I played in the last group of the day on Friday and shot a 2-over-par 74. For the tournament, I'm at 2-under-par 142, six shots back of leader Tiger Woods.

Tiger played in the group in front of me Friday and was in the group behind me on Thursday. I saw his fist-pumping, hand-waving stuff during his 66 on Friday and that's fine. I told my caddie, `every time I see it, I'm going to laugh,' and we did.

The reason I laughed is because that's just the way I handle it, I guess. It's nothing against Tiger. It's his way of celebrating and it's great, but I just want to laugh. I laugh at anything. I'm just kind of a laugher. I laughed at all my shots today.

This tournament is far from over. Tiger's got a three-shot lead over Colin Montgomerie, but it doesn't matter. It's Augusta and anything is possible on the PGA Tour.

I don't know if he's comfortable with his lead, but we saw what happened last year. There is no lead too big here. There's 36 holes to play and there are a lot of guys breathing down his neck. He may run away with the tournament and he may not, but it's far from over.

I felt bad for John Huston, who was my playing partner on Friday, when he made a 10 on No. 13. He tried to get aggressive with his chip shot and hit a flop shot and it didn't work and just kind of snowballed from there. I just tried to not think about what he was doing. At the time, I was looking at Rae's Creek wondering why the creek wasn't filled up. I was trying not to think about what he was doing.

I didn't say anything to John after the hole. He said `nice birdie' to me.

I had five birdies, five bogeys, a double bogey (on No. 17) and seven pars on Friday. It was just one of those rounds.

It could have been a lot better and it couldn't have been any worse. I didn't make any putts.

I'm encouraged. I've got to keep plugging. It's a major, it's the Masters, we've got two rounds to go and I'm within striking distance. I'm ready to rock and roll.

I played well, except I had 33 putts. One of the holes I three-putted was No. 16, from 12 feet. I just touched the ball and it still went 6 feet past the hole. There was nothing I could do about it. You don't think about just nudging it. I hit it a little too hard. I said, well, what do you do?

I hit a bad drive on 17 and tried to muscle a sand wedge up into the green from the fairway instead of hitting a little pitching wedge, and it cost me a shot there because it hit up by the hole and spun back off the green. It was a stupid mistake. When you have pins like that you've got to just play behind the hole and go from there.

Other than that, I played well. I drove the ball fairly well and I hit my iron shots well and gave myself a lot of opportunities, but I just missed a ton of putts.

The difference between Thursday's 68 and Friday's 74 was my putting. On Thursday, I made a lot of those putts. Overall, I played just as consistent as I did on Thursday.

It felt like any other time I've played in the last group on a Friday. It was fun. The greens actually seemed a little bit slower, but a lot more spiked up. I played behind Gary Player on Thursday and he was tapping down spike marks after every hole. He spent about 30 seconds spiking them down and I think it helped. That happens late in the day and you have to deal with that.

Tom Watson is one of my heroes, but I've never played a round of golf with him. We are paired today in the third round. We tee off at 1:27 p.m.