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CA Championship: Third-Round Notebook  PGA TOUR Staff MIAMI -- Saturday's weather: Sunny and breezy with an afternoon high in the low 80s. Winds out of the E/NE at 15-25 mph. There were a few spotty showers throughout the day.  Tiger Woods is seemingly just waiting for yet another victory at Doral. (Chris Condon/PGA TOUR/WireImage)
• Tiger Woods has had plenty of success at the Doral Golf Resort & Spa's Blue Course, site of the World Golf Championships-CA Championship, starting with the first hole. He has birdied or eagled No. 1, a 529-yard par 5, 17 of the 19 times he has played it, including the last 15 in a row. • Brett Wetterich is alone in second at the CA Championship, four strokes back of Tiger Woods. It will be the first time in Wetterich's career he has been paired with Woods in a TOUR event. Wetterich has been in a final pairing on Sunday two other times in his career: 2005 Honda Classic (Ogilvy) and 2006 EDS Byron Nelson Championship (Immelman, Scott). He went on to win the Byron Nelson and finished tied for sixth at the Honda Classic. A year ago in his first CA Championship, Wetterich led the 17 first-time participants with a tie for sixth. The only other first-year player to finish inside the top 10 in the 2006 CA Championship was Brett Quigley, who tied for ninth. • Tiger Woods' scoring average in the final round when holding at least a share of the 54-hole lead is 69.12. He has won 12 of 23 official World Golf Championships events, including four of the last six dating back to the 2005 WGC-NEC Invitational. • Up for grabs in Sunday's final round are a total of 26,250 FedExCup points, with 4,725 going to the winner. Third-round leader Tiger Woods is currently No. 7 in the season-long competition with 5,319 points, while Vijay Singh is the current points leader with 11,289, followed by Charles Howell III with 11,164. • Tiger Woods is looking to earn his sixth victory at the WGC-CA Championship. It will mark the first time he has recorded six wins in a single tournament. Earlier in the season he won the Buick Invitational, making it the third tournament Woods has captured five times. Sam Snead and Jack Nicklaus also have at least five victories in three different tournaments. The tournaments Woods has won five times are the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006); the WGC-CA Championship (1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006); and the Buick Invitational (1999, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007). • Tiger Woods is holding/sharing a 54-hole lead in a World Golf Championships event for the seventh time in his career. He has won the previous six, including three CA Championships. On the PGA TOUR, Woods is 38 of 41 when in this position, including the last eight (2004 EDS Byron Nelson Championship/2nd). • The par-4 closing hole at the Blue Monster has only given up 10 birdies this week, including six on Saturday. In fact it is playing +.616 strokes over par for the week, making it the toughest hole for the season. Geoff Ogilvy is the only player who has hit No. 18 green in regulation all three days. • On Saturday, the par-4 third hole played the hardest, averaging 4.479. There was only one birdie -- Paul Casey chipped in from the edge of the water, just off the green, from 46 feet, 5 inches.
• There were three eagles made on Saturday, bringing the weekly total to 11 for the week. There were four eagles on Thursday, and four more on Friday. The eagles have come on the par-5 first (Els, Casey, Garcia, and Broadhurst in Round 1; Johan Edfors and Stewart Cink in Round 2; and Tiger Woods and David Howell in Round 3); the par-4 second (Thongchai Jaidee in Round 3); the par-4 11th (Prom Meesawat in Round 2); and the par-4 sixth (Rod Pampling in Round 2). • There were five bogey-free rounds on Saturday, bringing the total to seven. Bogey-free on Saturday: Nick O'Hern, Paul Casey, Dean Wilson, Chris DiMarco and John Rollins • Davis Love III withdrew from the CA Championship Saturday after his round due to the death of a very close family friend; Alfred W. Jones, Jr., family owns The Sea Island Co., owners of The Cloister (Sea Island, Ga.) Copyright 2007 PGATOUR.com. All rights reserved. |
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