NBC Sports Notable Quotes
The TOUR Championship
Third Round
East Lake Golf Club
Atlanta, Ga.
Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018
**Sunday’s live coverage of the TOUR Championship will air on Golf Channel from Noon-1:30 p.m. ET, continuing on NBC Sports from 1:30-6 p.m. ET.**
**Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy will be paired together for Sunday’s final round. This will be the first time these two are the final pairing in a final round at a PGA TOUR event.
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Third Round Leaderboard: TOUR Championship Third Round Leaderboard
Tiger Woods -12
Rory McIlroy -9
Justin Rose -9
On Tiger Woods, leader at 12-under par (5-under 65 on Saturday)
Dan Hicks – “This has just turned beyond description. If he is going to pick this time, this way and this day to set the table for his first win in five years – at the TOUR Championship to end the PGA TOUR season – it does border on surreal.”
Johnny Miller – “It would be big for Tiger, but it would be even bigger for the PGA TOUR and the game of golf.”
Peter Jacobsen – “Hard to beat Tiger when he is driving it on the fairways.”
David Feherty – “You can feel the tension in the air. Is this the day, is this the week that he comes back?”
Miller – “He is fun to watch. Nobody moves the needle like Tiger.”
Roger Maltbie – “He doesn’t just move the needle, he is the needle.”
Maltbie – “The crowds are very excited to say the least. They know they are watching something special.”
On Rory McIlroy, T2 at 9-under par (4-under 66 on Saturday)
Hicks – “For the first time ever on the PGA TOUR we will have a final round, final pairing of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, in what promises to be a memorable final round.”
On Justin Rose, T2 at 9-under par (2-under 68 on Saturday)
Maltbie – “He has played too well for too long to let a bogey-bogey start affect him.”
Jacobsen – “Don’t forget about me, Justin Rose is saying.”
-NBC Sports Group-
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