Wood saved par on the 18th hole with a brilliant approach out of the woods. (Getty Images)

Woods is gunning for a fourth Green Jacket. (Getty Images)

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But Woods gets another chance on Sunday at Augusta National, a place that's like a second home to him and a place where he has won four Green Jackets. And the process is hardly as important as the prize.

"You want to win the Masters, period," Woods said. "Doesn't really matter how you do it as long as you do it.

The man who says the Grand Slam is "easily within reason" this year fired a 68 on Saturday that moved him from tie for 13th into sole possession of fifth. That round of 4 under snapped a string of 11 straight where Woods didn't break 70.

"This is the highest score I could have shot today," said Woods, who is 5 under. "I hit the ball so well and I hit so many good putts that just skirted the hole. But, hey, I put myself right back in the tournament."

Indeed. But while Woods may have fewer players to leapfrog after Saturday's solid showing, he only gained one stroke on the leader. He'll start the final round six off the pace after the talented young South African, Trevor Immelman, birdied the 18th hole.

"I got a lot of work to do tomorrow," Woods said. "Obviously the conditions are supposed to be pretty blustery tomorrow and a little cooler. And again, you got to hang in there and be patient out there because it doesn't take much to make a high number out here."

Still, the mere presence of the game's No. 1 player in the upper echelon of the leaderboard will have quite an impact. Particularly when the four players ahead of him -- Immelman, Brandt Snedeker, Steve Flesch and Paul Casey -- have never won a major.

"He's the best player in the world by a long, long way," admitted Casey, who is 7 under and two strokes ahead of Woods. "Are we scared of him? I don't know if we're scared of him. He's just so good. He doesn't make mistakes. He is the one to be very wary of.

"This is a golf course, so far this week, with the exception of a few guys at the top of the leaderboard there, you can see the scores are not that low. And as he moves up and he plays great golf, it's just very difficult to press on a golf course such as this and to stay in front or to chase him.

"So I don't think it's a case of guys quaking in their boots. It's just they are not as good as he is."

Woods showed just how good he is after his drive -- "the only bad shot I hit," he said -- veered deep into the trees on the right side of the 18th hole.

Unlike the previous day, when Woods had to punch into the 10th fairway, he took a 7-iron from the pine straw and launched his approach up and over the trees and onto the green where he two-putted for par. When he first saw his predicament in the woods, the man with the apt last name figured he would make either a 4 or a 6 -- so Woods opted for the former.

He had to make an 8-footer for par to save the 68.

"I was swinging so well all day," he said. "So I put that (drive) behind me and (went) ahead and (was) committed to starting the ball on the right line with the right trajectory. You've been doing it all day, why not do it here?"

After Woods looked the tiny dots on the greens on the back nine, he felt the pins on Sunday would be a "little bit more accessible." The weather, though, cooler and with winds expected to blow 25 mph, will make every club selection more crucial.

"If everything holds up, we're supposed to get the weather we're supposed to get tomorrow, you just got to hang in there and hang around," Woods said. "You know that anything can happen, especially around that (Amen) Corner."

And it always does, as the Masters begins on the back nine on Sunday.