Woods leads entering final round

"We've still got a long ways to go," Woods said. "The only reason it was yielding birdies are the greens are soft and the pins are in low spots. You could funnel the ball down to the hole."

Woods' birdie streak ended at the 14th, when his second shot funneled to the far right side of the green with the flag on the left. He needed three putts to get down, taking his first bogey of the round.

DiMarco, playing one group behind, couldn't take advantage. He also bogeyed 14 to stay two strokes behind.

Woods gave DiMarco another chance at the par-5 15th, hitting a fat 6-iron to the edge of the water, his ball imbedded in the muddy bank. He had to take a drop and wound up with bogey.

But DiMarco followed suit, leaving his ball in a similar spot next to the water. He, too, wound up with bogey.

Woods parred out, while DiMarco dropped another stroke with a bogey at 17.

Woods went to the final round with an 11-under 205, followed by DiMarco (208) and Thomas Bjorn (209). Six shots off the pace were defending champion Phil Mickelson and Trevor Immelman. Vijay Singh, the world's top-ranked player, was joined by Mark Hensby at 212.

"I have to put together something really special if I'm going to have a chance," Mickelson said. "There's a 65 out there. I don't know if it'll be enough, but that's what I'm going to be gunning for."

DiMarco's troubles began when his second shot at the 10th went into a bush. He had to take a drop, chipped onto the green and two-putted for the double bogey.

Before that, the only blemish on his card was a first-round bogey on the very same hole, his first hole of the tournament. He then went 44 holes with nothing but birdies and pars -- the second longest streak without a bogey in Masters history.