Impressive start for Woods
Tiger Woods wasted no time eating further into Chris DiMarco’s lead when the final day of the Masters began.
After three successive birdies before the close last night, the three-time champion resumed on the 10th hole of his third round and birdied that as well to be only three behind.
Woods had had an enormous break there.
There was mud on his ball on the fairway when play was called off and he was able to clean it for the resumption of play at 8am.
The world number two hit his approach to 10 feet and rolled in a putt which put him six under for the round – and 12 under for his last 27 holes.
DiMarco set off again on the 10th tee.
His only bogey of the tournament had come here on the opening morning 44 holes earlier - second only to Stuart Appleby's Masters record run of 50 - and this time he dramatically double-bogeyed it to be only one in front of Woods.
His approach was splayed low and right into a bush. Forced to take a penalty drop he chipped well to seve feet, but did not read enough break and fell back to 11 under.
It was the worst imaginable start for the 36-year-old, who shared the 54-hole lead with Phil Mickelson last year but dropped to sixth with a 76.
Mickelson, meanwhile, hit his first shot to six feet on the short 12th and made it to climb to four under and joint fourth.
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