WGC-CA Championship round three: Anger is all around at Doral

I’m thinking of training as an anger management consultant so I can combine work, offering on-course counselling to angst-ridden golfers, with pleasure, following the tournaments they play in.

I’d skip Tiger Woods. He seems able to channel his anger in the right direction, producing two scintillating rounds at Doral. But Sergio Garcia needs a calming influence to stop him upsetting TV viewers, and possibly the golfing authorities, by spitting his anger into cups on the greens. Perhaps if I’d been around Ernie Els wouldn’t have given an unfortunate cameraman a hard time for asking him to step forward a pace - “move your camera” was the terse response - before storming off in a huff over his double bogey on the 18th that left a fine round in ruins.

I sense a frustration among players that yet again they have been outplayed and outsmarted by Tiger. They can’t complain. Several have shown the potential in various rounds to give him a run for his money this week. Trouble is they seem to lack his level of focus to grind it out over the long haul.

So we end up with Brett Wetterich as the man most likely to succeed on day four and then Nick O’Hern, who has missed his last two cuts and suddenly follows two par rounds with a 66. Paul Casey also stormed upwards with a six under Saturday - 10 strokes better than his first round. Great rounds guys but small wonder Tiger turns you over so regularly.

And don’t talk to me about Thursday’s leaders, the great European hope Henrik Stenson and Australia’s nearly man of 2007, Robert Allenby. Now I think I need a little anger management counselling of my own.

Anyone fancy opposing Tiger at 1.1 Sunday? He’s got to be nailed on at four shots clear. Someone on the forums tried to take us back to the Tour Championship in 2004 when Tiger was joint leader going into Sunday, only to shoot a two over par and get beaten by someone from four strokes behind.

But that was Tiger’s bad old days. And guess who it was that beat him? Look down Sunday’s leaderboard, way down - no go even further. Can you believe that scorecard - 77-70-78? If there’s one player that has every reason to be angry it’s Retief Goosen.