[straightshooter]

15 PLAYERS under par after round 1. Here's 10 of them:

Player Score Thru Today
T1 Rory Sabbatini (RSA) -5 F
T1 Phil Mickelson (USA) -5 F
3 Chris DiMarco (USA) -4 F
4 Peter Lonard (AUS) -3 F
T5 Tom Lehman (USA) -2 F
T5 Rod Pampling (AUS) -2 F
T5 Jason Gore (USA) -2 F
T5 Carl Pettersson (SWE) -2 F
T9 Nathan Green -1 F
T9 Jeff Quinney (USA) -1 F


Here is all of them:

PGATOUR.com - Official Live Scoring from THE PLAYERS Championship

You may need to scroll down quite a bit for some of golf's big names!


And live coverage from TPC Sawgrass' famous 17th hole (the island hole) can be found here:

PGATOUR.com - LIVE@

Best enjoyed during a slow day at work!

[Avatar]

I think anyone within ten shots of the lead has a chance to win going into Friday.

[straightshooter]

Top 10 after round 2:

1 Phil Mickelson (USA) -5 F
2 Nathan Green -4 F
T3 Rod Pampling (AUS) -3 F
T3 Sean O'Hair (USA) -3 F
T3 Peter Lonard (AUS) -3 F
T3 Carl Pettersson (SWE) -3 F
T7 Tom Pernice, Jr. (USA) -2 F
T7 Chris DiMarco (USA) -2 F
T9 Jose Coceres (ARG) -1 F
T9 Tom Lehman (USA) -1 F

With the cut-line at +5, anyone can still win this!

[tachus]

wheres Tiger in all this? my comp won't let me see the leaderboard...

[victory]

Originally Posted by tachus

wheres Tiger in all this? my comp won't let me see the leaderboard...

Tiger just made the cut.

[straightshooter]

Top 10 after round 3:

1 Sean O'Hair (USA) -9 F
2 Phil Mickelson (USA) -8 F
T3 Jeff Quinney (USA) -7 F
T3 Peter Lonard (AUS) -7 F
T5 Jose Coceres (ARG) -5 F
T5 Luke Donald (GBR) -5 F
T5 Chris DiMarco (USA) -5 F
T5 Aaron Baddeley (AUS) -5 F
T5 Carl Pettersson (SWE) -5 F
T10 Geoff Ogilvy (AUS) -4 F

There are 29 players under par. There were some low scores today: Tomorrow should be interesting!

[straightshooter]

ESPN Golf is offering some final round advice for the contenders, and one notable other!

ESPN.com - GOLF/PLAYERSCHAMP07 - Sobel: What each contender needs to do (and avoid)

Tiger Woods: 5-over 221.

Woods

Needs to ... dream the impossible dream. For those in Tiger withdrawal on Saturday, don't expect to see Woods' face on your TV screen much during the final round, either. Here's the deal: He needs to shoot 58 ... and have none of the leaders even break par. That's not only a 15-shot swing from the third round, it'd be the best score ever in PGA Tour history. In other words, it ain't happening.

Needs to avoid ... Phil Mickelson. Hey, Tiger doesn't play many final-round early tee times, so it might be kind of awkward if he's walking into the locker room just as Mickelson is heading to the first tee.

[lowof83]

I looked for someone to post up something to the effect of, "Tiger's only 14 back. If he shoots a 50, it's all his."

[blackwater]

Congrats to Phil for winning his first Players Championship.

[James M]

I just logged onto wikipedia to see Phils profile and they class the players as a major and it isn't is it?

[lowof83]

The players themselves have deemed it their "fifth major." It is not an official major championship event.

[titleister]

Phil looked phenomenal today---very controlled and steady. I was quite impressed - he really deserved this win.
Also, cudos to Butch Harmon. It certainly looks like he's on his way to "building" another great champion!

[victory]

Originally Posted by lowof83

I looked for someone to post up something to the effect of, "Tiger's only 14 back. If he shoots a 50, it's all his."

Well, Tiger would have been pretty hard to catch if he did in fact shoot 50.

[bamaphotopro]

This will probably seem rather petty to most of you, but did any of you find it odd that the engraver 'handwrote' Phil's name on the glass and then engraved it? It wasn't even centered for crying out loud! I would have expected his name to be perfectly engraved on a piece of crystal like that. Did anyone else notice that? Or maybe I'm just OCD?

It really looked kinda cheap given all of the trouble that they go to to make everything else look perfect, IMO.

- Bama

[Tamaj13]

I love the entire Phil/Tiger, Butch/Hank drama! I hope Phil keeps his game on track and Tiger fine tunes his in time for the US Open. That should make for some of the highest ratings in golf history. Throw in the resurgence of Els (I know he hasn't done much yet), Vijay playing well most of the time, the young guys that have been performing well recently, it is shaping up to be a super year in golf!