HSBC World Golf Championship 3rd-round tee times: Americans atop leaderboard heading to Saturday

November 6, 6:31 PMBoston Golf ExaminerEmily Kay

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Tiger Woods hits to the 4th green during WGC-HSBC Champions golf tourney in China

(Photo: AP/Andy Wong)

Co-leaders Tiger Woods and Nick Watney will tee off at 10:40 a.m. Shanghai time (that's 9:40 p.m. Boston golf time) in Saturday’s third round of the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions tourney.

• Catch some of the 2nd-round action at the WGC-HSBC Champions tourney

Americans Woods and Watney head into the third round tied at 10-under for the tourney. American Ryan Moore, one shot back and sharing second place with Phil Mickelson of the United States and Spaniard Alvara Quiros, will play with the two leaders at Sheshan International Golf Club in Shanghai, China.

U.S. players Anthony Kim, Pat Perez, and Brian Gay round out the top eight spots on the leaderboard at 8-under, 7-under, and 6-under, respectively. Kim, Mickelson, and Quiros will tee it up in front of Woods and Watney at 10:30 a.m. Gay and Perez go off at 10:20 a.m.

Click here for a full roster of third-round tee times.

Anybody there? As usual, the crowds following Woods are enormous this week, while the other guys play in virtual solitude. Indeed, Perez wondered were the fans were.

“It felt like Sunday afternoon on the wrong side of the course,” the 33-year-old said to reporters. “We had like two people following us. It’s an awesome tournament, but we had no atmosphere.”

Joking, Perez continued. “It made me realize I’m actually a nobody,” he said. “I thought I was decently somebody, but this confirms it. In worldwide golf, I’m a nobody.”

That about sums it up, Pat.

Groovy. Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa hit a flyer from the fairway with an iron on the 13th. It jumped over the green into the deep stuff, prompting Golf Channel’s analysts to discuss the likelihood that golfers will hit a bunch more of those next year when the V groove comes into play.

In the hole. Using a 6-iron from 198 yards, Ernie Els aced the par-3 sixth. His ball hit the green, bounced twice, and quickly found the bottom of the cup. The South African is at 3-under after 36 holes.

Tiger Woods grabs the crowds and the headlines, but sometimes it’s too much even for him. Read about Woods’ problems with camera-clicking fans at the WGC-HSBC event.