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| WGC-CA Championship: Partial Final-Round NotebookMar. 23, 2008
DORAL, Fla. -- The final round began at 11:45 a.m. ET Sunday with threesomes off of split tees following the suspension of the third round on Saturday due to thunderstorms. At 2:21 p.m., fourth-round play was suspended due to lightning in the area. Play resumed at 5:10 p.m. and was suspended for the day due to darkness at 7:20 p.m. Play will resume on Monday at 8:30 a.m. Preferred lies are being used during the final round.  Jim Furyk will be in the thick of things when play resumes Monday. (Cannon/WireImage)
• The last Monday finish on the PGA TOUR was the 2007 Ginn sur Mer. This is the first time in the 10-year history of the World Golf Championships that an event has been forced to finish on a Monday. • When play was suspended for the day, Geoff Ogilvy held a two-stroke lead at 17 under par over Jim Furyk and Vijay Singh. Ogilvy is in the middle of the fairway on the par-5 10th hole along with Singh. Furyk has finished 10 holes. • Australia's Aaron Baddeley had six consecutive birdies and also recorded seven birdies in his first eight holes of his final round, going out in 29. • Baddeley was 7 under thru nine holes when the suspension occurred. When play resumed, he recorded back-to-back bogeys. Baddeley rebounded with back-to-back birdies on the following two holes. In total, Baddeley recorded 10 birdies, four bogeys and four pars for an eventful 6-under 66 and is currently 9 under par for the tournament. • Playing one group behind Baddeley, Steve Stricker shot a front-nine 30 and had five consecutive birdies when play was suspended. When play resumed, he picked up where he left off with a birdie on the 10th hole. The six consecutive birdies by Baddeley and Stricker matches the longest streak of the 2008 season with five other players. Stricker is in the clubhouse at 13 under. • Geoff Ogilvy's attempt to become the first player on the PGA TOUR to win a golf tournament without recording a bogey since Lee Trevino won the 1974 Greater New Orleans Open ended on the seventh hole of the final round, snapping a streak of 60 holes without a bogey. • England's Graeme Storm, who qualified for this event by finishing 16th on the 2007 European Tour's Order of Merit, is three strokes off the lead thru nine holes at 14 under par. • No player has won a WGC event in his first start, except Jeff Maggert -- who won the 1999 Accenture Match Play Championship, the first-ever WGC event. • Sean O'Hair and Angel Cabrera withdrew during Sunday's third and fourth rounds, respectively. O'Hair cited family illness while Cabrera cited illness. Each receives $35,125 in unofficial money and zero FedExCup points. • Tiger Woods completed his third round on Sunday with one birdie on his scorecard. The last time Tiger Woods played an entire round with one birdie in 18 holes was the final round of the 2007 U.S. Open, a total of 38 rounds with at least two birdies. • The only other tournaments affected by weather delays this season are the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic (15-minute frost delay on Saturday), the FBR Open (frost delays each of the first three days) and the PODS Championship (suspensions on Thursday and Friday due to dangerous situations). | HEADLINES
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