The Masters Is Set Up for an Epic Sunday Finish
Rory’s lead is gone. 11 players within 5. Masters Sunday is wide open and volatile
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What started as a potential runaway at Augusta has turned into the exact scenario golf fans wait all year for — a wide open, high-stakes Sunday at the Masters.
Rory McIlroy entered the third round of the 2026 Masters with a commanding six-shot lead. By the end of Saturday, that lead was gone. Now, Rory is tied at the top with Cameron Young, setting up a final pairing that feels as electric as anything we’ve seen at Augusta National in years.
And it’s not just a two-man race.
Heading into Sunday, there are 11 players within five shots of the lead — including major champions and proven contenders like Scottie Scheffler, Justin Rose, Sam Burns, Shane Lowry, Jason Day, Patrick Reed, and more. This leaderboard is loaded, and the Green Jacket is truly up for grabs.
In this episode, Trey Wingo breaks down everything that led to this shift — from Rory McIlroy’s dominant play early in the tournament to the struggles that brought the field back into it on Saturday. The biggest issue? His approach play. After being one of the best in the field through the first two rounds, Rory’s iron play regressed on moving day, with key misses long and left leading to costly mistakes.
At the same time, Cameron Young delivered one of the most impressive two-round stretches in recent Masters history. Over Friday and Saturday, Young went 12-under par — a number only surpassed by Tiger Woods in this tournament. It’s the kind of performance that doesn’t just contend — it changes the entire dynamic of the championship.
This video also dives into the key data and historical trends that will shape Sunday’s outcome:
Why the final pairing at Augusta has produced the vast majority of recent Masters winners
What Rory McIlroy needs to fix to close out the tournament and win back-to-back green jackets
How Cameron Young’s form stacks up historically — and whether he can sustain it
Why mindset, not just execution, will ultimately decide the 2026 Masters
Rory McIlroy is still in position to make history. A win would give him his sixth major championship and make him just the fourth player ever to win back-to-back Masters titles, joining legends like Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, and Tiger Woods. It would further cement his legacy as one of the greatest players in the history of the game.
But if he doesn’t? The door is wide open.
From Scottie Scheffler’s surge into contention, to Justin Rose’s consistent excellence at Augusta, to Shane Lowry, Sam Burns, and others looking for a breakthrough — there are multiple storylines converging into what promises to be a dramatic final round.
This is what makes the Masters different.
This is why Augusta National delivers.
And this is the kind of Sunday that defines careers.
Let’s have a Sunday.
Key Topics: Rory McIlroy Masters 2026, Cameron Young Masters performance, Masters leaderboard update, Augusta National analysis, Masters Sunday preview, Scottie Scheffler round 3, Justin Rose Masters history, Sam Burns Masters, Shane Lowry Augusta, Jason Day Masters, Patrick Reed Masters, Masters final pairing stats, golf major championship breakdown, PGA Tour players, Masters tournament recap, Augusta National strategy, golf analysis.
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Make sure I do what? I dont know how to do it.
Rory has to hit the fairways!! He won’t win if he keeps missing the fairway.
It’s tough for the guys 4 strokes back. It has happened before of course, but they have to shoot at least 4-5 under and then hope the leaders either stay put or come back; both of those have certain odds attached to them. I hope Cameron Young plays well, bc Bryson last year did not and Rory had a clear path within the final pairing at least. I wanna see head to head in the final pairing, bc I think Rory will bring it
Imagine Lowrie or Rose, or both, leaders in the clubhouse, Young not in the mix and Rory needs 5footer to win by one, or to join the playoff. For a brief moment he will think of shattering their dreams i guess?
Can anybody kick that shit director out of Georgia he’s a disgrace for golf tv. Looking 20 minutes close Rose practicing putting what a nitwit.
Watching Rory at 18 and never an establishing shot ball pin never what an asshole that is. The green men has got to do a little work especially after the pas 3 contest espn an nbc or whatever is no good. Bad direction why all those close shot I know them.
Close to Rory putting that asshole director establish the fck situation wahwahaha kick him over the border. I mean that clown in the controle room.
Anyone but the terminally dull Scheffler please. Don't really want Burns or Young either.
Come On Rory
Captain America, Pat Reed
Thank you so much for asking & it just shows just how kind I’m certain that you are for asking, “what’s up everybody?”, because it’s been a long hard week already and it’s only Tuesday can you imagine that but since you asked, “what’s up everybody?” I will certainly tell you that things could be better but then they could be worse also and isn’t that always the case with life ha ha no matter what’s happening it could always be worse and no matter what is happening it could always be better, although there was one time, in fact actually there’s been a few times in my life where when somebody ask me “what’s up everybody?” I could actually tell him that things couldn’t be better, “what’s up everybody?” is that things are going so well but then I stop and think you know I suppose something else great could happen and things could even be better so to answer your question “what’s up everybody?, I’ll begin by saying things are actually looking up kind of like Paul McCartney wrote that “everything is looking better” and then the severely negative John Lennon wrote, “couldn’t get much worse“, which means obviously that Paul McCartney was an optimist and John Lennon was a pessimist and we all certainly all know that therefore if you were to ask them “what’s up everybody?” considering they are two people which certainly fills out the definition of guys plural, they would say what they said in that song which they wrote many songs in their career but can you believe they only wrote Beatle songs or actually all the Beatles songs they wrote were before they were 30 years old which really is astonishing therefore if you were to ask them “what’s up everybody?” they would have been all over the road from the beginning to the end of the Beatles career yet you ask me “what’s up everybody?” and I can tell you that things are looking pretty good, I’ll come back later to finish answering your question but thank you so much for asking that question.
Rory just needs to let yesterday go. If it was his 1st or 2nd round nobody would be talking about it. I think he'll be a different animal today
my dear friend Trey. Rory doesn't even have to show up today and he is still one of the greatest this game has ever seen. Last year he was punched in the face by the course and each time he got up and punched back. EVEN after the missed putt on 18 to end up in a playoff with Justin Rose, Rory hit his approach shot inside justin's to a few feet away. sunk it. It was some serious Rocky shit. Rory has gotten punched soo many times in his career and well, he won finally he won. Rory doesn't have to prove a frikken thing.
The winner Sunday will need to shoot at least 67
Rory's pitch onto 11 was too risky, ok, he pulled it left, but really should have left room for error, anything near the pin could get a poor bounce and its bogey time.
Keeping Lowry off your thumbnail intentionally is shocking.
Have to admit, after thursday I couldn't see Rory losing it, his short game was excellent, just needed a tweak with his driver to hit more fairways, didn't expect his whole game to leave him on friday, funny thing is he could still pull this off, but now another 10 players feel the win is there for the taking, Rose has been the most consistent, Sheffler is the ice man and Lowry is going to have a crack.
You clown you said on Friday Rory was going to run away with the lead your a joke hal
Not surprising…
That 6 strokes reduced..
Why are you surprised?
3.5 to 4 hrs? You’ve never golfed in Massachusetts 😂
I picked Cam on Wednesday and I still stand by that.
GO CAM YOUNG!
They need to shorten the back 9 i want to see birdies and eagles win it not bogeys lose it. We already have a us open
If Rory can't fix that pull hook that he was battling, he will lose
Some valuable info there little Jimmy
We know who Nance wants to win! It’s Scottie because he mentions his name every time he can!
Chances are with so many good players in the mix,it will come down to a playoff with maybe more than two!
This was a great video
Cam is hungrier than Rory. Either he or Shane will win.
If Rory straightens out his driver, he'll probably win. If not, he might still win but he'll have to grind, just like last year. He played about as poorly as he could and the others had to play out of their minds to catch him.
Love your demeanor and your analysis. Keep on going!
Rory has been extremely fortunate to be in this position. His scrambling days 1 and 2 was other worldly. He can not repeat his play off the tee and have any chance tomorrow. Augusta will prevail.
Rory is not the greatest he’s not close to it even
Jack talked about it on Thursday. At this course you can get away with spraying your drives. The irons and the putter are the keys at Augusta.
Don’t forget tiger shot those numbers on a much shorter course
The Master is a disaster is a shame it just a regular week tournament.PGA only care about tv rating’s. It was supposed to play every day with fast and firm greens but it exposed that 90 % of the PGA players are just an average players.
Patrick Reed isn't used to this new 72-hole format.
24 hours later and lots of tough comments on rory aging like a glass of milk in a greenhouse