
Players Championship 2016: Easy-to-View Mobile Updates for Sunday Leaderboard
Jason Day, the world No. 1, brings a comfortable four-stroke lead over Hideki Matsuyama, Ken Duke and Alex Cejka at the final round of The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
Here's a full look at the updating leaderboard:
Of course, Day probably won't be comfortable with his lead, not after he shot a one-over 73 on Saturday and struggled—like much of the field—with the incredibly fast putting greens, which he spoke about after his round, per Steve DiMeglio of USA Today:
"The green speeds kind of took me by surprise. It was just such a drastic change from Thursday to Friday to now, this afternoon. I mean, the front nine was a bit borderline in my honest opinion, but I think a lot of the players probably think that, as well. It was a little frustrating on how quick the greens got. I said it earlier that I've never played golf where I'm trying to lag 10-foot putts just to get around the hole. A 10-foot putt felt like it was 60 feet away.
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Day added:
"I want to say this was the toughest day I've ever had to play in my life. I’m sitting four shots in front. I just got to try and be patient with myself tomorrow. It's going to be interesting. I'm really interested to see how they set the golf course up, how fast the greens are going to be, and then I'll be able to make my decisions on what I need to do from there.
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Based on the fact that Day has won six tournaments since last July—or that he shot a 63 on Thursday and a 66 on Friday—it's hard to imagine him not making adjustments and holding off the field on Sunday.
Shots like this support that assertion, as Golf.com noted:
So does the fact that Day has established himself as the type of player who simply doesn't give up big leads, as Jason Sobel of ESPN.com wrote:
"Now the world's No. 1-ranked player, Day has also turned himself into one of the game's pre-eminent closers. The man with a 4-stroke advantage entering the final round has converted each of his past four 54-hole leads, an impeccable mark that has some people making cautious comparisons to his frequent texting buddy, Tiger Woods.
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If Day does indeed hold off the field, he'll be the fifth player in history to lead wire-to-wire at The Players Championship and the first to do so since Hal Sutton pulled off the feat in 2000, per Adrienne Lawrence of ESPN.
Matsuyama, Duke, Cejka and Francesco Molinari (-9) are unlikely to go down without a fight, however. While most of the field struggled on Saturday, Duke caught fire and shot an impressive 65 to keep himself within striking distance of Day.
Matsuyama, meanwhile, has been arguably the tournament's most consistent player, finishing all three rounds below par and shooting a 67 on Saturday.
Matsuyama is probably the bigger threat and appears to be a burgeoning star. The 24-year-old switched putters on Saturday to great success, per Will Gray of GolfChannel.com, perhaps spurring the beginning of a massive comeback over the weekend.
“I’ve changed putters a lot in the past, mid-tournament, so that’s nothing out of the ordinary for me,” Matsuyama told Gray. “It was maybe just to try something new, get a fresh start, try to get the feeling back. And I made some putts with it and that feeling started coming back.”
If that feeling remains, Day is going to have an interesting Sunday. And if Duke can maintain his form from Saturday, when he obliterated a tough and unforgiving course, no lead will seemingly be safe.
While Day will need a pretty big collapse to relinquish his lead, several players are stalking him, and any slip-up could cost him his first Players Championship title. Sunday is promising to be an intriguing day at the ever-unpredictable TPC Sawgrass.
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