Turning Stone Resort Championship: Third-round notebook

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VERONA, N.Y. -- Second-round play was not completed on Friday and so play resumed at 8:44 a.m. Saturday with 23 players returning to the course to finish their rounds. Play was completed at 9:41 a.m. Round three began at 10:36 a.m.

Charles Warren is the only player to post two eagles in a round so far this week. (Mason/Getty Images)

• Lift, clean and place conditions were in effect for round three. This is the 13th tournament in 2008 to employ lift, clean and place.

• A 54-hole cut was made due to the fact that more than 78 professionals made the 36-hole cut. The field was reduced to the low-70 and ties. A total of 71 players advanced to Sunday's final round.

• Sunday's final round will be played in twosomes off the first tee. The expected local finish time is 6 p.m. ET. Joey Sindelar of nearby Horseheads, N.Y., will be the first player off the first tee starting at 8:10 a.m. Sindelar will play as a single.

• Davis Love III put together the best round of the week, a 6-under 66 that vaulted him from a tie for 38th to a tie for ninth place. Love has carded scores of 75-70-66 to move up the leaderboard. His opening-day total featured 37 putts. Love needed only 26 putts Saturday.

• Charles Warren also charged into contention with a 67 that featured a 6-under 30 on the back nine. Warren rolled in eagle putts of 30 feet, 5 inches at No. 12 and then holed his third shot from 123 yards at the par-5 18th for a second eagle. Warren is currently tied for ninth place, at 5-under 211.

• Tag Ridings' missed par putt from 5 feet, 8 inches on the final green late Saturday cost him the outright lead after 54 holes. Ridings and Charles Howell III now share the third-round lead at 8 under par.

• This is fifth time in his career that Howell has held/shared the 54-hole lead in a PGA TOUR event and the first time that Ridings has been in this position. Howell led the 2003 Nissan Open by three, then lost in a playoff; was tied for the lead at the 2006 84 LUMBER Classic, then finished second; led by one at the 2007 Sony Open, then tied for second; and led by one at the 2008 AT&T Classic, then tied for eighth.

• Joe Ogilvie (68), Steve Marino (68) and Ryuji Imada (69) managed the only bogey-free rounds during the third round.

• Charles Warren became the first player this week to post two eagles in a round, doing so on Saturday at the par-5 12th and 18th holes. Jason Day leads the field this week with three eagles, recording one each round, including a 12-foot, 9-inch eagle putt on the closing hole on Saturday to cap off a 1-under 71.

• The third-round leader/co-leader has gone on to win 21 of 41 stroke-play events on the 2008 PGA TOUR, including most recently Camilo Villegas at the BMW Championship.

• The scoring average has improved each round so far this week. The field averaged 73.977 in the first round, 73.639 in the second round and 73.169 in the third round.