Cameron Champ. Stewart Cink. Corey Conners. Fred Couples. Jason Day. Bryson DeChambeau. Harris English. Tony Finau. Matthew Fitzpatrick. Tommy Fleetwood. Dylan Frittelli. Sergio Garcia. Brian Gay. Lanto Griffin. Brian Harman. Tyrrell Hatton. Jim Herman. Max Homa. Billy Horschel. Viktor Hovland. Mackenzie Hughes. Sungjae Im. Dustin Johnson. Zach Johnson. Matt Jones. Si Woo Kim.
Kevin Kisner. Brooks Koepka. Jason Kokrak. Matt Kuchar. Martin Laird. Bernhard Langer. Marc Leishman. Joe Long. Shane Lowry. Sandy Lyle. Robert MacIntyre. Hideki Matsuyama. Rory McIlroy. Sergio matches him. Lowry however is miles away facing a tricky downhill putt right across the green.
How quickly things can change round here. Birdie putt for Sergio on Par will have to do. Lowry nearly spins his wedge back into the water after laying up, then fails to get up and down with the flat stick. Pars for McIlroy and Rahm at And up on 16, Hoffman makes his fourth birdie in five holes, and he moves into a three-shot lead over McGirt. The wind has dropped considerably. But Charley Hoffman continues to whip up a storm.
He eases his tee shot to six feet at 16! Back on 14, McIlroy and Rahm find the middle of the fairway, then the middle of the green; both will have long uphill putts for birdie.
Still, he remains in the picture, and should take heart from his overall performance on that back nine, when the Danny Willett of Augusta came out to play again for a little while. A good round tomorrow, confidence restored, and you never know, he might be joining Nicklaus, Faldo and Woods as a back-to-back winner yet.
Rahm meanwhile drops, chips stone dead, and escapes with par. And up on 15, Charley Hoffman rolls in a putt from 25 feet to make his seventh birdie of the day! He fires his second shot at 13 straight at the flag. Jon Rahm then follows him in. Up on 14, Sergio leaves himself a six-foot tester for par, and rattles it straight into the hole. The veteran former Open and US Open winner is in good nick. We have a new leader! Charley Hoffman looked to be in a bit of bother down the right of 14 with his drive, but managed to negotiate some overhanging branches, found the middle of the green with his second, and rolled home a footer across the dancefloor.
Meanwhile up on 18, Ernie Els pinballs out of the trees and back onto the fairway with his second, while Jason Dufner lands short of the bunker on the right with his approach. That rarest of birds: a shot gained at 11! Justin Thomas picks it up, raking home a footer from the back-left of the green, a deserved reward for bravely attacking the flag with his second. So many shots have died off weakly to the front right, well away from the water. Thomas is level par, and nicely set.
McIlroy, just inside, got a great read and knocks his straight into the cup. Sergio meanwhile drops and screeches a glorious wedge stone dead, saving his par. He stays at For those of you who missed the earlier news, Dustin Johnson withdrew injured, minutes before taking to the tee. By comparison, his playing partner Shane Lowry eases an iron into the heart of the green.
Neither man gets particularly close with their chip, sending their balls ten feet back past the hole. And up on 18, Els slices his drive into deep bother on the right. He remains in the lead with William McGirt. Meanwhile a marvellous chip from the back of 17, Danny Willett Country, by Jason Dufner to 18 inches. Par, and he stays at He does pretty well to work the ball down to eight feet. Then he rattles the uphill par putt straight into the hole!
Overall, this is an extremely impressive effort from the defending champion, who has been seriously out of nick lately. McIlroy meanwhile bumps a stunning shot up from the side of It was all he could do from there. Rory crashes a drive straight down the middle of Another birdie for Ernie Els! His third in four holes, this time at 16, thanks to a snaky footer up the green. His playing partner Sergio gets up and down from sand, and he stays at -1 too.
What a save! Another chance to mentally kick-start his round? And Charley Hoffman joins William McGirt in the lead after clipping a brilliant tee shot at 12 to six feet; the resulting birdie takes him to Ernie Els took nine on the opening hole of the Masters last year.
The green jacket he so desperately wanted will almost certainly continue to elude him, but you never know I guess. Maybe by looking at it that way, the pressure will come off his young shoulders. A huge stroke of luck for Sergio, who sends his second into 11 towards the water. Up on 15 meanwhile, Jason Dufner hits a hot chip as he attempts to get up and down from the back of the green. He drops out of the lead, back to He bumps up the bank from the left, six feet past the flag, a fine effort from there.
And he knocks in the one coming back! What a debut! Meanwhile a brilliant par save from 30 feet on 14 for the defending champ Danny Willett. A birdie opportunity at long last for Rory McIlroy, who finds the middle of 9 in regulation. Poor guy; look how it used to drain the life out of Greg Norman.
Rahm meanwhile hits a weak second into 9; the ball falls back off the front of the large green. But he gets up and down. He hits the turn in Meanwhile par at the last for Jason Day, who signs for a two-over And coming behind him is the co-leader William McGirt, who hoicks his second into the patrons on the left.
Five years ago, he admitted that he thought he would never win a major. But now look. These are some of the most emotional scenes ever seen at the 18th at Augusta Updated at He sets himself, and taps his putt down the green. The ball thinks about lipping out on the left, but it loops around the back, and slo-o-o-o-o-owly drops.
After all this time, all those near misses, all the heartbreak Sergio Garcia A major winner. Rose paces around his par putt, checking all angles. And now Sergio has two putts to win the Masters! He loops around his putt a couple of times. He blows out hard. He steps up, draws his putter back, and Rose knocks his third pin high.
Advantage Sergio, who fires another fine iron towards the pin! That one stops about ten feet past, a little to the right. He looks a little miserable as he takes to the 18th tee again.
Rose looks much more chipper. Especially when he wins the honour. He unsheathes the driver He gets a lucky break again, in so much as the ball ricochets back out from deep inside the thicket. The pair smile and throw their arms around each other as they leave the green. While they prepare for that, this is how we got here:. Sergio has a putt to win the Masters A little push, and his chance is gone. For now. What a miss, though. Doug Sanders territory? No, not quite, it was a tricky downhill one.
Not far off, though. Rose has an eight-foot right-to-left slider across the green. Rose hits his putt He leans back and opens his mouth to gasp. Just a par! And Sergio has a putt to win the Masters! Both men have short irons into Rose sends his a little to the right, but he enjoys a huge stroke of luck: the ball bounces off the bank near the bunker to the right and turns towards the hole, eight feet from the flag!
Sergio responds by arrowing his ball straight over the flag, and screeching it to a halt three feet behind! This is beyond astonishing. Rose to putt first. Are we to see a repeat of 16? Sergio splits the fairway at Rose follows him down there. What a game is golf!
Rose splashes out from the sand to six feet. Then Rose lets his short par putt drift wide right of the cup! When Sergio dropped on the pine straw at 13, he removed a nearby loose stalk. Did the ball move as a result?
Rose gets a free drop from a sprinkler head, and though he has to stay in the first cut, he benefits from an improved lie. Sergio lashes his second straight at the flag, over the trap Rose is in, and onto the putting surface. His first really poor stroke of the day. Old-school Sergio returns at exactly the wrong time. But Rose really stepped up to the plate there; a real matchplay combination after Sergio sent in his tee shot. Moments of brilliance which may well have won him the Masters.
Sergio blasts his down the middle. Rose takes his time over his putt. As he should. He clips it up the green, outside the right of the cup, and curls it back into the hole! A perfectly judged putt! He moves to , in the lead again. Can Sergio join him? Oh Sergio! Just the right amount of false hope. This is astonishing!
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