Donald Miralle/ Getty Images High winds in the San Diego area force the PGA Tour to move the final round up on Sunday morning. You might think San Diego is the last place on the PGA Tour that weather would impact the schedule. But the seaside Torrey Pines venue at the Farmers Insurance Open is supposed to get battered with high winds late on Sunday afternoon so the Tour made an early call to move everything up for the final round. We've seen heavy fog, that marine layer, back things up repeatedly in the morning at this tournament but using two courses before the field is cut down in half for the weekend usually helps keep things on track. This has not been a particularly pleasant week at the Farmers. The wind made things difficult on Saturday and it sounds like Sunday could get silly later in the day. The event has long been synonymous with Tiger Woods, who almost always started his PGA Tour season here and has owned Torrey for the past 15 years. We're obviously moving on from the Tiger era as a whole, and this is one tournament that will have to carve out its new identity in this new era. It lost a lot of steam this year when big names like Jason Day, Rickie Fowler, Justin Rose, and hometown favorite Phil Mickelson, all missed the cut. Add in Patrick Reed's withdrawal Saturday and there's not a lot of power left in the field. Dustin Johnson would be your headliner, but he ejected from the top of the leaderboard in the Saturday winds and will start the final 18 three shots off the lead. Scott Brown and veteran K. J. Choi are your 54-hole leaders at 9-under. They will go out at 11:50 a.m. ET (8:50 a.m. local) with Jimmy Walker rounding out their threesome. Almost no one on Tour has had more success in California, and these first two months of the season, than Walker in recent years. Walker, however, has struggled with his putter so it's a bit of a surprise, even with.
Gary Woodland and K. J. Choi carry the joint lead heading into the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines Golf Courses near San Diego, Calif. Woodland, who will carry his first 36-hole co-lead of his career into Saturday play, and Choi are 9 under par after playing one round each on Torrey Pines' North and South courses. The weekend cut, made at 1-under 143, left the likes of Jason Day, Justin Rose, Rickie Fowler and Phil Mickelson with Saturday and Sunday off. Dustin Johnson is the biggest name near the top of the leaderboard, as he begins Saturday play just a shot behind Woodland and Choi. For the third round, the field will go off in threesomes of Nos. 1 and 10 on Torrey Pines' South Course, which hosts both weekend rounds.2016 Farmers Insurance Open tee times for Round 3 All times are Pacific No. 18:10 a.m. - Hudson Swafford, Scott Stallings, Ollie Schniederjans8:20 a.m. - Adam Hadwin, Jhonattan Vegas, Charles Howell III8:30 a.m. - Steve Marino, J. J. Henry, Chesson Hadley8:40 a.m. - Bud Cauley, Bronson Burgoon, Michael Thompson8:50 a.m. - Brendan Steele, Patton Kizzire, Paul Dunne9:00 a.m. - Angel Cabrera, Smylie Kaufman, Jimmy Walker9:10 a.m. - Derek Fathauer, Michael Kim, Jim Herman9:20 a.m. - Rob Oppenheim, Brian Harman, Ben Crane9:30 a.m. - Chad Campbell, J. B. Holmes, John Huh9:40 a.m. - Freddie Jacobson, Kevin Streelman, Si Woo Kim9:50 a.m. - Martin Laird, Scott Brown, Billy Horschel10:00 a.m. - Gary Woodland, K. J. Choi, Dustin Johnson No. 108:10 a.m. - Andrew Loupe, Erik Compton, Tony Finau8:20 a.m. - Shane Lowry, James Hahn, Martin Piller8:30 a.m. - Hiroshi Iwata, Shane Bertsch, Aaron Baddeley8:40 a.m. - Robert Garrigus, Jason Kokrak, Greg Owen8:50 a.m. - Harris English, Patrick Reed, Hunter Mahan9:00 a.m. - Scott Piercy, Kyle Stanley, Jason Gore9:10 a.m. - Kelly Kraft, Brandon Hagy, Graham De Laet9:20 a.m. - Jonas Blixt.
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