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If you’ve ever watched a golf broadcast you’ve undoubtedly heard the cliche (and vastly overused term) “moving day” in reference to the third round of a PGA Tour event. Except Saturday at the Wyndham Championship it really was.

With tee times moved up because of bad weather in the afternoon, and conditions soft, players took advantage with some serious target practice. There were 18 rounds of 65 or better on the par-70 Sedgefield Country Club, including career-lows of 61 and 62 for Jim Herman and Rob Oppenheim, respectively.

It made for a packed leader board with 18 players within a stroke of the lead at one point before things settled down.

Si Woo Kim, meanwhile, had a 62 that included a spectacular reaction to the third hole-in-one of his career, and leads by two over Oppenheim and Doc Redman. Here’s more on that and a few other observations from a birdie-filled third round of the Wyndham Championship.

A feel-good story to keep an eye on

Rob Oppenheim has played professional golf for nearly two decades and has ended every one of those 18 years having to go to the PGA Tour’s old qualifying school or more recently the Korn Ferry Tour Finals.

Sunday, he’ll have a chance to change all that after racking up seven birdies, an eagle and just one bogey in the third round.

“I just felt very comfortable,” he said. “Tee to green was solid and made some putts.”

That’s an understatement. Oppenheim made a 50-footer for birdie on the first and backed it up with a 34-footer for another birdie one hole later. Terrific iron play—he hit 16 greens—and a hot putter continued throughout, putting him on the precipice of his first career win on tour.

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Even if he doesn’t win, a high finish would also get the 40-year-old to the FedEx Cup Playoffs for the first time.

“I've never been in one of the last two or three groups on Sunday, but I've been in plenty of situations where I've been fighting to keep my job or trying to get out here,” he said. “Don't get much more pressure than that.

“We'll see [Sunday] what I'm feeling, but I'm excited. I like the golf course, very comfortable here, so I'm looking forward to it.”

Di we mention that he was also 500/1 to win at the start of the week?

Another career day

Jim Herman came into this week having missed the cut in seven of his last 11 starts, so naturally it stood to reason that he’d shoot a scorching 61 on Saturday, right?

Or perhaps it was just another sign that the 40-year-old was about to win for third time in his career.

Prior to his victory at last year’s Barbasol Championship, Herman had missed the cut in 12 of his 14 starts leading into the event.

Five straight birdies, including one from 45 feet on the 14th, before a par at the 18th certainly helped the cause on Saturday.

Webb lurking

It will absolutely stun you to know that Webb Simpson, who has finished in the top 3 each of the last three years at Sedgefield, will go into the final round in contention yet again after a 65 on Saturday.

But if the eight-time tour winner is going to add another trophy from this event to his mantel—he won there in 2011—he’s probably going to need something even lower on Sunday.

With five strokes and six players separating Simpson from Kim, that’s an awful lot of ground to make up in what will undoubtedly be another shootout come Sunday with more rain pounding the course on Saturday night.

A bogey from 154 yards out in the middle of the fairway on the fourth hole and another on the difficult 18th after missing the fairway left off the tee will undoubtedly sting.

Si Woo makin’ that ace, makin’ that ace

If you missed Si Woo Kim’s hole-in-one on the third hole Saturday, you can read about it and his epic reaction here.

If that wasn’t enough excitement, he nearly made another ace with his ball stopping just inches from dropping on Sedgefield’s 12th hole. It set up one of seven birdies to go with his eagle and just one bogey and of course garnered another NBD reaction from the 25-year-old Korean.

Only three other players on tour have ever made two aces in one round, with Brian Harman the last to do so at the 2015 Barclays. Kim, meanwhile, will have to instead settle for a two-shot lead as he tries to pick up his third career victory on Sunday.