Masters 2022 LIVE: Leaderboard and scores as Scottie Scheffler takes five-shot lead and Tiger Woods makes cut
Follow live updates and scores from the second day of the Masters
World number one Scottie Scheffler emphatically underlined his newly acquired status as Tiger Woods fought back from a nightmare start to make the halfway cut in the 86th Masters.
Arriving at Augusta National on top of the rankings after three wins in his last five starts, Scheffler simply carried on where he left off with a superb second round of 67 despite a blustery wind making scoring difficult.
That gave the 25-year-old American a halfway total of eight under par and a record-equalling five-shot lead over defending champion Hideki Matsuyama, 2011 winner Charl Schwartzel, Ireland’s Shane Lowry and first-round leader Sungjae Im.
Four of the five previous players to hold such a halfway lead in tournament history went on to claim the green jacket, with Jordan Spieth the most recent to do so in 2015.
Relive the second day’s play of the Masters below:
Scottie Scheffler rises above tricky conditions to take control of The Masters
As the wind swirled around Augusta and the low scores dried up in the gusts, the World No. 1 emerged to find the birdies required to seize control of The Masters. Scottie Scheffler, with wins in three of his last five starts, will take to the final group on Saturday with a five-shot lead over the field, after what was a fraught and difficult day that tightened the chasing pack heading into the weekend, but left one man stood above the rest.
Scottie Scheffler rises above tricky conditions to take control of The Masters
The World No. 1 was on another level as he produced a stunning round of five-under to take five-shot lead into the weekend
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Round three tee times
(All times BST)
3:20pm: Mackenzie Hughes, Adam Scott
3:30pm: Viktor Hovland, Min Woo Lee
3:40pm: Seamus Power, Marc Leishman
3:50pm: Lucas Glover, Cameron Davis
4:00pm: Max Homa, Tommy Fleetwood
4:10pm: Tom Hoge, Billy Horschel
4:20pm: Russell Henley, Patrick Reed
4:30pm: Tony Finau, Cameron Champ
4:40pm: Talor Gooch, Daniel Berger
5:00pm: Si Woo Kim, Jason Kokrak
5:10pm: Hudson Swafford, Harry Higgs
5:20pm: Rory McIlroy, Sepp Straka
5:30pm: Tyrrell Hatton, Jon Rahm
5:40pm: Bubba Watson, Sergio Garcia
5:50pm: Robert MacIntyre, Lee Westwood
6:00pm: Kevin Kisner, Tiger Woods
6:10pm: Webb Simpson, Patrick Cantlay
6:20pm: Matthew Fitzpatrick, JJ Spaun
6:40pm: Justin Thomas, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
6:50pm: Danny Willett, Joaquin Niemann
7:00pm: Collin Morikawa, Will Zalatoris
7:10pm: Cameron Smith, Corey Conners
7:20pm: Dustin Johnson, Kevin Na
7:30pm: Hideki Matsuyama, Harold Varner III
7:40pm: Sungjae Im, Shane Lowry
7:50pm: Scottie Scheffler, Charl Schwartzel
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Leaderboard
-8: Scottie Scheffler
-3: Charl Schwartzel, Sunjgae Im, Shane Lowry, Hideki Matsuyama
-2: Harold Varner III, Dustin Johnson, Kevin Na, Cameron Smith
-1: Corey Conners, Collin Morikawa, Will Zalatoris, Danny Willett, Joaquin Niemann, Justin Thomas
Selected others
Tiger Woods (+1), Rory McIlroy (+2), Jon Rahm (+2)
The Masters 2022: Scheffler cards 67 to take five-shot lead
He leaves it short. Perhaps the only tentative shot of his back nine.
But what a stunning round from Scheffler. A 67, from his position, did not look possible earlier today.
He will take a five-shot lead into tomorrow.
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Silly, absolutely silly. Scheffler has landed his approach to 13 feet to set up a birdie chance at the 18th.
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Scheffler’s group is the last out there on the course and the leader has sent his drive at 18 into the pine straw on the right.
He’d snap your hand off for a closing par here.
The Masters 2022: Scheffler moves to -8
Remarkable. No one, absolutely no one, thought a player could take control of The Masters on a day like toady.
But Scottie Scheffler has just tucked away another birdie at the 16th - his sixth in the last 10 holes - to move five shots clear at -8.
The Masters 2022: Woods finishes with 74
What a brilliant performance from Tiger Woods. He saves par at the last to card a round of 74, when for a few moments it looked like it could have been much worse. Woods bogeyed four of his first five holes and at that point he faced a battle to make the cut. But he battled on - why would we doubt that - and has found the birdies needed to make the weekend.
Joaquin Niemann has played some excellent golf today and at one point held a share of the lead but his round finishes with a disappointing double-bogey six. That sees him drop to -1.
The Masters 2022: Another birdie for Scheffler!
This is sublime from Scheffler. He’s played both 13 and 15 to absolute perfection. His pitch across the green at 15 was judged to consider its lightening pace and he holes from eight feet to move to -7.
No one though that score would be reachable earlier on.
And he’s just hit another lovely approach into the green at 16.
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“Just a tricky day,” Danny Willett reflects to Sky Sports. He says the three bogeys in a row at the turn “killed us” in the swirling winds and changing conditions.
He does, though, remain -1 for his first two days.
Smith birdies the 18th to get back to -2. A good response, that.
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