Dubai 2008 - Tiger!

[hawkeye]

yes my sentiments exactly - hope McGrane can cope.

He's a good wind player (as all Irish are) as he showed today - Woods outdrove Monty's driver with his 5 wood a couple of times today, but McGrane is used to being outdriven too. He's a battler - come on the Irish!

Final Group is out at 13:00 Dubai time - 10:00am GMT.

I'd watch out for master westwood if i was Tiger

[hawkeye]

so i got up at 10 - and Tiger's played 4 holes! opps, messed that up.

Right now Tiger is 1 behind Els and Stenson - Els on fire! tap in eagle on 10

[donkba]

tiger 3 behind els at end of 3rd round. a win looks unlikely now unless he has another round like his 1st

[geezer]

Turns out McGrane outscored Tiger today!!

[hawkeye]

haha good old Damien - great performance.

Will be a great showdown - Garcia, Westwood and Tiger can all turn on the heat - Stenson and Els are great frontrunners. Can't wait till tomorrow!

[Chilidipper]

Let's go Ernie! Man I hope he wins this tourney!

[Big_M]

haha good old Damien - great performance.

It really turned out to be a great leaderboard... tomorrow should be entertaining. Never expected Tiger to play so poorly today, but that's golf. I would love to see Tiger make a charge and end up in a playoff with Ernie, and have Ernie take him down. A three way playoff would be good too... throw in Sergio or Stenson, maybe Westwood... it will be good stuff.

[TourSpoon]

Might have to watch this now that the ending is not so predictable (like the Buick Open). I was pleasantly shocked to see Ernie with a 4 stroke advantage over Tiger. That is a nice headstart going into the final round. We will be seeing Tiger trying to make something happen tomorrow which is more exciting than watching him coast a lead in.

[Pl0we]

I really hope Ernie Els wins

In The Bag:
Driver: Taylormade R7 SuperQuad 9.5 stiff
3Wood: Callaway Steelhead III 4+ 15 stiff
3H : Callaway X 21 degrees stiff
4H : Mizuno Fli-Hi 24 degrees
Irons : Ben Hogan Apex Edge 5-PW
GW : Titleist 200 50 degrees
SW : Titleist 200 56 degrees
LW : Callaway X-tour vintage PM 60 degrees
Putter : Odyssey White Steel #1

[hawkeye]

well tiger is just about to win..... 6 under for the last 9 holes. what a performance. duffs a chip on 18 then holes out from 30 feet!

els splashes with his 2nd to 18, needs a birdie to tie. disappointment again for Els :(

[iacas]

well tiger is just about to win..... 6 under for the last 9 holes. what a performance. duffs a chip on 18 then holes out from 30 feet!

Yeah, I wonder how that "three-year plan" is going for Ernie. Isn't this year three? Errr, no, year two? He almost seems to be going backwards.

I recorded it on TGC and will watch later.

[neudi]

This is his second year of his three year plan, this win woulda helped a little bit, but man, what a tournament.

[Chilidipper]

It's Tiger Woods and nobody else. It makes me sick, but golf has be come unwatchable. You try to rally behind these losers to knock off the champ and they choke. This is unbelivable!

I'd rather worry about my own game then watch these guys choke.


In my opinion Ernie and Phil are on the downside of their careers. Tiger has just started to take off. It's so boring watch this materialize. Nothing against Tiger he is great the best ever in my opinion, just a shame nobody can win against him.


What a joke.

[neudi]

He is just such a clutch player that it is rediculous, his life is golf and golf only when he is doing his job, no one can bother him

[bca42]

Yup, I'm just about done rooting for Els. He no longer delivers and I'm left with nothing but disappointment when I think of him.

He used to make a real hard game look easy oftentimes. Now he makes it look almost as hard as it really is.

[JonnyGolf]

Tiger's got Ernie's number. I think Ernie is awesome, but Tiger just owns him again and again. And what happened to Stenson, "the special one"?

There were low scores to be had, with such marque names like Martin Kaymer and Ricardo Gonzalez shooting 7 under for the round.

And, if Tiger starts winning from behind, the collective PGA Tour has no hope of winning a tournament.