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| November 5, 2001 | Monday | haba’an 18, 1422 |
Verplank holds on advantage
HOUSTON, Nov 4: Scott Verplank held on to his one-stroke lead after the third round of the PGA Tour’s $5 million season-ending tournament on Saturday.
Verplank, who shot a 68 for a 13-under 200, leads David Duval who came on strong in the third round, firing a 63 over the 7,220-yard course.
Tiger Woods carded a two-under-par 69 and is six shots back. Including ties, there are 13 players between Woods and Verplank.
Verplank, who played a bogey-free round on Friday, had a bogey on the par-four 18th and on three par-five holes that negated an eagle at the par-five ninth.
Duval’s eight-under 63 put himself in serious contention for his second Tour Championship title.
That would have been the best round of the day had Jim Furyk not broken the event and course record with a nine-under 62.
Furyk’s fantastic round featured excellent iron play and has him tied at 203 with David Toms, who fired a 64.
Duval had one of the most remarkable eagles in memory. At the par-five fifth, he pulled his drive into the rough. He blasted out through the trees with a 180-yard eight-iron and rolled in a 60-foot putt.
The British Open champion followed with his lone bogey but more than made up for it with three straight birdies on the front, another three in a row on the back and one more for good measure at the par-three 16th.
Duval is one stroke better than a six-player logjam at 202 that includes South Africa’s Ernie Els, Bob Estes and Kenny Perry, all of whom shot 65s.
Third round scores:
200 Scott Verplank 67 65 68
201 David Duval 69 69 63
202 Ernie Els (South Africa) 69 68 65, Bob Estes 71 66 65, Bernhard Langer (Germany) 65 68 69, Kenny Perry 70 67 65, Mike Weir (Canada) 68 66 68, Sergio Garcia (Spain) 69 67 66
203 Jim Furyk 70 71 62, David Toms 73 66 64
204 Mark Calcavecchia 71 64 69
205 Joe Durant 73 65 67
206 Chris DiMarco 69 68 69, Justin Leonard 69 66 71, Tiger Woods 70 67 69
207 Stewart Cink 70 70 67, Frank Lickliter 65 73 69
208 Brad Faxon 68 70 70, Davis Love III 70 72 66
209 Tom Lehman 69 68 72, Jeff Sluman 73 70 66
210 Robert Allenby (Australia) 76 67 67, Steve Lowery 67 70 73, Scott McCarron 70 70 70
211 Vijay Singh (Fiji) 70 73 68
213 Hal Sutton 70 73 70
215 Scott Hoch 74 71 70
216 Steve Stricker 74 70 72
218 Billy Mayfair 72 74 72
MADISON (Mississippi): Chad Campbell fired three straight birdies to finish his round for a seven-under-par 65 for a two-stroke lead after the third round of the Southern Farm Bureau Classic Saturday.
Against a watered-down field, Campbell had a bogey but more than made up for it with an eagle and six birdies to finish the day at a 17-under 199.
Despite being the leading money-winner on the second-tier Buy.com Tour this season, the 27-year-old Campbell missed the cut at the U.S. Open in June.
Dicky Pride shot a 67 to move into second place at 15-under, one stroke better than Cameron Beckman and second-round co-leader Brandt Jobe, who carded a 69.
Carl Paulson shared the second-round lead with Jobe but managed just a two-under 70 at the Annandale Golf Club and slipped into a tie for fifth with Dan Forsman and Fred Funk at 203.
First prize is $432,000. Annandale is a 7,199-yard, par-72 layout.
Third round scores:
199 Chad Campbell 70 64 65
201 Dicky Pride 66 68 67
202 Cameron Beckman 66 69 67, Brandt Jobe 67 66 69
203 Dan Forsman 68 70 65, Fred Funk 65 69 69, Carl Paulson 67 66 70
204 Willie Wood 71 65 68, K.J. Choi (South Korea) 67 69 68, J.J. Henry 69 67 68
205 Russ Cochran 70 69 66, Scott Dunlap 72 67 66
206 Andrew Magee 68 66 72, Brett Quigley 68 69 69, Kirk Triplett 67 69 70
207 John Huston 70 71 66, Neal Lancaster 69 68 70, Blaine McCallister 69 71 67, David Peoples 74 67 66, Lee Porter 72 63 72, Chris Smith 70 68 69, Bob Tway 68 68 71, Richard Zokol (Canada) 69 70 68, Brian Gay 70 70 67, Matt Kuchar 70 69 68, Charles Howell 71 68 68
208 Peter Jordan 70 69 69, Loren Roberts 70 71 67, Grant Waite (New Zealand) 69 69 70, Mike Sposa 68 70 70, David Gossett 71 70 67—Reuters
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