Pettersson still leads the Memorial
Two players disqualified Friday were allowed back into the tournament.
DUBLIN (AP) -- One day later, not much changed at the Memorial on Saturday. Carl Pettersson had a one-shot lead, storm clouds gathered and players trudged off Muirfield Village knowing they would have to resume the third round at the crack of dawn.
But it was far from an ordinary day.
Two players who had been disqualified Friday evening for leaving the course before play was suspended were allowed back into the tournament when officials decided they were given bad information.
Jay Haas hardly showed his age. The 52-year-old Senior PGA champion played 33 holes because of the rain delays, tying a PGA Tour record by making his 590th career cut, then shooting an even-par 72 in the afternoon.
The hole location on the sixth hole changed in the middle of the second round when someone defecated in the cup overnight.
Watson hits long ball
With nothing to lose, big-hitting Bubba Watson gave the gallery something to remember. He pulled out his pink-shafted driver on the 363-yard 14th hole and drove the green, a 352-yard drive that left fans stunned.
Masters champion Phil Mickelson surged into the lead with a 50-foot eagle putt and a chip-in from 25 feet off the green, only to give it back with a wedge that landed well behind the pin, spun to the front of the green and rolled into the water on the par-5 11th, leading to double bogey.
Woody Austin nearly made double eagle on the par-5 15th, settling for a tap-in eagle that thrust him into contention.
The only thing this tournament needs now is a conclusion.
Pettersson plodded along with pars and made birdies on the par 5s to reach 11 under, getting up-and-down from a trough in the bunker on No. 15 for birdie to keep his nose in front of Austin and Zach Johnson.
Johnson rallies with birdies
Austin was 6 under for the round when he hit out of a fairway bunker on the 18th to the front of the green, only 30 feet away but a difficult putt to get close when he returns at 7 a.m. Johnson rebounded from back-to-back bogeys with back-to-back birdies on the front nine, then ran off four straight birdies and joined Austin at 10 under through 16 holes.
The entertainment, as usual, belonged to Mickelson.
Starting a three-week stretch that will take him through the U.S. Open, Mickelson looks much sharper than he did when returning from his two-shot victory at the Masters, his second straight major title.
As his partners collapsed around him -- none worse than David Howell, who shot 45 on the front nine -- Mickelson thrust himself into contention with a two-putt birdie from the fringe on the par-5 fifth, a flop shot from a buried lie to save par on No. 6, and a brilliantly played seventh hole that shows why few can match his talent.
Confident putt
With the pin on the right of the green on the par 5, Mickelson hit a hard draw so that his ball would approach into the fat of the green without running through into thick rough or coming up short into a bunker. Then came the putt, so pure that he started walking when it was halfway there and thrust both arms in the air when it dropped on the final turn.
Then came the thrills.
He missed the green to the left at No. 8 for bogey. He pulled his tee shot into the trees on No. 9, played out of a muddy, shaggy lie short of the water and spun back a wedge to a foot to save par. He chipped in for eagle. He went into the water for double bogey. He saved par from left of the green at No. 12. Then a 6-foot birdie on the 13th, and a three-putt from the fringe for bogey at No. 14.
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