"I felt the feeling coming back on the last few holes and it probably helped to go straight back out and start to put it right. The 79 was a crazy round and the first objective was just to play at the weekend."There were adventures for everyone. Woods resumed at the par-five second but only took a five there and missed a good birdie chance at the third to get to one over "From there things got worse," he said. His bunker shot at the short fourth was thinned across the green into more sand and he took a double-bogey five. He also bogeyed the sixth, got it back at the next and then three-putted the eighth to leave himself in danger of ending his streak of making consecutive cuts at 101. "I am here for the weekend and you never know," he said after avoiding the fate of Jack Nicklaus when going for three in a row in 1967."As it dries out it is getting tougher out there and that is good for the guys trying to make a move.
If you get it going you can put up a solid round, but I know how tough it is here as the leader to keep moving away."Clarke sought the positive after finishing at two under. "Augusta doesn't give you anything and I was fortunate to play well and shoot 66 yesterday," he said. "Today I struggled with some bad swings but I'm still second going into the final 36 holes. If I can find the swing from yesterday who knows what can happen. I'll be giving it my best shot."After bogeys at the ninth and 10th on Friday night to fall behind Weir, Clarke resumed at the 11th yesterday morning and promptly pulled his second shot into the pond. "I had a good lie in the rough but I should have laid up short and right away from the water," he said. That mistake cost a double bogey and he dropped another shot at the 15th when his second, a "flushed" five-iron, came up in the water, but he birdied the 17th to get one back.Only Weir, it seemed, was oblivious to the mayhem and he played his last six holes in level par.
The 32-year-old, who won twice earlier in the year, is not one of the really long hitters who were expected to dominate "I'm not a bomber for sure," he said. "I have to make my wedge game work for me and rely on my course management and my putting. If you have a good putter in your hand, that's a great equaliser.". Tiger Woods has not yet won a Major when he has not been leading or tied for the lead with a round to play. If Woods is to add a ninth Major title, a fourth green jacket and a record third in a row, he will have to alter that scenario in today's final round of the 67th US Masters. Maggert finished two in front of Mike Weir and three ahead of Vijay Singh and David Toms.