The day when nothing happened at Augusta National Golf Club guarantees that something finally will.

The club might as well replace the little "Members Only" sign outside Magnolia Lane with one that screams: "The Boredom Stops Here."

This hasn't been the most eventful Masters Tournament so far, with the field playing for position on a golf course that precluded risk-taking and big red numbers for the first two rounds.

It hasn't even been much of a golf season to this point, actually.

Tiger Woods has won a couple of times. More guys than ever have driven the ball obscene distances. And play has too often crawled.

Nothing new there.

Now, there could be a whole different game on the last day of the year's first major.

You put this leaderboard on this golf course for two rounds in one day, and it's going to be exciting - a weekend's worth of twists laid in a straight line from Sunday morning to Sunday night.

From the time players restart this morning until one of them pulls on a green jacket just before 60 Minutes, the lead and storyline could turn over several times here today. And the unmistakable Masters vibe will almost certainly return.

On Saturday, the only movement among the leaders was a quick walk from the parking lot to the locker room.

Most of them were just arriving when third-round play was postponed. By the time they got here, the course had been emptied of players, and the back porch of Augusta's clubhouse had filled with idle caddies.

When they all come back today for as many as 32 holes that will make one of them the Masters champion, anything will be possible, the way it always is on Sunday at Augusta.

- Can 31-year-old Chad Campbell hold off a deep pool of chasers for his first major championship victory, one many of his contemporaries fully expect to see someday?

Voted the game's next great player in a poll of PGA Tour players two years ago, it's no accident that he was ahead halfway through the tournament.

- Can 46-year-old Fred Couples mark the 20th anniversary of Jack Nicklaus' historic sixth Masters win in a similarly unpredictable manner?

Already one of Augusta's most popular champions, Couples would replace Nicklaus as the oldest player to win the Masters.

- Can all of golf's Big Five continue to be a big presence on the leaderboard?

Woods, Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh have won five of the past six Masters. Ernie Els and Retief Goosen are within reach of their first. One of the best tournaments ever might develop if they're all bunched tightly heading into the back nine this evening.

- Or can one of the little hitters who have hung around the lead for two rounds make even bigger news by finishing on top after two more?

It only gets harder today for a Rocco Mediate or a Tim Clark, because a rain-softened course will reward drives that stay in the air a long time as much as it will allow more aggressive play.

But then, the 12-hour challenge that awaits won't be easy for anybody.

It didn't have to be like this.

Had they started play earlier Saturday, half the field might have gotten through the third round and the leaders might have reached the back nine. Not as many players would have so many holes to squeeze in today.

So, now, everything that always happens on Saturday and Sunday at Augusta will play out from morning to night on a final day at the Masters that figures to be as memorable as it will be long.

Tim Guidera is a columnist for the Savannah Morning News. He can be reached at (912) 652-0352 or tim.guidera@savannahnow.com.