The FedEx St Jude Classic leaderboard is now headed Nick O'Hern, Davis Love III and John Merrick going into the final round
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Rory McIlroy’s grip on the lead in the FedEx St Jude Classic was lost on Saturday as the northern Irishman could only manage a two-over round of 72 which means he was leapfrogged by several other players.
Nick O'Hern, Davis Love III and John Merrick now lead the way on six under as McIlroy scratches his head and wonders how he managed to lose ground, although it was a different story for O'Hern who produced a second consecutive 67 to take a share of the lead.
It should be an intriguing final round, with Rory still the bookmaker favourite to win the tournament and he is just one off the pace along with Dustin Johnson, Kevin Stadlet and Chad Campbell.
Collated third round scores & totals (USA unless stated, par 70):
204 John Merrick 66 69 69, Davis Love III 68 68 68, Nick O'Hern (Aus) 70 67 67
205 Dustin Johnson 70 68 67, Rory McIlroy (NIrl) 68 65 72, Kevin Stadler 69 65 71, Chad Campbell 68 67 70, Robert Allenby (Aus) 68 70 67, Kevin Kisner 69 66 70
206 J.B. Holmes 70 64 72
207 Luke Guthrie 69 71 67, Jeff Overton 67 72 68, Woody Austin 72 68 67, Dustin Morris 71 69 67, Jeff Maggert 66 68 73, Fredrik Jacobson (Swe) 69 72 66, Ryan Palmer 74 66 67, Roberto Castro 73 68 66, Padraig Harrington (Irl) 68 68 71
208 Seung-yul Noh (Kor) 67 69 72, Daniel Chopra (Swe) 72 65 71, William McGirt 71 69 68, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 72 66 70
209 Bryce Molder 69 71 69, Duffy Waldorf 71 69 69, Shaun Micheel 71 70 68, Ken Duke 68 68 73, Martin Laird (Sco) 72 70 67, Chris Couch 70 70 69, Tim Clark (Rsa) 69 71 69
210 Brendon De Jonge 71 68 71, Bill Lunde 71 68 71, Greg Owen (Eng) 72 67 71, John Peterson 72 65 73, Danny Lee (Nzl) 69 70 71, Sean O'Hair 70 69 71, Cameron Beckman 72 70 68, Boo Weekley 70 67 73
211 Bob Estes 72 68 71, Arjun Atwal (Ind) 67 74 70, Martin Flores 72 70 69, David Hearn (Can) 72 69 70, Billy Horschel 72 69 70, J.J Killeen 68 69 74, Charles Howell III 69 71 71
212 Patrick Sheehan 71 70 71, Paul Stankowski 69 69 74, Robert Garrigus 74 65 73, Bart Bryant 72 70 70, Lee Janzen 68 71 73, Gary Christian (Eng) 70 71 71, Ryo Ishikawa (Jpn) 72 67 73, George McNeill 72 68 72, Craig Barlow 72 68 72, Shane Bertsch 71 68 73, Y.E. Yang (Kor) 68 71 73
213 Kent Jones 72 68 73, Steven Bowditch (Aus) 74 66 73, Gavin Coles (Aus) 70 72 71, John Daly 68 69 76, J J Henry 67 74 72, Troy Kelly 68 71 74, Brett Wetterich 71 71 71, Tommy Gainey 72 70 71, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 72 68 73
214 Mathew Goggin (Aus) 70 71 73, Kyle Stanley 71 70 73, Troy Matteson 70 72 72
215 Robert Gamez 72 69 74, Chris Riley 70 71 74, Omar Uresti 70 72 73
216 Matt Mcquillan (Can) 71 69 76, Neal Lancaster 72 70 74, Will Claxton 72 70 74
217 Zack Miller 70 70 77, Jonathan Fly 78 64 75