Saturday tee times http://www.majorschampionships.com/masters/2012/scoring/tee_times.cfm
Weather forecast; Partly sunny and calm today high 74* (23c) Sunday sunny and calm, high 81* (27c)
There are 28 players at E or better of the -5 lead held by Couples and Dufner as we start Super Saturday, including Rory, Phil, Lee, Bubba, Sergio, Louis, Paddy just to name a few. The course will dry out now and the greens will speed up which should thin the field out the further into the weekend we get.
Tiger and Martin are 8 shots back at +3 and Luke is 9 back at +4, and with a 65 or 66 today even they could be right back in the mix.
It all gets started at 9.15am this morning, I'll be back here at noon.
12.40pm UPDATE
* As you can see from the tee times the leaders do not go out until 2.45. Of note Tiger has made 2 birdies and a bogey playing #8, the par 5. Still at +2
*Even though Graeme McDowell tweeted the pin placements and said the course looks set up for scoring, there are 33 players on the course now and only eight are under par. Brandt Snedeker and Sang-moon Bae are both 2 under, through seven and five holes, respectively. Bae, a PGA TOUR rookie, gets his second set of crystal goblets for the week after eagle at No. 2.
Click here to see Saturday pins http://www.mobypicture.com/user/Graeme_McDowell/view/12462892
I will be live blogging at 5pm
5pm UPDATE
Now that my Jays have just beat the Indians 7-4 in 12 with late heroics by Lawrie, Johnson and Davis we can turn my full attention to Augusta..
* Rory for goodness sake out in +6 42 through 9 now +2, Tiger another 72,still+3, what do all the pundits know eh ?? Tiger Rory Masters ?? Not even close
* Mickelson has just eagled the 13th to surge into a tie for the lead at -6 with Matt Kuchar -3 through 11 and Louis Oosthuizen -2 at the turn..
* 5 guys are at -4 including Mahan and Paddy both with 68, Bubba Dufner and now O'Hair..
* Rory has 9 holes to get back in this, let's see if he has learned to re group after last year's meltdown..
*5.28pm... It's all in play on moving Saturday as Lee, Jason, Phil. Rory etal begin to make their play on the back nine
* Freddie is still at -3
* Many scores are piling in late, but it is clear we will have a shootout on Sunday, and Tiger and Luke will be spectators..
* Couples and Dufner have both made 2 at 12 to get to -4
*540pm
| T1 | 10 |   Peter Hanson | -7 | 15 | -5 | 68 | 74 | - | - | 142 |
| T1 | 2 |  Louis Oosthuizen | -7 | 12 | -3 | 68 | 72 | - | - | 140 |
| 3 | 8 |   Phil Mickelson | -6 | 14 | -4 | 74 | 68 | - | - | 142 |
| T4 | 7 | Henrik Stenson | -5 | 16 | -3 | 71 | 71 | - | - | 142 |
| T4 | 4 | Matt Kuchar | -5 | 13 | -2 | 71 | 70 | - | - | 141 |
| T6 | 18 |  Padraig Harrington | -4 | F | -4 | 71 | 73 | 68 | - | 212 |
FINAL WRAP
Well I called it Super Saturday and it was, but for many of the big names, it should have been Sloppy Saturday..
Freddie 75, Dufner 75, Sergio 75, Jimenez 76, Schwartzel 75, Rory 77, Kaymer 75, Luke Donald 75, Tiger 72...At one point Sergio and Rory birdied the 12th and gave each other a big hug, they were 11 over par between them !! It was a carnage.
On the other side of the coin, Peter Hanson carded a beautiful -7 65 -9 total to lead a hard charging Phil Mickelson who has gone 68 66 since his opening 74 to stand 2nd at -8. Louis Oosthuizen 69 -7 then Bubba 70 -6 followed by Matt Kuchar 70 at -5
-4 has a group of Harrington 68 ,Mahan 68 Stenson 70 and Westwood 72 and I think that is as far back as you can go to find the winner come tomorrow afternoon.
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles and at www.isr1050.com
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