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Johnson, the world's No. 1 player, had some say in the margin going into the final round at Innisbrook.
The 70 players who made the cut were separated by seven shots, the first time it has been that tight on the PGA Tour in nearly two years. Louis Oosthuizen, who made the cut by one shot, had the lead at one point with seven birdies through 13 holes until he dropped a pair of shots, coming in for a 66. Eight players had at least a share of the lead at some point until Casey started to pull away.
From light rough with trees partially in his way, he tried to hammer a 5-wood 290 yards. But it came out with too much wind and floated into the wind, hit a tree well short of the green and nearly went into water that isn't typically in play. Still, he had a tree between his ball and the green. Johnson hit a hard pitch from 73 yards to the right of the tree and let the hill bring it back to the green. And then he made a 35-foot birdie putt .
Kokrak is still looking for his first PGA Tour victory. He was playing well even before his ace, with three birdies on the back nine, when he hit 8-iron with a breeze at his back that carried just far enough to get rolling toward the pin like a putt.
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