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Stuart Appleby says Tiger Woods won’t even know he’s there when the two of them go out in the final group of the 2007 Masters on Sunday.
Appleby has earned a spot in the final group after a best-of-the-day 73 in brutal conditions – despite a triple bogey on 17.
And afterwards the deadpan Aussie said: “Tiger will be doing his own thing. I don’t even think he’ll know I’m there – but I’ll know he’s there!”
Despite a triple bogey on the 17th on Saturday, when he hooked is tee shot into a bunker on the next fairway, Appleby finished the day at +2 and alone at the top of the field.
Woods is on +3 – but will go out in the final round because of all the players on that number, he finished first.
Appleby also compared sunny Augusta to St Andrews on a winter day after the bitter breeze brought temperatures here plummeting.
He said: “We were battling the conditions, the course, everything. I thinned a bunker shot on 17 and it stung my fingers. It was really cold out there – I don’t know how the patrons could stand it down in the trees by 15 and 16.
“You were just dodging bullets all day – there was no escape anywhere.”
Hear Appleby’s thoughts on the final round here.