UPDATED: AUGUSTA — Gary Woodland, who began the day at 3-over for the tournament, shot a Masters-record tying 30 on the front nine on Saturday and moved into a tie for third. The leaders don’t tee off till 2:45 p.m. Woodland eagled No. 2, and birdied 1, 6, 8 and 9. It ties four others who have accomplished the score on the front nine: Johnny Miller in the third round 1975, Greg Norman in the fourth round 1988, K.J. Choi in the second round 2004 and Phil Mickelson in the fourth round 2009.
ORIGINAL: AUGUSTA – They began the third round of the Masters on Saturday and a Flomax commercial broke out.
Before getting to the serious business of jockeying for final round position – that’s why they call golf Saturdays “moving day” – we might recognize an achievement in graceful aging. Six of the 51 players who made the cut were over the age of 50.
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One of them – 54-year-old Fred Couples is even viable, at 2 under. The others are Larry Mize (55), Bernhard Langer (56), Sandy Lyle (56), Miguel Angel Jimenez (50) and Vijay Singh (51). All but Singh are scheduled to appear next weekend at Champions Tour event at TPC Sugarloaf, the Greater Gwinnett Championship.
All of them can savor the satisfaction of teeing off after the young star Rory McIlroy, who barely limboed under the cut line and went off first Saturday morning paired with a non-competing marker.
Leader Bubba Watson departs the first tee Saturday afternoon at 2:45 p.m.
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