Only two hours ago, Chris DiMarco held a four-stroke lead over Tiger Woods. Play ended yesterday with DiMarco at -13 and Tiger Woods at -9. Oh how a lead can change at Augusta!
In the span of two hours this morning, Chris DiMarco double-bogeyed the tenth, bogeyed the 14th, bogeyed the 15th, and bogeyed the 17th to fall to -8. Tiger Woods continued the birdie streak he began on 7, 8, and 9 right on through 10, 11, 12, and 13 to get to -13 before bogeying 14 and 15. He parred in and finished the third round at -11 after a firing tournament-low 66 and then a new tournament low (with Trevor Immelman) 65. Tiger is now three strokes clear of Chris DiMarco, whose third-round 74 matches Woods’ first round score.
Details are sketchy at this point beyond the scores, but you can expect to see some highlights this afternoon on CBS’ coverage of The Masters, beginning at 2:30.
Total Score to Par, Round 3 Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Woods -4 -5 -6 -6 -6 -6 -7 -8 -9 DiMarco -10 -11 -11 -11 -11 -11 -12 -13 -13
Hole 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Woods -10 -11 -12 -13 -12 -11 -11 -11 -11 DiMarco -11 -11 -11 -11 -10 -9 -9 -8 -8
So now, after 54 holes, the 69th Masters leaderboard reads as follows:
Pos Player Tot R1 R2 R3 R4 Tot 1 T. Woods -11 74 66 65 - 205 2 C. DiMarco -8 67 67 74 - 208 3 T. Bjorn -7 71 67 71 - 209 T4 T. Immelman -5 73 73 65 - 211 T4 P. Mickelson -5 70 72 69 - 211 T6 V. Singh -4 68 73 71 - 212 T6 M. Hensby -4 69 73 70 - 212 T8 C. Campbell -3 73 73 67 - 213 T8 M. Weir -3 74 71 68 - 213 T10 T. Levet -2 71 75 68 - 214 T10 L. Donald -2 68 77 69 - 214 T10 T. Herron -2 76 68 70 - 214 T10 R. Pampling -2 73 71 70 - 214 T14 K. Perry -1 76 68 71 - 215 T14 K. Triplett -1 75 68 72 - 215
These are the only 15 players under par. If you would like to see where the action will take place from above, you will find this interesting.
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Its over. Tiger will win. You don’t take away the Masters from Tiger woods on Sunday with a 3 shot lead. It doesn’t happen, nor will it happen.
Kiss the baby Chris, you fell apart and its over for you.
From the looks of it, Phil and Vijay might be playing together. Think there is some hot water there? 🙂
Maybe Vijay can personally check Phil’s spikes.