Tiger Woods Third Round Masters 2010 – Tiger Woods is back in his element after a humiliating sex scandal, as he entered Saturday’s third round of the Masters with confidence.
The star golfer was in the next-to-last-group, which means his return to the green after a five-month layoff is going as Tiger planned. Woods has only one thing on his mind at the historic green patch of east Georgia – winning a fifth green jacket.
Woods followed a 4-under 68 in the opening round with a rock-solid 70 in tougher conditions Friday, leaving him a mere two strokes behind a pair of Englishmen, Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood, who share the lead. The third round began with the field whittled down to 48 players. Defending champion Angel Cabrera, who needed a clutch putt at No. 18 Friday just to make the cut, teed off in the first group with Robert Allenby, reports the Associated Press.
Things really picked up in the afternoon. When asked if he liked his spot on the leaderboard, Woods replied, “Yeah. I do,” smiling broadly.
In three of his four Masters wins, this is where the star athlete seized control. Lurking back just a bit at the midway point, he surged to the lead in the third round – wiping out a six-stroke deficit to Chris DiMarco in 2005, coming back from four shots down to Vijay Singh in ’02, passing DiMarco in ’01 after trailing by two strokes at the 36-hole mark.
He’s two shots behind this time with a 6-under 138.
“I felt I could put myself in contention,” Woods said. “I didn’t have the luxury of playing tournaments coming in here, so I had to be more focused on my practice sessions coming into it and then take more out of them than most people would.”
Perhaps Woods’ can attribute a good game thus far to him using golf to block out the revelations about all of his extramarital affairs and the uncertain state of his marriage.
