AUGUSTA, Ga. — World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, Max Homa and LIV Golf’s Bryson DeChambeau all maintain a share of the lead on the 2024 Masters after the primary two rounds at Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership.
Via two days, this event has featured solely 14 scores underneath par, as excessive winds have befuddled among the greatest gamers on the earth throughout 36 holes. DeChambeau, who held the lead at 7-under heading into Friday, shot a 73 – eight strokes worse than his first-round 65 – however was capable of keep atop the leaderboard going into Saturday.
“I am very excited. I get a possibility to point out my talent set, and hopefully it is adequate to do one thing particular this weekend,” DeChambeau stated. “I really feel like the sport is in an excellent spot. Mindset is in a stable place. Caddie is maintaining me in examine. We’re joking on the market, having enjoyable in some robust circumstances. So I really feel like all the things is lining up fairly effectively.”
To have the ability to don a inexperienced jacket, DeChambeau must combat off the 2022 Masters champion Scheffler, who has gained twice already this season and was the favourite heading into the week. Scheffler started the second spherical one shot off DeChambeau’s first-round lead and shot a fair par spherical of 72 Friday after coping with brutal wind circumstances throughout his late spherical within the afternoon.
Homa, whose greatest end at Augusta is a tie for forty third final 12 months, has appeared snug in these circumstances, capturing one of many few under-par rounds on Friday. Homa additionally excelled in robust circumstances eventually 12 months’s Open Championship the place he completed tied for tenth – his best-ever end at a serious. On Friday, Homa stated the wind has pushed him to be affected person to be able to keep tempo with Scheffler and DeChambeau.
“I’ve actually accomplished all the things fairly effectively on the golf course,” Homa stated. “However most happy with what’s gone on with our course administration and simply controlling ideas and expectation and all that. So it has been enjoyable.”
“He is obtained all of the expertise on the earth,” Tiger Woods stated of Homa, his enjoying associate in the course of the first two rounds. “I obtained an opportunity to play with him on the Open Championship at St Andrews, and his ball flight, as stable as he hits it, it is only a matter of time earlier than he begins successful in bunches. I noticed it up entrance; he would not actually mishit photographs. That is one thing you simply should do round this golf course.”
The final time three gamers representing america have been tied for the 36-hole lead in a serious was the 2012 PGA Championship when Woods, David Toms and Jim Furyk shared the lead.
Denmark’s Nicolai Højgaard fell all the way in which all the way down to 3-under and rose all the way in which as much as 6-under throughout his Friday spherical, however finally, the 2023 Ryder Cup member shot a 1-over 73 and settled at 4-under, adequate for fourth place.
Two-time main winner Collin Morikawa has two top-10 finishes on the Masters within the final two years and has an opportunity for one more one after a 2-under spherical of 70. Together with Homa, Morikawa is the one different participant who has shot two rounds underneath par.
Australian Cam Davis has solely ever performed in a single Masters throughout 2022 and completed tied for forty sixth. This time round, Davis has quietly shot one spherical under-par and one other at even par Friday to place himself solely three again of the leaders. Sweden’s Ludvig Åberg is a first-time participant at Augusta and after a first-round 73, Aberg shot the low spherical of the day (69) Friday and jumped all the way in which as much as 2-under and seventh place heading into the weekend.
