PGA Championship 2013: Leaderboard, live coverage, scores and more from Saturday’s round at Oak Hill C.C.

There are just 18 holes left in the 2013 golf majors, and Jason Dufner will enter the final round of the season as the favorite at the PGA Championship. Dufner actually lost his lead on Saturday in the third round, coming back a shot with a 1-over 71 to yield the lead to Jim Furyk. But his recent form over the past two seasons, and his majors scoring record round earlier in the week, increased his profile in the public and he’s still one the oddsmakers are favoring. Dufner is 3/1 and Furyk, leading one shot ahead at 9-under, is 11/4 after his third straight round in the 60s.

Tiger Woods, who started the week as an overwhelming 7/2 favorite, is no longer on the board. Tiger’s longshot chances were extinguished early in his third round, which he finished in 73 to drop to 4-over for the week. Rory McIlroy, however, did boost his chances with back-to-back birdies to finish his round and move inside the top 10. He jumped up 21 spots on the leaderboard and is now a 20/1 favorite to win his third major by the age of 24.

After carding his second straight 68, Jim Furyk heads into the final round of the PGA Championship with a one-stroke lead. As a result, Furyk will tee off in the final pairing on Sunday playing alongside Jason Dufner.

Furyk began the third round two strokes behind Dufner and got off to a rough start before closing strong. A long birdie putt at No. 17 gave him sole possession of the 54-hole lead. Dufner will play in the final group for the second straight round after carding a 1-over 71. He nearly dropped a shot -- and fell out of the final pairing -- on No. 18, but his par putt just snuck in the back door.

After driving his tee shot into the rough, Jason Dufner needed to scramble to save par on No. 18. A good approach shot left him with a makeable par putt, but Dufner appeared to push the ball to the right.

He came out of his stance and it looked like the ball would sit on the lip before it suddenly took a left turn and dropped in.

The top of the PGA Championship leaderboard continues to fluctuate. Jim Furyk and Jason Dufner are currently tied for the lead at 8-under, but things seem to consistently changing on a busy Saturday afternoon.

Furyk rebounded well from a rough start to take the lead outright at 9-under before a bogey at No. 15. He made the turn at even-par on the round with birdies at No. 10 and No. 12 to catapult himself into the lead.

Adam Scott is widely regarded as the best driver in golf. He has one of the best swings in the game -- Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee even called it potentially the best swing in the history of golf on Friday night. But he’s particularly accurate and pure off the tee with the big stick.

That makes going for the green on Oak Hill’s 14th hole, a 323-yard par-4, a no-brainer decision for the Aussie. We’ve seen several players drop their tee balls on that green this week. Tiger hit a beauty on Friday only to follow with a three-jack par. Keegan Bradley actually blasted it well through the green on Saturday. But none of the tee shots have been prettier than this one from Scott:

Justin Rose’s 6-under 29 on Friday’s front nine now feels like a decade ago. A day after blistering Oak Hill’s opening nine, Rose saw his championship aspirations all but disappear over Saturday’s first nine holes.

Rose began the round at 6-under and three strokes off of the 36-hole lead. He then played the front nine to near-perfection during the first two rounds, carding 10 birdies and just one bogey. It was a different story in the third round, however.

It will be hard to ever top the approach shot hit by Shaun Micheel at Oak Hill’s 18th hole in 2003, but Jonas Blixt likely just hit the shot of the 2013 edition of the PGA Championship on that hole. Blixt, a little-known Swede but 2013 PGA Tour winner at Greenbrier, was well off the fairway and needed to hit a laser just to get up around the green. A laser which needed to be a significant draw, out of that major championship rough, to a green that is significantly raised above the fairway seemed like an impossibility. But Blixt not only carried it over the steep hill abutting the front of the green, he stuck it to within a couple feet:

That is probably not just the shot of the week on No. 18, but could be the shot of the tournament ... which is saying something, given that we’ve seen Martin Kaymer hole out from 150 yards and Jason Dufner do the same for eagle on Saturday.

Gusting wind and firming greens are giving the afternoon group issues at the PGA Championship. Jason Dufner has been able to remain in the lead, though, regardless of the conditions, .

After pars on his first four holes, Dufner ran into trouble on No. 5 when he hit his tee shot way right and was forced to take a drop. After hitting his third shot into the right rough around the green, Dufner was unable to get up and down, eventually settling for a double bogey. That dropped him to 7-under and one stroke ahead of the field, but he earned a stroke back with a birdie on No. 7 to keep a one-shot lead.

Rory McIlroy began the third round nine strokes off the PGA Championship lead, but after a strong close to his round and some early struggles from the leaders, McIlroy is right in the thick of things heading into Sunday.

Oak Hill is proving to be a much tougher challenge on Saturday and McIlroy was one of the few players able to post a score in the 60s. A birdie at No. 6 moved him into the red and he remained 1-under heading into the final two holes. Oak Hill’s closing holes have gotten the better of most of the field this week, playing as the two hardest holes on the course.

The Oak Hill rough can be brutal, even around the greens. Webb Simpson found out the hard way when he caught too much ball on his chip shot from behind the green.

Simpson’s ball landed by the pin, but with no spin and firming greens, it just wouldn’t stop. The ball caught a slope and rolled off the green into some rocks in the water hazard on No. 5.

Jason Dufner is off to a steady start on Saturday with two pars to open his third round. He continues to lead at 9-under and the leaderboard is beginning to thin out.

Dufner nearly moved double-digits into the red on his first hole, just missing a birdie putt. He tapped in for par and added another par on No. 2, thanks to an excellent chip shot out of the rough. Adam Scott cut Dufner’s lead to one stroke with a birdie on the first hole, only to give it right back on No. 2. Another bogey on No. 3 dropped Scott to 6-under.

Jason Dufner is facing perhaps the most pressure-packed and nervy 36-hole stretch of his career. Dufner admitted on Friday night that he was a bit nervous standing over his final two birdie putts, knowing he needed just one to drop in order to set the majors scoring record. He’s also a player who has led this PGA Championship before, but gave a five-shot margin away in four holes to eventually lose in a playoff to Keegan Bradley in 2011.

With that past slip-up and his own admission last night, things have to be a little tense for the Duf at the start on Saturday. So how’s he dealing with it? By apparently putting an entire tin in his bottom lip:

With the greens still soft and receptive, there wasn’t a lot the PGA could do to make Oak Hill a tougher challenge. Mother Nature, however, could give the players a more difficult task with the strongest wind of the week.

There was a slight breeze blowing early on Saturday, but the wind has since picked up. In his weekend forecast, SB Nation’s Brian Neudorff said to expect a breeze between 10 and 20 mph during the third round. While that breeze won’t cause the leaders to fall out of the red, it will make the course play harder. Rory McIlroy has already had issues with the wind, changing clubs on the tee box twice in the early going.

If Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson were going to play their way back into contention, they needed to go low on moving day at the PGA Championship. Instead, the opposite happened and Woods and Mickelson have dropped further over par in the early going.

Woods’ issues started early as he drove his opening tee shot into the rough. He was barely able to advance his ball out of the second cut and went on to make a bogey. He’s also had issues on the greens this week and that was once again the case on No. 3. He had a long birdie putt, which didn’t come close to the hole leaving 12 feet for par. His par attempt was offline from the start, leading to another bogey.

There was a popular belief throughout the week leading up to the PGA Championship that this would finally be the major where we saw Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, the two most popular and dominant players of the last 20 years, finally go head-to-head in the ring on Sunday at a major.

Halfway through the 95th edition of the PGA, there’s still a good chance that Tiger and Phil will play together on Sunday at Oak Hill. It’s just more likely it will be early in the day in relative obscurity before the leaders ever get to the first tee. Phil will tee off on Saturday at 10:25 a.m. ET and Tiger will be out just 40 minutes later, a good four hours ahead of the leaders. After Jason Dufner, and others, took advantage of perfect scoring conditions at Oak Hill on Friday, Mickelson will start the final 36 holes at an 11-shot deficit while Tiger must make up a 10-shot margin.

As goes Tiger Woods’ game, so goes his waterfront Florida McMansion.

Woods, who was on top of the golf universe after his seven-stroke cruise last week at Firestone, has dug himself a seemingly insurmountable hole at the PGA Championship with a second-round even-par 70 that put him at 1-over for the tournament.

There wasn’t much Tiger Woods liked about his second round at the PGA Championship. He struggled off the tee again, was disgusted by a couple of his approach shots and three-putted twice coming in. Despite the issues, Woods was able to card an even-par 70 and is 1-over through two rounds.

Woods had early issues off the tee, finding the rough on each of his first four holes. An early bogey at No. 2 dropped him to 2-over and nine strokes off the lead. It appeared he found a groove with back-to-back birdies at No. 5 and No. 6, but the success was short-lived. Four pars and a bogey later, Woods was even through 11 holes while other players were posting rounds in the low- and mid-60s.