The Latest: Molinari closes with 6 birdies
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (AP) The Latest on the PGA Championship (all times local):
1:30 p.m.
Francesco Molinari knows how to close out a round of golf. The native of Italy birdied the final six holes in a 2-under 68 in the third round of the PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club. Molinari had two bogeys and a double-bogey before he started his birdie binge on No. 13. He birdied one par-3, three par-4s and two par-5s in his run.
Molinari is 1 under for the tournament, eight strokes behind co-leaders Jimmy Walker and Robert Streb who are scheduled to tee off at 2:55 p.m.
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1:05 p.m.
With the leaders still about two hours from teeing off in the third round of the PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club, the player drawing the biggest gallery was Phil Mickelson.
The left-hander, who won the PGA the last time it was played here in 2005, got his round of 2-under 68 started a little better than he did his second round. On Friday, he hit his tee shot well out of bounds on No. 1 and wound up with a triple-bogey 7. He started his third round with a bogey 5.
He said with the greens being so receptive and with a lack of wind ''there's a 61 or a 62 out there for the taking.''
Robert Streb, the second round co-leader with Jimmy Walker at 9 under, on Friday became the 28th player to shoot a 63 in a major championship. Mickelson and Henrik Stenson shots 63s this month in the British Open.
Former PGA champion Padraig Harrington shot a third-round 65 to get to 4 under for the tournament.
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11:50 a.m.
None of the early starters to the third round of the PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club finished with a round worse than par. The first five pairings produced two 4-under 66s - Justin Rose and Charl Schwartzel - a 68 by Patton Kizzire, three 69s and four rounds of par 70.
The leaders - Jimmy Walker and Robert Streb are set to tee off at 2:55 p.m.
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10:40 a.m.
The third round of the PGA Championship is underway at Baltusrol Golf Club.
The talk around the course was still about Robert Streb's second-round 63 that had him tied for the lead with Jimmy Walker. Streb became the 28th player to shoot a 63 in a major tournament. Greg Norman and Vijay Singh both did it twice.
Streb's 63 was the third in just a few weeks as Phil Mickelson and champion Henrik Stenson both had one in the British Open.
Walker followed an opening 65 that had him in the lead alone after the first round with a 66 to be at 9 under with Streb.
So far this year each major champion won one for the first time: Danny Willett in the Masters, Dustin Johnson in the U.S. Open and Stenson. Only three of the top 12 players after the PGA's second round had won a major - defending champion Jason Day, Stenson and Martin Kaymer.