Bridgestone Invitational 2012: Day 3 Leaderboard Updates, Highlights and More
The 2012 Bridgestone Invitational is currently underway, and we are at the end of the third day of competition. At the top of the leaderboard is the same man who lead the first two days of the event: Jim Furyk.
The Bridgestone Invitational is being held at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, and it is the last stop before the best golfers on tour head to Charleston, South Carolina for the PGA Tour Championships next week.
Quite a few of the best golfers are using Bridgestone as a way to warm up for the championships. This will be a good preview for them as well since the winds in Akron will be very similar to the winds that are on the Kiawah Island course.
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Day 3 Leaderboard
| Place | Player | Score | Thru |
| 1 | Jim Furyk | -11 | F |
| 2 | Louis Oosthuizen | -10 | F |
| 3 | Keegan Bradley | -7 | F |
| T-4 | Rory McIlroy | -6 | F |
| T-4 | Steve Stricker | -6 | F |
| T-6 | Bo Van Pelt | -5 | F |
| T-6 | Justin Rose | -5 | F |
| T-6 | John Senden | -5 | F |
| T-6 | Jason Dufner | -5 | F |
| Notables | |||
| 10 | Luke Donald | ย -4 | F |
| T-11 | Graeme McDowell | -3 | F |
| T-24 | Tiger Woods | Eย | F |
| T-34 | Adam Scott | ย +2 | F |
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Day Three Recap
Jim Furyk and Rafael Cabrera Bello were the leaders after the first two days. However, Cabrera Bello completely imploded with a +7 during the final part of the day. Furyk hit a perfect par today to maintain the lead at minus-11.
Keegan Bradley looked solid the first two days and continued his consistent play in Akron. Tiger Woods has been mediocre at Bridgestone, and is looking like he will be lucky to get under even for the entire tournament.ย
Tiger did hit a minus-2 today thought and could end up moving up the leaderboard. However, it's looking like the final will be between Furyk and Oosthuizen baring a ridiculous day from someone else on day four.
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Last-Minute Prediction
Furyk had a great first two days but he was just average today by hitting for par. Oosthuizen has the ability to hit a few strokes under par onย Sundayย and should be able to overtake another par or 1-under from Furyk for the $8.5 million pot.
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Scott Carasik is a Featured Columnist and Trends and Traffic Writer for Bleacher Report. As a Featured Columnist, he covers the Atlanta Falcons, NFL and NFL Draft. He is also the Falcons analyst atย Drafttekย and runs the NFL Draft Websiteย ScarDraft.comย and hosts Kvetching Draftniks Radio.
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