8.20pm: The action tomorrow gets under way at 8am when Woosie goes out with a marker. Expect the little Welshman to race round in about two hours. The last pair – Bjorn and Love – go out at 2.20pm. Tiger and Vijay are in the penultimate group while before them it's our big hope Garcia and Kenny Perry. That's about it from me for today. My auntie continues to rotate my evening meals nicely and tonight it's steak pie on the menu. Hopefully she'll be serving caviar and champagne on Sunday night to celebrate a win for Garica.

7.45pm: So how to they bet going into the final round. Coral offer Woods as 7/4 favourite ahead of 4/1 Bjorn and 9/2 Love. Garcia is 13/2, Singh 7/1 and Perry 11/1. Two of our other tips, Ernie Els and Nick Price, are not quite dead yet even though they must pull back a six-shot gap. Els is 25/1 with Price 40/1.

7.20pm: That's it for the day and a fascinating Saturday ends with Thomas Bjorn one shot clear of Davis Love and two ahead of Garcia, Woods, Singh, Perry and little-known American Ben Curtis. Sorry to keep harping on about it but it is exciting to have a 50/1 tip (Garcia) right in the thick of it.

6.55pm: Tiger Woods comes into the press tent for his post-round Q&A and, as usual, answers with grace and intelligence. He says a couple of bad breaks on the back nine cost him a really good round and doesn't seem the slightest bit bothered when one reporter reminds him that he's never won a major coming from behind on the last day. To a lesser mortal, something like that could play on their mind. As I come back to my seat, Garcia just misses a putt for par at 18. Nevertheless his third round 70 puts him just two behind leader Thomas Bjorn and with a great chance of landing the 50/1 gamble.

6.30pm: An almighty roar at the 17th, in the press tent and from my good self. Sergio is staring at double bogey after driving into the rough and taking two shots to hack out. But from 70 yards he holes his chip to rescue a miraculous par. What a shot!

6.15pm: While the Roe debate continues, out on the golf course there's also plenty to talk about. Tiger has hit trouble and three back nine bogeys have dropped him from -2 to +1. He's now tied third and the lead is held by Thomas Bjorn. But alone in second now on even par is our big tip Garcia! He's fought back superbly from four over and seems to relishing playing alongside Thomas Levet. When I followed the pair earlier, they were chatting and laughing all the way round and clearly they enjoy each other's company. Levet is feeling the benefits too and is tied third alongside Woods, Kenny Perry and SK Ho.

6pm: I mentioned when talking about collarless shirts how stupid golf rules can be. So you can imagine my view on Mark Roe's disqualification. I find the episode utterly ridiculous. Everyone knows who shot what. Nobody kicked a ball out of the rough, put down a false score or tried to gain any sort of advantage. But, because of an ancient rule and a bunch of officials who didn't notice that Roe and Parnevik had been signing their own cards, Roe has been kicked out of the biggest tournament in the world and denied the chance to play the biggest round of his career. Totally, totally stupid. Roe's reaction is incredibly phlegmatic as he faces the press. “Rules are rules” says the Sheffield golfer and seems resigned to his fate. Two photographers exchange grins as Roe pulls his cap over his face, thus giving them their “misery shot”, but in reality it's misleading. Roe's gesture is one of tiredness after being out in the sun all day. So what do the rest of the press think? There is heated debate of course and John Bramley of Reuters, my former boss at Teletext, says opinion will be split although the hardcore golf writers will say that the rules are sacrosanct and form the very foundation of the game. I take the point but when ancient rules flout common sense so obviously it just seems something has to be changed. David Pepper, the chairman of the Championship committee, sits alongside Roe during his press conference. He is grilled by the press but naturally defends the decision and reiterates that rules must be abided by. As the press file out to file their stories, Pepper turns to Roe and whispers “Thankyou. You handled that beautifully.” At least there is no arguing with that.

5.30pm: Watching Sergio Garcia brings back memories of Seve in his pomp. Like Ballesteros, the young Spaniard hits it all over the place for the first few holes I follow him but produces short-game magic in abundance to avoid total disaster. Nevertheless two dropped shots in the first four holes when many of his rivals have been playing them in two-under is not what I was looking for. Suddenly the big story developing is Tiger's charge. Live out on the course and also through the earpieces of my radio the roars are deafening as the world number one eagles the two par fives to leap from three over to one under. No-one can live with him for a while and when he moves to two-under and two shots clear there's a feeling that he's getting away. Having watched Sergio get back into it with birdies at five and seven, I decide to pick up Tiger at the 11th. The green is at the outermost reaches of the course with the sea just behind it. There's a road running just outside the ropes and if the criminally-minded wanted to it's here they could sneak onto the course without paying. In fact three blokes do. They have to get over a barbed wire fence to get on the course and it doesn't help that one of them has crutches! Whilst wandering this part of the course, news breaks that Mark Roe has been disqualified for signing a wrong scorecard. The radio says they're going to bring him into the press tent so I dash back to see if he's there. He is but I'll send this update first before penning my thoughts on his DQ. At the top of the leaderboard it's now Woods and Thomas Bjorn on one-under while Garcia, Perry, Ho and Love are all two shots back.

2.50pm: Sergio Garcia, our 50/1 tip, goes out in 10 minutes. So it's on with the suncream, hat and sunglasses and out to the first tee. I'll take a radio with me so I can keep check of our other pre-tournament fancies Els and Price.

2.15pm: Ever wondered if a journalist in the press tent could make a killing on Betfair by using their extra and more up-to-date information? Well, here at the Open, probably not. We see the same TV pictures and the scores being manually posted on the scoreboard in front of us are only infrequently ahead of the TV pictures. I've found that radio is often more up-to-date than TV although when you walk back into a press tent the reception goes to pot. I suppose we would get to hear of withdrawals quicker but often the players who pull out are out of contention anyway and you'd have to have a bundle of cash in your account to scoop up a few quid. Simply not worth it. It would be a different story at the US Masters though. In their press room they have live pictures beamed from all 18 holes so given the limited coverage the BBC have you could really cash in.

2.10pm: Another real mover today is Pierre Fulke. The Swede, who loves these hard, fast conditions has picked up five shots in his first 14 holes to move up to +3.

2.05pm: As we've tipped them both, the group we shall keeping a really close eye on today is the Ernie Els-Nick Price pairing. Els pars the first but Price three-putts from close range. Not the best of starts. As for our other tips, Darren Clarke couldn't make any progress this morning as he stayed +8 while Robert Allenby is still stuck on +6 as he starts the inward nine. Still, there's plenty to play for and we have Sergio to shout for at 3pm.

1.35pm: Nick Faldo looks relaxed and contented as he answers questions in the boiling-hot interview room in the press tent. He describes the course as “the truest links we've played for moons” and says the odds of getting these hot, rock hard conditions are huge. He reckons he could be anything between four and eight shots back at the end of the day but looks delighted with his position. Faldo also reveals that his mum cooked his favourite meal - chicken and pasta - at 9.55pm last night. See, it's not just me who keeps prattling on about what food their relatives are cooking for them!

1.20pm: Gary Lineker and Angus Loughran are doing an interview piece in front of the scoreboard at the far end of the press tent. I wonder if Gary ever has a bet? Faldo, meanwhile, will come into the interview area in ten minutes so we'll see whether he thinks he can still win.

1.05pm: But where Davis fails, Nick Faldo succeeds. A glorious birdie at the last gives the three-time Open champion a marvellous 67 and puts him back to +4 for the tournament. His wife is expecting a baby soon so (obvious phrase alert) will there be a double celebration in the Faldo household?

1pm: A bogey at the last thwarts Brian Davis's bid to shoot the lowest round of the tournament. Nevertheless his three-under-par scores matches the 68s carded by Hennie Otto on day one and Ernie Els yesterday.

12.40pm: Tiger Woods will NOT win this Open. A bold statement but here's why. Over the first two days the world number one has hit just nine fairways – three on the first day and six yesterday. That ranks him 73rd of the 75 qualifiers for driving accuracy over the first two days. He's also outside the top 60 for greens in regulation. What's saving Tiger at present is his putter. Woods is tied third in putting after using his blade 58 times across the first two days. Only Thomas Bjorn and Anthony Wall (both 57) have taken less. Therefore, my conclusion is that Tiger's play from tee to green is just not good enough. Unless it improves suddenly the claret jug will not be his.

12.35pm: Tom Byrum is the hot player out on the course. He's just gone eagle-par-eagle-birdie to move back to +4. His second eagle came after he holed his second shot at the par four ninth.

12.20am: Davis is bravely holding onto his score on the back nine. He remains five-under for the day and +3 overall with three holes to play.

11.50am: Greg Norman tees off in a white turtleneck t-shirt that seems to be a rip-off of the retro collarless Nike design worn by Tiger Woods and David Duval in recent US tournaments. I spent hours trawling round shops on my recent honeymoon in America trying to get hold of the Tiger version but everywhere had sold out. Perhaps Norman's one will be easier to get hold of. Ironically, you may well get thrown off your local golf course for wearing one of these shirts as they haven't got a collar. I can feel a rant about stupid golf etiquette coming on so I'll pop outside for five minutes.

11.45am: I hope there are plenty of St John's ambulance medical staff at the course today. This is sunstroke weather and yet there are ginger people filing through the gates without protective hats or suncream. I was so hot I had to come back into the press tent after 20 minutes to get a drink. In fact, I was so keen to get back that a golf cart carrying Charles Howell eating a banana almost ran me over.

11.40am Brian Davis seems a par putt horseshoe round the hole on the 13th and he drops back to four over par. Still, four-under for the day is excellent stuff

11.15am Davis adds another birdie at 10 and is now five-under for the day and +3 overall. That puts him just four off the lead. Mike Weir has picked up three birdies and is now +5 while Nick Faldo has played his first nine in two-under.

11.10am Here is the official weather forecast at the course. “We will see plenty of bright sunshine this morning with a few clouds mixed in by late afternoon. A large Atlantic low pressure system moved north overnight and is now located off the coast of SW Ireland. This storm system is producing showers and a few thunderstorms across SW England and all of Ireland this morning and is expected to slowly spread east throughout the day. Best rain chances will be between 1600 and 2300 today.” This could be significant stuff. If the rains do come late today it will soften the course and help the leaders. The last pair – Davis Love and SK Ho – don't go out until 3.30pm so they could benefit most. Providing, that is, that we don't get accompanying strong winds too. The forecast suggests we won't.

11.05am: Brian Davis goes to the turn in 32. There could be a good score out there today although as the course dries out further in the afternoon sun it could be fiendishly difficult for the leaders.

10.55am: With the first tee-time nearly three hours later today, I had time to buy the papers on the way to the station. The Racing Post have an interesting front page today, advertising their Pricewise column by using a mock-up of a cult surf movie. The Post's esteemed golf tipster Jeremy Chapman is sitting just a few seats down from me and will no doubt be picking out some two-ball value over breakfast this morning. Talking of which, the landlady at my B&B seemed surprised that I am writing about golf this week. "Oh, I fort you wuz collecting balls or summink," she told me whilst dishing up my full English. "I fort you wuz a student." A compliment really, given that I'm 34. Must be the shabby clothes.

10.40am: Here in the press tent I'm sat next to Daily Sport golf writer Dick Turner (that's his real name, honest!). The Sport report today that they've tracked down the glamour model who sneaked onto the course and scored a “hole-in-one” with a local rock star the other day. “I had a birdie on the 7th tee,” the singer had boasted earlier in the week.

10.30am The cut, as we thought, fell at +8 yesterday which meant the likes of three-time Open winner Nick Faldo and current Masters champion Mike Weir only just scraped through. Both are making an early move today with Faldo two-under for the day after six and Weir one under after four. But the biggest mover is Brian Davis who has birdied four of his first seven holes to climb up to +4.

10.20am It's a beautiful sunny day here at Sandwich. So despite the obligatory Connex train delay (28 minutes today) and lugging the world's heaviest laptop through two miles of fields I'm in good spirits. The early starters seem to be taking advantage of the calm conditions with plenty of red numbers (indicating birdies) being put up by the score keepers at the front of the press tent.