difficult. 6 again, a tough par 3. here is where they can make a birdie and ignite th round, which we have seen many times before. molinari climbs the ridge over the mounds, sees where his ball is. now he can start seeing where the flag is located as well. we go ahead one to 9. nick: poulter, fabulous view of the angle there. from that corner, it is going to be about seven. it goes diagonally, and the middle of the green is 10. so they have one yard to work with if you push it to the right of the flag. right-to-left wind. hold a nice fade up against that.

it will not spin. that will have 15 feet of right-to-left break. you have to putt that almost to the gap there between the two bunkers, head it across there, hang a level and dribble it downhill. brooks has to take advantage of this. get a wedge on the right level inside 10 feet. he has pulled it, so goes to go did go so it is going to go long. he needed a cut to cut it against the wind. that made a huge difference. the pull cost him there. jim: let's go back to the 8th.

ian: tiger's ball will be over towards the camera tower you can see in the distance, long and right. he has to land this on top or just over the ridge. you don't want to hit it into the ridge and spin it back. not too bad from back there. about 10 feet left for his birdie. get that dropped shot back from the 7th. tiger woods prowling at the 8th. through the at&t network, edge-to-edge intelligence gives you the power to see every corner of your growing business. from finding out what's selling best... to managing your fleet... to collaborating remotely with your teams. giving you a nice big edge over your competition.

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the hole, and he has plenty of green with which to work. he can get some spin on this ball. that little bank, four feet high. nick: can he just play this normally, or does he go past and bring it back? does he have two options? frank: i think the second option, nick, is a saver. if he nips it cleanly and gets the first bound, he has that back stop. nick: a good old bump and run. frank: it gathers to the right, at least he has a straight uphill putt for the birdie. obviously the ball was laying on the downslope there, nick. that is why he went low.

nick: the bump and run made sense. frank: a sand wedge rather than the lob wedge. over to 9. jim: poulter, followed by koepka on the same line. nick: i was playing with this purt in practice over the weekend. you can almost get it past the flag, and it will turn kind of backwards. of course it is a little bit slower. jim: his putting today from long distance has been wonderful. to 8. frank: tied 10th last year in his masters debut. we all saw how he hurt his ankle in the par 3 contest. he played well all week. now this one to tie for the lead. good speed. oh, it just didn't turn.

lovely putt. jim: and back at 9, koepka. nick: not quite as much break, but the same speed issues. into the gulley, and down she comes. excuse me. jim: pardon me. just not as much fire as we normally see. nick: no, by a long way. these greens could be as much as three feet slower than at their feistiest. jim: one under par for koepka. let's go back to 8. frank: to extend the lead.

oh, my goodness. the italian met gnome just keeps on ticking. amazing the way he has putted. two bogeys all week, and so steady from that distance. nick: that throws the pressure back to tiger. frank: certainly does. a little fist bump there with his caddie. nick: will this one leak to the right a little more than he thinks? frank: yes. once again, nick, it is one of those putts that if you start it left firm, it stays straight. nick: like tony's. you could put it a ball left, and it may state right there? frank: yes. i have seen this putt three or four times. dustin johnson holed it nicely,

but he really hit it firm, and it stayed straight. this to get to 12. ian poulter did two-putt that difficult one back at 9 for his par. birdie-birdie for woods at 7 and 8. as you suggest, nick, good drives off 9, 10 and 11 are essential. nick: really key. it takes so much pressure off. you can stay in attacking mode rather than starting to get fearful. and an easy two-putt birdie for

young tony finau. settle the nerves a little bit, get a birdie under the belt. he had 30 on the front nine yesterday. maybe he can do it on the back nine today. they walk back to the 9th time to the right of the 1st green, and they will fire back down the hill to the dog leg left. jim: at the 10th hole, matt kuchar. he played the first nine in even, but maybe this will start something on the second side with a tap-in birdie coming at the 10th. we go back to the 9th.

every hole, nick has been its on little chapter, its on little drama. tiger is one under. the other two in this group both even for the day, first down and molinari. -- finau and molinari. nick: tiger had a great opportunity at the 6th to put fresh on francesco, but he missed the putt. they both made three, and that was a significant moment. as i said earlier on, if you are running, let the front runners do all the heavy lifting and hang with them. then as things tighten up, who is going to hang on? jim: now with driver. nick: yes. you want to get it down there. with this hole location, as far down there as possible. that is perfect down the right side.

jim: finau is next, coming off of his first birdie of the day. look out. jim: that is way back. they are looking right around the base of that tree. he has already been against the base of one. you just never know what the golf goleds have in mind. you hit it in the forest, some are going to be up against a tree once or twice a week. nick: i would like to number the numbers, the score he has made when tiger has been in the freese.

the scores in the first two rounds were incredible. jim: now molinari. he hit the last one in bunker off the tee. hit this one on the nose. nick: down to one of the nice flat plateaus. jim: to 11. fran: patrick cantlay made the cut, 72, 73. 64 yesterday. second stroke straight date he birdies 11. cantlay, double figures now. nick: a player we think has an opportunity to post a score. frank: we certainly do. back to 10. jim: you hear the grayson murrays. they know it is sailing on him. nick: that is concerning. you true to drive it and carve it right.

jack: jim: that is what we were talking bfment you drive in in the forest, do you get a lie or a swing? that doesn't look promising. tiger is one back. molinari has him by a shot as they play the 9th in the final round of the masters. starting here, in procurement, helping us find the right suppliers. then here in logistic, to avoid disruptions! here in sales. even here! i'm talking about ai we can build to work... here, predicting trends. and here, wherever our data lives! and here, working with all our other ai! i think we're done here. expect more from ai. ibm watson. ♪ never taunts you. never crosses its arms. rolls its eyes. never loves to say, "that'll never happen." never, never lets up. until the impossible happens.

and when it does, they never, ever, see it coming. behind every beautiful car is a beautiful idea. mercedes-amg. driving performance. jim: back on a humid, cloudy morning in augusta. let's take a look at this. nick: two perfect drives out of three. right of center today. it is semi-blind. it is like a green horizon. they come down the hill, a couple of plateaus, turn, uphill. awkward lie, ball below your feet. a traditional front left corner just above the megafalse front. only yards and inches to work with on that hole location. jim: i like that, mega-false

front. we have seen it factor in so many masters tournaments. we can report that koepka's tee shot over at 10 is in the clear. he will have a shot. nick: wow. that is probably the worst swing he has made all week. jim: yes. he was discussing perhaps relief. here is tony finau setting up to play a massive hook. nick: if he can get it up to the rite part of the green, that would be a huge break. but he kind of has to go downhill and climb up. not sure if he has a trick shot in the bag to send it low and then high. these guys can hook it. that is the easy bit. jim: look at that hook swing.

in notice hurry to look at it. nick: he did it. just like the 2nd hook, he over hooked that one -- no, that was koepkas. no, he didn't want it there. anything five yards to the right side would have been a far easier third. tiger knows with that wind direction, he has got to cut it. he has to land it perfectly. he can't be one yard short of that flag. it will spin and come down. jim: he has a 7-iron. molinari outdrove him here. and that is going to the same area as finau. above and beyond. nick: wow.

that may be the back issues. when the ball is below your feet, you have to torque your back even more to impact. you have to hold the blade off. if the back says i can't do that, the arms take over. jim: tougher with the softer conditions. nick: yes. jim: it is so hard to describe it because you don't see many approaches like this. it is like you are approaching the green from friend angle. nick: yes. it is an opposite twist. the ball is below your feet. you want to go up and to the left, but the ball wants to go to the right. if you can strike it perfectly, that is. jim: what is he setting up

here, nick? nick: a traditional draw, his usual shot. he is right of the flag. will it spin? no. that is a fun one. he has to go straight along the top of the ridge, blinkers on, hang a left, another rollercoaster. jim: to 12. fran: cantlay with a 9-iron. hole cut all alone on the right side. that is always fun on a sunday. only three back. we good back to 10. jim: and way back there is koepka. nick: he is actually fortunate the pin is back left. that gives him tons of room to work with. great view. send it down the left-hand edge

of the greenside edge. jim: 249 yards to get there. nick: just a 4-iron. it won't get across that bunker. yes. it is not that far off line, but it doesn't get the carry coming in at that angle. jim: ahead to 13. dottie: jason day to reach double figures. we have had three eagles here already today. just a little bit of speed. a little bit of a surprise, too, for these players. it has been a long time since they have seen this on a sunday. it was a.l. year's friday hole location. well, with 9 1/2 holes to go, molinari with that sliver of a lead over tiger woods. koepka, finau. jason day did tap in for his birdie at the 13th and gets to nine under.

back to 9. jim: finau with this bunker shot you already said is not easy. nick: well, you come outside ways, well left, and just try and get it one yard on the green. or you go straight at it and just accept he is going to have a 10, 12 or 15-footer. jim: it skidded off the fringe. stay on. nick: that will make your heart race. jim: to ian poulter. nick: i tell you what, ian is going nicely. he is going to be another one that is getting big ideas about posting a score. jim: he is at one under for the

day. 10 under for the tournament. back to 9. nick: look at tiger pondering. he is trying to visualize. stand, look and feel it. he has to almost send it off the right edge of the green. it will catch a nice gulley there and just turn. jim: key here is getting the speed right. you have your brain's condition from all the years of fearing this putt above the hole that can just race by. but with thes softer, it belies what the experience says. to 12. frank: the side winder for cantlay.

he had the right idea. back to the 9th. nick: all he has to do is just get it to the top of the heilman and on to the owen slope and that's it. no more. doesn't need anymore force than that. it will make it to the hole. jim: he is staring down this flag stick. nick: in usual tiger fashion, he is trying to find a way to make this. jim: he made a long one up the hill from where he is standing now from outside 30 feet. gives it a cautious go. nick: yes. look at this. jim: it is not going to be short, is it? nick: no.

this is perfection. it is all yours, jim. jim: oh, my goodness. not quite. nick: he knew it. how about that. it was a 50-foot putt, and he was just trying to hit a 12 footer. jim: it took 50 seconds to get there. that was magnificent. shoots one under on the side three birdies to go with the bogeys at 4 and 5. 35 has been a popular score for him this week on that first nine. and we go to 10 with koepka.

nick: keep turning. well done. you have to play a little further to the right than you think jim: back to 9. molinari stepping interest a birdie bid. nick: not even close, jim. jim: all right, third shot. nick: yes, third shot. [laughter] same problem. he has to find the top of the hill, the apex. jim: he has hit it too hard. nick: yes. careful. he ends up past. that is brutal hard from seven or eight feet? jim: maybe not quit. started to circle around once it get past the hole. he is looking over and wondering how he just did that.

he has to grind for it. finau will have to face that same change first. nick: so they have all got -- molinari, koepka and finau all have tough putts. tiger is on scorecard. he is going to stay 12. another moment. there are always some moments mid round here at the masters on sunday. what a four. jim: there is one in the hole. nick: trees, bunker, one putt. jim: i understand he had a quiet relaxed night with his family. represented a house here in

augusta. he has about 15 family members on the trip from utah. early in this round, the story of molinari with all the par saves. that was the story. he made a nice putt at 8 for birdie. nick: he has made four very good ones at 1, 5, 6 and 8, and he needs this at 9. jim: he has competed twice against tiger in ryder cup singles. tiger will want and see if he could suddenly be tied for the lead, or will molinari hold him off again? nick: if you are going to win the masters, you have to putt great. that is an absolute must. jim: that even brings out a

little grin. his putting in that range between six and eight feet, phenomenal. nick: control of the nerves, emotions, everything. even your breathing you have to be able to control. jim: at 10, poulter. good putt. hurry now. trying to become the third engellandman to ever win -- englishman to ever win the green jacket. danny will etan our man nick on three occasions. that was in the heart. koepka.

look how much break he is playing. you said it was a pivotal moment. all three of them faced six-footers. the first two have gone down. make it 3-3. nick: wow. jim: they all could have missed, nick. nick: that is the story, youngsters. you need technique, you need nerve, and you need an awful lot of determination. jim: he has that. you saw a retire sign of excitement from koepka with a little pump fist after he knocked that one in for a huge save. on the 10 at 10. nick: a nice easy draw around the corner. jim: going 3-wood. nick: oh, that was a little late flick. headed down the right. now that is snookered. somebody gave it a nudge. how is he going to make a four

from there? wait and see. jim: how about a three? remember what he did at 14? on friday? nick: absolutely. that could have a 5-wood through the magnolia bush on to the green. oh, boy. jim: finau has to be feeling a little more optimistic with that escape at the 9th. nick: yes. that is not really going to turn. the length they hit it is not it. it is the angle they push it, down that second slope. setting up for a draw. it is serious golf time.

10, 11, 12, 13 with the hole location front right corner. 14 is easy. so the next few are pretty tough. beautiful striker, isn't he? clean and crisp. jim: the best of the three. up ahead to 11. frank: schauffele from more than 65 feet away. this is quick. it has got a chance. has to turn. another roll. can you believe it?

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jim: nine holes to go. there you see the golf ball belonging to tiger, right of the 10th, magnolia tree in his line. nick: from that first camera angle, it looks like he was three feet behind the bushes. it was a quick decision, a chip-out for safety. nick faldo [captioning funded by cbs sports division] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] nick: no options, even for tiger. he will have to chip it out for yardage.

jim: you heard the chatter from finau's bag. nick: he just wants to land it middle of the green. landed like 5:00, 15 yards short. jim: you heard his caddie, greg bodine. tony is a fast player. nick: might have just pulled that one. oh, boy, is he going to be -- that is mighty close. jim: that is an unforced error right there. nick: yes. a steep downhill lie. here is tiger now punching out when it was his turn. molinari is sitting in the center of the fairway.

he is going to go for the right hand tv station. jim: you don't want to go left here, and he has done the same thing as finau. nick: the same. that was the first one where the body didn't have the tempo or the zip to it. the body slowed down, chest stopped moving, pull it left. peter: hard to rotate from that side hill lie. frank: wants to keep it left and short of the pond. it will still be awkward to get that up and down. the flag today cut very close to the water as we go back to 10. jim: the third shot coming up here for tiger.

nick: suddenly it is like chess. if tiger throws it in close where molinari is going to make a four, suddenly he has lost that advantage. jim: choking down on the grip. what is that putt like? nick: well, you saw what brooks koepka had from six feet. it broke a good foot. that will come in sideways. all about the touch. jim: to 11. frank: and that flag is very close to where it was in 1999. nick: a little further back, frank. that is probably where i hit my 3 ernie: to. these guys are hitting wedges. frank: it will be a similar

putt. nick: a problemmer golfer. to 13. dottie: patrick cantlay in trouble. that is headed toward a large bunch of patrons down the right side. that is the 14th fairway to the viewer's left. nick: that will stress his caddie out finding it and getting that yardage. frank: the door opened. schauffele, just under 160 yards, 8-iron. just have a putt. that is all you need. oh, it's going to be a little better than that. very, very tasty. to 10. jim: and finau down here to play first.

then second to play will be molinari, hole-high left. nick: pretty good pair of hand. jim: wonderful hands. nick: great basketball player hands. jim: actually in high school he led the state of utah in rebounding. so relief coming. a list from the masters rules committee helping govern this moment. nick: again he has taken relief from those drain heads there he

probably went left. he took advantage getting the right angle. going that fraction further left, maybe it will give him just a fraction more room to work with. jim: quickly to 11. frank: can poulter get it up and down? a very nice fairly straight putt. back to 10. nick: doesn't want to over play this one, jim, and come up short. jim: remember, he went high, a lift shot -- a different shot, the lob. nick: he has five yards to work with, is so that is doable. jim: almost. talk about good hands.

nick: good nerve. i think the nerve comes first. now it does. jim: yes, it does. nick: this is the nerve zone for the next nine holes. jim: he thought it had a chance, and it did. he has left himself just a little uphill putt for par. tiger will be next with that side winder for his par. nick: tiger has to be careful. he would obviously louis: to make it. cannot make a run at it. he just has to feed it down there. nick: well, how slow was that? very surprised.

jim: and tiger back to even for the day. back to 11 under with koepka and finau, who must make a par putt here. that is his third bogey of the final round. tony was able to get off with a par on the 9th. it was a true adventure. this would be another magnificent save. nick: he was aiming there. it was just that little further around than brooks was, a

little bit straighter. misread that one a touch. jim: drops back to 10 under. joins the ranks of poulter, cantlay and schauffele. nick: i will be very interested to see what schauffele and cantlay can do once they get through the 15th hole, what kind of number they can post. that little run coming up next, 13, 14, 15, and maybe a bit of 16 are birdie opportunities. jim: schauffele has a good look at birdie at 12 coming up. the seventh one-putt green through 10 holes. and a par. 13 putts total through 10 holes , and his lead is right back where it started at two. let's go to 11.

nick: a couple of these short iron shots putting brooks under stress today, especially that one on 9 and that one at 11. frank: now schauffele to get to 11 under. it will break right as it slows down. nick: a little more than it looks. like so. that is a good 2 1/2 percent of slepyshev in that corner green, and it looks plate. frank: it does, especially since they redid the back of that green last year. but, two par 5's ahead. you would think at least 13 under is a mark he will have to put in his head. the famous 11th. the lowest point on the golf course, some 150 feet below the

1st green. ian poulter trying to get away here with four from the trees on the right, punched out. quickly to 13. dottie: patrick cantlay after a drop from the little intentions that the seats make, used the back stop as the best way to play this. he has gone way to the upper level and in fact missed the green. did a good job of setting up the angle with the second shot out of the trees. but not what you are looking for with just a flip wedge. frank: ian poulter gives it away. he is a better player tee to green now than he used to be. back at the 11th tee, molinari, remember he played with tiger woods at carnoustie, but that

is was in europe. today he plays woods in what is woods' adopted backyard. will it make a difference? nick: that is going to be a little tight, isn't it, frank? frank: yes. a little kick left might have helped. nick: a couple of overhanging branches around the corner. nick: that breeze is starting to freshen. hopefully that storm continues to stay away for another couple of hours. nick: good call, frank. it is seriously freshening, and it has just turned. it is actually hard left-to-right right now on this tee shot. they can't feel it down there.

frank: that is dicey. hit something. nick: he has gone into the gulley again. going to the right? frank: it kicked forward. nick: oh, boy. frank: molinari 13 under, woods, 11, koepka, 11 and now finau at 10. that will make the hole a little longer, but he will be fine. things just starting to tighten up. all the way down, koepka. four-footer is just as important right now. well done.

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giving you a nice big edge over your competition. that's the power of edge-to-edge intelligence. frank: we are back. koepka after a very, very long wait, 9-iron. a flag you don't really want to go at. breeze off to the left and slightly into you. well, that cost spieth back in 2016. it might have just cost koepka today. if you are in between clubs, this is a stretch that will get you each and every time.

nick: do you think that freshening wind caught him out there? frank: yes. the flags are starting to go in different dreggses. nick: it has definitely gotten stronger from left-to-right. frank: to 13. dottie: patrick cantlay for birdie. when it gets down around the hole, it gets pretty flat and pretty slow. they cut it this morning, and i was surprised. there is another. par 5's have just not been his strength this week. jim: finishing up, victor from oklahoma state, the u.s. amateur champion from pebble beach. first norwegian to ever play in

the masters. let's go to 15. peter: bubba watson, 184 yards left. a pitching wedge. and bubba watson hits it inside of four feet. he has that to go to minus 10. back to 11. frank: you see the hole location a few paces from the left side. molinari down the player's right side. nick you are front. the limbs in front are going to cause a problem here for molinari. nick: a tough decision to take this on. he has to go with a low chippy fade out to the right for safety. he went for it. frank: a very narrow gap.

nick: that kick, careful. wow, that was a fantastic -- that was brave. you have to man up, make the decision. see how he rotates the face through the ball to hit a little slice. gutsy shot there. frank: you see the big mounds on the left of your screen. they often kick that ball hard towards the pond. there should be 190 yards left for finau. sounded like a clean strike. fine shot, right distance. look at woods shot. nick: just doesn't want to over hook it, which i down he would

do with that churchy lie -- crunchy lie. frank: there is enough green on the right side, and the breeze is coming from his left. somewhere just around tony finau's ball, he would certainly take it. he is turning it back into the breeze. oh, excellent shot a little ground roll as well, that from 182 yards.

it appears quiet down at 12. poulter. took one more club than koepka. gets the same result. two of the game's best. koepka and poulter, wet. to 9. jim: what a fine performance here. shoots 71 today. look at those rounds, 72, 71, 71, 71. three under. tied for 33rd. there is still otiz, the latin american amateur champion, has three holes to play. he will play 7, 8 and 9.

owe has won the honor for low amateur. congratulations to all four. the most to qualify since 1999. four amateurs to the weekend. the turn of events here with horlte and koepka up ahead in the water at 12. frank: amazing how quickly it has changed in the matter of a few members. i guess water will put out any fire for sure. neither has electled to use the drop season. instead, gone all the way down and getting a better angle. there is just a better place. the drop zone is an awkward yardage, 65 yards. not much that the players practice. he will try to land this a yard or two or the front, skip forward and stick.

most of the players carrying 60-plus degrees now, making this shot a little easier. not too bad. now back to 11 after that exquisite shot from molinari. i dare say you would take four at 11 today. koepka back at 12, similar shot to poulter. almost the same result. so they both have a chance to perhaps just drop one shot. koepka, remember, already two back.

they use two tees today. bill: ortiz, who won the latin america amateur championship with a chance to share the lead if that had gone in, for low amateur. out in 33, ortiz. first time in a major. back to 11. frank: finau's putt sort of eases its way down the hill and starts to turn left as it slows down. it is very quick past the hole. right in the jaws. to 15. bill: jason day, a putt to get

to minus 10. you never know. pick up one or two more, post 12 under. you never know what happens on the second nine of a sunday at the masters. bubba tamping down some spike marks. he has this for eagle to get to minus 10. all kinds of scores here at 15 today, from three to eight. that's a three. bubba watson remains bogey-free for the day, 10 under par, four under the last three. special stuff. let's go back to 11. frank: and now woods, just straight down the hill.

it is like glass there today. they opened the gates up at 7:15 this morning. observation stands took no time to fill. cheers came out. it looks right now like any other masters sunday. woods trying for his fourth green jacket. to 12, and koepka now. to get away with four. so a double for koepka. nick: all that power, frank,

and it is the 150-yarder that does him in. frank: taking a four there at 11. he will have to drive it a little straighter though in the remaining holes. that first putt from molinari could have gone in. only 250 golf courses in italy. nick: when he was at school, i think his procedure were only there to practice on wednesdays and saturdays. frank: yes. soccer is the big sport there. that might just change.

while that was happening on the other side of ray's creek, poulter, like koepka, a swing and a miss. and you normally walk away with five.