We
spent a relaxing Fourth yesterday at Solomon’s Island in Southern
Maryland. Roberta’s cousin Emmy
provided her usual fantastic hosting, including a delicious meal of ribs,
shrimp, homemade chili, potato salad, cole slaw, salad and the blue crabs she and
family caught. We pigged
out on what is perhaps the best eating day in the good ol USA.
Ok, this is supposed to be about the third round at Congressional. I only watched a little bit
of it on TV, so I’m catching up this morning.
Saturday is “moving day” in tournament golf. While the leaders tend to protect
their lead, the rest of the field in contention will play aggressively and try
and make a charge into contention or upwards on the first page of the leaderboard. And that is exactly what happened yesterday. Kim shot a two under 68, Tiger went
around in even par, while Michael Allen and Cameron Beckman went five and four
under respectively to earn the penultimate pairing today.
The tournament has been going great, especially the pleasant temps and absence of t-storms. Attendance
is reported as the best of the three years with a total (Tues-Saturday) so far of
150,137. Last year’s
attendance through Saturday was 77,253 and the first year was 102,178.
Tournaments
hope for a good set of names going into Sunday. As Jim Nance noted yesterday, it was a "handsome" leaderboard. Today’s
final round is shaping up to be a good one with Tiger Woods and Anthony Kim
in the final pairing.
Oh yes, dinner will be eaten in front of the TV...
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