AP...Billy Horschel showed why he might be the hottest player in golf at the moment with another 4-under 66 on Friday in the Tour Championship. It was his 10th straight round in the 60s. He already has a victory and a runner-up finish in the FedEx Cup playoffs
Rory McIlroy rode three big putts and one bizarre break – a tee shot landed in a spectator’s pocket – on his way to a 65 that left him two shots behind and put him in the final group at East Lake going into the homestretch of the FedEx Cup.
Horschel is 35 under par in his last 10 rounds. He was runner-up at the Deutsche Bank Championship two weeks ago, when he squandered a shot to at least get into a playoff by chunking a 6-iron into a hazard. And he followed that with a victory in the BMW Championship at Cherry Hills.
McIlroy made his only bogey with a buried lie at the face of a bunker on No. 4, causing him to blast out sideways. He bounced back with birdies, and poured it on at the end of his round with a 12-foot par save, a 20-foot birdie and a 25-foot birdie.
And then there was his par on the 14th, which looked ordinary only on paper. His tee shot drifted right into the pine trees, clattered around and dropped straight down. No one knew where it went until a fan realized it had fallen into the front pocket of his shorts.
McIlroy was joined by Jason Day, who made bogey on his last hole for a 67; and Chris Kirk, who made two bogeys on the back nine that offset a run of four straight birdies around the turn for a 68.
Tee times for round 3 http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/tour-championship-by-coca-cola/tee-times.html. Geoff Ogilvy playing with a marker tees it up at 1215est to get play started..
It will be another listless, hot humid day in Atlanta, 28* scheduled high, 100% humidity and 10 % chance of rain, thunderstorms..
And now he has a pair of 66s, putting him at 8-under 132 at East Lake
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