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LA JOLLA, CALIF. -- In the Torrey Pines media centre Friday evening, after Tiger Woods shot 68, hundred of fingers hovered over keyboards, dying to type the words: "It's over." Somehow, the fingers resisted.
They should have gone with their first impulse.
Twenty-four hours later, the fellow who seemed poised to blow the field away at the 108th U.S. Open was hitting it everywhere but where he was aiming, and falling far enough back that winning his 14th major championship here this week was looking somewhere between unlikely and - given his history without a final-round comeback in a major - improbable.
Not impossible, mind you. We wouldn't go that far.
And then the world tilted, as it often does when Tiger is walking on it.
First, the game's greatest player made the world's most incredible eagle at the 13th hole, just when his hopes seemed to be bleeding away with every swing of his errant driver.
He hit it so far right off the tee at the 539-yard 13th that he was in Port-a-Potty territory in a trampled down fan walkway, then hit a screaming four-iron right over the flagstick to the back fringe and holed a 67-foot eagle putt that would have been good if the hole had been the circumference of a beer bottle.
If he wins this thing Sunday, that will be the hole that won it for him.
Three hours earlier, Phil Mickelson had made a nine there. Tiger made a three.
And he was just warming up.
He missed the next four fairways, too, made a bogey at the 14th, and pulled another miracle out of his nether regions at No. 17, where he one-hopped a 40-foot chip shot into the hole off the flagstick, for birdie.
Then, after finally finding a fairway at the 18th, he hit a towering five-wood on to the green and, from above the hole on a ticklish bank that left a 30-foot steep downhiller, naturally he rolled that one in for an eagle - his second in six holes - and the outright lead.
So forget the comeback. Let's count, instead, the number of times Woods has held or shared the lead heading into the final round of a major and coughed it up. That would be, uh, zero.
He's 13-for-13, and Sunday at Torrey Pines South, it falls to Lee Westwood, the 35-year-old from Worksop, England, to end that streak.
Westwood did nothing more exciting than shoot a one-under-par 70 - though he's been par or better all three rounds, pretty strong on a U.S. Open course - but he moved all the way to the top as the leaders stumbled all around him, and seemed certain to be sleeping on the lead at 2-under-par until Woods went 3-under on the final two holes to pass him.
Woods made three or four shots on that last nine that will go in anyone's Hall of Fame.
"What do you mean? I made 17 pars and a birdie, just a boring round of golf," joked Woods, who actually made a double, three bogeys, three birdies and two eagles.
"Seriously, it was a horrible start and somehow I got it back under par for the day, but there was a lot of luck involved. On 17, that ball had no business going into the hole, I hit it too hard and thought Id be looking at eight feet coming back. I was trying not to make six, instead I walk off with a three.
"On 13, I was trying to hit that five-iron into the back bunker, but somehow it stayed on the green, and when that putt went in, I mean . . . then on 18, I was glad to see Robert's (Karlsson) putt, because it broke right more than I thought, so I gave it a little extra break and it went right in."
Rocco Mediate, the 45-year-old who has come back from near-crippling back problems, seemed in complete control at four-under par - two-under for the day - after 12 holes, but proceeded to lose four strokes on the next four holes, including a double-bogey at the 15th, and tumble right out of the lead. He birdied the 17th to get back under par, but he was watching the Tiger fireworks happening ahead of him and could only shake his head afterwards.
"I just . . . it was like, What are you doing? Stop it!'" said Mediate. "But it didn't make me play any differently, I just drew a couple of awful lies on 15 and, you know, I've had good lies all week, so I can't complain."
Everyone but Mediate got off to a rotten start.
The 448-yard first hole was playing dead into a significant breeze, in heavy air, and for the second time in three days, it extracted a double-bogey from Woods, who drove into deep rough left and promptly undid most of his good work from Friday's 68. It also was the beginning of a long front-nine slide for 36-hole leader Stuart Appleby, who dropped five shots with three bogeys and a double (with a four-putt on No. 5) in the first six holes, and for Sweden's Karlsson, who began the day tied with Woods but blew up spectacularly with bogeys at the first and eighth and double-bogeys at the third and sixth.
Appleby's putting was so appalling that four holes after his four-putt, he took three to get down from five feet at the ninth and made the turn in 41 strokes and finished with a birdie at the 18th for 79. Karlsson shot 75.
Canada's Mike Weir kept plugging away despite some setbacks and came in with a gritty 69 that left him in a tie for 11th place.
The day was noteworthy, also, for the trials of pre-tournament co-favourite Mickelson, who had played in the marquee group of the world's top three players with Woods and Adam Scott on Thursday and Friday, but was so far back (as was Scott) after 36 holes that they were paired together, fully three hours before Woods teed off.
Lefty was struggling along, but not completely out of it until he hit the par-5 13th hole, when his approach shot didn't quite get up the steep hill to the front hole location, and rolled back into a well-worn hollow, 100 yards short of the green. It took him four shots from there to get the ball to stay on top of Mount Mickelson, as it is sure to be called, and then he three-putted for a nine.
"I've had a nine there before," said Mickelson, who grew up on Torrey Pines. "Mind you, I was eight years old at the time."
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