Lanto Griffin is T-5 at 15 under and three shots off The American Express' 54-hole lead, but that feat is even more impressive than it reads.
Griffin is playing this week with lingering effects from a back injury that he received from voluntarily picking up his dog, Troy.
"It was about 1 a.m., [Troy's] hips were hurting him a little bit, so I was trying to carry him up the stairs, felt a little bit of a pop," Griffin said following his third-round 69 at La Quinta. "And it's just kind of a bulging disk hitting a nerve and some inflammation.