Key events
The world number one Scottie Scheffler, twice a winner here, started the day 12 shots off the lead. But he’s only six off second spot, and you can be darn sure he won’t have given up the ghost just yet. To this end, he creams a high fade into the 2nd green from 265 yards to six feet, and makes no mistake with the eagle putt. That’s his second eagle at Pink Dogwood of the week, and it whisks him up the standings to -2. He followed up the first on day one with birdie at 3, but he can’t repeat that today, missing a relatively straight seven-footer on the next green. But there’s an early reminder for Rory that there’s plenty of trouble lurking in the pack should he slip up.
-12: McIlroy
-6: Burns, Reed
-5: Rose, Lowry, Fleetwood
-4: Clark, Hatton, Li, Reitan, Day, Young
-3: Gotterup, Koepka, Griffin
-2: Gerard (4), Scheffler (4), Homa, Knapp, Schauffele, Matsuyama
Welcome, patrons, to another sunny day in Augusta, Georgia. Temperatures are expected to make the mid-80s this afternoon, and the wind shouldn’t get up too much. So expect the course to get harder and faster as the day progresses … though the early signs suggest the greens might have been treated to a sprinkle of water overnight or early this morning, because they’ve been fairly receptive and agreeable so far. That seems a fairly logical thing to do if you’re hoping to keep this Tournament competitive: more birdies, more chance of someone taking a run at Rory McIlroy and making a game of this tomorrow. Then again, that also gives Rory the chance to attack the pins, and look what happened with relatively agreeable greens yesterday afternoon. Who’d run a professional golf tournament?
Preamble
It’s Moving Day! Here’s what the top of the leaderboard looked like after 36 holes …
-12: McIlroy
-6: Burns, Reed
-5: Rose, Lowry, Fleetwood
-4: Clark, Hatton, Li, Reitan, Day, Young
-3: Gotterup, Koepka, Griffin
-2: Homa, Knapp, Schauffele, Matsuyama
-1: Brennan, Taylor, Fitzpatrick, Morikawa
E: Campbell, Åberg, Scheffler, English, Gerard, D Johnson, Henley, Cantlay
… here are some big names who have missed the cut …
Danny Willett, JJ Spaun, Bubba Watson, Zach Johnson, Nicolai Højgaard, Akshay Bhatia, Robert MacIntyre, Cameron Smith, Fred Couples, Jose Maria Olazabal, Mike Weir, Vijay Singh, Angel Cabrera and perhaps most shockingly of all Bryson DeChambeau …
… and today’s tee times can be found here. We’ll get going at 6pm BST. It’s on!
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