They call it the day of moving, the third round of tournaments like this, and the winds of 30 mph in TPC Sawgrass assured that it did not stay much, and not many players, they were still on Saturday.
But the chaos of this penultimate day of the players championship was perhaps better encapsulated for a moment when the ball did not move at all.
Well, he moved the two inches, according to the PGA Tour Tracker. Poor Min Woo Lee. The night leader was turning off from the edge of a bunker in the nine, only for his wedge to brush completely and lose the ball completely.
I was not alone to be a victim of conditions and butcher shop on Saturday. After a couple of serene days for the best players in the world, this was more similar.
This was glorious, a day when very few evaded shame for the players. Here is a brief execution of the most prominent aspects …
Jordan Spieth released his club with anger. Also Scottie Scheffler, who lost a chip in the water and then hit someone in the galleries. Lee and Akshay Bhatia were forced to play a shot from the driving field.
Rory Mcilroy was among the players to work in brutal conditions during the third round
Min Woo Lee, the night leader, had a chaotic round that included five bogeys
Jordan Spieth released his club with frustration on a difficult third day at TPC Sawgrass
Rory Mcilroy found the water but fought to get to a street. At one point, Xander Schauffele was forced to hit left out. Will Zalatoris shot a quadruple bogey on the way to drop nine shots in the last five holes.
He was playing with Lucas Glover, who made a double Bogey in 15 and then stayed with Eagle in 16 and then Double Bogeyed 17.
Billy Horschel, who shot 77, summed it up quite well in an interview in the middle of the round: 'I have no control of my golf swing and I don't know where the golf ball is going at this time. So I'm trying to enter the house as fast as I can.
Some players could blame conditions. Others simply succumb to the devil among their ears. No one was wrapped in chaos such as the final pairing of Lee and Bhatia.
They started the day as night leaders in eleven low. In the next 18 holes, they fired five combined birdies and 10 bogeys and two double bogeys. At the end of everything, Bhatia was three more even for the day. Lee was +6.
More than 20 minutes passed only in the fifth hole. Both were forced to take a drop in the driving field after sending their units to the trees.
They searched their balls and put on the bushes before heading almost 70 meters from the hole to shoot the Green.
Both made double bogey; Bhatia could have started with consecutive Birdies, but lost a 2 -foot putt in the second. That showed a rather crucial error. From there, his score card on the nine strikers said: Bogey, Bogey, Double Bogey, Par, Birdie, Birdie, Bogey.
Lee and Akshay Bhatia were forced to reach the driving range after rebel units
Scottie World Scottie Scottie was also a victim of conditions during the third round of Saturday
Lee had to wait until 18 for his first Birdie. He shot 78 and collapsed through the classification. Bhatia is clinging: four shots out of leadership are directed to Sunday.
Of the 71 players who made the cut, only 19 were under Saturday. Five shots 80 or worse.
At the top of the classification table now? JJ Spaun – The World No 57 – which leads 12 low. Bud Cauley, in the 251st position in the world, is drifting after 66.
Scheffler has seven shots after a third round 72, while Mcilroy lost ground with a 73. He is four years old in the lead in a tie for the fifth.
On Friday, Northern Irish said he was “excited by the challenge” of these test conditions. On Saturday, he hit five streets outside the tee.
Few players seemed to have fun, in Farness. But more bad weather and more carnage waits on Sunday. Correa in.