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Tiger Woods immediately switched his focus to the season’s remaining majors after enlisting the help of his son Charlie before his 100th round in the Masters. Charlie was pictured seemingly giving his dad some swing tips on the practice range at Augusta National, advice even a 15-time major champion may have welcomed following a demoralising third round of 82. That was the 48-year-old’s worst score in the Masters by four shots and meant an early tee time on Sunday alongside Neal Shipley, the only amateur to make the cut. Woods started in style with a 360-yard drive on the par-five…
You find yourself in a familiar position atop the leaderboard heading into the final round. How will you draw from your experience two years ago as you prepare for tomorrow?. SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I think I’ll have a better understanding of what the morning is like tomorrow. But, yeah, proud of how I played today. It was a good fight out there. The golf course was extremely challenging. The greens were very firm, very fast, and it was extremely difficult again today. So probably looking for more of the same tomorrow. Q. You had dropped a couple shots and then you…
By Phil Casey, Golf Correspondent, Augusta A deflated Rory McIlroy was almost at a loss for words after his 10th bid to win the Masters and complete a career grand slam came to a tame end. McIlroy carded a closing 73 at Augusta National to finish four over par, just as the final groups were heading into the back nine. “I mean, I don’t really know what to say,” the world number two said. “Just sort of felt like my game was OK and managed it pretty well, but obviously Friday was a really tough day, and losing five shots…
Q. Tiger, what was the biggest challenge you were facing out there today? TIGER WOODS: The fact that I was not hitting it very good or putting well. I didn’t have a very good warmup session, and I kept it going all day today. Just hit the ball in all the places that I know I shouldn’t hit it. And I missed a lot of putts. Easy, makable putts. I missed a lot of them. Q. Tiger on 9 it looked like that was a painful swing out of the right side there. TIGER WOODS: Yeah. Q. Was there any moment that was…
World number one Scottie Scheffler will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the Masters after a rollercoaster third day at Augusta National. Bidding to win a second Masters title in three years, Scheffler carded a third round of 71 to finish seven under par, a shot ahead of fellow American Collin Morikawa, whose 69 was one of just two sub-70 scores on Saturday. Max Homa is two shots off the lead after a 73 containing 17 pars and one bogey, with Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg a shot further back, the 24-year-old having only turned professional 10 months ago.…
A day after setting a tournament record in the Masters, Tiger Woods suffered an unwanted milestone at Augusta National. Woods insisted he could challenge for a 16th major title after playing 23 holes on Friday to make a record 24th consecutive cut, but slumped to a third round of 82 instead. The 48-year-old’s previous worst scores both came in 2022, when he shot 78 in both the third and fourth rounds. Woods followed a bogey on the fourth with a superb birdie on the difficult fifth, but then bogeyed the sixth and ran up a double bogey on the seventh.…
Kent’s Jake Potter won the 43rd Peter McEvoy Trophy after shooting rounds of 69, 67 and 72 at Copt Heath Golf Club in Warwickshire. The big-hitting 17-year-old from Chelsfield Lakes’ five-under-par total saw him win the prestigious junior title by a single shot from Alex Wells, with Jack Peters and Ben Bolton three shots back in tied third. After his two-under par start, the foundations for his victory were established in the second round, where a run of birdie, birdie, eagle, birdie from the 5th hole saw him reach the turn in just 31 shots. He came home in level…
Rory McIlroy admitted he faced an uphill task to play his way back into contention as Tiger Woods remained focused on an unlikely Masters triumph. McIlroy struggled to a birdie-free second round of 77 at a windswept Augusta National to fall 10 shots off the lead shared by world number one Scottie Scheffler, Max Homa and Bryson DeChambeau. Woods was three shots closer to the leaders after a battling 72 saw him make a record 24th consecutive cut in the Masters, with the whole field separated by 12 shots after the cut fell at six over par. McIlroy said: “I…
Tiger Woods refused to give up on his dream of a 16th major title after making a record 24th consecutive cut in the Masters on another windswept day at Augusta National. Woods completed 23 holes in more than seven hours on the course on Friday, a remarkable effort from the injury-ravaged 48-year-old which prompted a standing ovation from the spectators around the 18th green. The five-time Masters champion had to shield his face from sand whipped from the bunkers on the last before tapping in to complete a second round of 72 for a halfway total of one over par.…
Rory McIlroy bemoaned the woeful pace of play after seeing his bid for a career grand slam blown off course on day two of the Masters. McIlroy’s birdie-free second round of 77 took an incredible six hours and two minutes to complete alongside Xander Schauffele and Scottie Scheffler, the world number one’s 72 giving him a share of the halfway lead with Max Homa and Bryson DeChambeau on six under par. McIlroy, who slumped to four over, said: “Tough day, really tough day. “Just hard to make a score and just sort of trying to make as many pars as…
