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Defending champion Tiger Woods is losing ground at the Masters.
The third round began four shots behind the leader. When he reached the bottom nine, he was nine shots behind Dustin Johnson.
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Tiger Woods plays his shot from the ninth tee during the third round at Augusta.
Across 14 holes on Saturday (Sunday New Zealand time) he was four under par for the tournament, 10 shots behind Johnson, who held a three-shot block on Abraham Ancer and Justin Thomas at the corner.
Woods found a fairway bunker off the tee on the second par 5 and couldn’t reach the green in two. The real problem was in the par 5 of the eighth. He drove left into the trees, cut across the fairway with soft rough, and from 160 yards he was well below the pin. Woods made a triple from 50 feet for the bogey.
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Johnson, meanwhile, hit his long iron 2 feet for the eagle on the second hole. He hit a 5-foot fly ball in the third, made a 40-foot birdie putt in the fourth and birdied in the seventh to reach par-14 low.
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