There are five players in their 20s inside the top-10 heading into Sunday's final round -- Justin Rose (1st), Trevor Immelman (T2), Jonathan Byrd (T2), Sean O'Hair (T2) and Camilo Villegas (T9). Rose and Villegas are the only two without a TOUR win. •Play was delayed two hours and five minutes to begin the third round on Saturday due to rain and lightning in the area. With the delay, the format was changed from players going out in twosomes to players going out in threesomes off of the No. 1 tee. •The Canadian Open has not been decided by more than three strokes since 1977 when Lee Trevino (280) defeated Peter Oosterhuis (284) by four strokes. It looks like more of the same this year, as 13 players sit within four strokes of the leader Justin Rose heading into Sunday's final round. •Kevin Sutherland tied the course record set earlier this week by Jim Furyk (Rd. 1) and matched by Justin Rose (Rd. 1) and Brett Quigley (Rd. 2) with a 7-under 63. Sutherland posted two eagles along the way on the par-5 fourth and 17th holes. •The 63 by Kevin Sutherland matched his career-low and allowed him to make the biggest jump on moving day going from T55 to T20, a move of 45 spots. He has posted a 63 four time previously, the last time being the second round of the 2005 Chrysler Classic of Tucson. •Justin Rose holds the second 54-hole lead of his PGA TOUR career. Rose led the 2005 Buick Championship by a stroke before finishing third, one stroke out of a playoff between Brad Faxon and Tjaart van der Walt after the two playoff participants closed with a 61 and 64, respectively, and Rose posted a 69. At the Canadian Open, just four of the past 15 72-hole events have been won by a player who held/shared the third-round lead. •Speaking of Rose, his three best-finishes on the PGA TOUR are a couple of thirds at the 2003 Deutsche Bank Championship and 2005 Buick Championship and a T3 at the 2005 FUNAI Classic at Walt Disney World Resort. All three of those events have been played from the last week in August forward and two of them the 2003 Deutsche Bank Championship and the 2005 Buick Championship were held within two weeks of the Canadian Open, and played in the northeast portion of the United States. •After playing 186 PGA TOUR tournaments without a win, Bart Bryant won three times in his next 32 starts. He's in position again this week sitting in a tie for second at 10–under par 200 thanks in part to a third-round 6-under 64, including birdies on his last three holes. Bryant is seeking to become the sixth player to collect a win in each of the last three seasons. He would follow Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Stuart Appleby, David Toms and Phil Mickelson. •Interestingly, Bart Bryant has posted just one top-10 to this point in the season, a ninth-place finish in the season-opening Mercedes Championships. Two of his three victories though have come after Labor Day -- 2004 Valero Texas Open and the 2005 TOUR Championship. •South Africa's Trevor Immelman is looking to secure his name on the 2006 Rookie of the Year trophy with a second victory this season. Immelman, who won the Cialis Western Open in July, sits in a tie for second, one stroke behind England's Justin Rose. The last player to win twice during his rookie season was Todd Hamilton, who won The Honda Classic and the British Open Championship in 2004. •Other two-time rookie winners since 1970 -- Jose Coceres (2002), Carlos Franco and Notah Begay III (1999), Tiger Woods (1996), Robert Gamez (1990), Keith Clearwater (1987), John Fought (1979), Jerry Pate (1976) and Roger Maltbie (1975). •The 2005 Rookie of the Year, Sean O'Hair, is looking for his second career victory after putting together rounds of 65-69-66 to sit in a tie for second one stroke behind the leader. He would be the first player to collect a win in each of his first two seasons since Vaughn Taylor won the 2004-05 Reno-Tahoe Opens. He would also be the eighth player to collect a win in each of the last two seasons – Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Stuart Appleby, David Toms, Phil Mickelson, Geoff Ogilvy and Jim Furyk. •Another win by O'Hair would match him with Jonathan Byrd and Ben Curtis for most wins by an American player under the age of 20. Sergio Garcia leads all players in their 20s with six wins. •Steve Lowery made a move up the leaderboard over the last two days with rounds of 66 and 65 on Friday and Saturday, respectively. In doing so he jumped from T71 to T16 to T6. Lowery has made eight straight cuts at the Canadian Open since missing the cut in his first Open in 1988. His best finish was a T14 last year at Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club in Vancouver, British Columbia. Lowery has two top-10s this year, including a T2 at the FBR Open in February. •Ten-year PGA TOUR veteran Brett Quigley is looking to add to the career-high seven top-10s he has already posted this season as he sits in a tie for sixth, two strokes behind the leader. He is also seeking the one thing that has eluded him in his previous 277 starts, a victory. •Jim Furyk has won at least once in 10 of his 13 seasons but he has only won twice once -- in 2003. Earlier this year, he captured the Wachovia Championship and heading into Sunday's final round at Hamilton G&CC, he trails the leader by two strokes (T6). Furyk has come-from-behind to win four of his 11 victories. •Watch out for Steve Lowery or Bart Bryant as possible victors on Sunday as the last three champions of the Canadian Open have been over the age of 40 -- Bob Tway (2003), Vijay Singh (2004) and Mark Calcavecchia (2005). Lowery is 45, while Bryant is 43. •Amateur Victor Ciesielski and David Hearn sit as low Canadians through three rounds. The two are tied for 31st at 3-under 207. •The field's scoring average has looked a bit like a rollercoaster through three rounds at the Canadian Open. Soft conditions brought about by rain earlier in the week brought about a first-round scoring average of 69.974. •Sun and winds up to 20 mph on Friday made it almost one stroke more difficult at 70.795. Finally, more rain on Saturday dropped the average over one and one-half strokes to 69.247. •There were three bogey-free rounds on Saturday -– Robert Garrigus, Omar Uresti and Justin Rose. Rd. 3 Breakdown -- 77 players Scoring Avg. 69.247 Rds in 60s 40 Par or Better Rds 54 Rounds over Par 23 Bogey-free Rds 3 A closer look on how the four players from Canada who made the cut fared through round three:
(A)Victor Ciesielski, Cambridge, Ont. 68-70-69 T31 Canadians who missed the cut:
Stephen Ames, Calgary, Alberta 71-WD WD (A)= Amateur Statistical Leaders -- 54 holes Cat. Leader Stat Percentage
Driving Dist. Bubba Watson 308.0 yds --
Driving Acc. Bill Glasson 37 of 42 88.1%
GIR Bart Bryant 44 of 54 81.5%
Putting Avg. Jim Furyk 1.576 --
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Putts Per Rd Jim Furyk 26.00 --
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