Jason Day unravelled on the back nine of Augusta National once more as Jordan Spieth continues to lead the way midway through the second round of the Masters.
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Jordan Spieth was charging ahead on the second day of the Masters on Friday with a birdie at the first hole. He is tied for eighth, four shots off the lead.
Coming off his wire-to-wire victory previous year, Spieth now has five straight rounds in the lead, and six out of the last seven when he was tied or leading. Rory McIlroy pulled to within two shots of the lead until he made two bogeys over the last three holes.
That took the 26-year-old to four under par alongside New Zealand’s Danny Lee and American Scott Piercy, Piercy having birdied the same holes as McIlroy and Lee covering the front nine in 36.
Making his fifth appearance at the Masters and third in a row, Matsuyama made a bogey-birdie start before gradually settling in, picking up two more shots on the seventh and ninth holes.
And Spieth said: “We actually played the first two rounds together here two years ago, so I played with Rory at Augusta”.
“You got to be patient”, he said. “But when I’m out there on the golf course, I just have to be completely 100 percent focused on the task at hand, and if I can do that and stay in the moment and be completely focused over every golf shot I hit from now until Sunday night, then hopefully everything will work out the way I want it to”. What can you do.
“It was tough. It was very tough”, said Spieth.
“Look, I’m really trying to block that out”, four-times major champion McIlroy said of his bid to join one of the sport’s most exclusive lists. I came in off the golf course disappointed by the way I finished.
DeChambeau did not return for his final year of school last fall and instead prepared for the Masters and turning pro by playing in the Australian Masters, Australian Open, three European Tour events and the Arnold Palmer Invitational last month.
Kiwi golfer Danny Lee is looking on the bright side despite bogeying his final two holes to spoil an otherwise solid second round at the Masters. He was at 6 over – hovering around the cut line – through 10 holes Friday, recovering from back to back bogeys on Nos. “It’s what I’ve been dreaming of and knew I could do”.
Spieth said the heavily-contoured greens at Augusta National had become lightning fast late in Friday’s second round with putts from just two feet requiring extra care. I think anything under par today is a very good score.
He bristled at a question about his confidence level, saying: “I was fourth in the world, and I’m still fourth in the world, so, yeah, I feel good”.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP)- Phil Mickelson and Tom Watson, with five Masters titles between them, both missed the cut.
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“I’m going to have to have a good warm up tomorrow morning before my round and really feel good and completely in control if I am to be a chance to win”.
