wolff WDs with hand injury Johnson out, Mack III in Insider: Leishman gets back to his artistic ways Tiger talkes from Torrey Pines CALL OF THE DAY
Francesco Molinari dominated the Quicken Loans National with an impressive display of ballstriking. A final-round 62 gave him an eight-shot win that moved him to 42nd in the FedExCup standings. Molinari had a birdie putt from inside 20 feet on 55.6 percent of the holes (40 of 72). He hit the ball so well that he could have ranked 72nd (out of 74 players) in Strokes Gained: Putting and still won the event. Here’s a look at closer look at his impressive statistics from his victory. — Molinari’s eight-shot victory matched the largest winning margin on TOUR this season. It was the third win by six or more shots. Dustin Johnson owns the other two. Johnson won the 34-man Sentry Tournament of Champions by eight shots and the FedEx St. Jude Classic by six shots. He closed his St. Jude victory with a hole-out from 171 yards for eagle. — Molinari gained 20.5 strokes on the field last week, the 11th-best Strokes Gained: Total performance in the ShotLink era (since 2003). Strokes Gained: Total measures a player’s score against the field average. Molinari was 13 shots better than the field’s highest-ranked player, Rickie Fowler, who finished in 12th place. Only one player has outperformed Molinari in Strokes Gained: Total while gaining fewer strokes on the greens. Tiger Woods gained less than one stroke (0.95) on the greens when he won the 2006 World Golf Championships-American Express Championship by eight shots. — Molinari led the field in Strokes Gained: Approach and greens hit and was second in proximity to the hole. He hit a career-high 62 of 72 greens, including all 18 in the second round. His average proximity to the hole was 24 feet, 11 inches. There have been more than 13,000 rounds played on the PGA TOUR this season. A player has hit all 18 greens in just 37 of them. — Molinari also ranked fourth in driving accuracy last week, hitting 75 percent of the fairways (42 of 56) while averaging 304 yards off the tee. He missed six fairways in the third round and missed just eight in the other three rounds combined. — Eighty-four percent of Molinari’s Strokes Gained for the week were a result of his tee-to-green performance. He gained a career-best 4.33 strokes per round from tee-to-green last week. It also was the best tee-to-green performance by a winner this season. — Molinari’s 62 greens hit tied for fifth-best on TOUR this season. Three of the four better performances came at the AT&T Byron Nelson at Trinity Forest, a Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore design that is known for its wide fairways and oversized greens. The AT&T Byron Nelson’s champion, Aaron Wise, hit a season-high 66 greens that week.
Rory McIlroy’s opening tee shot hit a woman out of bounds and broke a cell phone in her pocket. The R&A said a 34-year-old woman from Northern Ireland was standing along the side of the first fairway when she was hit by the errant shot. McIlroy had to take a provisional tee shot and ended up with
