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08/09/2008 - Bloomfield Hills Township, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - When the horn sounded on Thursday evening to end play for darkness, three players shared the lead.

Robert Karlsson, with three top-10s in this year's majors, and Jeev Milkha Singh of India were in the clubhouse at two-under-par 68. One player had yet to finish his round.

That was Andres Romero.

Unfortunately, the Argentine bogeyed No. 18 to fall out of the lead.

It got a lot worse for Romero in the second round.

He tallied a birdied, three bogeys, a double-bogey at 18 and a quadruple-bogey eight on the 16th. Romero shot an eight-over 78 and fell down to plus-seven for the championship, which was one shot within the cut line.

"I couldn't come back after that eight. I made a double bogey at the 18th because I was mad," Romero acknowledged through an interpreter on Saturday. "And then I was almost fighting for the lead in the tournament and suddenly I was trying to make the cut, so I was going mad the whole round the rest of the round."

Romero atoned for the hideous second round with a five-under 65 on Saturday. That is the lowest score of the championship and got Romero back into the mix at plus-two, just three off the lead.

"I played an excellent round. Almost perfect," Romero said through his interpreter. "I can't believe it, I have a chance for tomorrow and, well, I have to wait, but it's great to be here."

Romero burst on to the golf scene with an amazing run Sunday at the 2007 British Open Championship. He held the lead, but closed with a double-bogey, then a bogey at 18 to finish one shot outside the playoff between eventual champion Padraig Harrington and Sergio Garcia.

Romero parlayed his good run at the Open Championship into a victory the following week in Germany. He won the Deutsche Bank Players Championship on the European Tour by three, then posted a top 10 the very next week at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.

"I learned a lot after that week," said Romero, referring to the 2007 British Open. "That helped me a lot not to, I don't know, not to go down after that loss. It was a very good experience after The Open."

SO WHO'S READY FOR 36?

When people debate whether golfers are athletes, focus on Sunday's final round. At least six players will play 36 holes on what could be a truly soggy track.

Factor in this is for a major championship and Sunday sets up as a long day.

"It's going to be like college again, playing 36 in one day," said the second- round leader, J.B. Holmes. "It happens, and everybody else is going to do it, too, so just have to go out there and deal with it."

Not everyone is going to be doing it.

Romero is three off the lead and can wait until the final round before he goes out for the first time Sunday. Romero's tee time could be in the 2:00 p.m. (et) neighborhood as opposed to the 7:40 a.m. time Holmes and Charlie Wi have Sunday morning.

"Obviously the guys that finished today that played well will have a nice relaxing morning while we're out there grinding," said 2003 British Open champion Ben Curtis, who is one off the lead heading into Sunday morning. "It's going to be tough for us, but it can be done."

Curtis feels that playing 36 in one day could actually be an advantage. If someone has a sensational third round Sunday morning, that can be carried over to the final round.

Essentially, you could have one big day and win the PGA Championship.

"I'm a believer in big momentum in one day, not necessarily for three or four days at a time," said Curtis.

* Prior to Mickelson's win in 2005, the last Monday finish was Bob Tway's victory in 1986 at Inverness. The only other in the stroke-play era of the PGA Championship was Dave Stockton's 1976 win at Congressional.

* Romero's 65 in Saturday's third round matched the course record at Oakland Hills. He is the ninth player to shoot 65 at this venue and first since Tom Lehman in the third round of the 1996 U.S. Open.

* Sunday's forecast calls for some rain.

* The winner of the last 12 PGA Championships has come from the final group in the final round. Steve Elkington was tied for fifth heading into the final round in 1995 and was the last player to win without being in the final group in round four.

* All three major winners this year have come from the final pairing on Sunday.

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Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State

Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

Work left to do:

Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on.

Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough.

Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.