The Masters 2019 leaderboard: Tiger Woods two back as Francesco Molinari takes lead into final round at Masters
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Your support makes all the difference.Francesco Molinari surged two shots clear at the top of The Masters leaderboard on Saturday to set up another final round showdown with Tiger Woods for a major title.
It has been an almost flawless Masters for Molinari, who has carded just a single bogey through three rounds. On Sunday, the Italian turned in another error-free effort in the third round, signing for a six-under 66 to top the leaderboard at 13-under.
Molinari, the first Italian to win a major with his victory at last year's British Open, will start in pole position to claim a Green Jacket to go along with his Claret Jug.
Joining him in the last group will be Woods, who also paired with the Italian in the final round at Carnoustie, after the American electrified Augusta National with a five-under 67 that put him on the brink of ending a 11-year majors drought.
The two major champions will be accompanied by Tony Finau, who matched Woods's 11-under total with a dazzling eight-under 64 that featured a Masters-record equalling front nine of six-under 30.
With the forecast calling for heavy rain and thunderstorms late on Sunday officials have decided to send golfers off in threesomes from both the first and 10th tees rather than traditional pairs in an attempt to get the final round completed and avoid a Monday finish to the year's first major.
Lurking one shot further back is twice U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka, who scrapped his way to three-under 69 to trail Molinari by three.
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Stenson (E) rolls his eagle putt up to the side of the hole and taps in for birdie at the eighth. Haotong Li stops his bogey run with a par on the same hole.
A two on the sixth sends Hatton (-1) into the red, he's 3-under for the day and hasn't made a bogey yet.
There it is!
A birdie for Rory (-1) at the fourth, that'll make him feel better, it was a long putt and never left the hole.
Leishman sails his birdie attempt past on four and a tricky return putt for par awaits... he misses it and takes a bogey four.
The players are going after these early holes with quite a few at -1/-2 under for the day. Kanaya (A) (-1) and Hatton (-1) the exceptions as they have rounds of -4 and -3 respectively.
Haotong Li (+3) is really struggling on the greens. His putting is letting him down today as his tee-to-green play had been decent.
Stenson pars nine to go out in 34. He's even for the tournament.
A quiet week so far for Si Woo Kim but birdie, birdie on the second and third today moves him to 2-under, just five back from the leaders.
Amateur Takumi Kanaya (-2) continues to impress. He makes a birdie 2 on the 12th 'Golden Bell'.
It's his sixth birdie of the day and he's -5 for the round.
Rory's tee shot on the sixth finds the patrons and he's going to have to get up and down to save par.
Leishman finds the green but the ball rolls off the front edge.
Bogey for McIlroy (E) at the par-3 sixth. The tee shot put him out of position and he was punished for it. Accuracy is going to be key for low scores today.
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