Third-round notebook – SBS Championship
* All four major championship winners from 2009 are participating this week at the SBS Championship, with three currently inside the top five on the leaderboard: Lucas Glover (1st, 17-under), Stewart Cink (T5, 13-under), Angel Cabrera (T5, 13-under), and Y.E. Yang (T16, 9-under).* Y.E. Yang posted the round of the day with a 7-under 66, moving from 25th place to T16. Stewart Cink (69) birdied five of the last six holes to move to 13-under-par.
* Lucas Glover held on to the lead after day three of the SBS Championship with a 2-under 71. At 17-under 202, he heads into the final round with a one-stroke cushion over defending champion Geoff Ogilvy (68).
* Glover will be seeking to become the second consecutive wire-to-wire winner at the SBS Championship. Ogilvy (2009) is the only player to perform the feat since the event moved to Kapalua in 1999.
* Glover has never held a 54-hole lead on TOUR. He has led going into the final round, however, sharing the 72-hole lead with Justin Rose at the 2007 Bob Hope Classic before a final-round 80 led to a T13.
* Glover is making his second-career start at the season-opening event in Kapalua, finishing sixth in 2006, while Ogilvy is making his fourth start at the event (T13-2006, T19-2007, 1-2009, TBD-2010).
* Ogilvy played his first eight rounds (2006, 2007) at the Plantation Course and failed to break 70. Since that time, he has reeled off seven consecutive sub-70 rounds. Including rounds of 69-66-68 this week.
* Glover, a 30-year-old native of Greenville, S.C., is hoping to stop an eight-year streak of foreign-born players winning the SBS Championship (2009-Geoff Ogilvy, 2008-Daniel Chopra, 2007-Vijay Singh; 2004-2006-Stuart Appleby, 2003-Ernie Els, 2002-Sergio Garcia).
* Should Ogilvy win on Sunday, it would be the fifth win in seven years for an Australian at the SBS Championship. Stuart Appleby won three in a row beginning in 2004.
* Martin Laird (15-under) and Ryan Moore (14-under), both among the top four players on the leaderboard, are well positioned to make a run at becoming just the fourth player to win the SBS Championship in their first attempt since 1989 (Daniel Chopra-2008, Sergio Garcia-2002, Steve Jones-1989). Other first-time participants at the SBS Championship in the field this week: Pat Perez (T12), Y.E. Yang (T16), Paul Casey (T12), Nathan Green (23) and Bo Van Pelt (T24).
* Bogey-free rounds:
Rd. 3 – R. Goosen (67), R. Moore (68), S. Stricker (68)
Rd. 2 – J. Rollins (66), G. Ogilvy (66), M. Kuchar (68), M. Laird (68), Z. Johnson (69), T. Matteson (70)
Rd. 1 – M. Kuchar (67), N. Watney (67), R. Moore (69)
* The par-4 first hole was the most difficult on Saturday at 4.286. The par-5 ninth was the easiest at 4.321.
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