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Champagne Charlie

Tiger Woods showed there is life in him yet with some blistering play © PA Photos

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Cup of cheer for Matsuyama
Japanese sensation Hideki Matsuyama had the amateur title wrapped up on Friday evening, but he did not allow himself to rest on his laurels and has made fine progress over the weekend. He looked in a spot of bother after going through the back of the third, but it did not cause him undue alarm as he flipped a chip down the hill and it took a look round the cup before dropping in for a birdie.

Captain Hook
Tiger Woods has been playing power fades all week, so to change the shape of shot is not easy. Well not if you're a mere mortal, but if you are a confident Tiger it is. The shape of the par five eighth lent itself to a hook and after finding the fairway with his drive Tiger pulled out the fairway wood and left nothing behind. The shot shape was perfect, the landing perfect and it skipped all the way up to the back plateau and came to rest 15 feet away. Phil Mickelson's shot on 11 out of the pine straw last year was better, but in its own context this was pretty special.

An epic meltdown
Rory McIlroy has driven superbly all week but he hooked one left on 10 and unfortunately for him it crashed into a tree and flew directly left. It looked like a scene out of the Wizard of Oz, with the whiteboard house falling on Rory rather than the Wicked Witch of the East, as he was stuck between a couple of cabins. He chipped out on to the fairway but being so far back he took out the fairway wood and gave it everything. It flew to the left of the green but his chip back hit another tree and flew sideways. Three further shots later and he was forced to sign for a triple-bogey. The whole thing unravelled from there for Rory as bogeys and double-bogeys followed and he signed for a horror 80.

So nearly beat the Par 3 jinx bit hard
Luke Donald did plenty to get himself in the hunt after a poor Thursday, on the back of winning the Par 3 competition. His chance of victory actually went with a bogey at 17, but he did his best to beat it. He had a quite awful stance on the side of the 18th fairway but manufactured a chip that clattered into the pin. It could have stopped dead but instead spun off the green. Unfazed he stepped up and chipped in for a birdie.

Champagne Charlie
Charles Schwartzel has been making steady progress, but he found himself on to every radar with his stunning effort on the first. An awful approach left him in a poor position in the second cut and he was odds-on to make bogey. No one had told the South African as, taking a leaf out of a bit of links play and going for the bump and run, he let the contours of the green do their job and the ball tracked its way down for a birdie.

Champagne Charlie 2
With a lot of films, the sequels are often a disappointment. Trust me when I say, if Schwartzel's effort on three was a film it would have walked off with a string of Oscars. A pinpoint drive left him in the middle of the fairway. Attack the pin was the message from his caddie. And that he did, as a sweet iron found the short stuff and swept its way down to the hole before dropping in for an eagle. Dazzling, simply dazzling, and the roar was deafening.

Champagne Charlie 3
I've always been a Rocky III man and the third instalment was the icing on the cake. Schwartzel needed to do some special things to get his hands on the Green Jacket and there is not much better than rolling in birdies in 15, 16, 17 and 18 to seal victory at Augusta.

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