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Will this tour be Tiger Woods comeback?
“That 80 was a wake-up call, but I didn’t wake up for another four months or so,” McDowell said. “It was more of the panic button. It was a pretty awful four or five months for me. “But like I say, I feel like you learn more from those types of experiences than you do from shooting 63 at Bay Hill. There’s not much to learn out there except that if you play great and hole some putts, you can go low.”
Dufner has looked solid through the Florida swing. If the lead holds, it would be the fifth time in 14 rounds in Florida that he has been atop the leaderboard – yet never on a Sunday. Dufner is still looking for his first PGA Tour win.
“The biggest thing is I’m just really comfortable with where my game is at right now,” Dufner said. I think any given day, I can go out and shoot 5 or 6 under, do it pretty comfortably. If the putter were to get hot, I feel like I could shoot some lower scores.
“There has not been a lot of stressful situations that last two or three weeks.”
Sergio Garcia shot a 67 and was in the group at 5-under 139 that included Bubba Watson (70) and past champion Vijay Singh (68). Ian Poulter and defending champion Martin Laird were at 140.
“If you were swinging well, you could score out there,” Garcia said.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
