Hot Threesome in the Lead at the Deutsche Bank Championship

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Golf writer Andy Reistetter is on site at TPC Boston in Norton, Massachusetts and is providing daily reports covering both inside and outside the ropes.

Remember what it feels like to be part of a threesome or foursome when everyone is playing well?

Pretty sweet- right?

Just ask Jim Furyk, Retief Goosen and Sean O'Hair.

Paired together in the afternoon yesterday they went 63, 65, and 66 respectively- a total of 19 under par around the TPC Boston track.

This morning they weren't as hot though still relatively hot with O'Hair setting the pace with a blistering 64 and Furyk and Goosen matching 67s. That's another 15 under par for a two-day total of 34 under par almost averaging a birdie every third hole per player!

These guys are good- they are really good!

Does it help to have someone in your group play well?

Jim Furyk's perspective:

"Only when you're playing that well. If you're at even par, you feel like you're shooting 80, so it can kind of -- if those two guys were 12-under and 10-under and I was around even par trying to make the cut, no, it doesn't help too much. Then you feel like you're playing probably worse than you are. But if you're playing well right along with them, yeah, I think it helps a little bit."

Sean O'Hair's read on it:

"Yeah, it can either help you or it can really hurt you. You know, if you get impatient out there, it can actually be a detriment. But with the attitude I had out there the last couple days, it just was nice because everybody was playing well, and it just kind of -- we fed off each other.
So it's just a lot of fun."

The Goose's response:

"Yeah, slow start, 1-over through 8, and then 5-under in the last 10. So yeah, it was nice to get it going a little bit on the front nine, and with two guys who are playing so well. It looked like I was shooting 80 at one stage. It's been an amazing three ball, the three of us. We've played very well together and sort of worked off each other's shots and putts, and it's been a nice couple of days."

Three nearly identical unscripted responses… maybe they were in the same "zone" too?

Furyk and O'Hair lead the second of four PGA TOUR Playoff for the FedExCup events at 12-under par and go off together at 1:35 p.m. local time in the third round on a Sunday.

Goosen is two strokes back tied with Aussie and Nationwide Tour golden graduate Marc Leishman who shoot a tournament best low round of 62 in the morning wave.

Though Leishman was 10-under on his own ball the first two days his playing partners fellow Aussie James Nitties and Kevin Stadler were a combined 5-over par and both missed the cut.

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