Luke Donald starts today with the slenderest of leads, 1 shot, over defending champion Jim Furyk, but in reality all the guys on this abbreviated leaderboard are no more than 5 shots behind, and anyone of them is perfectly capable of winning.
What I can tell you is that he has carried the lead into the final round on the PGA TOUR six previous times, with his only win coming at the 2006 Honda Classic but in his last two starts at Harbour Town he finished T2 (2009) and T3 (2010
He has a tour leading 12 consecutive rounds at par or better and coming into the week, he led the tour in scoring average at 69.28 and putting average (1.703).
However with all these guys so close he will have to go out and win it, because you know there will be several charges made from the chasing pack.
Furyk lead most of the day Saturday after Luke's early double bogey at 2, and is the defending champ, Ricky Barnes is so talented not to have won and he was 4th recently at the Honda, veteran Scott Verplank was T2 a couple of weeks ago, Jason Day is carrying over his great play at Augusta where he T2, Mark Wilson has won twice already this year and was T9 recently at Bay Hill and Pat Perez is in good form, he T5 last week at the Valero.
So Luke will definitely have his hands full, and will really have earned that top spot in the world if he hangs on to win and he will need to since Westwood won in Indonesia earlier this morning
1 1 Luke Donald -11 1:50pm color info 67 65 70 202
2 21 Jim Furyk -10 1:50pm color info 68 66 69 203
T3 27 Brendon de Jonge -9 1:40pm color info 67 71 66 204
T3 35 Scott Verplank -9 1:40pm color info 67 70 67 204
T5 55 Ricky Barnes -8 1:30pm color info 71 67 67 205
T5 41 Tommy Gainey -8 1:30pm color info 71 67 67 205
T5 24 Jason Day -8 1:20pm color info 69 65 71 205
T8 61 Pat Perez -7 1:20pm color info 71 67 68 206
T8 28 Jason Dufner -7 1:10pm color info 67 71 68 206
T8 44 Chris Couch -7 1:10pm color info 68 68 70 206
T8 56 Ben Crane -7 1:00pm color info 69 66 71 206
T12 7 Aaron Baddeley -6 1:00pm color info 70 68 69 207
T12 142 Tim Herron -6 12:50pm color info 65 71 71 207
T12 2 Mark Wilson -6 12:50pm color info 66 70 71 207
T12 67 Chad Campbell -6 12:40pm color info 65 69 73 207
T12 120 Garrett Willis -6 12:40pm color info 64 69 74 207
T24 99 Stephen Ames -4 11:34am color info 72 68 69 209
T47 2 111 David Hearn -2 10:22am color info 72 70 69 211
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