Billy Mayfair (3rd) and Jose Coceres (tied for sixth) sit inside the top-10 with one round to play at the Verizon Heritage. Why is this significant? The two battled it out in 2001 in a five-hole playoff won by Coceres that carried over to Monday morning after play was suspended due to darkness the night prior. That year, the two entered the final round in a tie for second.

• Something must have rubbed off on Heath Slocum from his third-round playing competitor, two-time Verizon Heritage winner Stewart Cink. Slocum posted a 6-under 65 to jump from a tie for 54th after round two to a tie for 11th heading into Sunday’s final round. The 65, including a 6-under 30 on the front, was Slocum’s best round at Harbour Town Golf Links in five appearances and matched his season low (third round, Chrysler Classic of Tucson).

• Joe Durant went bogey-free for the second straight day to bring his streak to 45 holes without a bogey. He has just two bogeys this week on Nos. 8 and 9 during round one. The only others with bogey-free rounds on Saturday -- Peter Jacobsen and Stephen Leaney.

• Chris Riley is looking to post his first top-10 on the PGA TOUR in almost two years. Through three rounds at the Verizon Heritage Riley is tied for sixth at 9-under par. His last top-10 was a tie for fourth at the 2004 PGA Championship, a span of 37 events in between. Last season was the first time in Riley’s seven seasons on TOUR that he went without a top-10.

• Billy Mayfair continues to tear up the fairways here at Harbour Town. He hit 13 of 14 fairways again on Saturday and has missed just two through three rounds -- 40 of 42 (95.2%).

• How tricky is it to hit the tiny greens at Harbour Town? Stephen Leaney hit 17 of 18 (94.4%) greens on Saturday. The next closest competitors were Joe Durant, Ernie Els and Heath Slocum, who each hit 14 (77.8%).

• A number of players have the opportunity to play 72 holes with less than 100 putts this week. Aaron Baddeley (23.33), Ben Crane (23.67), Jeff Maggert (24.67), and Vaughn Taylor (25.00) are all headed in that direction. No one has had less than 100 in any 2006 event, and Stuart Appleby is the only to hit 100 on the number. Baddeley leads the group through three rounds with just 70 putts.

• Lucas Glover needed just 22 putts to complete his third round on Saturday. How he did it was the interesting part. He one-putted his first seven holes, two-putted his next five and needed only five putts to complete the remaining six holes.

• Ernie Els is looking for his sixth top-10 at Harbour Town in eight appearances. He moved up the leaderboard and into the top-10 (tied for fourth) on Saturday with 6-under 65 that included nine birdies. His best finishes are a pair of ties for third in 2000 and 2004.

• A year ago, Jerry Kelly flew halfway home to Wisconsin on Friday afternoon after thinking he had missed the cut, then had to turn around and come back when he made it. The extra travel probably didn’t help then as he finished tied for 47th. This year, Kelly finds himself in a much different spot, four strokes off the lead (10-under) with a chance at collecting his third career TOUR win and first since the 2000 Cialis Western Open.

• Clemson University graduate and Greenville (S.C.) resident Lucas Glover continued his trend this week of lowering his score each day with rounds of 70-67-65. Doing so again tomorrow could lead him to his second career TOUR win. Glover, who won the 2005 FUNAI Classic at Walt Disney World Resort, sits five back of the leaders at 9-under par.

• University of South Carolina graduate Brett Quigley is seeking his first top-10 of the season. Quigley has been struggling this year missing the cut in half of his 10 starts with just one top-20 finish, a tie for 16th at the Buick Invitational. This is the first time in four starts at Harbour Town that Quigley made it to weekend play. His rounds of 68-70-68 have him in a tie for 11th through three rounds.

• Tim Clark, who finished second to Phil Mickelson at last week’s Masters, continued his hot play and sits in a tie for ninth, six strokes behind the leaders.

• Jim Furyk is heading into a final round with a lead for the 12th time in his career. He has won six times previously, three times during 72-hole events and three times during 90-hole events. In fact he carries a final-round scoring average of 69.18 when he has or shares the lead.

• Aaron Baddeley holds/shares the third-round lead for the third time in his career. He finished second in both -- losing to Ernie Els in a playoff at the 2003 Sony Open in Hawaii after holding a two-stroke lead and losing to Heath Slocum by a stroke after going into the final round of the Chrysler Classic of Tucson tied.

• This is the first time since 1995 that more than one player sits atop the leaderboard through 54 holes at the Verizon Heritage. That year four players shared the third-round lead. It’s just the seventh time in the 38-year history that there have been multiple leaders at this point in the tournament.

• Best rounds of the day:
65 -- Ernie Els, Heath Slocum
66 -- Aaron Baddeley, Lucas Glover, Jerry Kelly

• Scoring Averages for the week:

              Front – 36  Back – 35   Total – 71  Cumulative
Thursday       35.845      35.411      71.256
Friday         35.585      35.078      70.663      70.961
Saturday       35.532      36.156      71.688      71.13