Teammates. Both huge football fans. Striding down the fairway. Leishman for bogey. Oh way to hang in there. He really made hard work of that. Peter i know bogey is never a good thing but in that case it was the best that could have happened to him. He was looking at double or worse from where he drove it. Ian he sure was. A friendly squirrel there. And this is in the same pairing. This for par and i mentioned it earlier. Adam scott has to stay in the top five. If rory does go on to win, adam has to stay in the top five to remain number one in the world. Im sure hes not thinking of that as hes playing. Hes just trying to make birdies. That will be a couple of bogeys for the two australians at 14. Jim theres one thing about the world golf rankings. Theyre come piled over several years and thats one think that at times i think they ought to adjust. Nothing against adam. Hes played really well this year. A lot of high finishes, including the win at colonial but does anyone have a doubt has to as to who the number one player in the world is right now . That could be official at the end of the day. Mcilroy, one shot better than sergio. Still have a long way to go here at Firestone Country Club and the south course. In this world Golf Championship event. You might be wondering how come there are still four or five holes to go . There was a rain delay this morning after the fourth round had started. Now were in 17 minutes later. They resumed play. Jim nantz, nick faldo and the whole cbs golf team back here in akron. Weve had this day that just seems like every hour somethings happening. Mickelson shoots 62. Mcilroy overtakes garcia. Sergio pulls back even. Earlier today tiger withdrawing from the tournament, reaggravating his back that was operated on back in march. Again, not to get past this very important tournament but next week we have the pga championship and the last major year and maybe one more time well see rory and sergio battling again like they did at liverpool two ekes weeks ago as they are here. Rickie fowler was the one missing part of that leaked from last week. He shot 67 today and tied for ninth. Hes finished. Nick absolutely, all these guys are playing really well. Its the end of the season, last major and you can really tell the guys who are on form. Charl schwartzel had a really good day today and cabrera won a cup of weeks ago. People like that. So anybody who can play that style of golf course. Extremely hot weather well have, im sure. Very humid and it will be a tough golf course very much like this one. [the captioning on this program is provided as an independent service of the national captioning institute, inc. , which is solely responsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. Cbs, its parent and affiliated companies, and their respective agents and divisions are not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any transcription or for any errors in transcription. ] [captioning made possible by cbs sports division] jim back at the 149 hole. And sergio will be first to go. Both balls in the fairway. Sergio typically today about 20 yards behind rory. This one about 30 yards . David yeah, 30 yards behind. Ian this hole 467. Trying to figure out the breeze. Not a lot of breeze today. What five Miles Per Hour . David no, theres not a lot. What there is helping very slightly. Maybe a fraction off the right. So 8i what he has at the moment. 172. Ian must be a little disconcerting for sergio. Every time rory walks up to his ball hes standing 30 yards ahead when sergio plays his second. Id be noticing it. David just leaning a touch. Ian ok, its just off the edge, david. Hell be putting from there, though. David rory with 142. A chance to throw a dart in here. Ian like weve seen 10 times already today. Just a towering wedge that lands and stops softly within 10 feet of the cup. The Longest Drive today. J. P. Holmes and Keegan Bradley behind him. David just a wedge. Ian all right. 15 feet away. He wont be real happy with that. Adjacent is the 15th tee. Jim leishman with a 5iron. Peter should be a good club for him and this is on a wonderful line. Nick flag left of center. A little bit of a roller coaster putt coming back. Jim hes in third, just started. Sergio one birdie one bogey today. Rory with five birdies against one bogey. Jim they have some beautiful courses up here in northeast ohio. Firestone here, akron, cleveland. Places like the country club, kanter bury and many, many others. Just gorgeous. Here we are at the 16th, the par 5789 uhoh. Gary par 5. Uhoh. Gary theres some wind over there, not much. Trying to figure out whether he should hit another one. Here we go. Cant get there in two. Nobodys getting there in two today. So tried to hit it hard. And you youing see the tilt of this hole. You can see the tilt of this hole. 667 yards. 14. David right to left up the hill for sergio. Ian he can be aggressive with this one. Once again his speed has been very good, david, all week. David it really has. An awesome secondround 61. Ian 27 on the ahead one to 15. Jim leishman for birdie. Nick up and over and hooking. Tough one. Another good effort, though. Jim 14. Ian sergio just tapping in. Hes nowhere near rorys line. David yeah, when you shoot 61, its hard to find something that wasnt quite right so where did it all start to go wrong . Peter well, they found that. Gary amazing. Look how high that has. Thats the tour official and were going to take a line of sight relief. Go along that line as far back as you want. David i would have played that. Gary yeah. Theres a lot of room. The golf course is over here to the left. When they redid that golf course where hes standing there were all trees and bushes and evil things. Ian you should have seen it before the dutch elm disease. Rory mcilroy for birdie. David i didnt see that. I thought that was a straight putt. Ian its been a tough green to read all week. One of the top four toughest. Adam scott at 15. Jim he has fallen back at the moment. Peter had no option but to go high. Got a little bit too much of the ball. Jim hes in a fourway tie for fifth. Anything below fifth and a mcilroy win would make it official, rory back to number one. 14. Ian firm and straight. Beautiful. Worked the last couple of weeks on just trying to release the putter head that little bit more and felt leading into the open that he was leading a little bit too much with the left hand and i know he and Dave Stockton and dave jr. Worked on that. For the last three weeks its looked pretty good, i know that. A lot of confidence in that zproke that swing. One in front sergio with four holes to go. Number one on the line and the world Golf Championship. Neither one of those two have won a w. G. C. Before. Ahead at the green. Jim and this for par. Ooh. With that miss, adam drops to eighth place. And even for the day. By the way, you see schwartzel there. Hes in with a beautiful round of 64. Patrick reed 65. Tied for fifth. He has, because johnson was expunged from the ryder cup standings, so that puts reed as the last guy in the u. S. List coming into this week. Hes going to make up a lot of points here. So the 15th hole, when you would play this one, what would you think standing on that tee . Nick what would i think . Its still a tough hole. We were 4irons and 3irons back in the laughable era. David well, this is 5. A little into the breeze. 213. Nick we were also on the tee in front. We were one tee up. 187, 3iron. Leaning. Jim and getting a piece of it. Ian sergio also with five. Jim can catch pfeifer of course he hasnt done it at any point today. The one birdie at the ninth. Nick trying to stay calm and keep the right intensity. This is the time to let it all go now. Let the bull loose and just go for everything. Pretty much its a twohorserace now. David that one started well left. Drew a touch. Dangerous. Jim stayed up. Thats not good. The ball is going to be well below his feet. Really awkward. Aflac. Aflac, aflac, aflac [ both sigh ] ugh you told me he was good dude. Yeah he stinks at golf. But he was great at getting my claim paid fast. How fast . Mine got paid in 4 days. Wow. Thats awesome. Is that legal . Big fat no. [ male announcer ] find out how fast aflac can pay you at aflac. Com. [ male announcer ] when a pro at any 2014 pga tour event sinks a holeinone. Quicken loans will pay your mortgage for an entire year. [ golf announcer ] that is how its done. Truly amazing [ male announcer ] get in the holeinone sweepstakes. Enter today at pgatour. Com quickenloans and you could have your mortgage paid for an entire year. Peter after a fairly substantial wait because of the stuff going on in the group in front, Marc Leishman now going on with a driver. That stuff in front was Keegan Bradley there in the as to the left that. Falls over the bunker. Thats ok. Again this hole is seven million yards long. This is Keegan Bradleys fourth shot. In the bushes. Three to there. Over the pond. Oh oh would that been a heck of a five. No, a four. That would have been a four. Play it again. Maybe we go into restaurant replay. It hit real low on that flagstick. He was probably lucky it didnt bounce back in the water. Way to go for it, though. Hes not given up. Oh, thats not good. David there are only two ways to get this close and neither of them are possible. Nick this is the classic case. One win you the tournament and one shot could cost you it and that might have been the shot. David thats the only shot really. Nick yeah. David you have to make sure you get it on the green. Nick absolutely, you have to chop it so rory has now an opportunity to get a cushion. Jim the shadows getting a little longer for sergio. Hell try to hole a long one for a par but this has the makings of an opportunity to go into the pga so confident. Nick hes good at chasing. Unfortunately with the lead, the record is not good. Weve analyzed the swing, shown thank you big change of direction of the plane. Ive been talking about that for 10 years now and i personally think thats what held him back. Hes a great ball striker but under pressure gets a little steam and that onprapped it went left and occasionally hell get even steeper and hell block one to the right. Whereas rory is putting the club on a beautiful plane. Jim david, what do you see here . David a little right to left and downhill at the end. Hes got to be kind careful with it. Kind of bobbled and not sure that he struck that one. Nick yeah. Jim thats going to play well for sergios mindset that he could actually get out of here without dropping a shot to rory. These two are paired together in the 2012 masters. Sergio, that point where he hit his alltime low. They both played poorly but sergio was so down on himself back at augusta after the saturday round 2012. When he made some comments, im not good enough. In the 13 years ive come to the conclusion that i need to play for second or third place. Nick i think he probably knew and was hoping for a bear hug back of course you can do it, sergio. Yeah, he knocked himself about a bit negatively and decided to take a full six months off and had a bit of fun. Went off and played football with the lads, that sort of thing to try and clear the air. It worblinged. Now here we are a couple of years later, as we were saying. Hes got a new girlfriend, happy there. The games pretty darn good. What about finishing it off . Thats the hardest thing and everybody in the world is going to have a hard time finishing off with this young man if hes on the top of the leaderboard. Jim if hes breathing down your neck like he was at the start of the day. He was able to gain the lead by the third hole, only to see sergio pull back even after nine. Nick tiger was arguably, whatever you want to put it, possibly two to three rungs ahead of the rest. Rory looks like hes one rung ahead on my ladder scale, as i would put it. If he understand wins here and again if he wins here and again next week jim thats some second putt. Margin is going to be at least two. No he wants to win this week and then go back and win again next. Three straight wins . Against all the best players in the world . Nick thats what im saying. But its the style of it and everybody is going to know a bit like tiger if he is there on the leaderboard and climbing to the tom. Jim youre going to feel that presence. Nick youre going to feel that presence and good luck getting past him. Jim three holes to blame. Mcilroy the leader by two. Peter it wasnt that much long ago that everybody was giving Martin Kaymer the player of the year award. Nick so, two down three to play. Not over yet. Jim 16. Gary ok. Clanked it for his birdie attempt. And hes just had a tough go. Keegan bradley youre on the 16th hole making a bogey. From that unplayable lie on the lefthand side. Now its just about gone. Its gone. Nine under is gone. Listen. Gary hit low on that stick. You see a divot just on the right edge of the hole. Yeah, hit about a foot up then took a divot right on the edge of the hole. Tough game, this golf. Fickle. 18. Jim Henrik Stenson close out his round of 7 1. Playing with yachts llama today. Matsuyama shot 68. To 16. Gary reset, reset. Nick yeah if rory birdies if sergio birdies, different story with two to play. You have the pivotal hole, gary. Gary oh excited. You know, nick honestly, this hole can play 6 88. I wish they would put it on the front tee today, move the pin back and let these guys take a shot at this on the last day. Nick i agree. Gary its a par 3. Two shots, lay it up short of the pond and hit green. Scott wayhere. Peter 225 back,goer. Gary wow. In trouble off the tee. Peter kind of grabbed it up in the rough and barely i dont know, did that get over and stay up . Gary no i think it came back down. You heard the gasp by the audience there, the gallery. That plunged. The ripple tells the sad story. After this morning and how bad it was, this was beautiful right now. Nick the breeze just got up on him. It went straight left. Gary it just about hit that big blue thing camera, i d what that has. Nick the bruise ruffled his thousandsers. I know that sounds stupid but that would have changed it for a split second. Peter 106 for leishman and his third. Gary hes got to goat 15. The math is hard. Hes at 11. Whoa. All right, thats a good look straight up the hill. Can he get to 12 . That would only be three back with two to go. I dont know. Right now, rory, twoshot lead. 15 under. Well another great thing about all this walking ive been doing is that its given me time to reflect on some of lifes biggest questions. Like, if you could save hundreds on Car Insurance by making one simple call, why wouldnt you make that call . See, the only thing i can think of is that you cant get any. Bars. Ah, thats better. Its a beautiful view. I wonder if i can see mt. Rushmore from here. Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. Jim 60s minutes leads off the lineup tonight. All new big brother, with julie chen. Poppy montgomery with an all new unforgettable then an all new reckless tonight americas number one network. Back out to the 16th. Gary jimmy, thats a good lineup right there. Jim youre going to be staying up and watching it, im sure. Gary i might. I might cancel my flight. We took our direct line from where it entered. Hes losing his fifth place position real quick here the last couple of holes. Hydraulics on that one. Nice shot. Adam has a wry little grin. I dont know what for. Oh, here we go. Here we go. Those are both in the top of that treatment on the left mcilroy, obviously. The one were concerned about oh, there it is, we got it. David i just got dizzy and fell over watching that. This is all right. Hes underneath this little ash tree but its very very shallow roots and theyre kind of digging up and i dont know if hes going to make contact with one or not but hes not going to be able to take over the bunker. Gary what kind of tretion are those from front of him . Dr. Oz in front of him are ficus. Gary thats a ficus over there with the white trunk . David yeah. Hes not going to be able to get this past the bunker. Hes going to have an adam scottlike third shot if he can get this back in the fairway, which shouldnt really be a problem. Gary two shots back. What you dont want to do is pull it and try to get that little too much of an aggressive line. Then youll be on the side of the hill and have nothing. Came out pretty nice, david, huh . The other guys like it. Calling his name. David back on the fairway. Took a friendly bounce out of the crowd but thats in reasonable shape. Gary yeah, he likes it. If sergio likes it, by gosh, i like it. David rory has hit it 340 yards down here. Gary thats his average right now. 334 average. David, wouldnt you like to see this front tee and have these guys give it a go . Would you like that . David straight over the middle of the bunker. That should be in perfect shape. Actually lost his right foot there on the start of the downswing. A little bit of a slip. Gary i hope he finds it. Ok, straight uphill this is nice for a birdie. Hed be at 12, three shots back. Still a chance. Yes, it did. Beautiful. Boy, hes plugging right along isnt hi he . Three under par