DUBLIN, OHIO ? David Toms put a week’s worth of excitement into one round Saturday. He had a hole-in-one, made another eagle the conventional way with a brilliant 3-iron into 12 feet and saved par at the end with a 6-iron that smacked into a pine tree after he made contact.

It gave him an 8-under 64 and left him in a four-way tie for the lead at the Memorial. And now he might have to do it again.

“I put myself in position today, and that’s all I did,” Toms said. “I’m not going to be able to make pars and hope it’s good enough. There are too many guys who can do what I did today.”

Some of them already did, or at least came close enough so that the leaderboard is littered with contenders.

Fred Couples nearly had an ace, picked up an eagle on the 15th and closed with an 18-foot birdie putt for a 66 that enabled him to join Toms, Jeff Sluman (68) and Bart Bryant (66) at 12-under 204, the first time the Memorial has ever had a four-way tie at the top going into the final round.

The third round usually sorts out the leaderboard. All this did was rearrange the names.

“Saturday is moving day, and a lot of guys made big moves out there,” Sluman said. “It’ll probably be a little bit of a free-for-all.”

Ten other players were within four shots of the lead – including Tiger Woods, one of the few who got stuck in neutral – to set up what figures to be a shootout today at Muirfield Village.

“You’ve got to shoot what everyone else is shooting,” said Couples, who will play in the final group at the Memorial for the second straight year. “I have just as good a chance as eight or 10 guys.”

Bryant recovered from a double bogey at No. 2 when he hit his approach into the creek, making five birdies on the back nine, including a 9-iron that stopped just inches behind the cup at the difficult 17th.

Sluman, who started the day with a one-shot lead, had a chance to finish it that way until a 40-foot birdie putt that he ran up over the fringe slid just below the cup.

David Toms watches his tee shot on the 18th hole. Toms shot a 64 Saturday and is among four leaders at 12-under for the tournament.

What will take it today?

“It’s one of those questions you really can’t answer,” said Sluman, who is playing on a sponsor’s exemption. “You can shoot 64 and somebody shoots 63, and then you say, ‘I never thought a 64 would be enough.”‘

It could have been even more crowded at the top, but Jonathan Kaye (68) and Woody Austin (65) each made bogey on the final hole to finish at 11-under 205.

Woods made three bogeys in his round of 71 and was at 8-under 208.

Toms closed with a 63 a week ago at the St. Jude Classic and nearly won when Justin Leonard began to stumble. At least this time, he gets one more day on his side.

He shot into contention on the front nine, starting with a 5-iron on the 201-yard fourth hole that he figured was headed for the back bunker until it knocked against the pin and dropped into the cup.

“I thought maybe this was going to be my day,” Toms said.