This was supposed to be the year the Masters went hip,celebrated youth and turned over the keys to Augusta National Golf Club to the plugged-in generation. But Saturday,on a sunny,breezy day,the older fellows decided to show the teenagers and 20-somethings just how the game was played. Kenny Perry,who at 48 could become the oldest man to win a major championship,and Ángel Cabrera,39,are tied at 11-under-par 205,two strokes ahead of Chad Campbell,who shared the 36-hole lead,and three strokes in front of Jim Furyk,the 38-year-old PGA Tour veteran. Perry,who is looking for his first major title,and Cabrera,who won the 2007 United States Open at Oakmont,will be in the last pairing of the day which has produced the winner in 16 of the last 17 years at the Masters. I am looking forward to tomorrow, said Perry,who shot 70. Today was a big day for me. The first two days,I felt like I was on vacation. Today felt like a job. Perry has always been a workingmans golfer. A tough-minded,homespun country boy from Franklin,he has turned an OK career into a very good one in the last two years,earning 4 of his 13 career victories in 2008 and 2009. In many ways,Cabrera,the broad-shouldered former caddie from Cordoba,Argentina,is the South American version of Perry. He has won 17 events around the world in places as diverse as Singapore and Paraguay,but his United States Open victory is his lone win in North America. His swing is an unschooled,natural move that delivers great power and distance. Attempting to chase down the front-runners are some big names with some long résumés,including Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson,both at four under par and seven strokes back. They are among nine players tied for 10th. Whether Woods,Mickelson and others are too far back will depend on how the leaders perform,what the weather is,and how the course is set up. With the leaderboard produced by this weeks more generous philosophy,it would make sense to anticipate more of the same. Woods was uncertain what to anticipate. He would like to have had a few do-overs,particularly the double bogey that opened his round Saturday. He fought his way back with a 70,but that may not be good enough. Over all,I just wasnt quite coming with it, Woods said. Now it depends on if they go out and run away with it. The same goes for Mickelson,whose 71 included four birdies and three bogeys. LEADERBOARD 205 Angel Cabrera (68 68 69),Kenny Perry (68 67 70); 207 Chad Campbell (65 70 72); 208 Jim Furyk (66 74 68); 209 Steve Stricker (72 69 68); 210 Todd Hamilton (68 70 72),Shingo Katayama (67 73 70),Rory Sabbatini (73 67 70); 211 Tim Clark (68 71 72); 212 Anthony Kim (75 65 72),Hunter Mahan (66 75 71),Stephen Ames (73 68 71),Nick Watney (70 71 71),Phil Mickelson (73 68 71),Tiger Woods (70 72 70),Ian Poulter (71 73 68),Lee Westwood (70 72 70)
