Rory McIlroy birdied two of the last four holes to offset an up-and-down round and salvage a 2-under 70 that put him four strokes ahead going into the final round.
Tiger Woods continued where he left off a day earlier, firing a triple bogey in his first hole of the third round en route to a 1-over 72 that left him nine strokes out of the lead going into the final round.
Tiger Woods was a shadow of the man who shot his best round of the year just a day earlier, shooting a 3-over 74 on Friday to drop four shots off the pace going into the third round at The Barclays
Tiger Woods played his best 18 holes of golf since the unraveling of his personal life following a post-Thanksgiving-Day crash to take a share of the first-round lead at The Barclays.