Wyndham Championship: Third-Round Notebook  PGA TOUR Staff GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Since 1976 the third-round leader has won the Wyndham Championship 21, times including each of the last eight years.  Billy Mayfair got a fist-bump from his caddie after his 64, Saturday's best score. (Jonathan Ernst/WireImage)
• Third-round leader Jeff Overton's rounds of 65-67-66--198 mark the first time he has recorded three rounds in the 60s on the PGA TOUR since the 2006 Reno-Tahoe Open. Overton's previous career-best 54-hole total was 205, which he accomplished at both the 2006 and 2007 John Deere Classic (-8). • This is the first time Overton has held/shared the third-round lead on the PGA TOUR. He had made five cuts in 10 starts on TOUR this year, ranks No. 165 on the FedExCup points list and is No. 168 on the money list. His previous best standing in a PGA TOUR event after 54 holes was a tie for sixth at the 2007 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, and his career-best finish is a tie for ninth at the 2006 84 Lumber Classic. His best finish this year is a tie for 10th at the Stanford St. Jude Championship • Jeff Overton's three-stroke lead is the largest at this event since Shigeki Maruyama led Brad Faxon by three shots in 2003. • North Carolina State grad Carl Pettersson finished with a 4-under-par 68 Saturday and is tied for second after three rounds. Pettersson, a member of the Board of Directors for the Wyndham Championship, is at 15-under 201 for the tournament. • Jesper Parnevik (1999) and Charles Warren (2005) share the record for most birdies in one tournament at the Wyndham Championship with 27. Jeff Maggert, whose third round included six consecutive birdies, has recorded 22 birdies through three rounds. • Jeff Maggert rolled in six consecutive birdies on Nos. 4-9 Saturday. The streak matches the second-longest on the PGA TOUR this year -- Mark Wilson had seven in a row at the Memorial Tournament, coincidentally on Nos. 3-9. The six in a row is also a career-best for Maggert, topping his five in a row at the 2001 Touchstone Energy Tucson Open. Maggert rolled off five straight at The Gallery, coincidentally on Nos. 5-9. • Billy Mayfair recorded a hole-in-one on the eighth hole with a 4-iron from 202 yards away. It is the 15th ace since the tournament moved to Forest Oaks Country Club in 1975 and the second this week. Michael Putnam recorded a hole-in-one during Thursday's opening round on No. 17. • Billy Mayfair shot the low round of the day with an 8-under-par 64 to move from a tie for 37th to a tie for second. The round matches his low round of the year -- a 6-under-par 64 in the second round of the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee. The score is Mayfair's best in relation to par since an 8-under 63 in the third round of the 2006 John Deere Classic. • This is Billy Mayfair's 13th appearance at Forest Oaks. His best finish came last year, when he tied for 19th. • Lucas Glover, fresh off being named as one of Jack Nicklaus' captain's picks for this year's U.S. Presidents Cup team, shot a third-round 66 to finish Saturday at 14 under for the tournament. Glover leads the field in greens in regulation hitting 49 of 54 greens this week. • Tripp Isenhour and Will MacKenzie each recorded two eagles on the day. Isenhour's came at holes 13 & 15, while MacKenzie chipped in from off the green on No. 9 and made an 11-foot eagle put on No. 13. • Anders Hansen of Denmark, the highest ranked player in the field this week (No. 40 in the OWGR), recorded his best 54-hole total of his PGA TOUR career at 201. His previous best was 206 at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, where he stood tied for 13th after three rounds. Hansen has made the cut in nine of 13 starts this year with his best finish a tie for 12th at last week's PGA Championship. Hansen is No. 150 on the FedExCup points list. • Anders Hansen finished tied for fourth at last fall's PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament. He has finished inside the top 100 on the European Tour Order of Merit the past seven years.
• Shigeki Maruyama's streak of bogey-free golf continued on Saturday. For the tournament, Maruyama has fired rounds of 66-69-67 to play the first 54 holes without a bogey. He is the only player in the field to do that this week. Maruyama's bogey-free streak extends back to the ninth hole at the Reno-Tahoe Open, meaning he has gone 63 holes since his last blemish. The last player to go 72 holes without a bogey and not win a tournament was Bubba Watson at the 2006 Chrysler Classic of Tucson, where he finished third. • On the PGA TOUR this year, 10 of 34 third-round leaders have gone on to victory. The last to do it was Tiger Woods at the PGA Championship last week. • Tim Petrovic's tie for second is his best standing after three rounds since the 2003 Phoenix Open. He has made 14 of 24 cuts this year, and his best finish this year is a tie for 12th at the Crowne Plaza Invitational • Tim Petrovic last won on the PGA TOUR at the 2005 Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Since then, he has made 73 starts (not including this week) and carded two top-10 finishes, a tie for sixth at the 2005 Bank of America Colonial and a tie for sixth at the 2005 INTERNATIONAL. • The best round on Satuday were a 64 from Billy Mayfair and a 65 from Tripp Isenhour. Bogey-free rounds on Saturday came from Shigeki Maruyama and Jeff Brehaut (67s), Anders Hansen, Bob Estes and George McNeill (68s), and Jim Gallagher, Jr. (71). • Craig Kanada's year started with five consecutive top-30 finishes including his only top 10 of the 2007 season at the Sony Open in Hawaii (tie for 10th). The 38-year-old resident of The Woodlands, Texas, has made the cut in 16 of 24 events this season. • Craig Kanada won twice last year on the Nationwide Tour and finished the season No. 11 on the 2006 money list to earn his PGA TOUR card this year. |
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