The Live Report, Round 4: Verizon Heritage

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Jim Furyk got his second win in a month with a playoff victory at Harbour Town Golf Links.

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PLAYOFF PLAY-BY-PLAY (6:25 p.m.): Wow. What a strange ending. Brian Davis called on himself what he thought might be a penalty when his club made contact with a twig on his backswing from the hazard left of the 18th hole. It had zero impact on the shot, but was a rules violation nonetheless -- and one that was barely visible. Yet there was Davis, in a J.P. Hayes-like moment.

Hayes, if you recall, called a penalty on himself that cost him q-school. Davis did the same and it cost him a chance at his first win on the PGA TOUR.

To be fair, Jim Furyk hit his putt to a few feet to set up a fairly easy par putt, but Davis was done. The violation cost him two strokes and eliminated any chance of extending the playoff.

For Furyk, it's his second win in a month. It's also the strangest end to a tournament we've seen all year. -- Brian Wacker

(6:09 p.m.): With nearly identical-length shots, Brian Davis missed the green to the left with his ball bounding off the rocks and into the sand. That's the bad news. The good news is it didn't go into the water. Still, it will leave a nearly impossible shot from in the hazard. Jim Furyk, meanwhile, sent his approach to the back of the green. -- Brian Wacker

(6:02 p.m.): The hole order for the playoff will be the 18th, followed by the 17th (if necessary), followed by the 18th again (if necessary). Both players found the fairway with their tee shots. -- Brian Wacker

PLAYOFF BOUND (5:50 p.m.): Jim Furyk and Brian Davis are headed to a playoff at Harbour Town after Davis made a spectacular birdie on the 18th hole to tie Furyk at 13 under. Davis rolled in a 17-footer -- after missing two short putts on each of this last two holes -- to send this tournament to extra holes for the first time since 2004 when Stewart Cink beat Ted Purdy. -- Brian Wacker

DAVIS STUMBLES AGAIN (5:40 p.m.): For the second time in as many holes Brian Davis missed a short par putt. The bogey on No. 16 drops Davis one shot behind Jim Furyk with just two holes remaining. -- Brian Wacker

UNLUCKY 13? (5:18 p.m.): Brian Davis just did his best Jim Furyk impression, missing a short putt that resulted in a bogey. That drops Davis back into a tie for the lead with Furyk at 13 under with three holes to play. -- Brian Wacker

FURYK FALTERS (5:05 p.m.): For the first time all week, Jim Furyk has made two bogeys on the back nine at Harbour Town. The second of those bogeys came on the par-3 14th. As a result Furyk is now one shot off the lead for the first time all day with Brian Davis leading. -- Brian Wacker

SLOCUM STUMBLES AGAIN (4:55 p.m.): Heath Slocum, who won the first leg of last year's PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup at The Barclays, just went from third to out of contention after a bogey-double bogey stretch the last two holes.

The double bogey came surprisingly on the par-5 15th, where it took Slocum four shots to reach the green. He then three-putted from 44 feet, missing a 5-footer to save bogey.

Slocum hasn't played the hole particularly well all week with just one birdie and two pars. A double bogey, though, drops Slocum into a tie for seventh at the moment. -- Brian Wacker

TWO STILL TIED (4:43 p.m.): Jim Furyk and Brian Davis are still tied for the lead at 14 under, though Furyk had a chance to extend break free on No. 13. Furyk missed the short birdie putt, though, and had to settle for par. It was just his second two-putt hole in the last seven, but it was also the second time today Furyk has missed one from inside 6 feet. -- Brian Wacker

THE HOLE STORY (4:23 p.m.): Luke Donald bogeyed Nos. 11 and 12, but he nearly holed out for eagle on No. 13. Instead, he had to settle for birdie. Harbour Town, though, is no stranger to hole-outs. No other non-major course the last two years has seen more of them. See below for more. -- Brian Wacker

SLOCUM FINALLY SLIPS UP (4:16 p.m.): Heath Slocum is just one shot back, though he had a chance to tie for the lead on No. 13, which he'd birdied each of the first three days. Slocum missed the putt, though, and hasn't made a birdie since No. 6. He also hasn't made a bogey, either, and he'll have at least one or two birdie chances coming in. -- Brian Wacker

DAVIS, FURYK SHARE LEAD (4:05 p.m.): Thanks to a birdie on the ninth hole, Brian Davis has pulled even with Jim Furyk at 13 under.

Davis who splits his time between the PGA TOUR and Europe, has yet to win on the TOUR, but he has come close with a runner-up finish each of the last three years. He's also won twice in Europe, though not since 2004.

It really shouldn't come as a surprise, though, that Davis is having success here. He ranked 21st on TOUR in putting average last year and has continued that trend here, ranking second with 22.8 putts per round. He also hasn't made a bogey since the eighth hole on Friday. -- Brian Wacker

FURYK MAKES THE TURN (3:45 p.m.): This is exacly the kind of front nine Jim Furyk wanted and probably needed. He just made the turn without a bogey, making three birdies along the way, including one on No. 9, where he somewhat surprisingly hit driver off the tee on the 306-yard hole.

Should Furyk go on to win, it would be the first time he had multiple wins in the same season since 2006 -- after going winless since 2007. -- Brian Wacker

BIRDIE ALERT (3:25 p.m.): Jim Furyk still leads at 13 under, but Luke Donald has now moved within a stroke of the lead thanks to his third straight birdie and fifth of the day.

Unfortunately, Donald also has two bogeys, but with birdies on four of his last five holes, he goes to the back nine on a roll.

Donald is trying to win for the first time since 2006, but he's very quietly put together a solid year after battling a nagging wrist injury that prematurely ended his 2008 season. This year, Donald has three top-10s, including a runner-up at the Northern trust Open. -- Brian Wacker

A TALE OF TWO NINES (3:06 p.m.): At one point, it looked like Rickie Fowler, decked out in orange pants and an orange shirt, might break the course record after turning in 30. The back nine was a different story, though, with Fowler bogeying Nos. 10, 11 and 12. He birdied the 15th, but he made another bogey on No. 17 before closing in 37 with a birdie on the 18th hole. To replay Fowler's round with Shot Tracker, click here. Check out his scorecard below. -- Brian Wacker

SLOCUM'S STRONG START (2:45 p.m.): Maybe it's something in the water in Milton, Fla. Whatever it is, players from there seem to fare well in the Verizon Heritage.

Boo Weekley has won this tournament twice and is just two shots back of the lead of ... fellow Milton High teammate Heath Slocum, who is tied with Jim Furyk at 12 under after birdies on three of his first six holes.

Slocum has never won this tournament, though -- his best finish was a tie for 12th. -- Brian Wacker

FURYK BACK IN FRONT (2:29 p.m.): Thanks to a birdie at the par-5 second, Jim Furyk is back in front by one. It could have been two, though, if not for a missed birdie putt from just over 5 feet on the third hole. It's one of the few putts from close range Furyk has missed all week -- he led the field at 24.7 putts per round coming into Sunday.

Still, Furyk is in good shape. One of his pursuers, Aaron Baddeley, just dropped two shots back with a bogey on No. 7. Furyk has also been good at closing the deal in these spots. This is the 16th time that Furyk has held or shared the 54-hole lead on the PGA TOUR and he's 6-for-14 converting third-round leads into victories. -- Brian Wacker

BADDS OFF TO GOOD START (2:06 p.m.): It didn't take long for someone to catch Jim Furyk and that someone is Aaron Baddeley.

Baddeley hasn't won since 2007 -- just like Furyk before his victory in Tampa -- but he's off to a good start at 3 under through his first five holes. Baddeley has also won this event before, in 2006 for his first victory on the PGA TOUR. -- Brian Wacker

FURYK'S STREAK (1:40 p.m.) When Jim Furyk tees off 10 minutes from now, he'll do so having played his last 21 holes without a bogey. Furyk was one of nine players without a bogey in the third round and a big part of that has been his scrambling. See below for more. -- Brian Wacker

FOWLER FALLS DOWN LEADERBOARD (1:30 p.m.) -- Not a good start for Rickie Fowler on the back nine. After going out in 30, he bogeyed Nos. 10 and 11 to fall back to 8 under. With players still teeing off, it looks like Fowler's run at the title is over unless he can rally with several birdies in the last seven holes. -- Ryan Smithson

GETTING UP-AND-DOWN (1:20 p.m.): Usually, hitting greens in regulation is paramount to success. Not so here, as mentioned earlier. If you want more proof, check out the numbers below, specifically the scrambling ranks, in relation to the names near the top of the leaderboard. -- Brian Wacker

FOWLER TURNS IN 30 (1 p.m.): Rickie Fowler just poured in his fifth birdie of the day. He also has an eagle and just one bogey, making the turn in 30 on Harbour Town. That's the best front-nine score of the week and has Fowler just one shot back at 10 under.

If Fowler can make a few more birdies coming in, that should put some pressure on the rest of the top of the leaderboard with the winds expected to pick up slightly and the greens firming up in the afternoon. -- Brian Wacker

INSIDE THE NUMBERS (12:45 p.m.): The biggest reason Jim Furyk will enter today's final round with the lead is because of his play around the greens. Furyk has hit just 59 percent of his greens in regulation, but you have to remember that Harbour Town has the smallest greens on the PGA TOUR.

The more important number for Furyk has been his 28 feet, 6 inches on his approach shot distance to the pin this week. That's sixth-best in the field and Furyk has saved par or better on 19 of 22 occasions, which is third-best in the field. -- Brian Wacker

FAST START (12:30 p.m.): Just like in the third round, a player going off in the morning has been able to take advantage of good scoring conditions. Rickie Fowler is 6 under through his first seven holes with an eagle and four birdies.

As a result, Fowler has climbed 34 spots on the leaderboard and into a tie for third. Of course, he's going to have to keep making birdies if he hopes to be there at the end of the day with the last group of Jim Furyk and Brian Davis set to tee off a little more than an hour from now.

By the time Furyk had started his round on Saturday, he'd already been passed on the leaderboard. The same might happen here in the final round, but it will take a really low number by Fowler to get his first win on TOUR. -- Brian Wacker

Groups We're Watching

Tee time Players   1:10 p.m. ET, No. 1 Nick O'Hern, Boo Weekley O'Hern posted the round of the day Saturday. Weekley seeks his third Heritage title. 1:30 p.m. ET, No. 1 Ricky Barnes, Luke Donald Barnes guns for a breakthrough victory, while Donald hasn't won on TOUR since 2006. 1:50 p.m. ET No. 1 Jim Furyk, Brian Davis The final pairing features Furyk, one of the hottest players on TOUR, and Davis, one of the best players without a TOUR win.

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