PGA: Live Blogging: Final Round of the 2006 PGA Championship

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By Erik J. Barzeski via TheSandTrap.com

We're live blogging the final round of the 2006 PGA Championship at Medinah. Will Tiger Woods win his 12th, or will someone else hoist the Wanamaker Trophy?

13:34 - Tiger Woods' car has still not shown up in his assigned parking spot. Odds Elin is giving Tiger a "pep talk" of sorts: 3-to-1.



13:31 - The worst thing about watching this much golf in one day is seeing the same commercials over and over and over and over and over and over again.



13:13 - Tiger Woods made the comment yesterday that this course isn't playing like a major, what with the greens sticking and so on. This works against Tiger - he likes courses where grinding is rewarded and par is a good score. In a birdie fest, anyone can win.

13:06 - I admit to feeling a little guilty watching golf all day while my wife paints our downstairs half bathroom and our entry hallway. It's a task that will take about an hour, and then she gets to go shopping for a new light fixture and two new cabinet handles, though, so it's a very minor feeling of guilt. At the same time, I'm glad I can claim "watching golf" as "doing my job."



12:48 - "Agree or disagree: if Cink doesn't qualify, he's an automatic pick?" asks Bobby Clampett. He later concludes, despite being told "only the top ten are automatic," "I like him."



12:43 - Chad Campbell, -4, birdies to go to -6 for the day. There are still some low rounds out there, and I'm not sure Tiger can put up another 65. If Luke Donald can…



12:33 - 15 hole locations are within five paces of the edges, and nine within four paces. The uphill par-5 fifth, which Billy Andrade just nearly eagled, is apparently not one of the nine or fifteen.



12:12 - A people_ready business lets people "hit the ground running from day one" by immediately beginning to waste time chatting online with their buddies. Got it.



12:09 - Dean Wilson misses a putt while Bobby Clampett says that "you must be able to shape your shots to win major championships." He later follows up with "Bob Hope could always shape his shots." Thanks, Bobby.



11:39 - The players keep picking up the Wanamaker Trophy on the first tee. I don't know about you, but if I were a player, I wouldn't risk cursing myself by touching it before I'd earned it.



11:25 - Every time I think Bobby Clampett may just shut up, he keeps talking.



11:18 - Stewart Cink, at -1, has "shot himself out of contention for the Ryder Cup." He's perhaps the best example of the failed Ryder Cup points chase this year: he was often inside the top 10 Americans in tournaments, but rarely inside the top 10 of all finishers.



11:15 - Lee Westwood, -4, continues his streak of making cuts in the majors without ever really contending. He has a few times, but a guy with his game should be up there a lot more frequently.



<a name="11:10">11:10 - Course conditions seem good. Ernie Els, ten shots back at -3, isn't off for another 50 minutes. Will today see another lame "I'm out of contention" round from Phil Mickelson, off at 1:10?



<a href="http://""" target="_blank"></a>11:00 - TNT coverage begins. Only nine hours of coverage ahead of me, and only, what, four hours until the leaders actually tee off? My money is on Tiger Woods, though I wish Luke Donald's first best run at a major didn't come up against El Tigre himself. I almost wish Tiger was a stroke back.

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