GREENSBORO, NC – UNC Greensboro alumn Andy Bare shot a 68 on Saturday – his third consecutive sub-par round – to sit in a tie for 12th after three rounds at the PGA Tour’s Wyndham Championship.
Bare, who got into the tournament via a Monday qualifier, had six birdies and two bogeys on his way to 68 on Saturday and moved up from 22nd to 12th place. He trails leader Jeff Overton by six shots entering Sunday’s final round. For Bare, it is the first time he has made the cut in a tour event, having missed the cut at the 2006 U.S. Open.
Bare, a native of Pinehurst, graduated from UNCG in 2004, twice earning All-Southern Conference honors. The holder of UNCG’s record for a 54-hole score, Bare played the 2005 season on the New England Pro Golf Tour (formerly known at the Cleveland Golf Tour), playing in 10 events and finishing in the money in nine of them. He earned his first professional win at the Atlantic City Hilton Casino Celebrity Classic that June.
He has spent the last two seasons primarily playing on the Tar Heel Tour. Last year, he earned a spot in the 106th U.S. Open at Winged Foot GC. He did not make the cut in that event – his first appearance in a major tour event.
In his last 25 events going back to back to the Fall of 2005, Bare has now made the cut 23 times. One of those rare misses came at the famed Winged Foot; the other was at PGA Tour Qualifying last Fall.
He has one win and 11 Top 10 finishes in his last 25 events. In that time, he has earned a little over $81,000. He’s been hot lately, finishing in the Top 5 in four of his last six tournaments – albeit not on the stage he finds himself this week. In fact, the most any of those tournaments netted him was a $9,000 check by finishing second at the Bermuda Run Classic back in June.
But for the third straight day, Bare showed the poise of a PGA Tour veteran. A bogey on 15 could have rattled Bare. Instead, he responded by knocking down birdies on 16 and 17 to secure his second straight sub-70 score.
He’ll tee off Sunday at 10:15 am, playing with Joey Sindelar and John Merrick.
AGATE
Place Player 1st Rd 2nd Rd 3rd Rd Total To
Par
1 Jeff Overton 65 67 66 198 -18
T2 Billy Mayfair 69 68 64 201 -15
T2 Anders Hansen 69 64 68 201 -15
T2 Carl Pettersson 66 67 68 201 -15
T2 Tim Petrovic 68 65 68 201 -15
T6 Lucas Glover 65 71 66 202 -14
T6 Shigeki Maruyama 66 69 67 202 -14
T8 Brandt Snedeker 70 67 66 203 -13
T8 Will MacKenzie 64 71 68 203 -13
T8 Craig Kanada 68 65 70 203 -13
T8 Steve Marino 65 67 71 203 -13
T12 Jeff Brehaut 71 66 67 204 -12
T12 Andy Bare 70 66 68 204 -12
T12 Joey Sindelar 69 67 68 204 -12
T12 John Merrick 66 69 69 204 -12
T12 Nathan Green 68 66 70 204 -12
T12 Jason Gore 67 68 69 204 -12
T12 Tripp Isenhour 69 70 65 204 -12
T12 Greg Kraft 66 67 71 204 -12
T12 John Huston 66 66 72 204 -12
T21 Jay Delsing 68 69 68 205 -11
T21 Johnson Wagner 68 68 69 205 -11
T21 Tommy Armour III 72 64 69 205 -11
T21 Brian Gay 69 67 69 205 -11
T21 Cameron Beckman 68 68 69 205 -11
T21 Cliff Kresge 67 69 69 205 -11
T21 Kevin Stadler 68 67 70 205 -11
T21 Charles Warren 68 67 70 205 -11
T21 Charlie Wi 68 67 70 205 -11
T21 Steve Wheatcroft 68 66 71 205 -11
T31 Jeff Maggert 67 70 69 206 -10
T31 Vaughn Taylor 67 70 69 206 -10
T31 Brian Davis 65 73 68 206 -10
T31 Kent Jones 67 70 69 206 -10
T31 Frank Lickliter II 68 70 68 206 -10
T31 Jason Schultz 69 67 70 206 -10
T31 Bob Estes 69 69 68 206 -10
T31 Fredrik Jacobson 70 66 70 206 -10
T31 George McNeill 70 68 68 206 -10
T31 Brent Geiberger 68 68 70 206 -10
T31 J.J. Henry 70 69 67 206 -10
T31 Peter Lonard 70 69 67 206 -10
T43 John Senden 67 70 70 207 -9
T43 Eric Axley 68 70 69 207 -9
T43 Rich Beem 69 69 69 207 -9
T43 Michael Bradley 69 70 68 207 -9
T43 Alex Cejka 68 67 72 207 -9
T43 Craig Bowden 70 69 68 207 -9
T49 Jay Williamson 70 68 70 208 -8
T49 Tag Ridings 70 66 72 208 -8
T49 Scott Gutschewski 68 70 70 208 -8
T49 Ryan Palmer 68 70 70 208 -8
T49 Joe Durant 67 69 72 208 -8
T49 Kirk Triplett 67 69 72 208 -8
T49 Dean Wilson 70 68 70 208 -8
T49 Jarrod Lyle 69 69 70 208 -8
T49 Jonathan Byrd 69 66 73 208 -8
T49 Michael Putnam 67 68 73 208 -8
T49 Jaco Van Zyl 70 69 69 208 -8
T60 Chad Campbell 69 68 72 209 -7
T60 Mark Hensby 67 70 72 209 -7
T60 D.J. Trahan 68 70 71 209 -7
T60 Todd Fischer 66 72 71 209 -7
T60 Bob Tway 67 69 73 209 -7
T60 Stephen Leaney 69 70 70 209 -7
T60 Daniel Chopra 68 71 70 209 -7
T60 Mathew Goggin 69 70 70 209 -7
T60 Kevin Na 69 70 70 209 -7
T60 Billy Andrade 68 71 70 209 -7
T60 Craig Lile 70 69 70 209 -7
T71 Spike McRoy 71 66 73 210 -6
T71 Willie Wood 71 68 71 210 -6
T71 Chris Tidland 68 71 71 210 -6
T71 Mathias Gronberg 72 67 71 210 -6
T71 Jim Gallagher, Jr. 69 70 71 210 -6
T76 Robert Garrigus 69 69 73 211 -5
T76 Paul Gow 68 70 73 211 -5
T76 Ryan Blaum 71 68 72 211 -5
T76 Craig Barlow 68 71 72 211 -5
T80 Chris Riley 70 68 74 212 -4
T80 Briny Baird 70 69 73 212 -4
T80 Todd Hamilton 66 69 77 212 -4
T80 Tom Johnson 70 69 73 212 -4
T84 Olin Browne 70 68 75 213 -3
T84 Steve Allan 67 72 74 213 -3
86 Neal Lancaster 69 69 77 215 -1
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