EIGHTY-SIXED: It's been a humbling 24 hours for 1973 Masters champion Tommy Aaron. On Friday, the 63-year-old Gainesville, Ga., resident became the oldest player ever to make the Masters cut.

Aaron's fortunes were considerably less satisfying Saturday. After entering the third round 2-over par, he fired a 14-over par 86. He took his drastic tumble with a smile, however.

``I may have set two records,'' Aaron said, ``the oldest guy to make the cut and the oldest guy to shoot the highest score. The delay was tiring too, because you just sit around.''

Aaron made six straight pars and was on No. 7 when the emergency air horns sounded and suspended play for more than two hours. When Aaron returned, he proceeded to make triple-bogey 7, kicking off a stretch where he played 14-over par.

``It's pretty disappointing after yesterday (Friday),'' he said. With the field's highest score, Aaron will play with noncompeting marker John Harris this morning.

MONEY, MONEY: Today's winner will get $828,000 from a total purse of $4.6 million. First-place prize money is $108,000 more than Jose Maria Olazabal took home for winning in 1999.

Only five events in golf offer a larger purse, at least $5 million each: Andersen Consulting Match Play, The Players Championship, NEC Invitational, The Tour Championship and American Express Championship.

SIDE BY SIDE: Cross Creek High School football coach Al Young and his son Anthony are working together in the upstairs dining room at the Augusta National clubhouse.

Young is a longtime Masters waiter. The early 1970s wide receiver with the Pittsburgh Steelers brought along Anthony for this year's tournament. Anthony, a football and basketball star at North Augusta High, will attend Wake Forest on a football scholarship this fall. He has been cleared by Demon Deacons basketball coach Dave Odom to walk on the 2000 NIT championship basketball team.

Glenn Hills football coach Emmitt Watkins is also working in the grill room.

TIGER RAG: Let the Is Tiger God? questions continue. Here's the latest response from Davis Love III:

``No matter what's been said in articles and quotes from other players, nobody out here thinks he's unbeatable,'' said Love, who finished Saturday with a three-day total of 1-under 215. ``One guy like me might say he's hard to beat when he's the No. 1 player in the world and he's playing well, but nobody's sitting here saying we can't beat him.''

LONE EAGLE: Two-time Masters champion Bernard Langer posted Saturday's only eagle, when he curled in a lengthy putt on No. 13.

ZINGERS:One player not totally distraught by the windy conditions was Paul Azinger, who shot 77 in Saturday's third round. Double bogeys on Nos. 16 and 17 prevented the Floridian from finishing near the two even-par 72s he posted in each of the first two rounds.

``I played great today,'' Azinger said. ``On 16, I was trying to leave it on the low portion. I three-putted for double on 17 and it was all over.''