AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) The most recent on Friday’ s second circular of the Masters (all times local):
12: 45 g. m.
Fred Couples lowered four shots in two openings to start the back nine at Augusta National on Friday, ruining that which was otherwise a solid second round on the Masters.
He rebounded back with a birdie at Number 12 to get to 2 over for that tournament.
He has been looking good for much of the circular before struggling during a two-hole stretch out.
Couples pulled their approach shot left of the eco-friendly at the par-4 10th and adopted that with a not-so-stellar chip. He or she missed an 18-footer from the edge for par.
The particular 58-year-old Couples, the 1992 Experts champion, really struggled at the start associated with Amen Corner.
Their tee shot at No . eleven rattled between some pine trees and shrubs left. He pushed his 2nd shot way right, about three series deep into the galley, and then damaged through the green and into the drinking water. He dropped from there, chipped in order to 12 feet, missed that and satisfied for a triple bogey. It was their first triple of the tournament.
Matt Kuchar , Michael jordan Spieth and 5 others remain in a seven-way link for the lead at 3 below.
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11: 55 a. m.
Jordan Spieth is lacking fairways and struggling with his putter.
Spieth opened the 2nd round of the Masters with a double-bogey and a bogey, squandering a two-shot lead. Spieth pushed his 1st drive way right and pulled their next one well left.
Spieth also missed putts of 11 and 5 foot. And that’ s after requiring just 10 putts on the back again nine Thursday.
Spieth went from 6 under in order to 3 under through two openings Friday.
He is at this point in a seven-way tie for the guide at 3 under.
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11: thirty a. m.
Michael jordan Spieth is off to an unstable start in the second round at the Experts.
Spieth double-bogeyed the very first hole to drop to 4 below in the 72-hole tournament.
Spieth pushed his tee photo at the par-4 No . 1 method right. He failed to get their second shot back to the fairway and then left his third 1 short of the green. He skipped an 11-footer for bogey. It had been a frustrating start for the 2015 Masters champion and opened the doorway for everyone else on the leaderboard.
Spieth birdied five directly holes down the stretch in the starting round and finished with a 6-under 66. He bogeyed the par-4 18th.
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10: 55 a. meters.
First-round leader plus 2015 Masters champion Jordan Spieth is back on the course at golf’ s first major.
Spieth took a two-stroke result in the first tee at Augusta Nationwide on Friday. Spieth is having fun with Alex Noren and Louis Oosthuizen for the second straight day.
Phil Mickelson , Rickie Fowler and He Kuchar are among the featured organizations teeing off in the morning. Rory McIlroy , Adam Scott and Jon Rahm are usually right behind that threesome.
Webb Simpson could be making a move along with consecutive birdies at the second plus third holes. He is now two over after shooting a seventy six in the opening round.
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9: thirty a. m.
Li Haotong has begun his second circular at the Masters.
The particular 22-year-old from China opened the afternoon three shots off the lead right after finishing with a 69 on the 1st day of the tournament. For near to an hour, his name was atop those people white leaderboards around Augusta Nationwide with Tony a2z Finau until Michael jordan Spieth took over.
Li qualified for the Masters by shutting with a 63 at Royal Birkdale in the British Open last summer season. Earlier this year, he rallied to defeat Rory McIlroy in a duel in the Dubai Desert Classic that permitted him to crack the top fifty in the world for the first time.
Li entered the week at Number 42 in the world.
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3 a. mirielle.
Rory McIlroy minds into the second round of the Experts with the career Grand Slam nevertheless in sight.
McIlroy kept par on the final three openings in the opening round Thursday plus finished with a 3-under 69. He or she broke 70 in the first circular at Augusta National for the first time given that 2011. He shot a sixty-five that year and looked like he’d win a green jacket just before a final-round meltdown.
McIlroy is three shots at the rear of Jordan Spieth, who made 5 consecutive birdies on the back 9 to build a two-stroke lead more than Tony Finau and Matt Kuchar.
” You view it and not anyone is really getting aside, ” McIlroy said. ” Michael jordan had a pretty strong finish generally there. But this is my best begin in a few years. And, yeah, it’ t such a hard golf course to play catch-up on. If you start to chase this around here, that’ s when you begin to make mistakes.
” But to be right up there and also have the ability to stay patient because of the placement I’ m in, that’ h a nice luxury I have over the following few days. ”
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