Masters 2022 LIVE: Leaderboard and scores as Scottie Scheffler takes five-shot lead and Tiger Woods makes cut
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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:
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This could have been the biggest putt of Scheffler’s round. After his pitch at the 11th left him eight feet below the hole, he sinks the par putt to remain in the lead.
He drills his approach to within 12 feet at the par-3 12th. The world No. 1 is the player to beat out there.
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Steely stuff from Matsuyama to come away with a par at 12, even if he did get a break as his tee shot held on the rough at the front edge of the green with the water threatening. Just the 14 players under par as it stands. Birdies are in short supply out there today.
The Masters 2022: Bogey for Woods
For a moment Woods thought he’d escaped with a par at 12 but the ball does not do his bidding and evades the hole to the left. After that excelllent birdie at the 10th, Woods has gone bogey-bogey.
Neimann, though, birdies the 12th to move -3!
Matsuyama, meanwhile, has negotiated the tough 10th and 11th holes in even par - making a good save there from five feet. The defending champion remains in a very good position.
The Masters 2022: Lowry joins the crowd at -2
He may have been flying under the radar, despite that fantastic chip-in an hour or so ago, but Shane Lowry is now just two shots off the lead after making a bidier at the par-5 13th. Another well-played hole after carrying the creek and finding the green in two.
At 12, Woods gets a break after his tee shot looked to have ended up in the bushes at the back of the green. He still ends up in a tough spot, as the ball rolls down into the bunker, and it sets up a really hard second shot. It’s where Willett landed, too.
Joaquin Niemann (who I feel bad for barely mentioning) has played a stunner, though, and is only a couple of feet away from a birdie that would take him to -3.
The Masters 2022: Bogey for Smith
I would not have predicted this yesterday when Cameron Smith was -6 heading up the last hole. His makes his fourth bogey of the day at the 12th - which came after a three-putt - to drop to level par overall.
The Masters 2022: Woods drops back to +2
Another dropped shot at the 11th, this time for Woods who goes back to +2 after his birdie at the previous hole. He got into trouble with his tee shot that hooked wildly right and made a decent effort to recover from there. It’s such a tricky green, though, and his chip ran away from the hole to leave a long par putt.
The Masters 2022: Hole-in-one alert!
Take a bow Stewart Cink! He lands his tee ball just where you want it to drop at 16. It falls towards the hole, gathering speed, and drops to the delight of the crowd. Perfect.
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Big miss this from Scheffler. That approach deserved a birdie after his approach landed within five feet but he remains at -4, one shot clear.
The Masters 2022: Woods makes birdie
Now this is something. Today has been a different sort of fight for Woods, but what he is doing is just as impressive as yesterday’s 71. It could even get better as he taps in for his birdie following that stunner of an approach at the 10th.
Scheffler has just dropped his approach at the 9th to four feet - another birdie chance on the way.
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