PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. Payne Stewart shot a 1-over 73 on today and felt a sense of relief. He still had the lead in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, and he didn't have to play the wicked winds of Pebble Beach Golf Links.

In some of the nastiest weather since Bing Crosby moved his clambake to the Monterey Peninsula in 1947, Stewart birdied the final hole at Spyglass Hill to get to 10-under 206 for a one-stroke lead over Frank Lickliter.

Lickliter also played Spyglass Hill had a 71 for 207, while Craig Stadler was another stroke back after his 72 at Poppy Hills.

Now comes the fun. Everyone moves to Pebble Beach for the final round, and conditions are expected to be just as grueling.

"I'll tell you one thing,'' actor Jack Lemmon said after missing yet another cut in the pro-am portion of the AT&T. "Bing is up there laughing his head off. He'd love this.''

He might be the only one.

Tiger Woods was in no mood to talk after shooting a 40 on the back nine of Pebble for a 6-over 78, as he barely made the cut at 3-over 219 thanks to a two-putt birdie on the 18th. Ken Griffey Jr., who played in Woods's foursome, was asked which was a more formidable challenge -- Roger Clemens or these kind of conditions at Pebble Beach.

"This,'' Griffey replied. "He'll at least give you a pitch to hit.''

David Duval was two strokes off the lead until two double bogeys sent him spiraling to a 76 at -- where else? -- Pebble Beach.

"I could think of better things to do on a day like this,'' Duval said.

Lickliter and Stewart didn't mind. But then, they didn't have to play a Pebble Beach links course that has six holes on the ocean and exposed to wind gusts up to 35 mph, which made the average score a whopping seven strokes higher than the first two days.

Spyglass and Poppy played only about two strokes higher on average.

"I don't think it was nice on any golf course,'' Stewart said. "It definitely wouldn't have been a fun day out on Pebble. The holes on the ocean would have been vicious. I'm glad I wasn't there.''

Going into the second round, 30 of the top 42 players on the board had already played a more kind and gentle Pebble Beach.

By the end of a day in which players strapped on rain suits, knit caps and mittens to fight temperatures in the upper 40s, Duval and Paul Stankowski (72) had the best three-day total of anyone who had to play Pebble today -- 213, seven off the lead.

Stewart made his three birdies on the most difficult holes at Spyglass -- a 4-iron to 8 feet on No. 6, a 3-iron to 20 feet on No. 16 and a 5-iron to tap-in range on the final hole.

That could come in handy. Remember, this tournament got so much rain last year that the third and final round wasn't played until August. Now that 54 holes have been completed, a washout Sunday would make Stewart the winner. He was in second place, five strokes behind Fuzzy Zoeller in 1986 when Pebble Beach was shortened to 54 holes because of rain.

"After I finished and heard the forecast, I was real glad I was at 10-under-par,'' Stewart said.

Duval and just about everyone else was simply glad to be off the course.

Trying to win for the 10th time in his last 30 starts, Duval got to 8-under with one of only two birdies on the 108-yard seventh hole, using a chip swing with a 7-iron to 4 feet. But he took double bogey on two of the next five holes.

Of course, Duval knew what to expect even before his round began.

"We were standing on the first tee and the flags on top of some of those houses were standing sideways,'' he said. By the time he finished his round, it was a minor miracle that flagsticks managed to stay in the hole.

Jim Furyk was trying to read the line on his 20-foot birdie putt at No. 4 when he had to step away because of sand whipping out of the bunker into his face. Then on his 4-foot par putt -- which he would miss -- he had to back off when the ball looked like it was ready to move.

Kirk Triplett was hanging around the leaders until he got blown over by winds ripping across Carmel Bay. He took double bogey on his final two holes for a 44 on the front nine of Pebble and rang up an 80.

"This is the stuff we stopped playing in last year,'' Duval said, only the course is not saturated because this was the first rain of the week. "It's the type of day you don't want, for the sole reason that luck becomes a big factor.''

The only luck involved today was where they played.