The Live Report: The Masters, Round 4
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By PGATOUR.COM Staff
THE SCENE FROM 18 (7:20 p.m.): The 74th Masters will go down as one of the best ever. Progressive Tournament Chairman Billy Payne has restored the roars and Phil Mickelson helped deliver them.
All week, Mickelson's wife, Amy, had been itching to get out of the house, where she watched from afar. Sunday morning, she made it clear she wanted to be here, especially if her husband was close. By the time he hit the 18th hole with a two-stroke lead, Amy was already here, having spent about the last hour in Butler Cabin.
By the time Mickelson made birdie on the final hole, she' made her way to the 18th, where the two embraced in what was one of the more emotional moments this club has ever seen.
Mickelson also joins some pretty exclusive company as one of five players with three Green Jackets -- the others are Jimmy DeMaret, Sam Snead, Gary Player and Nick Faldo.
While Mickelson strode up the 18th, Tiger Woods, disappeared into the clubhouse, where he was quickly whisked away down Magnolia Lane. He says he's not sure where he'll play next, that he needs to take a little time off to re-evaluate things.
Clearly Woods has some rust to flake off. He still shot 69, though, hitting the ball all over the place with a two-way miss and not making anything (unless you count the eagles on Nos. 7 and 15, the first of which came from a fairway hole-out).
Coming into the Masters, Woods was the story, playing for the first time following a five-month hiatus. Leaving, it became Mickelson's Masters. -- Brian Wacker
WESTWOOD SECOND (7:15 p.m.): Despite not being able to close the deal after leading through 54 holes, Lee Westwood was in good spirits after his second-place finish to Phil Mickelson.
Sure, he was disappointed in not winning, but his final-round 71 was respectable.
"I didn't do too much wrong today," he said. "I think Phil won that one fair and square." -- Mike McAllister
PHIL DOES IT (6:50 p.m.): Phil Mickelson has won his third Green Jacket, putting him in elite company. His total of 16 under is the fourth-best score in Masters history, and his bogey-free round of 5-under 67 will go down as one of the best finishing rounds in the 74-year history of the tournament.
"To win this tournament, it's the most amazing feeling," Mickelson said in the Butler Cabin. "This has been a special day." -- Mike McAllister
WOODS, CHOI FINISHED (6:36 p.m.): Tiger Woods and K.J. Choi just finished their fourth consecutive round together ... and fittingly, each finished with the same score at 11 under.
Of course, they took completely different routes to get to that number.
Choi was steady and solid early and when he went to 12 under just after the turn, he held a share of the lead. But he couldn't keep the momentum going, carding consecutive bogeys at the 13th and 14th holes.
Meanwhile, Tiger had driver problems most of the day. He started slowly, losing three strokes in the first five holes. He holed out from the fairway for eagle at the par-4 seventh, but could never find his consistency.
No doubt Tiger will be disappointed that he didn't win the Masters in his first start of the 2010 season, but a tie for fourth is not a bad way to come back. -- Mike McAllister
THREE UP, TWO TO PLAY (6:20 p.m.): Phil Mickelson's firmly in control now, up three shots over Anthony Kim and Lee Westwood and safely through the 16th hole.
Should he win, Mickelson will break the logjam of active PGA TOUR pros with three majors. Mickelson entered this week tied with Padraig Harrington, Ernie Els and Vijay Singh as full-time TOUR pros with three majors.
A fourth major victory would make him the 26th player in golf history to win four or more professional majors. The last player to reach four majors, of course, was Tiger Woods when he won the British Open in 2000. -- Mike McAllister
KIM GOES LOW TOO (6:10 p.m.): Anthony Kim has taken the clubhouse lead at 12 under following his sizzling 7-under 65 that ties Nick Watney for the low round of the week.
With Phil Mickelson at 15 under with three holes to play, Kim will likely come up short in his latest chance to win his first major.
But it's apparent that Kim has the game for Augusta National. He shot 65 in the second round last year in his first Masters start, eventually finishing in a tie for 20th. And now he may very well end up as the runner-up. -- Mike McAllister
WATNEY GOES LOW (6:05 p.m.): Nick Watney came up one stroke short of tying the record for lowest final round at the Masters, but there was no disappointment in his face after shooting 7-under 65, the low round of the tournament (later tied by Anthony Kim). His fast finish put him at 8 under for the tournament and well inside the top 16, which will get him an invite to next year's Masters.
"It was a magical day," Watney said. "I was having so much fun coming down the stretch and I didn't really want it to end.
"Although I didn't win the tournament, it's a dream come true to play a good round on Sunday at Augusta."
Watney seems quite comfortable at Augusta National, and you might look for him as a future champion. After all, in his three starts here, he's finished tied for 11th (2008), 19th (2009) and wherever he finishes Sunday.
Had Watney not posted a 5-over 76 on Friday, he would have found himself in serious contention this week. His other three rounds were all under par.
"I missed a few on the back nine and I was just very unfortunate," Watney said of Friday's round. "It was pretty much just the back nine that cost me, may have cost me the tournament.
"But I was just trying to learn from that. I'm really looking forward to next year." -- Mike McAllister
MICKELSON MAGIC (5:45 p.m.): Classic Phil Mickelson. His ball resting in pine straw on the right side of the par-5 13th hole, Mickelson could lay up or go for it. There would have been no shame in the former, but there might be a Green Jacket in the latter.
Mickelson went for it, lasering an iron between two trees, over the creek in front, to 3 feet to set up his third eagle of the week on the hole. Except he didn't make the eagle, which would have been his third of the week on that hole. Still, a birdie gives him a two-shot advantage late in the round. -- Brian Wacker
DOWN THE STRETCH (5:40 p.m.): Only here is four holes an eternity. Right now, Anthony Kim probably wishes there were eight or nine holes left. Kim, who shot 65 in the second round here a year ago in his first Masters, is on track for that here in the final round.
Kim is 7 under on the day, 11 under for the week and one shot back after playing his last four holes in just 11 shots. In case you're wondering, the lowest final round score here ever is a 64, shot by eight different players. Kim is one away from tying that with two holes to play. -- Brian Wacker
ASIAN INFLUENCE (5:30 p.m.): Phil Mickelson just took the lead by one after a birdie on No. 12, but if K.J. Choi claims the Green Jacket today, Choi would be the second consecutive Asian player to win a major. Y.E. Yang was the first, winning the PGA Championship last August.
Here is a list of notable finishes by Asian-born players in major championship history. -- Mark Stevens
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KIM INTO CONTENTION (5:20 p.m.): There's still so much golf left, even with just a half dozen holes to play. But Anthony Kim just put himself into contention with an eagle on the par-5 15th hole that gets him to 11 under and within one of the lead shared by K.J. Choi and Phil Mickelson. -- Brian Wacker
CHOI, MICKELSON SHARE LEAD (5 p.m.): As good a partner as K.J. Choi has been for Tiger Woods this week, Woods apparently has been just as good for Choi.
Choi has been flawless here in the final round, making four birdies and no bogeys through his first 10 holes. That has Choi tied for the lead with Phil Mickelson, who just made an incredible par save on No. 10. Eight holes is still a long, long way to go here. -- Brian Wacker
MICKELSON NOW LEADS (4:45 p.m.): A bogey by Lee Westwood and a par by Phil Mickelson on the par-4 ninth now has Mickelson in the lead as the two turn to the back.
Westwood is now tied at 11 under with K.J. Choi, one shot back of Mickelson. Fred Couples, meanwhile, is 10 under after a birdie on No. 9 and par on 10, while Tiger Woods is three back after a birdie on No. 9 and a par on 10.
That whole saying about the back nine Sunday at Augusta? We're there now. -- Brian Wacker
COURSE REACTION (4:43 p.m.): With the early starters now finishing, here are a few thoughts about how the back nine is playing as the leaders approach the turn.
• Scott Verplank said the pin location at the 14th is "not the really tough Sunday pin over on the right." He said the par-5 13th does have the traditional Sunday pin, but "if you hit a good drive, you can get it in there close."
• Steve Stricker said par-3 16th is a birdie hole. "You got to get a little aggressive with it, take enough club to feed it off the back, but there's a fine there. You hit short of that bank and it rolls back; you hit too far and it rolls past it. You've got to hit a good shot there, but you can make birdie there."
• Ben Crane said the wind is swirling at Amen Corner, "which can cause havoc. But for the most part, the gusts are five, 10 miles an hour at the most." Crane added, "I think we're going to see some good scoring on the back nine if people get the ball in the right position." -- Mike McAllister
LOW AMATEUR (4:35 p.m.): Matteo Manassero turned lots of heads at Augusta National this week. Not only did the 16-year-old Italian impress as a golfer, he was a favorite of the teenage girls in attendance, as well.
Asked whether he got any marriage proposals, Manassero said no. "They think I'm too young, I think," he said before hastily adding, "No, I'm not too young."
The handsome dark-haired teen, who plans to turn pro in two weeks, may have finished as the low amateur but he wasn't all business this week. He admitted that he did notice the girls in his gallery. "I like that," he said.
Manassero, who is the youngest ever to play at the Masters, finished 4 over, beating three major champions, among others. He opened his first Masters with a round of 1 under and closed it by shooting even par thanks to a 4-footer for birdie at the 18th hole.
"Today I think I played really good," Manassero said. "Can't play much better than this. I maybe left on the course on some occasions birdie chances. I made two bogeys on the last, but I finished with a good birdie; that's a good memory."
The BMW Italian Open in Turin will be Manassero's first event as a pro. His performance at the Masters should be a confidence boost, the talented teen said.
"Definitely will help me in all areas, to play with these guys, be comfortable with this crowd, and to understand that I can compete with these guys," Manassero said. "It's very important."
"I think that he just keeps proving that he's a great player," added Francesco Molinari, a fellow Italian who was playing at the Masters for the first time this week. "And he's just 16, so I think he's one of the biggest talents I've ever seen." -- Helen Ross
CRANE FIRSTS (4:25 p.m.): Ben Crane, who won the Farmers Insurance Open earlier this year, came up with a couple of firsts this week at the Masters.
He made his first cut in three attempts -- and on Sunday, Crane broke 70 for the first time at Augusta National. His round of 68 included a string of four straight birdies that began on the 13th hole.
"I just came out here with the idea of having some fun and enjoying the fact that I'm in the Masters," Crane said. "I couldn't be more pleased with just the way I've been playing, and to have a great round today was just icing on the cake for me, so I'm just very pleased." -- Helen Ross
YOU TWEET, WE ANSWER (4:18 p.m.): "Is Amy Mickelson going to be in the gallery?" -- @sahyder1
It will depend on how husband Phil is doing. As mentioned earlier this week, Amy is in Augusta, but she's stayed back at the house and hasn't been on the golf course. If Phil is closing in on a third career Green Jacket, though, there's a chance we could see her shuttled out to the 18th hole. -- Brian Wacker
RARE FRONT-NINE EAGLE (4:10 p.m.): Tiger Woods' eagle on the par-4 seventh is just the third eagle he has recorded on the front nine in 62 rounds at Augusta National. In the first round, Woods eagled the par-5 eighth hole.
On the flip side, Woods has recorded seven eagles on the back nine, including one on the par-5 15th in the first round.
WOODS EAGLES (4:03 p.m.): Excitement, restored. So far, we've two holes-in-one and two hole-outs for eagle on No. 7 with Tiger Woods become the latest to jar one from the fairway. That moves Woods to 7 under, five shots off the lead.
The eagle by Woods is the third from the fairway this week -- Phil Mickelson had the other one in Saturday's round, holing out on No. 14 during an eagle-eagle-birdie stretch. -- Brian Wacker
SIZZLING FOR 14 HOLES (4 p.m.): When Scott Verplank birdied the par-4 14th, he was 7 under for his round and just one stroke off the record pace for a final round at the Masters.
Alas, after a couple of pars, Verplank double-bogeyed the par-4 17th to end his shot for any record, then finished with a bogey on the 18th.
Verplank should leave Augusta National on a positive note, since his 68 is his lowest score in 42 careers rounds here. But his struggles on the last two holes likely prevented him from finishing in the top 16, which receive automatic invitations to next year's Masters.
"I kind of figured 2 would be pretty close, 3 would be a lot," Verplank said, "and I got it to 4 and then I kind of screwed it up there at the end." -- Mike McAllister
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ANOTHER ACE (3:55 p.m.): We now have two holes-in-one with Ryan Moore becoming the second player today to ace the par-3 16th, where his ball landed right of the hole and funneled into the hole.
That marks the second time there have been two aces in the same round here at Augusta National (the other was in 2006) and the 13th hole-in-one on No. 16. Earlier in the day, in the first group out, Nathan Green made an ace there. -- Brian Wacker
YOU TWEET, WE ANSWER (3:50 p.m.): "Heard TV announcers say Couples wears boat shoes. Is that true or some trendy golf shoes?" -- @Greenmarketguy
They're not boat shoes as much as they are sneakers. And yes, they're also spikeless -- unlike Ryan Moore's, which actually do have spikes in them. Yesterday, Couples also went sock-less. -- Brian Wacker
FIRST-TIME MASTERS MEMORIES (3:45 p.m.): Nathan Green did some souvenir shopping on Monday at the Augusta National. Overall, though, the Aussie says he's not a "memento sort of guy."
"Just the memories are good enough for me," Green, who is playing in his first Masters, said.
He certainly made some on Sunday during the final round when he eagled the 13th hole and made an ace at the 16th. And Green will have some pretty special memorabilia, too -- a crystal bowl for the ace and two goblets for the eagle.
Green actually didn't know about the Masters tradition until his caddy mentioned it after his 6-iron landed about 18 inches from the pin at the 13th hole. The Aussie had struggled finding the line on Augusta National's slick greens all week, but had no trouble negotiating that putt.
The ace also came courtesy of that 6-iron -- "It was a good club today," Green acknowledged with a smile. The ball caught the slope and made a bee-line for the pin. It was his fifth hole-in-one in competition and seventh of his career.
"You don't really know where it's going from where we are," Green said. "We go on crowd reaction. I could tell it was getting pretty close but from my angle it looked like it was going a bit past the pin.
"When it went it, you just go a bit numb. To hear the crowd go like that -- it's an experience I wish everybody could have. It was really special."
Green finished his final round just before the leaders teed off. He planned to head back to the house he'd rented and settle into the couch with a few beers and watch the rest of the action at Augusta National on Sunday.
"I would love to see Lee Westwood win it," Green said. "... I think he's ready. He's been that good of player and then he lost it and to come back and if you could win a Masters after some of the issues that he's gone through in his career and that sort of thing, it would be an amazing achievement for him, I think. ...
"You got so many good stories, Tiger coming back and Phil who has been through some really tough things in the last sort of 12 months. So I don't know, this thing is set up for a great day." -- Helen Ross
HAT TRICK FOR TIGER (3:38 p.m.): The bogeys continue to pour in for Tiger Woods. He just made his third bogey in his first five holes. Woods is now back to 5 under and six shots back. His playing partner, K.J. Choi, however, is 1 under on his round, four shots better than Woods today. -- Brian Wacker
TIGER BOGEYS, AGAIN (3:25 p.m.): If Tiger Woods wins the Masters, it will be really epic now. Woods has fallen six shots back after making his second bogey of the day. Woods missed the green on the par-3 fourth, then ran his chip well past the hole. Woods missed the putt coming back, dropping him to 6 under and six shots back of the lead of Lee Westwood. -- Brian Wacker
SEEN AND HEARD (3:14 p.m.): For those of you wondering, Tiger's shirt is carmine. It's solid with a diamond weave pattern. Yesterday, it was a lavender shirt with thin stripes and gray pants. The golf fashion police approved of both. ...
From Nick Faldo on Fred Couples at the ninth: "How does he get a hole-in-one roar on a 30-foot birdie putt? He's Fred Couples." ...
Watching from off the lawn: Rod Curl. The 1974 Colonial National Invitation champ is now 67 and teaching golf in Atlanta. In case you didn't know, he's a Wintu Indian, whose name "Yoso" means Johnny comes from behind. -- Melanie Hauser
TRACKING TIGER (3 p.m.): Tiger Woods had his usual sea of humanity following him as he teed off on the first hole, where his tee shot sailed left into the ninth fairway and his approach came up short and right. Woods wasn't able to get up-and-down -- his chip shot nearly rolled off the back and he missed the putt from the fringe coming back.
As that was happening, Phil Mickelson and Lee Westwood teed off to a gallery of equal size. Mickelson parred the first hole, which gets him to 11 under and into a tie for the lead with Westwood, who made bogey.
And a few minutes after that, a huge roar echoed up the hills here. It was for Fred Couples, who poured in a birdie from just off the third green. Couples has birdied his last two holes and is just two shots back. -- Brian Wacker
DRESS CODE (2:50): Evidently, Phil Mickelson and K.J. Choi got the same message -- both are wearing all black for today's final round.
Meanwhile, Tiger Woods has his traditional Sunday red shirt with black pants. Third-round leader Lee Westwood also is wearing a red shirt, along with white pants.
Westwood's apparel prompted one patron -- evidently from Wisconsin -- to remark, "He's got his Badger colors on." -- Mike McAllister
SHAKY DRIVES (2:40 p.m.): Think the players are impervious to nerves? Think again. In the last three groups, three opening drives -- by Fred Couples, Tiger Woods and Lee Westwood -- were sprayed well left of the fairway on the first hole.
In fact, Woods' drive landed in the ninth fairway, and he eventually took bogey, and Westwood also had to settle for bogey to drop into a tie with Phil Mickelson at 11 under. -- Mike McAllister
ANOTHER EAGLE DROPS (2:23 p.m.): Adam Scott has picked up a pair of crystal goblets with an eagle on the par-4 seventh hole, where he jarred one from the fairway. Scott is 1 over in today's round and is also 1 over for the week. -- Brian Wacker
GREEN'S CRAZY DAY (2:02 p.m.): Nathan Green won't be going home empty handed this week, despite shooting a final-round 75. That's because the Australian had an eagle on the par-5 13th, which nets him a pair of crystal goblets. Actually, Green had two eagles with the other one being a hole-in-one on the par-3 16th. That earned him a large crystal bowl.
Green's ace was the 12th on No. 16 in the history of the tournament. The ball landed right of the hole and funneled down the break and into the hole.
The rest of the round for Green, who is playing in his first Masters, didn't go quite as well. He had three bogeys and a double bogey in his first five holes, ran off three straight birdies and added two bogeys and a triple bogey -- along with the aforementioned eagles -- on the back nine. -- Brian Wacker
FAMILIAR FACE (1:45 p.m.): For the fourth straight day, Tiger Woods will play with K.J. Choi (they tee off in 45 minutes). Never before has Woods had the same partner for all four rounds of a tournament. Not that Woods seems to mind.
"I've played with him a lot over the years," Woods said. "K.J. is just -- he's a great guy and on top of that he's learned a lot of English. Our conversations are getting a little bit longer now."
Choi hasn't seemed to mind being in the Woods vortex, either.
"Absolutely fantastic," Choi said. "I'm used to him.
"I'm really having a good time this week, and I think the fans are really showing their love equally to everybody, especially to me, too, and every hole I feel like the crowds, they are supporting me, as well. It's just been a very comfortable week this week." -- Brian Wacker
WHO'LL HAVE THE BACK-NINE EDGE? (1:30 p.m.): We hear it every year -- this tournament doesn't really get started until the back nine on Sunday.
If that's the case, which player among the leaders has the edge? Well, K.J. Choi has been the steadiest in the first three rounds, recording just one bogey on the back nine. Phil Mickelson, though, has been the most spectacular, including that eagle-eagle-birdie stretch on Saturday.
Here's a look at the top five players and how they've fared on the back nine this week: -- Mike McAllister
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THE HOLE STORY (1:10 p.m.): Here's a look at the scoring averages at Augusta National for the first three rounds (see chart).
The most interesting number is that first-round scoring average. There were 31 guys under par, yet Saturday was a better overall day of scoring. With a lot of traditional pins and almost no wind here in the final round, expect the scoring to be good.
As for specific holes, the 505-yard par-4 11th hole (4.301) is playing the most difficult this week with only nine birdies and a 4.301 stroke average. The 575-yard par-5 second hole has been the easiest with a 4.633 stroke average. -- Brian Wacker
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BACK TOGETHER AGAIN (12:50 p.m.): What a difference a year makes. Two of the three protagonists in 2009 Masters playoff -- defending champion Angel Cabrera and Kenny Perry -- are playing together on Sunday.
But instead of a Green Jacket, only bragging rights are at stake this time when the two tee off at 1 p.m.
Perry starts the final round at 1 under while Cabrera is even after Saturday's 69. A year ago, the two finished regulation, along with Chad Campbell, at 12 under.
Perry said he hasn't felt comfortable on the greens this week. On Saturday, he three-putted three times on the front nine en route to an even-par 72.
"I just struggled with ... the speed of the greens this week," Perry said. "My old putter, old faithful -- I can't get it -- it broke and I reshafted it and it just don't feel the same."
Cabrera, meanwhile, put himself too far back the first two days -- shooting 3 over to make the cut on the number -- to give himself any chance to defend this weekend. He's been too inconsistent with his approach shots -- in the first round, he hit just seven of 18 greens in regulation, then on Saturday, he led the field by hitting 16 of 18 greens. -- Helen Ross
RECORD WEEK? (12:35 p.m.): No player has ever recorded four rounds in the 60s in the Masters. Lee Westwood has a chance to do that today -- and with very little wind, he'll have a shot.
Westwood, incidentally, becomes the 27th player to record at least three rounds in the 60s at Augusta National. It has been done 30 times, twice by Phil Mickelson (2001, 2004), Jack Nicklaus (1965, 1975), Tom Watson (1978, 1984) and Tiger Woods (1997, 2001).
Mickelson, the man closest to Westwood, has recorded four sub-par rounds here only once in his career (2001, when he finished third). He'll have a chance to repeat that today.
Mickelson's best round here, by the way, is a 65 in 1996. If he shoots that today, he'll win and get his third Green Jacket. Below is a look at the company Mickelson is looking to join. -- Brian Wacker
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PIN PLACEMENTS (12:20 p.m.): The pin placements for Sunday's final round at the Masters traditionally remain the same each year, which allows players to gameplan well in advance. As reigning U.S. Open champ Lucas Glover said after shooting a 1-under 71 on Saturday: "I know where all the holes are going to be (Sunday), so I'll sit around tonight and figure it out."
It won't really matter for Glover, who's starts the day too far back to contend. But it will matter for those at the top of the leaderboard.
In recent years, those traditional pin placements have helped create a Sunday shootout. In fact, in three of the past four years, the stroke average has been lower in the fourth round than any other round.
"Somebody's going to shoot a number to win," said Kenny Perry, who lost in a three-man playoff here last year. "You're going to have to shoot a score to win this tournament. It's not going to be given to you."
In looking at the pin placements for Sunday, those pins placed closest to the edge of the green are at the par-5 second, the par-3 fourth, the par-4 11th and the par-3 12th. Each pin is four paces from the edge.
Speaking of No. 2, keep a close eye on how Phil Mickelson plays it Sunday. Earlier in the week, he discussed the hole and its Sunday's pin placement in the back right.
"The pin placement on the back of No. 2 will change the way I play that hole," he said. "It used to be that if you were short of the hole, that back-right Sunday pin, if you were short of the bunker, if you were 50, 80 yards from the fairway, what-have-you, it was a very difficult shot to get close to the hole. But now it has more of a funnel effect and you can play behind the hole and it will come back to the pin.
"That will affect the way I play No. 2 because now it's much more difficult behind the hole, so I may not go for the green in two, or if I do, I'll play it from the front bunker because it's an easier up-and-down."
Of course, after his eagle binge Saturday, Mickelson may change his approach, drawing upon his confidence on the par 5s to go for the green. -- Mike McAllister
LPGA STAR IN THE CROWD (12:15 p.m.): A major for a major champ -- Kraft Nabisco Championship winner Yani Tseng drove seven hours Saturday morning from her home in Orlando, Fla., to attend the Masters.
"I like to spend time here, and just sit on the grass," she said. "It's so beautiful here. I'm happy to be back."
Tseng was here last year to support Taiwan's Lin Wen-Tang. This year? Fellow Lake Nona resident Ian Poulter. -- Melanie Hauser
SUNDAY SET-UP (12:10 p.m.): The good news for Tiger Woods, and everyone else not in the final pairing, is that it's been done before. It being someone in the last group winning. The bad news? It's happened just once in the last 19 Masters (Zach Johnson).
Therein lies the story for Sunday. More than likely, Lee Westwood or Phil Mickelson will be slipping on the green jacket around 7 p.m. Woods has also never won a major coming from behind.
The biggest comeback here in the final round? Eight strokes, by Jack Burke in 1956. Probably the most memorable? Nick Faldo's six-shot comeback in 1996. Woods will enter the final round four back. -- Brian Wacker
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