{"id":392916,"date":"2011-04-23T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/23\/tour-report-de-jonge-into-contention-with-66-pgatour-com\/"},"modified":"2011-04-23T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T21:20:00","slug":"tour-report-de-jonge-into-contention-with-66-pgatour-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/23\/tour-report-de-jonge-into-contention-with-66-pgatour-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour Report: De Jonge into contention with 66 (PGATOUR.com)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"263.932482599\">\n<p>After hitting all but one fairway Saturday at Harbour Town, it was evident that Brendan de Jonge didn\u2019t need to see his coach, who is based in nearby Charleston, S.C., after all. That\u2019s because the two worked on straightening out his driver last week in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>De Jonge was so on target Saturday that he made six birdies \u2014 including four on the back \u2014 and just one bogey for a 66 that has him near the top of the leaderboard with one round to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always loved it down here. I love the whole vibe of the tournament,\u201d de Jonge said. \u201cI love the whole island. I feel very comfortable here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That showed on the difficult back nine Saturday when de Jonge birdied Nos. 10, 13, 16 and 18.<\/p>\n<p>Given the increasingly windy conditions, de Jonge was certainly pleased with that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt makes it difficult to pick a direction,\u201d de Jonge said. \u201cYou have to commit to what you feel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is getting tougher. The greens are definitely drying out, as well. It\u2019s getting hard to get the ball close to the hole. I thought the lead would be around 12 at the end of the day. It still might be, obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><h3>Donald, Furyk share lead<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>After a double bogey on the par-5 second hole, Luke Donald\u2019s round could have spiraled out of control. Instead, he did what he\u2019s done all week on the front nine at Harbour Town: Make birdies.<\/p>\n<p>Donald, who could climb to No. 1 in the FedExCup standings and the world rankings with a win, made three birdies over his final five holes on the front nine and is now 10 under and tied for the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Furyk is also at 10 under and he hasn\u2019t made a bogey since the first round \u2014 though he is just 2 under through 11 holes today.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of players in close pursuit, however. Five players are just two back, while another six guys are three off the pace.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><h3>Watch: In-round highlights<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/d8b9round_3_the_heritage_2011.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Lecka\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Jason Day is in the hunt after holing a bunker shot earlier on Saturday at Harbour Town.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One of the candidates for the shot of the day? Jason Day\u2019s hole-out from the bunker. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/video\/r\/highlights\/top_shots\/2011\/04\/23\/mine_11heritage_rnd3_6_3rd_day_28089.pgatour\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to watch<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OTHER HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Camilo Villegas drains a 16-footer for birdie: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/video\/r\/highlights\/top_shots\/2011\/04\/23\/mine_11heritage_rnd3_3_brd_villegas_27770.pgatour\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to watch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Garrett Willis rolls in an 18-footer for birdie: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/video\/r\/highlights\/top_shots\/2011\/04\/23\/mine_11heritage_rnd3_2_brd_willis_20436.pgatour\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to watch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><h3>Barnes in contention going to Sunday<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/a937round_3_the_heritage_2011.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Redington\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ricky Barnes is 8 under and in contention through three rounds at Harbour Town.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><em>By Stan Awtrey, PGATOUR.COM Correspondent<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>HILTON HEAD, S.C., \u2014 Could Ricky Barnes be the next young gun to break through on the PGA TOUR?<\/p>\n<p>The former U.S. Amateur champion put himself in position to contend for his first PGA TOUR victory by shooting a 4-under 67 on Saturday at The Heritage (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/shottracker\/#\/current\/r012\/3\/player\/24846\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a> to replay his round). Barnes walked off the course tied for fourth place, two shots behind leaders Jim Furyk and Jason Day, at 8 under.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes, who turned 30 in February, has yet to post a victory on TOUR. He tied for second at the 2009 U.S. Open and was fourth earlier this spring at The Honda Classic, his only top-10 of the season. Barnes has plenty of good feelings about Harbour Town; he tied for fifth a year ago in his first appearance at The Heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes\u2019 scorecard on Saturday featured five birdies and only one bogey. He missed a 10-footer for birdie at No. 17 and got up-and-down from the front of the 18<sup>th<\/sup> green for a par. He missed six of 18 greens in regulation, but was able to salvage par on each occasions, three times from bunkers.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><h3>Day continues hot streak<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still a long way to go in The Heritage, but Jason Day has put himself in contention in yet another week.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Aussie, who is coming off a tie for second at the Masters, has birdied three of his last five holes and is now 10 under for the week. In Day\u2019s last 24 holes, he\u2019s 8 under with nine birdies and just one bogey.<\/p>\n<p>He has company, of course, in defending champion Jim Furyk, who is 7 under over his last 23 holes with seven birdies and no bogeys.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ricky Barnes and Tommy Gainey have moved within two of day and Furyk with each 4 under on their rounds today.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><h3>Donald loses lead after double bogey<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>With a bunched leaderboard and a course that\u2019s susceptible to birdies, one bad swing is all it can sometimes take to drop down the leaderbord. Case in point: Luke Donald.<\/p>\n<p>The Englishman had been cruising along, sitting atop the leaderboard through the first two rounds at Harbour Town \u2014 until he yanked his second shot left and out of bounds on the par-5 second hole. He went on to make double bogey and as a result has fallen a shot off a lead that was his after a second-round 65.<\/p>\n<p>Now there are three players tied at the top, including defending champion Jim Furyk and Camilo Villegas. Garrett Willis is also at 9 under.<\/p>\n<p>In all, there are 18 players within three shots of the lead on what looks like will be a pretty big moving day.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><h3>Your open thread: The Heritage, Rd. 3<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/8c78round_3_the_heritage_2011.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Lecka\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Luke Donald has the lead heading into Saturday\u2019s third round at Harbour Town.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s moving day at The Heritage, where Luke Donald leads (for now). Can he hang on the rest of the weekend and reach No. 1 in the world? Or will Jim Furyk defend his title? Discuss the round here all day.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><h3>Furyk in familiar position<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>Harbour Town is ball-striker\u2019s golf course, which explains why Luke Donald has done so well there and why Jim Furyk won there a year ago. Furyk enters today\u2019s round just two shots back of Donald, and he\u2019s having an eerily similar week compared to a year ago (see below).<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> After hitting all but one fairway Saturday at Harbour Town, it was evident that Brendan de Jonge didn\u2019t need to see his coach, who is based in nearby Charleston, S.C., after all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tour Report: De Jonge into contention with 66 (PGATOUR.com) - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/23\/tour-report-de-jonge-into-contention-with-66-pgatour-com\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tour Report: De Jonge into contention with 66 (PGATOUR.com) - 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