
Blow, baby, blow.
That’s what Tiger Woods seemed to be hoping for today. Almost every answer he gave after his third round included the words blustery or gusting.
Well, he got his wish.
It’s getting windier by the hour, with a steady breeze of 15 mph and gusts of 25-plus mph. That’s about a two-club wind even for these pros, and if the scene on the practice range is any indication, you’ll see a lot of player-caddie conferences across Augusta National’s fairways.
That’s assuming they’ll be in the fairways. To a man, players were working on low punch shots, trying to gauge the right trajectory in these conditions.
Tiger Woods, of course, has that “stinger” in his arsenal. He should have used it at No. 1, where his approach ballooned into a crosswind and missed the green short and right. (He still two-putted for par).
You gotta figure these conditions will help Woods -- or at least hurt him the least -- and bring the leaders back to him.
Or will it? He trails by six strokes, and he’s never come from behind heading into Sunday to win any of his majors.
Not that a six-stroke deficit is insurmountable entering the final round. Gary Player (1978), Nick Faldo (1996), Fuzzy Zoeller (1979) and Art Wall (1959) did it. The record Masters rally is from eight shots back by Jack Burke in 1956.
History is not on Trevor Immelman’s side, either. He was the 10th player to shoot in the 60s for the first three rounds. But nobody has carded four scores in the 60s.
And Immelman just bogeyed No. 1, badly pushing his tee shot right, closer to the media center than the middle of the fairway.
It promises to be one of the wildest Masters finishes in recent memory.

