Tiger and Yang Battle for PGA Title

Quick, before Sunday's round started, which player chasing Tiger Woods did you think had the best chance? Most would go with Padraig Harrington, who made a quintuple bogey on the par-3 8th hole, dropping himself from contention. It wouldn't be crazy to love Henrik Stenson, who beat Tiger at the Players Championship earlier this year. Maybe even got a little frisky and gone with Ernie Els or Vijay Singh, as long as Vijay promised to putt with his eyes closed.

The person we all forgot about was the man paired with Tiger on Sunday, and he is just the man that is Bob May-ing Tiger through nine holes at Hazeltine National.

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Y.E. Yang, the 37-year-old South Korean winner of this year's Honda Classic has been surprisingly steady, carding one birdie, one bogey and a handful of pars to make the turn at 6-under, tied with the 14-time major championship winner.

Steady isn't exactly what you'd call Tiger's round. Out of the gates on the first hole, Woods stuffed his second shot to six feet, but didn't hit the hole with his birdie putt, settling for a disappointing par. Bogeys on four and eight have Tiger two-over for the day, and without a birdie on the front nine for the first time all week.

Tiger's struggles seem almost muted by the pickle some of the rest of the field have found themselves in. Padraig made par on his first seven holes before the eight on the par-3, which included a pulled wedge that was so far offline it almost hit his playing partner, Henrik Stenson. U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover got it to 6-under for the championship after a birdie on the fifth hole, but three bogeys has Glover looking Tiger-like frustrated.

On a day when the lowest posted score is 2-under, pars are all anyone can hope for. If Tiger can continue to string those together, and the scoreboard keeps scotting back towards par, the win will be a little easier than it could have been.