AKRON (Ohio), Aug 21: Tiger Woods and Kenny Perry remained tied at the top of the leaderboard after returning early on Sunday to complete their weather-hit third rounds of the WGC NEC Invitational.
Level when play was halted on Saturday due to rain and lightning, Americans Perry and Woods parred their remaining holes to stay deadlocked at seven-under 203 heading into the final round beginning at 1300 GMT at the Firestone Country Club.
An unhappy Perry was pulled off the 18th green when he was about to putt out on Saturday. He returned and two-putted from 10 feet for his par to finish his round at six-under 64.
Woods had more to ponder overnight after carving his tee shot on the mammoth 667-yard 16th into the trees.
The world number one muscled the ball out of the rough into the fairway and, with a solid approach, was able to salvage par.
Woods also parred the par four 17th and 18th to complete his round at three-under 67.