Ludvig Aberg makes light work of the tough 15th hole, which is playing just over its par today. He leaves himself around 60 feet away after two though so it takes a really good lag putt from him to cosy the ball up to within two feet for another solid par.

Xander Schauffele is again loose with his short game though, chipping it mile past the hole from the side of the green and he drops a shot to go six behind the leader.

Justin Thomas is six inches away from making an eagle on 16, but he taps in for birdie that brings him back to just one over for his topsy-turvy round at Sawgrass today.

And with his confidence back up he fires a darts into the 17th green to have a solid look for another. Some round this from JT.

Michael Thorbjornsen leaves himself with a tricky five-footer for par on the 18th but when it wriggles in he looks a relieved and happy man.

A five-under 67 is very handsome reward for a fine round of golf.

Had Tommy Fleetwood been able to match that, he'd also be right in contention but he satisfyingly knocks in a birdie putt from 20 feet to conclude a round that was completely derailed by a triple-bogey on the 10th.

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Just nothing doing for Xander Schauffele today as he lets a birdie chance go begging on 14, albeit just an outside chance from 20 feet, but he's just had no spark today with one birdie on his card.

Ludvig Aberg leaves himself a stinky one from about five feet for his par but he drains it at a pace that shows he's full of confidence right now with his four-shot lead.

Sepp Straka dropped a shot on 14 to drop back to level for the day after four birdies and four bogeys.

Level par would be a huge result for Justin Thomas after his triple earlier in the day - he's had three pars in a row now but will hope to pick up a shot coming home.

Cam Young has now gone birdie, par, birdie, bogey in the last four holes.

He moves on to the 15th after that slight setback on the 14th and leaves his approach right which means he'll have a tough putt from downtown for a bounce-back birdie.

The American knocks it to gimme range. That is some effort.

Who says golf isn't fair? There's some instant golfing karma on 16 as Jacob Bridgeman plays a beauty of a second shot to the par five but sees his ball bounce, skip and hop along the green and roll off the back into the water.

He takes a penalty drop but then holes out with his putt from 34 feet away to get the birdie he richly deserved!

Michael Thorbjornsen's round was in danger of drifting when he made bogey on the 15th but that is some response.

The American serves up birdies on the 16th and 17th holes and bounces back into third.

Tommy Fleetwood has not got anything going since dropping three shots in three holes just after the turn.

Matt Fitzpatrick is fuming with himself. After pushing his tee shot right towards the trees he is forced to chop back out into play but then delivers a poor approach that comes up miles short.

And when he ends up taking three with his putter, it's a complete card-wrecking moment.

As it stands he is now six shots back.

Viktor Hovland has been flirting with the top end of the leaderboard all day and now he finally makes the move to eight under.

Does that mean he is now in the frame for Sunday?

A wonderful iron shot into the 17th lands above the cup and eventually wanders down the slight gradient to inside five feet to allow him to record back-to-back birdies.

Wonderful long bunker shot from Ludvig Aberg on 12 but he can't take advantage this time as his birdie putt from eight feet just curls away from the hole at the death.

Xander Schauffele's short game is way off today as he lands his effort well short and right with an odd choice of shot. He's losing just over 1.2 strokes to the field in the short game stats so far.

Schauffele ranks 66th around the greens out of the 73 players in the field today.

Cam Young's round could have been so much better had his putter been hot today.

Yet after coming up annoyingly short on the par-three 13th, he drains a birdie opportunity from 46 feet to go solo in second on the leaderboard.

The American barely celebrates that and just casually acknowledges the crowd like he's still got plenty of work to do.

Couple of errors from Jacob Bridgeman cost him two shots on the 14th as he finds the rough off the tee and then three-putts from 11 feet on the green.

He's a confident putter usually so hits his efforts with plenty of pace, but that results in him racing his par save six feet past the hole, and he bashes his bogey effort through the break resulting in a damaging double bogey.

What. A. Shot. Matt Fitzpatrick has his yardage book out and then whips in a wedge to around a foot on one of the most famous par-three holes in the world.

That's his seventh birdie of the day and puts him in a tie for second with Cameron Young.

Is Cam Young about to make a charge down the back nine?

The 28-year-old, who has won one PGA Tour event previously, flips out of the right front bunker to five feet on the 11th and then drains his birdie putt.

Ludvig Aberg just loves the par fives at TPC Sawgrass, he made two eagles yesterday and he's made another today at the 11th to take a giant stride forward at the top of the leaderboard.

At 14 under he's now four in front, and he's 11 under on the par fives this week!

Matt Fitzpatrick has an eagle putt from a shade over 40 feet on the par-five 16th.

The surface is perilously slick and Fitzy just gives his ball the slightest of nudges to get down to three feet and safely sanffle a birdie.

Could he end up in the final pairing on Sunday?

Justin Rose starts his drive off right down the 18th. The only problem is that it is coming back left and water runs the entire length of the hole on that side.

It's an intimidating tee shots that I certainly wouldn't fancy but Rose's hopes of a first Players title have been well and truly doused over the last three holes.

He drops in the fairway and when his approach runs to 40 feet a bogey is an absolute certainty.

Oh no! Just after battling so hard to get back into the contest, Justin Thomas goes for broke on the short par-four 12th and smashes a driver going for the green, but he's tugged it way left and into the pond that's waiting for wayward drives on this hole.

One step forward, two steps back for JT as that costs him a bogey.

Sepp Straka shows him how it's done by taking much less club, finding the fairway then wedging onto the green and rolling a putt in for birdie.

Oh dear Xander Schauffele, the dreaded s-word appears on what looks a rather regulation chip from off the 10th green, as the ball spears off to the right and leaves him 27 feet for par.

He misses to drop another shot further back, and Ludvig Aberg almost extends his advantage further when he just burns the hole with a long-range birdie try.

But without doing too much Aberg is now looking a bit more comfortable at the top - certainly from Schauffele who is going in reverse so far.