Stacked Leaderboard Setting Up Dramatic Final Round of 2014 PGA Championship

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Published: August 10, 2014

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — This is a major.

Is it ever.

This is a golf tournament with a leaderboard full of champions and suspense. This is what we’ve been waiting for in a summer that lacked the competition any sport needs, especially when it’s without its injured star.

The U.S. Open was a runaway, Martin Kaymer breezing. The British Open was a romp for three rounds by Rory McIlroy, although it did catch our attention in the end as Rickie Fowler and Sergio Garcia nearly caught him.



Oh, Rory’s in front here after three rounds of this 96th PGA Championship, lurching on through the rain and sunshine at Valhalla Golf Club, but only by a stroke over someone named Bernd Wiesberger of Austria.

And you thought Austrians only skied or, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, acted in films.

Those within blinking distance include Rickie Fowler—second in the two Opens this year—Phil Mickelson, Jason Day, Louis Oosthuizen and Henrik Stenson.

“I would say the leader board is the most jam-packed it’s been,” said Fowler, “maybe since the start of the final round of the Masters. This one’s out there for the taking, for sure.”

But who takes it? McIlroy, trying for his fourth major?  Mickelson, a five-time major champ? Oosthuizen, a British Open champ? Stenson, the 2013 points winner on both tours? Day, a previous runner-up in the Masters and U.S. Open?

Tiger Woods, missing the Friday cut, said farewell and a golf tournament showed up in his stead. If you can’t have "the man" then you have to have the men, and this one does.

“When there are this many guys,” said Mickelson, “I don’t look at the leaderboard. I know I’ve got to push and make birdies.”



He made them Saturday. So did McIlroy and Fowler and Wiesb...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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