Alongside the South African is American trio Nick Watney, Sean O'Hair and Ricky Barnes.
Nick Watney is the current leader in the category, averaging 1.215 strokes on the field.
Nick Watney was the nephew of a former PGA Tour pro, who coached him at Fresno State.
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Both men hit fine shots to the closing par-four hole, with Watney's putt coming up agonizingly short.
But he refused to consider that the final round would be a two-horse race between him and Watney.
In 2010, for example, American Nick Watney and Yuta Ikeda of Japan had similar world rankings, Nos. 36 and 40, respectively.
That left him in a tie for seventh with the best of the Americans, Sean O'Hair and Nick Watney, on six-under.
Like Mr. Querrey, rising golf talent Nick Watney spent his formative years in California but has put down roots in Las Vegas.
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Watney finished a shot back, coming up a fraction short with a birdie putt on the tough 18th which would have forced a playoff.
Fellow Americans Jimmy Walker and Nick Watney finished joint fourth on 279, while Australia's Aaron Baddeley was in a group tied for sixth another shot back.
In the 12 events in that period where he and Watney both played, Watney beat Ikeda 10 times and missed no cuts, to five missed cuts for Ikeda.
The lead had changed hands three times between Mickelson and Watney over the front nine with Watney holing in a chip at the ninth from 80 feet to stay in the hunt.
He's been at the epicenter of the pro-golf world for a couple of decades, working with Davis Love III, Greg Norman, Fred Couples, Ernie Els, Adam Scott, and now Dustin Johnson, Nick Watney and Phil Mickelson.
Watney, who was runner-up at the WGC-CA Championship event in March, could have led by even more, but bogeyed his final hole after three-putting to have a two-shot buffer over Germany's Martin Kaymer and Irishman Shane Lowry.
Woods carded a second consecutive five-under-par 67 to join overnight leader Nick Watney (70) on 10-under-par, with world number two Phil Mickelson returning a 66 to lie a shot behind alongside compatriot Ryan Moore and Spain's Alvaro Quiros.
Stanley, playing in his first Masters, succumbs to the pressure and skies to a 75 but two other rookies, Bradley and Webb Simpson, get into a rhythm and finish their third rounds tied with Day, Haas, Hunter and Watney at ten under.
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His lead after the second round was only one shot, over Australian Peter O'Malley, who beat Woods in the 2002 Accenture Match Play, and five shots or less over many other worthy competitors including Day, the Americans Bubba Watson and Nick Watney, and Australian Adam Scott.
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Though 7 of the top 15 players are Americans and there is a collection of young exciting talent in the likes of Dustin Johnson, Nick Watney, Anthony Kim, Ricky Fowler, Bubba Watson, and Hunter Mahan, none of them are breaking through enough times on the largest of stages to generate anything close to the buzz that Tiger and Phil can generate.
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