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Camilo Villegas, 66. K.J. Choi, 66. Davis Love, Kenny Perry and Anthony Kim all had 68. And they all lost ground to Geoff Ogilvy Saturday at the Mercedes-Benz Championship, the opening event on the 2009 PGA TOUR.

Ogilvy played another bogey-free round, carding eight birdies in a round of 65. He is 19-under par through 54 holes, and has made 20 birdies against just one bogey over the Kapaula Plantation course. He holds a six-shot lead over Justin Leonard and D.J. Trahan going into Sunday, when a rather lousy weather forecast has pressed the TOUR into sending the players off the 1st and 10th tee beginning at 8 a.m. Hawaiian time (1 p.m. on the U.S. East Coast).

Ogilvy said that a weather pattern different from the usual Kona winds had the course playing different. Of couse, Kapalua played to an average of 69.152, nearly 4-under par, one of the best scoring days since the event moved to the Plantation Course 11 years ago.

“I’ve never had a lead like this, so new experience for me,” he said. “I hope I keep hitting good shots and if I do that good things will happen.”

Leonard also played without a bogey, shooting an 8-under 65. Villegas, Love, Kim and Choi are tied for fourth at 12-under. Zach Johnson fired the best round of the day, a 9-under 64 that included seven birdies and an eagle. He is tied for 11th and 9-under.

Defending FedEx Cup champ Vijay Singh shot a 71, his best round of the week, but he lost ground, falling to 29th out of 33 at 2-under.

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