When Tiger Woods said yesterday that a player can make up shots in a hurry here, it was enough to make anyone a little skeptical. After all, we all know birdies aren't growing on trees here, or under them, which is where Woods found himself on No. 18 yesterday.
But of course he knew what he was talking about. He knew that if he just played steadily, kept inching up and avoided giving strokes away, he would close the game. Sure enough, here he is on No. 16, tied for fifth and only five shots behind Brandt Snedeker. A show of hands of people who don't think he can make up five shots on Brandt Snedeker, who is a gut and clutch player, but never has won a major.
Then again, you never know. Former New Yorker Johson Wagner just called Snedeker "one of the most clutch players I've ever played against" and added that Snedeker, a chlidhood friend from Tennessee has the personality to handle this.
One guy who hasn't made up strokes in a hurry is Phil Mickelson. He reverted to the inscrutable, halting Phil today. making bogeys on No. 6 and 8 and missing a birdie putt on 9. At the moment, he's tied with Woods, whom Mickelson led by 4 at the start of the day.
Souinds like an interesting Sunday, eh?