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Scott not sunk by water hole
Associated Press

One bad swing by Adam Scott led to two balls in the water on the same hole Saturday in the Honda Classic. Even with a quadruple bogey, he managed to be satisfied with a 4-under-par 66 and a share of the lead with Sergio Garcia.

A bizarre and breezy afternoon in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., ended at PGA National with two players whose fortunes changed mightily in the final hour.

Scott looked better than ever, 7 under through 14 holes and only once having to save par. He was three shots ahead going to the tee on the par-3 15th, and it was starting to look like a runaway. Some 20 minutes later, he was one shot behind Garcia.

‘‘Pretty costly,’’ Scott said. ‘‘But fortunately, I had a couple shots to spare. Hopefully, it won’t cost me too big in the grand scheme of things.’’

Garcia lost the lead with a bogey from the bunker on the 17th, and caught Scott with a short birdie on the 18th for a 67.

They were at 9-under 201.

Blayne Barber had a 69 and was four shots behind.

Rickie Fowler had a one-shot lead going into the third round and was the first player at the Honda Classic to go bogey-free through the opening 36 holes. And then Saturday, he couldn’t make a birdie. Fowler made bogey on the easiest hole at PGA National, the par-5 third, and wound up with a 74 to fall five shots behind.

Scott didn’t seem overly bothered by the quadruple bogey, mainly because of the 17 other holes he played so well.

‘‘I did a lot of things really well today, so it’s exactly the round I needed,’’ he said. ‘‘I need to put one more together tomorrow. It’s going to be an exciting day for me.’’

Jason Bohn told NBC Sports that what was reported as a mild heart attack Friday turned out to be much more. Bohn, 42, complained of chest pains after his round Friday and had a stent inserted Saturday for what he said was 99 percent blockage of a major artery.

LPGA — Lexi Thompson shot an 8-under 64 in the third round of the LPGA Thailand in Chonburi to establish a four-stroke lead over Korean In Gee Chun.

The fourth-ranked American fired nine birdies — against a lone bogey on the 16th — for an overall 16-under 200.

European — Louis Oosthuizen carded a 5-under 67 to take a three-stroke lead after three rounds of the Perth International in Australia.

Oosthuizen had a 54-hole total of 15-under 201. New Bedford’s Peter Uihlein (71) and France’s Romain Wattel (65) were tied for second. Uihlein bogeyed the 18th hole and took six shots on the 148-yard, par-3 12th when he hit his tee shot to the back of the green and struggled to recover before taking two putts to finish.