Alex Smalley misses the green on the 17th... and that usually means water but the American is a lucky lucky boy. His ball bounces forward from the rough in front of the green into the hole's solitary bunker. He splashes out to around five feet.

Solid par putt. He's two off the lead going down the last.

Lucas Glover hits a decent pitch in from the drop zone on 17, but can't quite save a bogey with the putt so it's another double bogey for him as he drops back to nine under.

Glover has now gone double-eagle-double to perfectly illustrate just what TPC Sawgrass can do to you - especially in the wind.

We only get to see the final two shots of Akshay Bhatia's journey down the 15th hole. The 20 foot birdie putt stays on the green and he taps in from a foot. A seventh par of the day for the American.

Alex Smalley drills his third into the 16th fractionally long and his ball comes to rest on the fringe. He's got a 25-footer for birdie to move within one of the lead.

And he's bound to have seen and heard what has happened to the two players ahead of him given the 16th runs in the opposite direction to the 17th.

A two-putt par for the American.

Oh no! Lucas Glover has gone from the high of that chip-in on 16 to finding the water on the 17th - as his tee shot lands on the island green but only just, and it spins back and trickles into the soup.

Will Zalatoris then falls into the trap of seeing his playing partner fall short so gives his some extra juice, but he powers it through the green and into the water on the other side!

Akshay Bhatia smashes his ball out of the sand to 25 feet but he can't make the par putt. Actually, he's left himself a seven-footer for bogey. In it pops. Shot gone though. Min Woo Lee two putts for par.

For the first time, no birdies on the 14th.

It's a tough ask for JJ Spaun as he has basically 100 feet to negotiate with the putter and although the first effort is solid he's still left with too much work to do to save par.

So the leader drops back to just one shot in front.

Lucas Glover has done it again! That's a third chip in today for the former US Open champion and coming on the par-five 16th that means it's an eagle to immediately claw back the two shots he gave away on the last.

That's textbook bouncebackability right there.

JJ Spaun in a spot of bother for a change as he finds the trees off the tee on 15, but he plays a nice escape shot, just turning his hands over to get some draw on it and nice trying to do too much so he just chases it up onto the front of the green.

Good course management there.

Ah. Tommy Fleetwood's found the water at 17.

That brutal little par three greedily claims another victim.

A caption flashes up on the screen to say, since 1983 there has never been a round without a birdie on the 14th hole. Today? Zero birdies.

Akshay Bhatia and Min Woo Lee are our last hopes. Bhatia, from the middle of the fairway hits a towering iron that plugs into a greenside bunker. A real fried egg.

Min Woo finds the heart of the green but he's got a 30-footer to keep the record going.

Roars of appreciation turn to sighs of disappointment as Tommy Fleetwood goes so close to a chip-in birdie from the rough on 16.

His ball clunks off the flag and stops two feet away much to the crowd's dismay.

It's probably a good thing though as if the flag had not been in, Fleetwood's ball was racing on. But he cannot make the birdie putt, his ball misses the right edge.

JJ Spaun is managing his way around TPC Sawgrass brilliantly today, as bigger names are throwing their arms up and getting frustrated, Spaun is hitting fairways and greens and putting beautifully.

He almost hits one from 30 feet to stretch his lead but he remains two in front and looking far more solid than anyone else still out there challenging.

The wheels have come off now for Will Zalatoris as he follows up a quadruple bogey with a double bogey on 15 and that's six shots gone in just a couple of holes as he tumbles out of contention.

Lucas Glover sadly follows his playing partner in also making a six on the 15th and that slips him back from second to fourth and four shots back.

Iain Carter
BBC golf correspondent at Sawgrass

The wind is really whipping up now. All you can do is go for the centre of greens.

A level-par round of 72 for Scottie Scheffler today but very much not a level headed Scottie Scheffler that we usually see on the golf course.

TPC Sawgrass really got under his skin today with the wind proving to be a mystery he could just not solve - although a few missed putts didn't help either.

He's not totally out of it but he'll need to stick in a low one tomorrow, and needs to now go and calm down as he was running hot today.

Speaking of important putts, Alex Smalley does the same as Akshay Bhatia to save par, this time from seven feet.

Another American who is clinging onto the coattails of JJ Spaun.

A cracking putt from Akshay Bhatia saves par at the 12th after he found the water off the tee.

The 23 year old has shown great composure to hang in there and at four shots back, he is not out of this tournament.

Andrew Murray
Former European Tour winner on 5 Live

Rory has to be careful here not to shoot himself out of the tournament. He's definitely not on his game and he's got tricky holes to come.

Another mistake from Rory McIlroy as he misses his par putt from six feet on the 13th to drop back to eight under, and now five shots off leader and playing partner JJ Spaun.

Rory's not the only one to struggle today, but conditions haven't been a massive issue on most of his errors, and his shoulders just seem to have slumped a bit now as he heads down the home stretch.