Rory McIlroy made birdie on No. 18 to take the 54-hole lead while a host of other players went low. Rickie Fowler, Phil Mickelson, Jason Day are among the others right in the thick of it through three rounds.
PGA Championship 2014: Leaderboard, live coverage, results and more from Saturday’s round at Valhalla
Rory holds lead through craziest major day of year
Jeff GrossSaturday afternoon at the PGA Championship provided the best stretch of major championship golf all year. Rory McIlroy came to the course with a 36-hole lead, many expecting another runaway win based on how dialed-in he’s been for over a month now. And while he kept his lead by a shot with a birdie at the last hole, he is going to have hold off an absolutely loaded set of chasers coming for him on Sunday. And it will be on a course that’s yielding birdies everywhere for some of the fastest-paced tournament play all year.
Over the past month, Rory has put on one of the best driving displays in the history of golf. At 5’9, he’s hammering the ball and putting it in the center of the fairway every time. He led the field in driving distance at the British Open, and he’s right back near the top again this week. But that wasn’t sustainable and McIlroy hit some loose ones off the tee on Saturday, yanking a hook on the front nine and bombing it through the fairway a couple more times on the back. While everyone around him was rolling in birdies on a gettable and soft Valhalla setup, McIlroy went just 1-under on the front.
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