LOS ANGELES -- Anyone who thinks golf has a slow-play problem should try driving in Los Angeles. The traffic here makes a PGA Tour round feel like a five-hour sprint.
Then there's the Northern Trust Open, which through three days is epitomizing its host city in volume, if not speed.
Let's get that traffic copter flying above Riviera Country Club, because there's a nine-player pileup on the leaderboard. That's how many contenders are within three strokes of the lead with 18 holes left to play, leaving this tourney as crowded as the 405 during rush hour.
"It's going to be a bit of a shootout tomorrow," Rory McIlroy said.