And away we go

Posted by Mike Whitmer, Globe Staff June 22, 2009 08:55 AM

Final-round play has just resumed on a cloudy, mild, windy morning at Bethpage Black. There's little, if any, chance of rain, so we should be determining a winner today, either by around 2 p.m. or, if there's a playoff, by early evening.

Players are in place and just received the signal that play is back underway. Ricky Barnes and Lucas Glover, tied for the lead at 7 under, are on the second hole, with Barnes in heavy rough after his last swing last night didn't find the fairway.

Barnes and Glover are up by five shots on the rest of the field, but neither has won a major (Barnes has never won on either the PGA Tour or Nationwide Tour). Glover's lone Tour victory came in 2005.

If they falter, there's a pack of experienced winners behind them, including Phil Mickelson, Mike Weir, Retief Goosen, and Tiger Woods. It might be tough to catch Glover and Barnes, unless they come back to the pack. But if they do, it should make for quite a dramatic day.

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