US PGA Championship: A rare albatross from American Joey Sindelar got the third round of the PGA Championship off to a flying start at Medinah Country Club on Saturday.
Sindelar holed his three-wood for a two from 241 yards at the 537-yard par-five fifth, only the third albatross in championship history.
The 48-year-old Sindelar moved to three-under-par for the round and the tournament, five strokes behind overnight leaders Luke Donald of Britain, Sweden's Henrik Stenson and Americans Tim Herron and Billy Andrade.
Double U.S. Open winner Retief Goosen was two-under for the round and three-under overall through 12 holes.
Seventy players qualified for the weekend when the cut was established on Friday at even-par 144, a record low for the event.
Soft greens and a lack of wind had turned Medinah No. 3 course, at 7,561 yards the longest layout used in a major, into a gentle giant as it yielded a flood of sub-par rounds.
There was no breathing room atop the jam-packed leaderboard, with 17 players inside three shots of the lead and another 10 competitors one stroke further adrift.
Tiger Woods, gunning for his second major in a row after capturing last month's British Open, was one shot off the pace along with U.S. Open winner Geoff Ogilvy of Australia and 1997 PGA champion Davis Love III.
Spain's Sergio Garcia, runner-up to Woods at Medinah in 1999, was five-under.
Masters champion Phil Mickelson was among those at four-under, a group which included double Masters winner Jose Maria Olazabal of Spain, Australian Adam Scott and KJ Choi of South Korea.
Early starters faced gentle breezes that were predicted to grow in strength and challenge the players for the first time in this suburb of the windy city of Chicago.
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