Golf: Day 2 of the Masters
Published 9:19 pm Friday, April 12, 2024
- Keegan Bradley putts on the 17th hole during the weather delayed first round at the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club Friday, April 12, 2024, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — News and nuggets from Friday at the Masters, where 27 players completed their suspended first rounds before the entire field played its second amid brutally windy conditions
LEADING: Max Homa (71), Bryson DeChambeau (73) and Scottie Scheffler (72) were tied at 6-under 138.
CHASING: Masters rookie Nicolai Hojgaard (73) was 4 under. Cameron Davis (72) and Collin Morikawa (70) were 3 under.
MOVING UP: Ludvig Aberg, the world’s No. 9 player making his Masters debut, had the only round in the 60s Friday with a 69 that left him 2 under. Tommy Fleetwood had a 71 and was among seven at 1 under.
FADING: Rory McIlroy (77) was 4 over and defending champion Jon Rahm (76) and Tony Finau (78) were 5 over.
THE CUT: Justin Thomas played his last four holes in 7 over, going from even par to missing the cut by one. Major winners Brian Harman, Wyndham Clark, Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth also missed the cut.
SHOT OF THE DAY: Bryson DeChambeau pulled out a 9-foot tall directional sign and carried it out of his way while in the trees right of the par-5 13th. That gave him a lane to punch out, and he got up and down from there for birdie.
TIGER TRACKS: Tiger Woods was 1 over after the second round and made the cut for the 24th consecutive time, breaking a tie with Gary Player and Fred Couples for the longest such streak in Masters history. Woods had to play 23 holes Friday after darkness caused his first round to be suspended until the morning.
KEY STATISTIC: The scoring average of 75.08 was the highest for the second round of the Masters since 2007, and it was only the fourth time in the last 30 years that it was higher than 75.
NOTEWORTHY: Neal Shipley was the only one among five amateurs to make the cut. He was 3 over.
QUOTEWORTHY: “That’s laughable. That’s completely laughable. I can’t hear the patrons, number one. Number two, I just made a triple bogey on the 12th hole that evidently is going to make me miss the cut, which at the time I knew was pretty sensitive in the sense that I needed to keep making pars.” — Zach Johnson, when asked whether his expletive caught by TV microphones was directed at nearby patrons. He wound up missing the cut by one.
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