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Round 3: Limping Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Well, Tiger's in the lead. Anyone surprised?

Tiger Woods shot a stirring 70 at Torrey Pines on Saturday and leads the U.S. Open by one stroke. He should be a shoo-in tomorrow, right? Welllllll ... Woods will probably win. But ...

He was clearly in a lot of pain on Saturday with his left knee, especially on some drives. And the knee has appeared to bother him more each day. And it did affect his game - he sprayed a lot of drives late in the game. If the knee worsens tomorrow - maybe even stiffens up overnight - who knows? But it's not like he's going to withdraw (although it wouldn't be surprising to see him withdraw from the Buick Open, scheduled in two weeks). No matter what the knee feels like on Sunday, Woods will be out there fighting for the championship.

And when Woods is in this position in a golf tournament, he usually gets that championship.

The Leaders
Tiger Woods, 72-68-70--210
Lee Westwood, 70-71-70--211
Rocco Mediate, 69-71-72--212
Geoff Ogilvy, 69-73-72--214
D.J. Trahan, 72-69-73--214
Hunter Mahan, 72-74-69--215
Camilo Villegas, 73-71-71--215
Robert Allenby, 70-72-73--215
Miguel Angel Jimenez, 75-66-74--215
Robert Karlsson, 70-70-75--215
Mike Weir, 73-74-69--216
Sergio Garcia, 76-70-70--216
John Merrick, 73-72-71--216
Ernie Els, 70-72-74--216
Full leaderboard

There are some very good names on that leaderboard, but the players closest to Tiger - Westwood and Mediate - are not ones he'll be much concerned with. Ogilvy frittered away a couple strokes late, but he's a player who can charge tomorrow. Karlsson, Weir, Garcia, Els - any one of them might pop up with a 67 tomorrow. Probably won't, but each is capable of doing so.

As for Tiger's third round - or more specifically his final six holes - wow. A loooooooong eagle putt on No. 13, then a chip-in birdie out of thick greenside rough on No. 17, then another very difficult eagle on No. 18. And all of that while fighting the knee problem and the shaky drives that were resulting. Good stuff. As rounds of 70 go, this has got to be one of the most memorable.

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Watching Tiger nearly collapse after nearly every tee shot from 13 on – I gave him no chance of doing anything other than limping in with pars. (no pun intended) Silly me.

Too bad Rocco fell apart like that. Hope he gets it back together for Sunday.

And a Westwood/Woods final pairing ? There is a lot of Ryder Cup history working there. I can’t wait !

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Jun 14, 2008 11:02 PM EDT   0 recs

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