After a massive three-day delay and a fourth jam with golf, the Players Championship leaderboard is finally taking shape.
Round 3 at the TPC Sawgrass Stadium course completed at 10:50 a.m. local Monday, eventually keeping everyone at the same 54-hole pace.
Anirban Lahiri is leading at nine under. Thanks to a five-under 31 at the front, play was suspended due to darkness on Sunday, when he led the 11-hole at nine-unders. When he returned on Monday he went bogey-birdie on 15 and 16 on the way to play in the last seven to sign for five-under 67 in Round 3.
Fourth round tee time begins at approximately 11 p.m. ET on Monday, with players descending in threes from both tees. The final grouping is expected to begin around 1 pm. Plan for enough daylight to complete 72 holes and allow time for a three-hole aggregate playoff if necessary. Otherwise the tournament will conclude on Tuesday.
Chasing Lahiri is a group of four players who come just once in the bottom of eight: Sebastian Munoz, Doug Ghim, Paul Casey and Sam Burns.
Munoz's 65 is tied for the tournament's lowest Round 3 score. Ghim was three times in the final pair after 54 holes and in last year's players, but scored 78 and finished 29th. Casey joined the group at eight-under when he rolled into a 34-foot birdie putt on the island-green 17th. Burns held a 54-hole co-lead and had to do a two-put from 74 feet on Monday morning the 18th to stay within one.
Cameron Smith and Tom Hoge are tied at seven under, and seven players - including Shane Lowry, Kevin Kisner, Louis Osthuizen and Will Zalatoris - are all at six under.
what's at stake? Biggest winner payout in PGA Tour history: $3.6 million.