| Masters Tournament: Tiger Chasing Stuart Appleby on Easter Day |
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Sunday, 08 April 2007
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 Tiger Woods is one stroke behind Stuart Appleby going into the final day of the 2007 Masters Golf Tournament. If Woods can come from behind to win, he will have 5 Masters Titles, putting him behind golf legend Jack Nicklaus for the most wins at Augusta National Golf Club.Stuart Appleby has never finished higher than 19th at Augusta and Sportbet.com had Appleby at +1200 to win the Masters before the tournament started. Augusta National golf course is playing harder this year, with the average round at 77 strokes, last season players averaged 74 stokes per round. "It's one of the hardest rounds we've played out here," Woods said. "If you make 18 pars, you're going to move up the board." The Masters champion has come out of the final pairing every year since 1991. Stuart Appleby is leading at +2 and will be paired up with Tiger at +3. "He (Tiger) won't even know I am there," stated Appleby. "I'm sure I'll know he's there. He'll be the other guy." Sportbet.com has posted Masters betting odds on who will finish in the Top 5 in Augusta in 2007: PHIL MICKELSON: -105 ERNIE ELS: +175 VIJAY SINGH: +200 JIM FURYK: +400 RETIEF GOOSEN: +450 ADAM SCOTT: +450 SERGIO GARCIA: +350 HENRIK STENSON: +375 CHARLES HOWELL III: +500 GEOFF OGILVY: +400 PADRAIG HARRINGTON: +650 TREVOR IMMELMAN: +650 PAUL CASEY: +500 LUKE DONALD: +800 ROBERT ALLENBY: +800 CHRIS DI MARCO: +750 AARON BADDELEY: +1000 NICK OHERN: +1000 STUART APPLEBY: +1200 JOSE MARIA OLAZABAL: +850 JUSTIN ROSE: +1200 MIKE WEIR: +1200 KJ CHOI: +1200 DAVIS LOVE III: +1200 DAVID TOMS: +1200 DAVID HOWELL: +1600 STEPHEN AMES: +1600 BART BRYANT: +1600 ANGEL CABRERA: +1600 STEVE STICKER: +1600 FRED COUPLES: +1600 NICLAS FASTH: +1600 IAN POULTER: +1600 JOHN ROLLINS: +1600 BRETT WETTERICH: +1600 STEWART CINK: +1100 ZACH JOHNSON: +2000 ARRON OBERHOLSER: +2000 THOMAS BJORN: +2000 MARK CALCAVECCHIA: +2000 CHAD CAMPBELL: +2000 TIM CLARK: +2000 DARREN CLARKE: +2000 MIGUEL ANGEL JIMENEZ: +2000 ROD PAMPLING: +2000 LEE WESTWOOD: +2000 BERNHARD LANGER: +2000 SCOTT VERPLANK: +2000 LUCAS GLOVER: +2700 COLIN MONTGOMERIE: +2700 VAUGHN TAYLOR: +2700 RICH BEEM: +2700 ROBERT KARLSSON: +2700 CAMILO VILLEGAS: +2700 FRED FUNK: +2700 RORY SABBATINI: +2700 BEN CURTIS: +3400 JOE DURANT: +3400 SHAUN MICHEEL: +3400 TOM PERNICE JR: +3400 MICHAEL CAMPBELL: +3400 JOHAN EDFORS: +3400 JERRY KELLY: +3400 DEAN WILSON: +3400 BILLY MAYFAIR: +3400 PAUL GOYDOS: +3750 CARL PETTERSON: +3750 BEN CRANE: +3750 JJ HENRY: +3750 TIM HERRON: +3750 TROY MATTESON: +3750 BRET QUIGLEY: +3750 SHINGO KATAYAMA: +3750 JEEV MILKHA SINGH: +3750                        |
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