If you’re new to the game and are wondering what all the fuss is about, the 82nd annual US Masters is the first of golf’s four major worldwide tournaments of the year.
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Maybe that’s just as well at this Masters.
It was the front nine.
Mickelson, with his five major titles, is still ranked 18th in the world and has a win this spring.
Phil Mickelson: Give it to Lefty, who always makes things interesting no matter where he is on the leader board.
No great sporting event memorialises its winners like the Masters, where champions are re-tailored to look like the plutocrats who own the club. You’ll need to sign up for a paid account, but the good news there is that the site offers a 14-day free trial so no payments required! But they can do whatever they want around here; we just have to play. “I’m hoping to come in and spoil the party”.
He rebounded from a dropped shot at 12 with a sublime approach into the par-five 13th that Reed knocked in for eagle.
Working in the frontrunner’s favor: Augusta National is a hard course on which to make up ground.
Reed ran off three straight birdies around the turn, and he stretched his lead to as many as five shots with his eagles. By making the cut here he moved into the top 100. He went just over the back of the 15th green with a wedge, chipped only up to the putting surface and missed his par putt.
Leishman, 34, has significantly more big-game experience than the 27-year-old Reed.
No sooner had McIlroy joined him atop the leaderboard at 9-under than Reed rolled in a nine-foot birdie at the eighth and a 25-footer at the ninth.
Click on the video above to watch the Augusta shots of the day! . The response owed so much to mental fortitude; the 28-year-old converted from 30ft for a surprise birdie and collected a further shot at the 3rd. Instead of laying up from 210 yards, he closed with the face of a 5-iron, aimed toward the right bunker.
A disconsolate Mickelson said, “I don’t have it. I’ve been doing that the first two days, and it’s allowing me to kind of attack this golf course and not make a lot of mistakes”.
Stenson (70) was four shots behind. McIlroy has his legacy on the line: he’ll chase his fifth major, his first green jacket, and his chance to become the sixth player in history to complete the career grand slam. “I hit my irons bad today”, Woods said. I’m in a nice position going into the weekend.
Fowler, McIlroy and Rahm shot 65s, Reed his 67 and Bubba a 68.
“Played the par-5s very bad”, Woods said.
The 2015 Masters champion pushed his tee shot at the par-4 first way right. He got the next one out, but opened with triple-bogey-7. With the way the back nine was playing today, the wheels could have come off there. He managed to find his second shot among the azaleas on the 13th to escape with par. With flowers blossoming around his waist, Rors deftly punched the ball back down to the fringe and saved par.
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“It’s going to be a lot of fun”, Reed said after his round on Saturday. “I feel like I’ve got nothing to lose”. He said that he did not know what happened or what he could have done, at that point, differently.
