Shane Lowry cut a frustrated figure after a third round that left him in a tie for fourth place, but still seven shots behind leader Scottie Scheffler at the Masters.
The Offaly man will need a lot of things to go his way at Augusta National on Sunday if he's to pull off an unlikely victory, but a top-five placing is very much within his grasp.
Lowry had moved to five under after six holes but three bogeys from there cost him and he'll got out later today from two under par.
"I'm still lying top five at the Masters so it's pretty good showing so far," he told RTÉ Sport.
"The long and short of it is that I feel like I played the golf today to be going out in the final group tomorrow.
"[There were] a coupe of bad shots, three really bad bogeys on the back nine. It is a nine where you can make big numbers, or go really low; I didn't do either.
"I was a bit average on the back nine. I hit the ball well, put myself in position. 17 is a prime example. One of the toughest drives on the course, I hit a great drive, 140 yards from the hole, but then I miss the green.
"And I couldn't have missed it in a worse spot. That's just stupid, what can I say, dumb. It is what it is, nothing I can do about it now. I'll have a late tee time tomorrow again and I'll shoot the best score that I can.
"I'm excited about where my game is but people don't realise how much I want this so it's just hard to take right now."
Rory McIlroy set his sights on a seventh top-10 finish after carding his lowest score of the week.
McIlroy followed two rounds of 73 with a 71 on Saturday to improve to one over par, the four-time major winner recording four birdies and three bogeys in the cold and breezy conditions.
"I played well, it's just hard to go very low out there," the 32-year-old said.
"Anything under par is a good score. There’s no easy birdies. Even the par fives; usually they’re sort of, not guaranteed fours, but you feel like they’re holes that you would likely pick shots up on.
"The way the wind’s blowing, sometimes five is a good score and you just move on.
"It’s been a tough couple of days and I’ve just sort of hung in there as best as I could. It’s not really conditions favourable for going low and trying to get close to the leaders. So it’s just sort of hanging in there and doing the best that you can."
With Scheffler a long way clear at the top of the leaderboard, McIlroy concedes his chances of winning a green jacket and completing a career grand slam have effectively gone.
"Yeah, you’re just trying to go out and shoot the best score that you possibly can without being reckless and without taking on too much risk," he added.
"I’ll try to go out and do that tomorrow. I think I moved up a few places with that score today and just try to move up a few more tomorrow and try to get a top 10 and move on."
Seamus Power is in a share of 36th on six over after a third successive 74.
"It's just tough to make birdies out here," said the Waterford man, who bogeyed the 9, 12 and 15 before finally picking up a shot at the last. "I hit the pin on my second shot on the second today and I still couldn't make a birdie."
"I am playing my first Masters, so no matter what happens, you are having a good week. It's one of those courses that's a blast to play.
"You have so many fun shots to play around here, and tomorrow I will probably hit every kind of shot I have in my wardrobe. So it's fun and hopefully I can make a few putts."
Power will be rooting for his former amateur team-mate Lowry as he aims to become the first Irish Masters champion.
"I sent (Shane) a text last night. I'm not going to mess with him, he’s a Major champion so he knows what he’s doing. I saw his pitch in on 10 on TV and sent him a text saying nice shot and good luck today.
"It’d be incredible. There’s never been an Irish winner here, so it’d be pretty special. Shane has a knack of having these memorable moments in golf, so nothing surprises me with him.
"Scottie’s going to take a lot of catching, he’s in an unbelievable run of form and it doesn’t look like he’s going to be bothered by the moment. But we’ve seen guys in this position before – it isn’t easy to win here. It’s going to be a battle."
Tiger Woods admitted he had "zero feel" for the greens as he slumped to his worst ever score in the Masters.
Woods four-putted the fifth hole and three-putted six times in a miserable third round of 78, eclipsing his previous highest score of 77 on his debut as an amateur in 1995.
The 46-year-old at least maintained his sense of humour when asked what he struggled with, replying with a smile: "I was hitting too many putts.
"It was like practice putting. I hit 1,000 putts out there today. I just had zero feel for the greens and it showed. I did what I needed to do ball striking-wise, but I did absolutely the exact opposite on the greens.
"I just could not get a feel for getting comfortable with the ball. Posture, feel, my right hand, my release, I just couldn't find it. With as many putts as I had you’d think I’d have figured it out somewhere along the line, but it just didn’t happen."
Asked what his target would be in the final round in his first top-level event since suffering severe leg injuries in a car crash in February last year, Woods added: "What am I, six over?
"Maybe shoot 66 and get back to even, right where I started. Hopefully feel a little bit more limber tomorrow."
Woods followed a three-putt on the first by almost holing a bunker shot on the par-five second for an eagle, but then four-putted the fifth as his somewhat casual bogey attempt caught the edge of the hole and horseshoed out.
The 15-time major winner also three-putted the ninth and 11th and although he birdied the 12th and 13th, he needed nine more putts to complete the final three holes.
