nick: freddy i think has to get it onto the green to carry and then digs in and leaves that. david: you want an example of how this grass will stop the clubhead? jim: you saw it there. david: he played it deliberately that way but it came to a dead halt. jim: again on the tee at 18, schwartzel. this will get serious run outright here. galloping down that flatter right side. nick: this man will be in the hunt when we come back at augusta, i promise you. jim: and the northern trust open might be heldford another playoff. a three-man playoff a year ago.

currently three a are tied. more possibilities still to be resolved here. john merrick has pulled out a putter here. nick: i'm surprised at that. david: he's given it a scare so far. nick: but you just risk what the kikuyu grass will do. but you're in control. go on. keep going. easy. jim: that's well played. nick: surprise it ran so straight. david: not lacking in courage. nothing tentative about that. jim: merrick trying to become the second ucla bruin to ever win this tournament. corey pavin actually has won it twice. and was in the field this week.

he was the pac-10 individual champion back in 2003. you see ricky barnes on that standard. he was at arizona. but a los angeles-born player has never won the northern trust open. los angeles area player. here's luke donald i thought might work his way into it but he's three over on the final round. nick: took a seven on one hole so nothing happened today. got a couple of cruel putts with no margin for error coming up. jim: which one is the harder of the two? nick: definitely freddy. it's a five-footer and it's

probably on the left edge perfect. jim: is it that much david? david: yeah, it will certainly wander to the right. you could hit it firmer if you wanted, i suppose. but right now inside the hole, decent pace. nick: that was a quick read, wasn't it? one quick look. david: yeah, he's had a plan. nick: yeah he's a great green reader. anyway, this to tie. jim: oh! nick: wow. jim: the nervous miss is always left. nick: he's hold some brilliant putts, especially today, all week and you get the one nervy one you really need and the

stroke failed him. jim: that's always been his calling card, the swedish seve, brilliant on the greens. and now merrick. this to match beljan in the clubhouse at 11 under. there you go. final-round 69 for merrick. two birdies one bobble. on each side. and luke donald finishes out with 74. you thought he was a little quick walking up to attempt that one? nick: they obviously knew what they were doing. i'd even go back to -- that was

pull and would he's been pure on these. you can always look at everything. he played 18 nervous. it was a poor drive, hooked it, lost 40 yards of roll. the second shot shouldn't have gone for it. should have gone anything right. the chip shot you think if you can only get it past the hole a little bit more. so every one had just a smidgen of error to them and he pays the price with five on the card. jim: father of two. john merrick. an 18-month-old and 6 we'd child. -- 6-week-old child. schwartzel needs a birdie to make it a three-way playoff.

haas would need to hole this. nick: i think he just said i need to hole it. i need a club to get there. jim: he's taking aim, isn't he? what a shot! nick: that's the best shot of the day. jim: he needed a club to get there, though. he came up about six feet short. great effort. nick: we have webb simpson first. jim: he, too, needs to knock it in from here. two back.

nick: he has an unusual follow-through. always looks like it's late. giving it a little extra everything, right knee right shoulder but again it's a smidgen right. schwartzel had a great little 8-iron down the 16th hole right over the flag. and he's probably got the pursuest swing out on tour right now. >> straight at it. nick: why not? jim: he'd love to have the haas shot right now wouldn't he? nick: i have a feeling he's going to hit a good one. jim: just a wedge.

nick: big wedge again. these guys are amazing. funny swing at the beginning of the round so basically stay with it. stay nice and level and get through it. jim: hanging out a little bit right and he's going to have a run at it. and by the way you are looking through the lens of one of our cbs sports legends, paul t. sherwood walking up the 18th for the last time in his career. 31 years at cbs. lives down in this area and he's ready to come off the road, even though all of his friends and buddies and colleagues, we're not ready for

it. we've loved having him as a teammate, whether it be the super bowl where he's been such an important part of everything we've done on the nfl and cbs. ncaa basketball tournament and final fours and cbs golf. ready to stay home with his wife diane. i don't blame him. it's not easy, the journey every week packing up and moving on to the next site. but he's certainly left his mark and he's brought so many of the shots that you've seen through the years, he's provided them to the world through his eyes, through his lens. and we're going to miss him. the schwartzel putt coming up

will remind you a little bit of what we saw here last year. these two know that there's going to be more golf, merrick and beljan. and a playoff will commence at the 18th. and should it go beyond that, 10 and then if necessary 14. and then rotate right back through 18 again if we have to. the question now, will this be a two-man playoff or three-way as it was a year ago? simpson and haas will both have putts for birdie and if they hole them will finish one out of that playoff. and really the only one that

factors in to who takes home the trophy is this man charl schwartzel. it is a familiar putt for us, isn't it? nick: we've seen this many times over the years. he's got a great angle. he's looking at a very subtle right to lefter. jim: keep coming. >> hope this is another show everybody is watching. mom, hello. gabriel, thank you for the chipper and putter.

mchail gareth, couldn't have done it without your coaching, my man. thank you. jim: charlie a winner just several months back at the disney event. his victory there did not get him into augusta. he can settle that matter if he can win this thing in a playoff. nick: did you have a look, david, at this one? jim: is that true hole -- putt holed just a few moments ago by teater. he made a putt here yesterday at the 18th green did swartle from about this same length. different location, of course. now this to get into the playoff. it will be up to merrick and beljan now. schwartzel had his chances for sure.

especially at the 17th. nick: his second shot landed two yards short of the green and only clawed its way to one yard short of the green. if he'd just got it on the green, who knows? different story. jim: they're going to make the move back to the tee. down the steps and down the way. bill haas, for a while we thought we might have another repeat winner at riviera. this for birdie. nick: just lost the confidence with the driver on a couple of tee shots going right. jim: finishes one out of the playoff in a tie for third. 73.

final-round 70 for schwartzel. also tie third. parred the last eight holes. and a share of sixth for simpson. so it's been quite interesting trying to shape this one up and sort it out and now we're down to two with bonus holes coming up, or at least one. sang-moon bae, 67 today. matched the low round of

beljan. and greg chalmers. remember this par putt back at 14? merrick had been in front bunker. that got him settled down. beljan at 18. made birdie. and these two upstarts are going to go back to the tee for the playoff. okay, so i've got some

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john you're leading off. play well. >> thanks. jim: such an historic site. such a great list of champions through the years and you have two guys that don't have the pedigree of some of the past champions here but a chance for a true launching pad. nick: to totally different characters as well. merrick's cool, calm, slow, smooth swinger and charlie, who's pretty hyped up. shows his emotions. needs that extra beat at the top of the swing. the full one-two and then the full turn before the transition starts down. it is a little short again.

careful, careful people. oh that's going to be blocked down the right. those gum trees. here we go from the blimp. oh it's going to be a big slice around there for safety. nick: -- david: and you want a really good lie if you're going to slice it out of this stuff. nick: yeah. charlie is famous for bombing a few. that wicked swing on his second shot up 17. obviously three great shots on 18. jim: he's done a good job battling the nerves today. of course, when he won that event at disney he was truly battling anxiety. it became a very public thing too, his issues with panic attacks. it's been an inspiration to many people as he's been so candid about what he's had to

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jim: we've had some playoffs through the years here to document. i'll never forget this one. in the rain, 2001 here at riviera. six-man playoff. i mentioned it earlier and it ended with this winning birdie thanks to this shot by robert allenby. the winning birdie over randall chamblee. john merrick just a kid sitting on the side of the hill watching all of that unfold, dreaming of one day having his own chance to be on this stage and here he is in a playoff. and there is the lie, right rough, but the issue here is the stand of trees he'll have to contend with. he's gotten a lot of support

from the virginia country club, just down the road. 30 miles away down in long beach is where he plays. it's where his coach jamie mulligan teaches him. a lot of support out there rooting him on. nick: the first priority is he must make it cut. even if he just comes up 20 yards short of the green front right. that is better than obviously not cutting and staying up on that left-hand bank. jim: you stand there and look at your limited options and you look over your left shoulder and see beljan way down there. nick: that doesn't help, you're right. you have to think if he's going to beat me let him make a three, fine. but i have to find a way of hanging on and making four and holding on maybe one more hole. david: it's going to be touch to make it move from left to

right and it could also come out like a scalded calf. nick: yeah, i think you have to go for it. hit down on it chicken wing all the. make it move. david: if you'd see his left elbow coming up in the air. nick: that would work. he tried to run it up. he hit it low. he hit it pretty darn well. jim: hit the brakes. nick: don't hit that -- oosh. david: that was a very brave effort. i put my hand there. i didn't see that one. nick: that was brilliant. david: charlie has only 160 yards left. pitching wedge.

charlie has cal kalinda on the bag here. undoubtedly has been a huge help to him. real experienced caddie. nick: you have to hit a professional foul this. a wedge 160 yards. ima little right of it and just trap it. can't chop it up with that club. in the glue. oh it spins back and he's jammed up against the fringe. wow. jim: it will be very awkward to get a clean strike on the next one. nick: i felt he was going to

pull it. david: you can't write this. jim: the fedexcup standings if john merrick prevails here. he would move into fourth. snedeker first mickelson second. the top standings won't change, except if beljan wins he'll be in fourth position. again, charlie beljan won just a few months back. he did not get into augusta. he will if he wins here today, and the masters on cbs will be our next golf action. third and fourth-round coverage, april 13 and 14. the tradition unlike any other, the masters on cbs continues. nick: look at the change in his walk now. he was bouncing down to the tee and now he knows in his mind

what am i going to get? he's looking hard to see where is my ball? jim: he's afraid to find out. david: if you can't see it from here, it's not good. jim: standing over that shot. i'm sure if you were playing it you would have been saying just get it somewhere right of the flagstick. nick: he's a strong guy. especially with his adrenaline it seems he doesn't have the half shot. his bad shot is a bull and that was just a little bit. straight in the bag with the -- playing that like a flamingo on his left leg. david: actually, i don't know who i'd give an advantage to right now. not much to choose. jim: this is ticklish, isn't it? david: he can get a look at the ball and a fairly clean hit.

he has to fly it to the green, i believe. if he pitches it in, the kikuyu could kill it stone dead so a little flop. nick: take your time. feel the grass. feel the grass. jim: oh, he's going too like this one. david: very, very good. ducis: charlie has to choose here whether he's going to chop at it or blade it -- no he's got the putter out. the problem with this is you're coming down with a descending blow almost and that can set that ball, drive it into the i have to -- nick: exactly. if it gets one bad hop and it

grips and pops up he'll move three feet of distance on it and that would leave him the dreaded downhill left to right. all in the strike. if you can lean into it enough -- the idea of this is you get as much weight on your left foot. get your right shoulder higher. feel like it's higher than your left and that naturally picks the putter up. you don't want to try and pick the putter up with your arms or our hands. otherwise you'll get some really weird strike. jim: 45 minutes ago he was over on this side of the putting service, on the green and then he started to dance around celebrating the birdie that got him into the playoff. nick: he's reading it trying to hole it again. he's not worried about the strike. he wants to just track it and get on that line again.