The graphic was about as jarring as Shingo Katayama's outfit, at least to those who believe that golf lives and dies with just one player. Give CBS some credit for journalistic integrity for putting it on, but if anyone needed a reminder that there might be better things to do on Easter Sunday than sit in front of the television and watch the Masters, there it was for all to see.

So spend a little extra time at church. Take the kids out to hunt for some eggs. Put a glaze on the ham.

Any one of a handful of players could end up with the green jacket sometime early Sunday evening, but this much is sure.

Tiger Woods is done.

History tells us that, as CBS so bravely acknowledged during its Saturday telecast when it ran the graphic showing Woods has never won a major championship when trailing after three rounds. That surely didn't please advertisers desperate for the ratings a Woods run would bring, but the truth is the world's greatest player isn't the world's greatest charger.

-- Tim Dahlberg, Associated Press

What it could have been: golf's "Rumble in the Jungle."

What it's going to be: "Disgusta at Augusta."

The clash of the titans that everybody in the sport was dying to see -- Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson in the final round of the Masters -- has already been relegated to the undercard.

"If Kenny and Chad go off and shoot two, three, four more under par ... it almost puts it out of reach for us," Woods said, after shooting 70 that left him tied with Mickelson and trailing co-leaders Kenny Perry and Angel Cabrera by seven and Chad Campbell by five.

"At this golf course funny things can happen and if you get momentum on your side and you're making some birdies," Mickelson said, "you can make a lot of them."

No doubt.

Thanks to the warm weather and suddenly user-friendly layout, plenty of people not named Tiger or Phil have been doing just that. Campbell went out in the opening round Thursday and birdied his first five holes to set one Masters record. Anthony Kim went out in round two Friday and made 11, another Masters record, en route to a 65 that was the lowest round recorded this week.

But the two biggest names in the game?

Not so much.

-- Jim Litke, Associated Press

When the world's two best players began their third round just 20 minutes apart Saturday at Augusta National Golf Club, the gallery surrounding the first tee and following them everywhere was a mosh pit of anticipation.

It didn't matter that Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson were seven shots back of co-leaders Kenny Perry and Chad Campbell. This was moving day at the Masters Tournament, and two guys with a combined six green jackets in their wardrobe are supposed to find ways to shoot up a leaderboard.

But the fervent pleas for a Tiger and Phil rally were more wishful thinking than reality.

-- Gene Frenette, Morris News Service

The morning of the Super Bowl, or the seventh game of any championship series, we awake knowing the winner will be either Team A or Team B. On Sunday morning, we awake knowing the list of potential Masters winners is as long and varied as the alphabet.

This Sunday at The Masters, we could see the oldest winner ever (Kenny Perry), the first Argentinean champion (Angel Cabrera), the first from Asia (Shingo Katayama), the first with a figure-8 swing (Jim Furyk), the first from Wisconsin (Steve Stricker) or the first named Chad (Campbell).

After three rounds in glowing sunshine and unpredictable winds at Augusta National, the result is very much in doubt, as much because of the names lurking off the leaderboard as because of the names atop it.

-- Jim Souhan, Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

Heading into the final round, the Masters has three former major winners, six of the top 50 players in the World Golf Rankings. Chad Campbell is the only player in the top nine who hasn't won a major and who is ranked outside of the top 50, but he has four tour wins and is a Ryder Cup veteran.

But those nine hardly provide all of Sunday's potential drama.

We have the final-round dream grouping of the top two players in the world. And both Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are seven shots out the lead and entirely capable of putting a scare into the leaders. ... If either of those players throws down the gauntlet an hour before the leaders tee off, the scoreboards around Augusta National will shiver and CBS executives will be dancing in their living rooms.

-- Jonathan Heeter, The Macon Telegraph