Quail Hollow Championship: Third-round notebook

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Camilo Villegas muscled up on his approach shot to the third hole on Saturday.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Play was suspended at 5:46 p.m. due to a dangerous situation with four players still on the course. Play was resumed at 6:58 p.m. for a 1-hour, 12-minute delay.

• Zach Johnson shot a 4-under 68 to take a two-shot lead over Lucas Glover, Tiger Woods and George McNeill into the final round.

• Johnson has turned both of his career third-round stroke-play leads into victories, including this year at the Sony Open in Hawaii (one stroke) and at the 2004 BellSouth Classic (three strokes). Johnson also held the third-round lead in 2006 at The International (Stableford format), but finished tied for 13th.

• Glover shot a 4-under 68 Saturday and is tied for second. Glover picked up his only PGA TOUR win in 2005 at the Children's Miracle Network Classic, where he came from three strokes back with a final-round 65.

• McNeill was two strokes off the lead after 54 holes one other time in his career, earlier this year when he also trailed Johnson at the Sony Open in Hawaii. Johnson fired at 65 in the final-round to win, while McNeill shot a 69 to finish tied for seventh.

• McNeill and Woods played the first two rounds in the same pairing at the 2008 Buick Invitational, which Woods won by eight strokes. Woods opened with a 67-65, while McNeill shot a 72-72 and finished tied for 49th.

• In 63 career stroke-play wins, Woods has come from behind after 54 holes to win 19 times. Earlier this season, Woods was five strokes behind Sean O'Hair entering the final-round and won by one.

• The third-round leader/co-leader has gone on to win 14 of 17 events (82 percent) on the PGA TOUR this season. Last year, the third-round leader/co-leader only won 22 of 46 events (48 percent). The three players who came from behind to win are Nick Watney, who rallied from five strokes back at the Buick Invitational; Retief Goosen, who was one stroke back at the Transitions Championship; and Woods, who was five strokes back at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

• In the first six years of the Quail Hollow Championship, the third-round leader has gone on to victory three times (David Toms in 2003, Jim Furyk in 2006 and Anthony Kim in 2008). The third-round leader/co-leader at this event has not finished worse than tied for third (Rory Sabbatini in 2007).

• Five of the first six champions of the Quail Hollow Championship have won multiple PGA TOUR events in the same season that they won in Charlotte. Joey Sindelar is the only past champion (2004) to not post a second win in the same season (Kim, Furyk and Toms - 2; Vijay Singh - 4 and Woods - 7).

• Among the past champions in the field this week, Woods (2007) is currently tied for second, Furyk (2006) is tied for 14th; Toms (2003) is tied for ninth; Kim (2008) is tied for 56th; and Singh (2005) missed the cut.

• At the start of the week, 42 players in the Quail Hollow Championship field had not qualified for THE PLAYERS. For those players a win is the only sure way to join the deepest field in golf next week at TPC Sawgrass.

• Y.E. Yang turned in the round of the day with a 6-under 66 and is tied for ninth after the third round. Yang opened with his only bogey of the day on No. 1 before recording five birdies and an eagle.

• Charlotte resident Brendon de Jonge, the 2008 Nationwide Tour Player of the Year, made an early charge up the leaderboard with a 5-under 67 and is tied for fifth going into the final round. His best finish on TOUR was a tie for sixth at the 2007 Reno-Tahoe Open. He has made 10 of 14 cuts this season with his best finish a tie for 10th at the Northern Trust Open.

• After making his first cut on the PGA TOUR as a professional Friday, New Zealander Danny Lee (tied for 14th) shot a 2-under 70, finishing with a double bogey and a bogey. Lee missed the cut last week at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in his first TOUR event as a professional. As an amateur, Lee missed the cut earlier this year at the Masters Tournament and at the 2008 Turning Stone Resort Championship, but finished tied for 20th at the 2008 Wyndham Championship.

• There are four residents of Greenville, S.C. (100 miles south of Charlotte) who are performing well this week. Glover is 9 under and tied for second, while Charles Warren and Bill Haas are 5 under and tied for 18th, and Matt Bettencourt is 2 under and tied for 37th.