Summary

  • Leaders: -6 Scheffler (72), Homa (71), DeChambeau (73)

  • Selected: -4 Hojgaard (73); -3 Morikawa (70); -2 Aberg (69)

  • -1 Fleetwood (71), Willett (75); Level Fitzpatrick (73); +1 Woods (72); +4 McIlroy (77); +5 Rahm (76)

  • Tiger Woods set to make record 24th consecutive cut

  • Cut mark projected to be +6

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  1. Rahm takes his medicinepublished at 19:46 British Summer Time 12 April

    Rahm +2, Fitzpatrick -2, Dunlap +6 (3)

    Jon Rahm is putting for birdie from 78 feet and watches his ball scurry off to the right and keep going and going and going until it finds the apron at the front of the green.

    Oh my. He looks like he's accepted that he'll have to take his medicine mind and chips back up the hill to four feet to limit the damage to one shot dropped.

  2. Veteran Ollie under parpublished at 19:43 British Summer Time 12 April

    Olazabal +4 (10)

    Jose Maria OlazabalImage source, Getty Images

    Only 13 players are currently under par for their rounds today - and one of those is two-time Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal!

    The 58-year-old first won the Green Jacket 30 years ago in 1994, and again in 1999 to join his great friend Seven Ballesteros as a two-time champion.

    And despite his advancing years he's right on the number to make the cut right now, in his 35th Masters, and in these testing conditions - it's some effort.

  3. Postpublished at 19:43 British Summer Time 12 April

    DeChambeau -7 (8)

    The ninth was Bryson DeChambeau's sole bogey yesterday and he looks set to navigate it without difficulty today.

    His approach flies beyond the flag after that behemoth of a drive and he'll have 31 feet of downhill Augusta greenery to try and get another birdie.

  4. Latest leaderboardpublished at 19:40 British Summer Time 12 April

    -7 DeChambeau (8), Scheffler (2)

    -6 Homa (13)

    -5 Hojgaard (17), Willett (10)

    -3 Davis (F), Conners (6), Fox (5)

    -2 Young (14), Cantlay (4), Fitzpatrick (3)

  5. Hojgaard falters on the 17thpublished at 19:39 British Summer Time 12 April

    Hojgaard -5 (17)

    Is Nicolai Hojgaard starting to think about where he could be come the weekend?

    The Danish debutant has looked pretty unruffled today but drops off badly on the 17th, with a loose tee shot and well undercooked putt from just off the front edge of the green contributing to a dropped shot.

  6. Birdie for Willettpublished at 19:38 British Summer Time 12 April

    Willett -5 (10)

    Oh, Danny Willett! The man with the Green Jacket is flying.

    After holing out from the eighth fairway, the 2016 champion almost does the same with his second shot on the 10th.

    Those short irons are more accurate than your state-of-the-art sat nav.

    The Englishman is inches away from his destination and taps in a birdie putt which he could have knocked in with his eyes shut.

    Willett is back into a share of fourth place alongside Nicolai Hojgaard. Incredible!

  7. Postpublished at 19:34 British Summer Time 12 April

    Rahm +1, Fitzpatrick -2, Dunlap +5 (2)

    Matt Fitzpatrick is ticking along very nicely, with a superb chip on the second retrieving a birdie opportunity that looked lost when he went careering off left from the tee.

    The Englishman rolls in from seven feet to pull a shot closer to the leaders.

    Jon Rahm is not a happy man as he tees off on the third mind. He's been unable to grab an early birdie and plays a pretty poor second, finding the green but making it almost mission impossible to gain a stroke here.

  8. Scheffler ties the leadpublished at 19:33 British Summer Time 12 April

    Scheffler -7, McIlroy -1, Schauffele E (2)

    Scottie Scheffler does what Scottie Scheffler does to pick up a birdie four at the second a move to seven under.

    He's got such good course management to go along with his skill, as he lays up and leans on his wedge game, which comes up trumps as he chips on to three feet.

  9. Postpublished at 19:30 British Summer Time 12 April

    DeChambeau -7 (8)

    Looks of bemusement on the faces of the patrons as they try to cross over the ninth fairway and a golf ball rolls into their path.

    Yep, that's Bryson DeChambeau taking advantage of the downwind to muller his tee shot on the ninth to almost 400 yards.

    A monster of a drive - and don't touch that ball!

  10. Postpublished at 19:29 British Summer Time 12 April

    Woods +1, Day +3, Homa -6 (13)

    Two putts apiece see Woods, Homa and Day break even with the 13th. As you were.

    Homa stays a shot adrift of Bryson DeChambeau, while Woods looks on course to beat the cut and make the weekend for a record 24th consecutive year.

    Day is a little too close for comfort after that bogey on 11 left him even for the day.

  11. Aberg birdies the 12thpublished at 19:28 British Summer Time 12 April

    Aberg -1, Spieth +8, Theegala +4 (12)

    Oh my that almost threatened to lip out but Ludvig Aberg's birdie attempt, a right-to-left slider drops from 25 feet on the 12th.

    He's back in the red numbers.

  12. Hatton up and down with Rose set to miss cutpublished at 19:28 British Summer Time 12 April

    Hatton +1 (14), Rose +7 (18)

    Tyrrell Hatton drives the ball during the Masters second roundImage source, EPA

    It's been a mixed bag for England's Tyrrell Hatton in his second round, with three birdies and four bogeys leaving him one over with four to play. He's just dropped a shot at the 14th.

    Compatriot Justin Rose has had a fairly miserable day with a 78 dropping him to seven over overall, which means he almost certainly won't be around for the weekend.

  13. Postpublished at 19:26 British Summer Time 12 April

    Johnson +12, Morikawa -1, Fleetwood +1 (11)

    Just ambling along in this group with Collin Morikawa and Tommy Fleetwood reeling off a few pars in a row as they enter the back nine well inside the cut mark.

    For the third time today, though, Dustin Johnson has had back-to-back bogeys so he's six over for the day and the 18th can't come quick enough for him.

  14. DeChambeau pars the eighthpublished at 19:26 British Summer Time 12 April

    DeChambeau -7 (8)

    Bryson DeChambeau may have flushed his drive but the rest of the eighth hole is a bit of a scramble.

    Out of position to the right of the green, he chips onto an impossible slope and the ball rolls away.

    It'll be a par for the leader.

  15. Vintage Vijaypublished at 19:26 British Summer Time 12 April

    Singh +4 (73)

    At 61 years old, 2000 Master champion Vijay Singh is one of the elder statesman in this field.

    But the three-time major champion has signed for a very handy one-over 73, which means he will likely play at the weekend at Augusta National for the first time since 2018.

  16. Postpublished at 19:25 British Summer Time 12 April

    Woods +1, Day +3, Homa -6 (12)

    Getting the ball to stay on the plateau where the pin sits on the 13th green is a tricky task.

    So tricky that none of Woods, Homa or Day can manage it.

    All three are nicely positioned with their second shots in front of the tributary to Rae's Creek, which meanders in front of the raised green.

    Woods is the closest to making it stick, but each effort slides back down the slope.

  17. Postpublished at 19:20 British Summer Time 12 April

    Hojgaard -6 (16)

    Nicolai Hojgaard tells his ball to "sit" on the par-three 16th but probably not on the right fringe 25 feet from the pin.

    Still two putts later and it's another par for the Dane who is playing some superb golf today.

  18. Young in the drink againpublished at 19:18 British Summer Time 12 April

    Young -1 (13)

    Cameron Young is seeing his chances falling away thanks to finding the water again, this time on 13, to drop another shot back to one under par.

    Young was five under par not so long ago but a bogey, double bogey and now this dropped shot all in the space of five holes.

  19. Postpublished at 19:16 British Summer Time 12 April

    Aberg E, Spieth +8, Theegala +4 (11)

    Bogey for Jordan Spieth on the 11th and all of a sudden his hopes of playing at the weekend look to be fading again.

    The American, who won his last major in 2017, was always chasing his tail a bit on there after failing to reach the green with his second and simply couldn't sink an 11-foot putt for par.

  20. Bunker troublepublished at 19:14 British Summer Time 12 April

    Scheffler -6, McIlroy -1, Schauffele E (1)

    Two drives and two bunkers found for Xander Schauffele and Rory McIlroy - which is especially damaging on the par-five second.

    McIlroy played the par fives in level par yesterday and that just won't cut it if he wants to win the Masters - as only one player in the last 50 years has claimed the Green Jacket without shooting under par on the longer holes.

    That man was Danny Willett in 2016.