Woods fires 68, trails by 2 shots
Friend Gore shoots a career- best 62 to reach 195 for lead
Tiger Woods couldn’t have asked for much more at his first Wyndham Championship.
He’s playing with confidence. His scores show it. And now he’ll play a Sunday round that matters.
Woods shot a 2- under 68 in the third round Saturday at Greensboro, North Carolina, leaving him two strokes behind leader and longtime friend Jason Gore in a three- way tie for second.
Gore had a career- best 62 to reach 15- under 195 at Sedgefield Country Club.
“I need to go out there tomorrow and make a run and get myself up there and make some birdies,” Woods said. “There’s a bunch of guys ... at 13 ( under). There’s a whole slew of guys at 12, 11, 10. Anybody can make a run and shoot the score Jason and Jonas ( Blixt) did.”
Woods — whose streak of 28 holes without a bogey ended on the 18th when his 6- foot par putt lipped out — reeled off 10 straight pars before briefly moving within one stroke of Gore with a birdie on the par- 3 16th.
“I felt very steady from the word ‘ go,’” Woods said.
Blixt and Scott Brown joined Woods at 13 under. Blixt shot a career- best 62, and Brown had a 66.
Former Wyndham winners Webb Simpson ( 64) and Brandt Snedeker ( 67) were three strokes back along with Paul Casey ( 66), Jim Herman ( 66) and Cameron Percy ( 67).
LPGA: Two- time champion Lydia Ko bogeyed the final hole for a 3- under 69 to fall into a tie with Candie Kung for the third- round lead in the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open at Coquitlam, British Columbia.
After going 46 holes without a bogey, the 18- year- old Ko hit her approach on the par- 4 18th near the face of the right- side bunker, blasted out to 10 feet and missed the putt.
Kung, the second- round leader after tying the Vancouver Golf Club record with a 64, had a 71 to match Ko at 12- under 204. Alison Lee was third at 10 under after a 66.
Champions Tour: Billy Andrade made a 10- foot birdie putt on the par- 5 18th hole for a 7- under 65 and a three- stroke lead after the second round of the Champions Tour’s Boeing Classic at Snoqualmie, Washington. Andrade had eight birdies and a bogey to reach 10- under 134 at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge.
U. S. Amateur: SMU senior Bryson DeChambeau advanced to the U. S. Amateur final, putting him a victory away from becoming the fifth player to win the tournament and NCAA individual title in the same year.
DeChambeau, from Clovis, beat USC sophomore Sean Crocker 4 and 3 in the semifinals at Olympia Fields CC near Chicago. He will face Virginia junior Derek Bard of New Hartford, New York, in the 36- hole final Sunday. Bard topped Japan’s Kenta Konishi 3 and 2.
Jack Nicklaus ( 1961), Phil Mickelson ( 1990), Woods ( 1996) and Ryan Moore ( 2004) are the only players to sweep the NCAA and Amateur titles in a season.