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By Brent Kelley, About.com Guide to Golf since 2002

PGA Championship - Woods, Donald Share Lead after Third Round

Saturday August 19, 2006
The third round of a golf tournament is often referred to as "moving day," and there was plenty of movement at the PGA Championship on Saturday - and almost all of it upward. It was a veritable birdie binge at Medinah No. 3, with Tiger Woods and Mike Weir matching the course record.

Here's what the leaderboard looks like at the end of the third round:

Tiger Woods, -14 (65)
Luke Donald, -14 (66)
Mike Weir, -12 (65)
Geoff Ogilvy, -11 (68)
Shaun Micheel, -10 (67)
Sergio Garcia, -10 (67)

The 65s shot by Woods and Weir matched the previous Medinah No. 3 best first posted by Skip Kendall at the 1999 PGA Championship.

Tiger has to be the heavy favorite to win his 12th career major on Sunday. Luke Donald certainly has the game to win, and he has the local connection, too - he played collegiately at Northwestern. What might have sounded to some like booing following Donald birdies on Saturday was actually the crowd crooning, "Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuke."

But Donald hasn't been in this position before, and it's tough to see someone who hasn't yet won a major staring down Woods to win his first. If someone is going to step up and beat Tiger on Sunday, it will probably have to be Mike Weir or Geoff Ogilvy. But they'll need help from Tiger - in the form of a good but not great round - to do so.

Live scoreboard (from the PGA of America)
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