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:
The Masters 2022: Bogey for Woods
A tough start for Tiger as his par putt from nine feet misses to the right of the hole. Woods missed the green to the right and his chip back across left him with too much work to do.
At the 17th, Im makes an important par save to hold on to a share of the lead.
The Masters 2022: Varner III moves to -3
He’s been one of the players of the opening two days and although he’s barely featured on the TV coverage, Harold Varner III is within a shot of the lead all while putting together a highlight package all by himself.
The American plays a stunner of a tee shot at 16 and catches the slope to run his ball to within two feet of the hole. It moves him to -2 for the day, -3 overall. A very exciting player and one to watch for the weekend.
The Masters 2022: Birdie for Im
What a response from Im! At the par-3 16th, he sinks a birdie putt from 27 feet to rejoin Willett in the lead!
The Masters 2022
Woods again found the bunker with his drive at the par-5 second but gave himself a chance for birdie with his play from there. His birdie putt followed a good line but ended half a foot above the hole.
Schwartzel, speaking to Sky Sports, gives an indictation of the conditions out on the course: “It’s getting harder,” he says of the wind. “I think we had some fortune teeing off earlier. It’s going to be a tough afternoon.”
The Masters 2022: Double bogey for McIlroy
From looking to launch himself into contention to battling to make the cut - that’s the reality for McIlroy now after a doubley-bogey six at the 11th. It all went wrong with the second shot - which was a bizarre strike and left him almost 50 yards off to the right of the green. It’s +4 for the week for McIlroy now.
The Masters 2022: Im finds the water
He managed to carry the creek at 13, but Im doesn’t get the break at 15. His ball catches the water at the par-5, leading to a drop behind the green. His pitch back uphill lands 11 feet away and the par putt trickles past. That’s a bogey six, and it leaves Willett in the lead on his own.
The Masters 2022: Willett saves par
How about that from Willett. A really confident stroke from the leader saves par at the 4th from 15 feet.
The Masters 2022
“Fore right!” is the call from McIlroy at the 11th, the hardest hole on the course. That tells you all you need to know about the shot, as it lands amongst the patrons, a mile from the green.
Fitzpatrick gets a break on the same hole as the gusting wind catches his ball and holds it from tumbling into the water on the left.
The Masters 2022: Bogey for Woods
Woods actually landed in the fairway bunker on the right side of the hole. He manages to lay up to the right side of the green, leaving a decent line to the hole. The pitch leaves 10 feet or so for his par - which is a similar situation to yesterday.
Unlike yesterday, though, the par putt slides by. That’s an opening bogey for Tiger.
Willett also has work to do to make his par after landing in the bunker at the front of the green at the 4th.
The Masters 2022: Bogey for Smith
Just as we saw from Sungjae Im earlier, the leader has bogeyed the opening hole of his round.
Cameron Smith’s five at the first may be better than his double bogey there yesterday, but it came after a nervy chip into the green that left him 10 feet away from the hole. He drops down to -3 but at least he has the generous par-5 2nd to come next.
McIlroy also drops a shot at the 10th after finding the greenside bunker. He’s falling away from contention now.
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