The Masters 2024 Second Round – BBC Radio 5 Live commentary

the Masters live from Augusta National
with Mark Chapman on five sports extra
and BBC
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sounds welcome to Augusta National the
88th Masters second round smattering of
Applause Just dying down in the
background there here on 50 where Tiger
Woods has just uh made his birdie pot
we’ll tell you where he is very shortly
our overnight leader was Bryson Des
Shambo and he is still there with the
world number one alongside him alist
Bruce Ball hting up very nicely in the
Augusta Sunshine Bryson Des Shambo
playing the 10th seven under par level
par for his round today Scotty shefer
remember him well he’s picked up exactly
from where he left off last night on the
fourth at the moment birdie thei also at
7 under Palm Max Homer has kept it going
well he’s got a few holes still of his
second round of play he’s at six under
Danny Willet chipped in or pitched in
shall I say from 95 yards for Eagle on
the par five8 today he’s at five under
and he’s also into his back nine
Clubhouse leader Denmark’s Nikolai Huard
at four underp New Zealand’s Ryan FOX
also on that Mark at 4 under par to pick
out a couple of others ludvig Oar going
well in his first Masters at two under
Matt Fitzpatrick also on the Mark at two
under par Rory maroy at one under he’s
playing alongside Scotty Sheffer so he
is playing the fourth he he’s missed the
green short left and Tiger Woods Mark in
front of you I think he’s going to be
here for the weekend currently at one
over par yeah uh thanks to that Birdie
the cut is projected at the moment on
four overp par it is a glorious day here
in Augusta Georgia we had the the rain
yesterday yesterday morning it meant a
delayed start so a few of the first
round uh groups had to finish their
first round this morning then they were
straight into the second round but it is
a cloudless blue sky this Friday
afternoon uh here in the southern state
and there is wind which is testing the
players a little bit but it leads to a
perfect temperature for the patrons here
that’s how the spectators are known so
the wind just takes a little bit of the
heat of the sun uh away and it is a
glorious afternoon to be watching golf
let’s just tidy up what’s happened here
on 15 first of all cuz it is relevant to
the leaderboard in Max Homer and as Ali
has said with Tiger Woods it is relevant
to the cut and you will hear the
Applause in the background for tiger as
he makes his way onto the par 316th T
John Murray is alongside me here well
Tiger Woods has hit the best shot that
we’ve seen hit today off the tea at 15
the par five 15 he was on the top of the
hill probably 250 yards a so from the
green and and only a handful of players
have gone for this in two because it’s
against the wind today but Woods hit a
magnificent shot in which was 25 Ys left
of the hole it’s the only shot that
we’ve seen land on the Green in two
today so he had the eagle put he wasn’t
able to hold that but he’s rolled it in
from close range which has taken him
back to one overp par for the tournament
and with the cut set currently projected
to be at four over it looks very likely
barring something going very wrong over
the course of the the final three holes
that Tiger Woods will be here at the
weekend and will therefore get the
record for the most consecutive Cuts
made at the Masters which will be 24
which will Delight him it will Delight
uh the people who run uh the Masters it
will Delight the TV companies as well
that tiger will be here for the weekend
just have here a chat with his caddy
behind us just in the shadows of one of
the lob LLY Pines as he sizes up his
t-shot on 16 so he does that let’s head
over to aen Corner Ian Carter and Andrew
McGee are there for us with eyes on
Danny Willet who started the day four
under is now 5 Under playe 12 yeah
remarkable performance this from the
2016 Champion playing his first
tournament since
September having undergone shoulder
surgery he’s just made a textbook par on
the very difficult par for 11th and we
have the classic scenario at Amen Corner
again today with the flag on the 12th
pointing in One Direction directly away
from the players and if they glance over
to the left the flag that bright yellow
flag on the 11th green is pointing in
the opposite direction will it is
standing hands on hips just laughing
he’s been waiting to play this t-shot
because up ahead of him Jose Mario
lethabo racked up a triple bogey six
after visiting the water the only player
I’ve been here for a good hour and a bit
and uh he’s the only player who’s
actually found the water while I’ve been
watching but now Willet is pulling the
club Andrew McGee just put into context
the performance we’ve seen from the
Englishman so far oh it’s been terrific
and it’s it’s it’s interesting to see
the the first day
scores the boys get off to a hot start
but today things are getting much
tighter the lowest score we see what
under couple underpar Danny Willet over
the ball 152 yards Golden Bell number 12
balls in the air he like it yeah it’s
just flying a little bit to the left if
the distance is okay that should be fine
and it’s just a fraction long just a
fraction long but no real trouble for
will it on this uh treacherous
treacherous Par 3 that is so treacherous
in these conditions well the conditions
are dictating everything everybody’s
staring up at the tops of these big lob
LLY Pines to get it to get some kind of
inkling of what it might do but the left
of this pin is the safe place to play if
you’re right of this pin you have made a
mistake let Let’s uh let’s bring you
back just here to 16 where tiger once
has continued his recent imperious form
and put that what within 15 20 ft of the
pin which is cut back right today on
16th yeah I would say I would say 20 ft
probably that’s where tyell Hatton was a
few minutes ago and he left his put just
short at tyell Hatton which um if I
remember rightly that was him at two
over wasn’t it for the uh for the
tournament at the time the other thing
we should say Max Homer was about to tea
off on the 16th so this is the par 316th
over the water Max Homer did not make
any forward move at the par five 15th he
had a 25 footer for birdie but wasn’t
able to ha it so he remains in third The
Tall Bearded American rder Cup player
last year six underpar and here has his
t- shot at the 16th there’s a nice
murmur about it from the stands and
there should be too it’s right online l
short and then rolls away to the left
and Max Homer has a real live birdie
chance there from round about 10 feet
that would take him were he to haul it
into a share of the lead that’s a
sensational shot from Max Homer is he
tries to get level with Bryson Des
Shambo and Scotty Sheffer at the top of
that leaderboard and Scotty Sheffer just
continues serenely on his way doesn’t he
aliser Bruce Ball yeah he does he and
Rory maon have just completed the par
34th playing 226 yards today par three
where they’re up high they sort of play
over a valley to an enormous green
bunker left bunker front right Ry maroy
missed that green front left Trish but I
mean knock knocked the chip pretty close
about four-footer to save his par and
Sheffer probably slightly longer for his
par on that green but absolutely Rock
Steady wasn’t he yeah it wasn’t what you
think six no not even 6 months ago 3
months ago looking at Sheffer over that
sort of length putt you thought 50/50
didn’t have much confidence but all of a
sudden he’s gone to the malet putter
he’s won back-to-back events and he just
looks as solid as a rock over everything
at the moment yeah so Scotty Sheffer uh
the birdie on the second otherwise
blemish free uh as it was yesterday as
well seven underpar sharing the lead
Mark with Bryson D Shambo and Rory mroy
remains at one under par but again Mark
we’ve seen that contrast between maroy
and Sheffer over the first couple of
holes Sheffer just plotting his way
around beautifully stress putting
himself in the right positions giving
himself the chances first couple of
holes maroy off the tea found bunkers
you know managed to to play the
brilliant goal shots to sort of
extricate himself from the trouble but
in terms of trying to make ground on
Sheffer and move forward he’s just going
to have to try try and sort of match the
consistency and the Brilliance of of
Sheffer because at the moment Sheffer is
not putting a foot wrong TR just uh look
the the majority of people listening to
us will love their golf I would imagine
and that’s where why they’re with us
this Friday evening on sport sex we do
do go on to five live by the way at 9:00
as well just explain though the
difference that a mallet putter will
have made for Scotty Sheffer yeah well
really to be perfectly honest apart from
you know it’s the F more than anything
he had like a a sort of like Ping Ping
type um that type of putter uh what you
call it the um like the Ping aner that
type looking no it’s not a blade no but
the you know the the single a single
length um and and a mallet putter is a
bigger headed putter and and what and
also it’s probably um uh Swig weighted
as well so it it gives you so much more
leeway but with I’m I’m explaining this
really well there’s Andrew there can we
go to Andrew don’t talk talk to me about
no I’ll start again basically the gist
of it is it gives you a lot more uh
sweet spot to hit with and also when you
go to something completely different
when you’ve been struggling with
something and you suddenly are looking
at something that is you know just the
complete opposite to what you’ve had
before and and all of a sudden putts
start going in that’s all it’s about
chappers at the end of the day it’s
about seeing something that actually you
get some confidence with and he’s
wrapped with confidence at the moment
Mark Scotty Sheffer has uh played his
drive off the 50 challenging par for
front line of course he’s found the
middle of the Fairway Bryson D Shambo
joint leader soon going to be in the uh
sight of Ian Carter and Andrew McGee
he’s hit his t-shot down the right hand
side uh of the par 41th both he and and
Sheffer uh seven under par so D Shambo
uh very soon will be under the watchful
gaze of of Ian and Andrew at aen corner
Ian is watching Danny Willer Andrew
alongside him maybe he he could add
something to
them thank you Jeffers I’m just trying
to put that diplomatic L maybe he could
add something to the Mallet putter
discussion that was all I was saying how
about fa balanc thank you that’s the
word was looking the words right there
face balanced it feels so much more
solid when you grab a face balanc
after putting with a ping aner style
putter that’s more heel weighted okay
there’s the answer and am I right in
thinking as well Ian is he is he the one
who has talked about he doesn’t use the
the the bull manufacturer’s name anymore
to line it up because he has the Mallet
putter exactly he feels that it’s better
to use the lines on the putter um which
are longer because of the Mallet which
is a bigger head um and and and hits a a
sort of plain golf ball whereas you see
so many players using the line on the
ball actually drawing a straight line on
the ball to line up you know the the
where they want to set the ball off now
here’s Danny Willet looking for an
unlikely Birdie on the 12th he’s missed
the green to the left he’s putting from
just off the green done a lot of
gardening so far and now sends the ball
forward and watches as the ball heads
towards the hole the flag gently wafting
in the breeze and it’s just gone by the
hole 10t 10 ft by the hole Yeah it’s
gone through by 10 ft so a real tester
now for Willet to make sure he doesn’t
drop a shot here and remain at five
under par and within two shots of the
lead which of course is held by Scotty
Sheffer who is playing the fifth and
Bryson Des Shambo who’s going to be
hoving into view for us here on the 11th
very shortly John Murray just watching
Tiger Woods away in the distance on the
16th green remember his t- shot we told
you about it 20 25 ft away and it was
like watching the Tiger Woods of old
really this is his 26th Masters how many
times we’ve seen him in this sort of
scenario in this place in this Sunshine
walking around a put that he really
liked the look of and he knows the
importance of it however it didn’t drop
so Birdie on 15 but uh he should he
should ha out for his part three on the
16s to remain at one over and very
shortly we will have Max hmer putting
for Birdie on
16 uh okay uh Bry and dambo and Scotty
Sheffer are both on seven under Max
Homer has this opportunity to join him
John just keeping an eye as well on
Bruce capka tell you about that in a
moment but this is the chance this is
the chance for Homer rolls the ball ever
so gently down towards the hall and
there’s a Bend of the knees which which
tells you those those legs in those
light blue trousers knew that that
wasn’t going to drop so it is a par par
three for Max Homer in third place at
the moment on six under and he stays six
under with two to play yeah we’ll tell
you about Brooks kka shortly Ian Danny
Willet using the line on the ball and
very carefully lining it up in the
direction on the line that he wants to
take for this 10 floter to save par and
remain within two shots of the lead the
2016 Champion Danny Willet from
Sheffield settles over this
now glance at the hole pad is behind the
ball a rock of the shoulders will
trigger the ball on its Journey towards
the hole almost motionless over it now
the ball heads forward will it disappear
no it won’t misses just on the left side
and he’ll tap in for a four a dropped
shot and Danny Willet slips back to four
under par and goes to the 13th T level
par for his round here’s what here’s
what it looks like here isn’t it really
that that this is going to be really
bunched I mean we had a quick touch on
it on on five live earlier but but
nobody and and Andrew mentioned earlier
you know that the lowest score out there
has probably been a 69 or a 70 really I
would have thought we can have a look at
in a moment so everything’s really
bunched but I would imagine in the back
of most people’s minds and it may be in
some of the players Minds that if
anybody is going to go clear here it’s
Sheffer you would think so it’s the
quality of the ball strike in and it’s
you know it’s a phrase that we rely on
but I think probably way too much but on
a day like this where there is such a a
requirement by the golf course for
precision and the elements are
conspiring against you the quality of
that strike is what can separate you
from the rest and I don’t think it’s any
coincidence that someone like ludvig Oar
has gone from one overpar to two
underpar to day in these conditions on
this golf course on his debut and we
know that he is a wonderful ball Striker
and by that we mean someone who just
finds the middle of the club time and
time again and as we know Sheffer does
that more than anybody else in the game
right now and that’s why he’s such a
danger and and also Bryson dambo has
designed has designed his irons himself
so that even if he doesn’t find the
middle of his iron they’re designed in
such a way that they should help him and
we might discuss that a little bit later
on it’s all to do uh with what is termed
technically a bulge alist Bruce ball
thank you Mark uh Tiger Woods big Roars
for his t- shot which is absolutely
strike down the middle of the par 4 17th
it climbs up the hill and slowly comes
to rest in the middle of the Fairway one
over par uh for the Masters two holes to
play in this second round just looking
at the uh the leaderboard on the Masters
app Trish Johnson it looks like the
projected cut has gone out to five over
par but Tiger Woods is going to set and
we know this now really unless there’s
an absolute disaster on 17 and 18 for
him he’s going to set another Master’s
record it is going to be a 24th
consecutive cut made you you’ve been
watching a couple of the swings from
from back at base here VI the TV
pictures you think he’s swinging it
really nicely don’t you I think he looks
great I think his body is you know it’s
not hurting him at the moment because
he’s just getting through the ball so
well so often when he’s he’s got pain in
his legs or his hips or whatever he gets
the club you know behind him and he
leaves it behind him because he just
can’t get his his hands and his body
through quick enough and at the moment
he’s swinging it superbly right here’s
the man with the right foot swinging
Scotty Sheffer joint leader seven under
pass second shot into the par 4 fifth
climbs the false front to the right of
this screen and the ball then just
starts to take the slope and bend in
towards the hole you can hear the
Applause for that second shot again very
steady very safe left himself maybe 20
25 ft there yeah one of the other things
I think is interesting about Sheffer and
his putting going to the Mallet putter
is more about the fact the ball is more
important about the line on the ball I
think Sheffer is a very field B uh
player you know field-based and doesn’t
need to be concentrating too much on
things by getting rid of that exactness
of putting the ball down and having the
line on it so you know so specifically I
think he’s freed his freed his mind up
to put better Ian Carter we’re getting
ready to hand it to you we’re looking at
Bryson D Shambo in the middle of the
11th Fairway he’s to the right of this
Fairway he’s probably out of sight of
you at the moment but he’s getting ready
to strike his second shot towards the
11th green you heard the swish you heard
the contact the Shambo is looking up up
towards the Green in Carter can you see
the ball yes it lands to the right and
short of the green it’s been the bailout
place for all of these players he’s got
himself to a position where if he hits a
low chip then he can’t go far enough
right to be able to keep the ball on a
line that would actually go into the
hole because we’ve seen so many chips
from where he’s going to be hitting from
that have swayed away to the left but
that is the safe play he should be able
to get up and down from there and remain
at seven under Max Homer just one shot
off the lead so you got D Shambo seven
under playing the 11th Scotty schler on
the fifth Green in two he’s at seven
underpar there The Joint leaders and Max
homers just hit his t- shot mark off the
17th T playing alongside Tiger Wood
started the day at five under par one
under for his round at the moment but
has found the Fairway uh on the 17th and
the greatest irony today Mark lots of
conversation yesterday about me not
having a pair of binoculars so I jully
trudged towards the merchand Outlet uh
to pay quite a bit of money for a pair
of binoculars today got into the uh the
course for work and I was promptly told
that I was sitting in the uh in the
media center for the rest of the day in
front of all the TV screens and doing
the leaderboard so I don’t need them so
do you have them now I do yeah right
okay in Masters green they’re
magnificent and did you lend them to Ian
who who is that name
it no don’t touch don’t even don’t even
don’t even Point those the team player
ethic coming through loud and clear on
five lives go golf coverage Katherine
down does anybody well actually they
won’t be quite coming interview yet
because I can see Max Homer and Tiger
Woods walking down the 17th Fairway in
front of us I won’t go won’t go to you
just yet okay I can see the only ball I
can see on The Fairway though and I’m
I’m peering through the trees there’s a
lot of people here now as you can
imagine that that tiger tide that floods
around the course with him I’m peering
through the people through the trees
using my Master’s green binoculars as
well and the only ball I can see on The
Fairway is that of Tiger Wood right in
the center of the 17th Fairway not sure
where Max Homer and Jason day have ended
up but Tiger Woods is in A1 position
with the wind behind coming up the hill
with a couple of holes left to play uh
we we talk often don’t we about the uh
the crowds here and who is following who
and where the sparse Crowds Are and the
the big Galleries and obviously the
biggest is always with tiger no matter
who he is playing with they that is
where they tend to be 7 8 10 Deep on the
fairways around the green watching
uh the the group here on 15 which was
Brooks ker and Brian Harmon they
finished putting on 15 and when they
finished half this Gallery got up and
left John Murray and that’s despite the
fact that coming down next we have a
bear who is two under but we also have
Jordan Speed who’s having a horrible
tournament I mean he is nine over and
following them you know we’ve still got
Dustin Johnson and morawa and Fleetwood
but it was almost as if Woods has gone
through K has gone through were off and
I think certainly with Tiger Woods he’s
always been the draw we we discussed
didn’t we earlier in the week that
famous day here in 97 on the final day
which drew a record TV audience of 44
million so that speaks for itself he’s
had that for his whole life his whole
career but now I think we’ve got to a
point whereby there is certainly an
element of not many more chances to see
and of course he’s not played in a
tournament since since right early in
the year when he withdrew uh from the
Genesis so um you know to see him now
and also so to have a glimpse of him
yesterday and think actually as Trish
has been saying he looks okay he
actually there are definitely elements
there of the the Great Tiger Still Still
within him we um we talk don’t we every
year on our coverage that no technology
is allowed out on the course uh we’re
not allowed to bring phones out or iPads
out the none of the patrons here are
allowed to bring phones out either it’s
all about the big white leaderboards
that’s where you get your information
from and they’ve just taken one name off
and put a new name on that leaderboard
of Patrick Klay and that has brought
absolutely no reaction from anybody Ian
I wonder why I wonder why here is brys
and Des sha bone just a word on where
this flag is located on the 11th right
at the back of the green and it’s
rattling away in the hole at the moment
as the breeze gusts up and he’s chipping
down Breeze the ball will break from
right to left out of the shadows and the
hole sitting in a portion of sunlight
here and he just rehearses the takeaway
with his wedge all standard length irons
for Bryson to Shambo and then he lands
it just past the elbow of the bunker and
then it goes forward and it was the
percentage plays put it to maybe 10 11
ft something like that but kept it under
the hole we’ve seen it time and time
again I mean when are they going to move
this green to the right cuzz everybody
is to is playing it safe this is
basically a par five we’ve only seen a
few fours and mostly fives but uh you
have to make you know 10 12 Footers for
for fours on this hole right now but uh
here we go here we go a in corner doing
its thing yeah the wind isn’t helping
the the hole measures 520 yards you’ve
got I Pond to the left and with the flag
all the way at the back if you go pin
hunting then you bring the water into
play and all sorts of potential trouble
yeah we’ll never see a ball left of this
pen never so I mean these these guys are
bailing out to the right let’s say 30
yards right of this flag stick 11 is
always played the hardest hole I believe
it is this week also except for maybe
number 18 if we can check that ABB but I
think 11 is always the one just a five
is not terrible we’ll have a look at
that for you I can also see that Tiger
Wood’s second shot cat is on its way to
you at the 17th he’s launched it from
the middle of the Fairway where has it
ended up it went right at the flag and
almost plunged into the hole on the toss
but it skipped through the back of the
green and will have scuttled down that
steep slope over the back of 17 the wind
whistling up the Fairway right behind
Tiger Woods and he just got a little bit
too much on it so it’s gone through the
back of the green and is nestled up
against the grand stand and The
Spectators through the back of 17 Tiger
Woods at one overpar should make the cut
comfortably uh the cut predicted
currently at four over playing alongside
Jason day the former world number one
who’s at three over so he’s got some
work to do to make sure he stays within
that cut line and Max Homer next to play
at six underpar standing in the shadows
down the right hand side in his Sky Blue
trousers Ali can you see him can I can
see him well got a good view of him so
his his drive his t- shot from the 17th
has just rolled down that right hand
side into just a little dip he’s safely
on the short stuff those beautifully
green manicured Fairways and he’s come
to rest in a pool of Shadow from one of
those big overhanging pine trees down
the right hand side launching his ball
high up into the sky the blue cloudless
sky that matches his trousers and it’s
plunged down onto the green on 17 and
stopped Dead about 25 ft or so from the
pin so max Homan with a good look at
birdie here on the 17th currently at six
underpart one off the lead allly back to
you for a bit of Scotty Sheffer update
yes Scotty sheffler birdie part uh on
the the fifth is not really going to
threaten the hole he looks a little bit
bemused by it but again not a problem
for him he’s only a foot or so away he’s
going to tap that in for par shortly is
our joint leader at seven under par
alongside Bryson desan BAU Max Homer
safely onto the 17th Green in two at six
under par and Nikolai hoard our
clubhouse leader at four under par Trish
Johnson talk our listeners through the
woes of Rory maroy on the par 4 fifth so
while Scotty Sheffer continues to plot
his way around the golf course Rory Roy
came up short of that green in two then
what happened what was the most
extraordinary shot I think I’ve ever
seen Rory play he had about 30 yards to
a back pin admittedly but about five
yards behind uh the pin and he hit a wed
shot that pitched way too far and he
knew it the moment he hit it put his
head in his hands and it went all the
way over the back and left him almost an
impossible chip so he’s basically missed
the Green from 30 yards and he’s now
knocked it back and he’s got about 8
feet for his bogey yeah so Rory mroy uh
is going to definitely drop at least one
shot there mark uh on the fifth in fact
we got him right in front of our eyes
now maroy putting for bogy this is a
good 67 feet as well Pure Strike of the
ball and right into the heart of the
hole so that actually the second chip
the up and down from the back of the
green the position he put himself in
that is fabulous work you can tell I
mean he closes his eyes he shakes his
head he then looks up to the heavens and
he can’t believe the mistake he’s made
as Trisha said with the first pitch from
the front of the green he drops back to
level par it’s seven shots off the lead
I I’ve got so many questions to ask
about maroy and Sheffer playing together
which we’ll do with Trish and Andrew
shortly Ian Bryson to sha Bo putting to
retain a share of the lead on the 11th
green having chipped up to probably 10
ft and all of the Journey of this ball
will be in brilliant Sunshine Here
Andrew you’ve taken this this put many a
time I’m sure what’s the break yeah this
is back up the hill so he can he can
give it a good hit this is not one of
those defensive puts he
he can hit this one it’s right to left
and it is in the sunlight the ball is on
its way and up towards the hole but not
quite giving it enough it’s come up just
short so it’s a dropped shot at the 11th
there have been plenty of those today
but this is significant for the top of
the leaderboard all of those
leaderboards around the golf course are
going to reflect this very very shortly
because when the number is put
underneath the number 11 it will be a
six to Shambo back to six underpar and
that means out on his own in front for
the first time at the 88th Masters is
the world number one Scotty Sheffer at
seven under par um although Sheffer
might drop a shot as well well he has he
has Mark that is the first mistake we’ve
seen Scotty Sheffer make I would say
that putt is 2 feet no more we’re
watching it the replay of it from right
behind the putterhead and it’s one of
those that has hit the left edge of the
hrish it’s very nearly dropped and it’s
completely whipped round the back of the
hole horseshoe and spat out again so
it’s going to be a drop shot for Sheffer
first of the uh first of the Masters
back to six under and and that means
he’s six under Bryson is six under Max
Homer is six under and cat is watching
him on 17 yeah and he’s in close is Max
home about 25 ft or so for his birdie
coming up just watching Tiger Woods
whose ball flew through the back of the
green on 17 I thought it might have got
up against the spectators in the grand
stand because it was coming at some
whack but he’s managed to uh to slow it
down obviously as it bounced maybe had
some back spin on it so he’s just
slightly off the green and just chipping
up now over the ridge of the green and
sidling up towards the hole oh I think
he wanted to be a lot closer than that
he’s about 5 foot or so from the pin
wearing a very classy outfit today Tiger
Woods kind of creamy colored trousers
and a mocker colored coffee colored
t-shirt with a a white baseball cap just
bending down slightly deliberately we
know about the problems he’s had with
that leg after the car crash and all the
pins and and rods and poles in there
keeping his leg together as saw as well
as he was walking up the hill on 17 to
his uh his t-shot that he he opened his
chest and his arms wide just to stretch
out those shoulders obviously feeling a
little bit of aches and pains we heard
him say in his press conference that he
aches every day and these have been two
really tough physical rounds of goal for
all the players but with all the
physical issues that Tiger Woods is
dealing with uh surely he’s had a lot of
Physio and and rest overnight he’s
played 20 plus holes today hasn’t he he
has yeah and he’s just just going down
on his haunches behind the ball at the
moment to have a look at his to save his
PA and that was a really deliberate dip
of the knees very slow very using the
the handle of the putter to prop himself
up next to play Mark is Max Homer who’ll
be putting for his birdie that would
give him the outright lead here on the
17th on day two of the 88 Masters the
wind once again getting up around this
cauldron on the 17th whipping the white
sand out of the bunkers and Max Homer’s
white T-shirt tugging in the wind above
his Sky Blue trousers standing behind
the ball now very gentle touch as it
comes over the crest of the ridge on the
17th green and sidles past the hole on
the left hand side just by a couple of
feet or so so it should be a stressfree
PA for Max Homer he will go to the final
t on six under par and in a share of the
lead Ian Bryson to Shambo on the 12th T
152 yards today this shortest hole on
the course the wind coming in off the
right and he sends this on its way
climbing up to its apex and now coming
down looking on a very very good line
indeed and that looks a superb t- shot
from Bryson to Shambo and he’s carved
the opportunity for a bounce back bab
birdie Here Andrew McGee yeah very calm
swing just past the hole about 12 ft
just carry the gaping bunker in the
front eight Paces after that is the flag
stick and that’s where you want to land
the ball which he just did superb stuff
from Bryson to Shambo then Mark as he
marches off to the 12th green looking to
bounce back from the bogy at the 11th
which means he shares the lead at six
under bar with Homer and Sheffer so
Andrew asked the question 10 minutes ago
or whether whether 18 whether 18 was
still playing the hardest on the course
maybe 17 and 18 um and and normally with
Ian we just throw that there when he’s
in front of the monitors and and he
gives it to us straight away being a bit
more gentle with Ally who is in this
role for the first time today so that’s
been a good 10 minutes yeah it’s taken a
while actually to be fair to tr she was
on it within about a minute and I was
still scrambling around sort of flicking
through notebooks and looking at
leaderboards and all sorts so today the
11th is the hardest hole Scotty Sheffer
by the way we’re looking out on the te
of the par 36 the pin is on the lower
tier here at the six and he’s missed the
green to the left hand side and the ball
just takes the slope and runs away
towards the feet The Spectators uh in
the shade of the Pines and then the
camera angle just widens a little bit
for us Trish so in terms of the sort of
Chip that he’s got to play from the side
of that green very quickly before tiger
putts on the 17th what do you think not
the easiest up the slope and then it’ll
be gently down the slope so he’s got to
judge the first bounce specifically but
uh very strange moment that watching him
missed that little short one and it was
a horror putt as well pulled it straight
off the blade um nearly went in but uh
no that looks like he’s you a little bit
shaky for a couple minutes first sign of
Frailty from Scotty Sheffer the 11th the
hardest hole on the golf course so far
today was second hardest yesterday the
18th was the hardest anything else you
want Mark well what’s the 18th today I
have absolutely no idea here’s
cat I’ll step in here shall I before it
turns nasty Tiger Woods puttting for his
PA then on the 17th still got about 5
and 1/2 ft or so to save his PA here as
the five-time champion looking to make
the 24th consecutive
cut and the crowd rising to their feet
applauding their great Champion they’ve
followed him all around the course on
this second day the security guard at
the front of the grand stand here on 17
having to indicate to everyone sit down
sit down Max Homer still got to pop for
his par but Tiger Woods has got the job
done here on the 17th he he saves his
par after leaving it a bit short from
over the back of the green he will stay
at 1 overpar comfortably within the
projected cut line at four overpar as he
heads to the 18th and Max Homer The
Joint leader just tidying up for his par
as well so he will go to the last at six
under in a share of the lead on this day
two with Bryson D Shambo and the world
number one Scotty Sheffer Mark uh the
question I was going to ask earlier
Trish in relation to Sheffer and maroy
maybe it’s less appropriate now because
sheff has bogied one and has just just
made a mistake on the sixth as well is
you maroy talked effusively about
sheffer’s efficiency after the round
yesterday Sheffer was asked about his
efficiency and his press conference and
just talked about limiting mistakes
that’s all it is it’s important keep the
momentum of a round going when you get
in challenging spots just pitch it up
there nice and close and and try and get
get off with your par when you’re in a
tournament situation not in a match play
is is there anything you can do just to
try and imitate what your partner is or
one of your playing Partners is doing no
no because because obviously you’d be
changing your game plan so you have your
own you know your own design and what
you want to do and I think the
difficulty is what Rory said last night
he’s basically he’s almost admitting the
fact that Sheffer is playing so well and
making so few mistakes that no one’s
going to beat him that’s pretty much
what he said you know if you if you if
you get listen to his whole interview
and that I mean if you’re shefle you’re
just thinking well what a lovely moment
it’s like tiger in his pump wasn’t it
everybody was beaten by Tiger in his
pump before he even teed off cuz once
his name got to the top of the
leaderboard it was as though well he
never loses from the front and Sheffer
has got this aura about him at the
moment that the other players know if
he’s just playing so incredibly well and
to hear I was really surprised to hear
Rory give that sort of compliment out to
someone that he knows that is you know
obviously the number one player in the
world but it’s so difficult because Rory
does make mistakes he makes Incredible
amount of birdies but a load of mistakes
and sheffler just very rarely makes
one we’ve got Tiger Woods on the 18th
team see here uh in this sort of milk
chocolate brown polo shirt that cat so
beautifully described cat you can see
him there can’t you I can I can see his
ball flying past me just leaking to the
left here I know that there are bunkers
down that left hand side those big
sprawling white bunkers it was curling
around the pine trees that are craning
their next they lean in don’t they the
pine trees like the the bones of whales
leaning over the Fairway as if they want
to get a better look at Tiger Woods and
do you know what for Tiger Woods this
the Fairway is optically narrowed
because of the depth of the spectators
either side you know normally if you can
see a bit of grass both sides you know
after a string of a string of patrons
looking over the road it doesn’t look
quite so narrow but because there are so
many people here you can see that the
the narrowness of the Fairway is
highlighted by the fact that there are
you know 10 Deep around the the ropes
here but yeah Tiger Woods going down the
left hand side I think there found the
Fairway yeah flirted with the branches
of the Tall Pines away to the left but
had that bit of fade on it so marks
safely uh to the left hand side of the
18th Fairway on one of the hardest holes
uh of it’s number
three number three he knew that aliston
knew that he’s just uh he’s playing the
game Andrew were you like Trish
surprised at Mary’s comments yesterday
after the roundabout
Sheffer okay Andrew was uh just intently
looking through his binoculars there
which just knocked off his ability to be
able to tell you whether or not he was
surprised at the comments that maroy
made that was so praiseworthy of Scotty
Sheffer yesterday I just think it’s a
bit of game playing also you know when
you’re playing together with the the two
heavy weights like that I think it’s
just a little bit of maybe D to needle
him get in his head a little bit cuz
they had to play the G together today
but um these guys all get along so well
I mean it’s just everybody is so nice to
each other anymore I want to see some
antagonism out here I want to see some
fighting well I was going to say they
wen’t all nice to each other at the ride
to
co-op I have to say I’ve got a book
that’s just come out called Wars so just
thought I get that in for the 20th time
on our cover no first actually second
actually D will it for birdie Ali yeah
Danny will it uh for Birdie on the 13th
from about 18 ft he wasn’t delighted
with the pitch he hit into the par five
13th and he’s just missed the putt uh
left edge of the Hole Round the back of
the hole it went Max Homer found the
bunker up the left of the 18th Fairway
Scotty Sheffer then chipping up the
slope from the side of the sixth scen
he’s judged it beautifully it’s not drop
is it from Sheffer just pulls up right
to the edge the left edge of the hole on
the six he can blow that in practically
he’s inches away and having just made
the mistake on the fifth with a short po
then missed the sixth green Trish
Johnson what a response yeah fantastic I
think it’s a very his short game is
massively underestimated probably
because his iron play is so flipping
good that he hardly ever has to actually
chip but when he has to it is absolutely
top-notch so Sheffer six under dambo six
under Max Homer going up the 18th but
he’s found the bunker at six under hoard
at four under and Danny Willet who
didn’t make the birdie uh on the 13th
remains at four under palar birdie
opportunity here on 16 for Ludi AAR on
his first Master’s appearance yes not
only his first Master’s appearance his
first major appearance on the 16th from
10 ft and he’s rolled it right in the
middle and therefore this Swedish r
rookie from last year ludvig o in the
sunshine here has moved to within three
shots of the lead this is that’s some
performance it really is uh three under
for him Patrick Klay is also on three
under Ryan Fox is on four under Ian
Carter watching one of the joint leaders
after His Brilliant t- shot to the back
of the green of the 12 here is brys and
Des sha Bo for the outright lead once
again putting from 10 ft hunch shoulders
straight
arms stock still then sends the ball
forward and into the hole and it is a
bounce back birdie and Bryson to sha boo
gets the birdie that takes him back to
seven under par and the outright lead
what a bounce back here on this very
difficult 12 today playing the shortest
of any hole but I bet you it might be
the most overpower for couple triples
we’ve seen a double beautiful bounce
back Bryson D Shambo seven underpar he’s
not going away well he’s not going away
and I reckon Andrew there would have
been a lot of people thinking maybe look
yes he had a very good opening round
he’s had a good opening round here
before in his career but I think there
would a lot of PE there would have been
a lot of people doubting whether he
would drop back sorry would thinking
that he would drop I’m with you I mean
it’s it’s kind not easy but to come out
with a flyer on the first toll it’s you
know you’re not really in the tournament
yet until you get going and those first
three birdies in the first three holes
yesterday got him going and he’s in the
mixed now and he is holding his medal
very nicely I am surprised that was well
said there chappers um he could have
just shot a nice little 75 today we
always said that’s about right and I
mean we we watched an interview together
didn’t we in with with Bryson after his
round yesterday weome on to the
technical side of things a little bit
later on but he he seemed so calm and
relaxed in that interview yesterday it
he is as he himself said post round he
he’s a different man he said he feels
much more comfortable in his own skin he
was always something of a Maverick
something of an outsider obviously plays
the game in a unique way all his irons
we forget to tell talk about this
because it’s been so engrained into his
career but all his irons are the same
length you know he’s the only player who
does that he has gone through obviously
the dietary uh issues of of of trying to
bulk up and and increased speed and
length that way and then discovering
that that was bad for him discovering
what he was uh allergic to in in in
essence and has changed his diet and he
looks extremely healthy he looks very
very well built still but a much more
complete golfer I would say and he’s
he’s he’s golfing his ball rather than
just having to smash it trying to smash
it and smash courses into Smither he he
was asked actually Andrew yesterday
after the round you had the mad
scientist phase you’ve had the bulky
Basher phase and what phase do you think
you are in now and he said the golf
phase I’d say the golf phase for sure
wow that’s so analytical isn’t it I mean
most people would never be that deep
with all that but uh it’s it’s amazing
he has softened his swing I think it was
he was getting injured you can’t swing
that hard look at Tiger swinging that
hard for so many years he’s pretty
banged up but uh well done Bryson you
you figured it out most people don’t
uh we’ve just got some Tommy Fleetwood
news in front of us kin Mor Colin morawa
as well who’s in the red numbers yeah
Colin morara is the former open Champion
two underpar and Tommy Fleetwood has
just got it back to level par for the
tournament with a a birdie here at the
par five 15 and a little bump of the
fists with his his caddy this week who
is not Ian finis as it usually is
because he’s not so well so hasn’t been
able to come here so Tommy Fleetwood is
using a caddy master from the August
National and I’ve watched them over the
course of the last few days they’ve
clearly got a really good understanding
together and uh and there we are back to
to level par of the tournament Tommy
Fleetwood Bryson birded 12 he’s now on
the 13th T Ali yeah Basher Bryson has
just bashed it miles right down the 13th
into the pin straw towards the patrons
who are sort of in the dappled shade of
the trees it’s a lovely walk down there
down the right hand side of the 13th
it’s one of those holes we don’t
actually have a commentary position on
but it’s a magnificent par five uh here
at Augusta Jack Nicholas rates it as as
one of the key holes uh two shots here
the drive and the second shot uh on the
par 513th absolutely crucial to your
chances of success at the Masters and
Bryson to Shambo Trish has set that off
down the right hand side it’s a big
swinging dog leg right to left it’s it’s
one of the most picturesque spots on the
golf course because the golfers go back
up into the hills they’re totally on
their own surrounded by that blanket of
pink flowers in the background and it
never turned that that one just went
dead straight and kept going and and has
missed the corner yeah and he’s going to
be yeah he’s going to be lucky if he’s
got any sort of shot there as well it’s
going to be a difficult he’s going to
leave himself quite a long distance it’s
545 yards that 13th hole these days it’s
uh it used to be a a pretty
straightforward two shotter if you could
turn it around the corner not anymore
it’s a real monster of a ho five times
Master’s Champion Tiger Woods been a
relatively long day for him today and I
can just see him stretching off the back
again uh he’s left hand side of the 8
18th Fairway beautiful afternoon for
golf at Augusta got a great look up the
hill towards the 18th the size of the
galleries down the left hand side of
this hole utterly ridiculous classic
Tiger Woods now he set this off to the
left way to the left and the camera
focuses in on the green but the ball was
going nowhere near that it’s got a pan
away to the right hand side and Tiger
Woods has come up way short Trish and
way left and he’s having he’s having a
right laugh with his caddy there he
can’t quite believe it no was a shock it
wasn’t it not the sort of shot he wanted
to finish off with and he’s left himself
about as tough a shot as you can
possibly have really it’s over that
bunker and it’s downwind as you can see
the the wind is whizzing and all the
sand from the front bunker is flying out
yeah that’s a tough shot like a minor
Sandstorm being whipped up from the
bright white bunkers to the left of the
18th Max Homer is in one of those the
first one Pure Clean contact of the ball
that’s heading to the front of the green
bounces once it’s going to roll and it’s
going to roll and roll up the slope wind
is blowing furiously the flag is being
tugged on top of the flag stick but now
it takes the slope and comes back down
towards the whole Sandy ly style 1988 a
whooping and a hollering around the 18th
green brilliant from Max Homer yeah
fantastic shot he had a perfect lie to
be fair he wasn’t close to the front
edge of the bunker so not a difficult
shot for these guys but nonetheless he’s
ex executed that to Perfection right now
eyes on Scotty Sheffer brilliant up and
down on the par 3 six Bryson dambo the
leader seven under par playing the par
five 13th he’s missed the Fairway to the
right Max Homer on the Green in two on
18 at six under Scotty Sheffer world
number one surrounded by patrons either
side narrow tight Fairway looks like he
might miss this right couple of shouts
of four right not one from Sheffer and
it goes skipping into the pin straw and
threw the legs of a couple of the
spectators away to the right so Scotty
Sheffer just in the latter stages of the
front nine here of the second round just
a couple of um slightly off shots Trish
he’s missed that Fairway to the right
yeah do you know what a couple of weeks
ago um I think it was the it was the
tournament he he actually finished
second in and there was he played
magnificently in the first round and it
was Flawless and then all of a sudden in
the second round as we just uh Ry fo Ry
Fox the 11 fine the Water behind the
11th green it doesn’t yeah and he just
every now and again he just has that
sort of one round where
yeah he might hit some really poor shots
and then all of a sudden most players
would be struggling and he comes out the
next day firing again so he’s just going
through a little period in this but he’s
not dropping many shots no he’s not but
he’s giving a little bit of Hope to the
field although they won’t know exactly
what is going on with sheffer’s round at
the moment Tiger Woods has made his way
to the ball short left of the 18th green
projected cut Mark at the moment is five
over par current cut Mark is at four
overp par but I think projected cut
because of the breeze may push it out
one further Tiger Woods is Comfortably
making that he’s going to break the
record it’s going to be 24 consecutive
Cuts made but he’s the kind of guy we
know he’ll be absolutely desperate to
get up and down he’s still going to be
thinking about trying to win this
tournament over the weekend even though
he is currently eight shots back players
in danger of missing the cut out on the
golf course at the moment though while
we wait for Woods to chip John Ram
defending Champion uh is three over par
uh seven holes of his second round
played hii matama a lot of people
fancied him uh this week has been in
good form particularly uh the short game
has been very sharp but he’s at four
over par Victor holand with a treble
bogy eight on the par 5 Second today is
currently at six over par Justin Rose
finished seven over Brian Haron at the
end of his first round today finished 6
six6 treble bogy double bogey double
bogey he’s at eight overp par with one
to play Jordan SP also at eight overp
par with a couple to play and Dustin
Johnson has not had a good week here at
Augusta he’s 11 over passer Trish
Johnson taught me through this you you
think well you said this is very very
tricky well it is first of all it’s
straight down wind and that’s not
helpful at all so he’s got he’s got
looks like he’s just got to go over the
edge of the bunker this is this is trust
you can see in his practice strokes he’s
letting the club head just pass his
hands he wants this he’s got the club
face wide open um and he’s just got a
player shot this is this needs bravery
and it needs trust in your Technique so
he’s got to get this over the bunker as
close as he can and get it to stop as
soon as he can and he’s taking An
Almighty swipe at it straight up in the
air lands down on the putting surface
rolls to the right hand side of the hole
he’s knocked it to within about 4 feet
and the galleries absolutely love it and
Tiger Woods has that for par uh to get
to the halfway stage of this year’s
Masters at one overp par currently eight
shots off the lead but I mean given the
fact he’s played just over one round of
competitive golf so far this year it’s
been brilliant to watch him T you
watched him through Amen Corner
yesterday and some of the short game
skills and we just getting a closeup
there Trish of the contact of shiny Club
head on ball off that beautiful Green
carpet of grass yeah it takes a lot of
guts that one you wide open Club face
and tight as tight as these lies are
going to get so Tiger Woods with that
four-footer to come on the 18th Danny
Willet is on the 14th 148 yards for his
second shot uh into the green there’s a
huge false front big slope at the front
of this screen it’s just climbed over
that but what happens then it takes the
slope and it moves away to the right and
this green is absolutely enormous and
this is the one I think that Ben khaw
two times Masters winner says is the
most three puttable Green in World Golf
and Danny Willet has an absolutely
enormous p i mean that’s got to be just
shive 100 ft across the 14th green
zalatoris very nearly uh chipping in uh
on the 14th he’s currently at one under
that is six shots off the lead but Danny
Willet that’s going to be all about
Judgment of pace that’s going to be a
tricky
one it’s not just Judgment of the pace
it’s Judgment of about three or four
different borrows as
well so back to the 18th uh this is
second round of the Masters uh Friday
afternoon here in Augusta sand is
blowing up around the 18th that’s
putting Jason day off his putt
leaderboard at the moment Bryson D
Shambo at seven under par Max Homer on
this 18th green with a birdie chance to
come actually uh he’s at six under
Scotty Sheffer at six under par we’re
yet to see where his t- shot ended up
precisely to the right of the seventh
Fairway Nikolai hoard in the clubhouse
at four under par unfortunately for hey
bogy the 17th and the 18th and Danny
will it with that monster put to come on
the 14th and four under par as is Ryan
Fox but we saw the new zealanders ball
his second shot on the PA or 11th Ian
will have eyes on that go scooting right
through the back of that green and just
stopping short uh of Ray cig running
behind the green ludvic Ober currently
at 3 under par as well four shots off
the lead we’re watching Jason day
putting on the 18th green before Tiger
Woods and Max Homer get to go that one
just pulls up short I think he’s going
to be here for the weekend though the
Australian in the baggy trousers black
baggy trousers uh today they’re not
quite as ridiculous as as was advertised
by uh members of our our commentary team
yesterday he’s changed he changed the
out the outfit he had on this morning
was totally ridiculous it wasn’t just
the trousers either it was the top as
well but he’s gone back to being a
pretty regular uh regular clothing this
afternoon that that actually Mark was a
bogey for Jason day four over that is
right on the cut line at the moment it
may move further out Max Homer birdie
putt to come what what have you got at
the moment nothing man me and John were
just listening enjoying listening to the
alist Bruce Ball show on on Sports extra
the only thing I can tell you is that
normally well all the time here at the
masses you just see everybody wearing
some some kind of golf clothing or being
quite smart because they’re in some of
the areas or or some addresses or show
so on and so forth and a bloke to the
right of me probably 20 yard away G hang
on a sec Max Homer yeah for birdie oh
down the hill he wants it to go left to
right and it didn’t move it stayed on
line and it’s it’s it’s it’s a foot away
I’m sure he’ll tap it in for par no
that’s a strange part cuz if you
remember when Rory H his bunker shot um
last year or the year before was it uh
you when it comes down that slope it’s
definitely coming in right to left I’m
surprised he didn’t know that yeah Mark
Chapman with the story to finish Max
Homer TAPS in So Max Homer at the
halfway stage of this Masters six
underpar overall started the day at five
under par so he’s rounding 71 he’s in
great position Mark he’s got a football
shirt on like a UK did you recognize
that John I actually didn’t see it where
where oh right well he’s just G to sat
down over there but it was a AFC
Richmond shirt from Ted Lasser Ted lass
which is which is the first one that I
have seen out here do you watch Ted CL
actually no you should honestly it’s
really brilliant I’ve heard it I’ve
heard it I’ve heard it recommended by by
many um and and just a little point on
Jason day’s trousers I mean is it
ridiculous to say that in very very
blustery conditions that those big baggy
trousers might actually have been a
distraction Andre Andrew McGee would big
big baggy trousers in windy conditions
have put you off yeah I mean that
reminded me of something I would have
worn back in 1982 with
they didn’t even look new did they they
look like they were old cargo pants
remarkable scenes after the 18th green
Tiger Woods is Sheltering from a
sandstorm here so so the wind is
absolutely gusting up he’s got a
four-footer to come here for par uh to
to to finish at one overp par overall
for the Masters but at the moment he he
he can’t put he’s got his left hand on
the visor of his white baseball cap just
to prevent that that sand it’s up as a
shield to prevent the sand blowing into
his eyes it’s whipping up from the
bunkers and blowing across the green but
but his Focus remains
absolutely Rock Solid on that hole he
now just gets down on his hunches marks
behind the ball we’re going to come back
to that in a second because suddenly we
whiz back to the right of the seventh
Fairway Scotty Sheffer on the pine straw
has got to try and work this one from
left to right and we can see that ball
taking that turn up towards the bunkers
short of this green and he’s rolled it
into one of the bunkers that protects
the front of that shallow 7eventh green
right the sand is not blowing in Tiger
Woods’s eyes anymore can he roll this in
of course he can Tiger Woods is going to
be here for the weekend it’s another
Master’s record for the great man
24 consecutive Cuts made gets an
enormous hug from Jason day I think
that’s taken quite a lot of effort for
Tiger Woods but he’s still got the shots
we know that he’s still got the desire
we know that he set another record here
at Augusta National and he may not win
The Masters this year but they still
come out to see him play and that is the
reason why Trish he’s been a very very
very special golfer throughout his
entire career and when he gets out there
and when he can play particularly on a
golf course that he absolutely loves
he’s still a magician he’s still the man
there’s no two ways about it he’s the
man that moves the needle he’s the man
that everybody wants to watch without a
shadow of a doubt he’s the man that the
other players respect more than anyone
else certainly got wise and you can see
the camaraderie there and the just the
Friendship really between Homer Jason
day and the congratulations on the 18th
green of and and also his reaction you
know making that cut you wouldn’t have
thought years ago that would have meant
nothing to him because it was just a an
automatic but that does mean a great
deal big smiles on the 18th green Mark
for Tiger Woods and now big smiles as
well because the the patrons here are
really close and he’s marching off the
18th and he does look tired and it does
look like that’s taken a bit out of him
but he does permit himself a smile I
think he’s really enjoyed that today
he’s finished on what he’s one over so
level parer is around today 72 today so
and and Max Homer is the leader in the
clubhouse Ian Carter on six under look
it’s highly unlikely that Tiger Woods is
going to win The Masters but you know if
Homer on 600 is the lead by at the end
of the day and bear in mind out on the
course there’s Bryson Des Shambo on on
seven under that’s the only person who
is ahead of Homer and Homer is safely in
the clubhouse he’s only seven shots off
you know and given his record and his
ability and so on and so forth he he
more importantly will not think he is
out of it well when when Scotty shefer
wrote uh won the PLAYERS Championship I
found myself writing a piece that was
kind of comparing him to Tiger Woods and
what I was doing was comparing him to
Tiger Woods in his pump and all the
things that we’ve been saying about
Sheffer about his ability not to make
too many mistakes to be able to strike
the balls with such certainty and play
with such Authority they are all the
Hallmarks of Tiger Wood’s career when
fit and you know he looks like he’s
moving very very well he will draw an
awful lot of confidence from this and to
me that is just a remarkable performance
to be in the house at the halfway stage
comfortly in comfortably into the
weekend given how little golf he has
played in the last year that that is
utterly utterly astonishing and it’s
just another occasion where we have to
say those words with regard to Tiger
Woods and I agree with you you know
anything could happen over the weekend
particularly with his knoow around here
and some of the stuff I’m being told
would imply that Bryson Des Shambo might
be coming back to the field here Ali
yeah well we’ll tell you about that in a
second we’ve got eyes on Scotty Scher at
the moment so in the bunker on the par 4
7eventh in two full swing the ball comes
flying out of the sand skids forward off
a Down slow goes rolling a fairway past
the hole and just off the back of the
green just onto The Fringe back right at
the seventh green maybe 12 14 ft or so
for Scotty sheffer’s pass the mistake
came off the te missed the right hand
side Trish and um that that bunker shot
came at and it really skip forward from
that first bounce yeah really did he
didn’t quite judge the first bounce at
all and uh yeah he’s got the only thing
he’s got going for there he’ll be
putting straight back into the wind so
he can be a little bit more aggressive
than he normally could uh Bryson the
ambo Mark we’ve seen some slightly odd
shots of him so if you remember the last
time we were talking about him was his
big booming drive down the right hand
side uh of the par 513th while I’m
looking at Danny Willets putt coming
speeding across the 14th that is
fabulous judgment from Danny Willet from
long long range to knock that in to
within about a foot or so so he should
be able to tap that in and stay at four
under par we’re now seeing Bryson Des
Shambo to the right of the 13th about to
play his third shot I beg you pardon not
to the right of the 13th he’s gone
beyond the right of the 13th he’s
actually to the left of the 14th he’s
deliberately played the ball out there
and one of the things he’s also had to
do Trish is remove one of the enormous
wooden posts with all the arrows
attached for the patron so it points
where to go to the 15th green 16th green
Clubhouse and all that we had this
amazing shot of Bryson the Shambo I mean
it’s taller than him it’s massive and
he’s got it he’s got it up on his up on
his shoulder he’s carrying on his
shoulder and then some I’m not sure who
the fell was but someone has actually
come over to help him basally it’s a
heavy piece of kit that is but he’s a
big fell and he’s as strong as an O
interesting on the strategy front here
though I mean he’s deliberately out here
isn’t he well yeah absolutely well he’s
hit it as far down as he can rather than
just the trouble is if he doesn’t hit it
to the right hand side he’s going to
have a lot further in now he’s got a
pretty good angle into the flank to be
perfectly honest he’s going straight up
the green and he’s probably got about
100 I don’t know about 125 130 yards so
he’s still got a pretty good chance of
you know making Birdie the only with
this today we’ve not seen one player cuz
that pin is right at the back no one
wants to hit it up that slope because if
it takes one firm bounce it’s over the
back and you are not getting up and down
car five 13th one of uh the famous holes
here at Augusta C isia 545 yards The
Spectators to the left of the 14th
Fairway getting a bit of a a bonus here
of a closeup of Bryson D Shambo pin his
cut back left and you’re hitting to a
it’s it’s a big green it’s a wide green
it’s like a tabletop but Ray Creek just
snakes its way all the way around the
front of that green pined back left
Bryson to shambo’s third shot on its way
bounces once just short of the flag
skids to a Halle backs off to the left
and he’s left himself maybe 12T or so
for birdie brilliant shot Best Shot
we’ve seen into that hole today from the
weirdest angle that you could possibly
imagine but it wasn’t so so uh weird
weird a shot but yeah he looks him top
top fettle to me he’s very confident and
he looks fit as a fiddle doesn’t he he
really does Clubhouse leader Max Homer
six under Bryson D Shambo birdie put to
come on the 13th at seven under par
Scotty Sheffer at six under but he’s got
a tested to save his par on the par 47th
and Nikolai hoard and Danny Willet both
at four under par hoard having completed
his second round already today Mark just
want to get details of lud erber and his
par on 17 cat yes he uh he managed to SN
the pot in the end uh he was through the
back of the Green in two put it to
within about uh 15 F maybe seven feet
and then tap that one in so no problem
for ludig o on the 17th he’s just teed
off on the 18th though and could be in a
spot of bothers ball flying on the Wind
that’s belting in from left to right and
heading towards those trees down the
right hand side and from where I’m
standing I couldn’t see where it landed
but it did look like it was heading on a
dangerous trajectory a word as well Mark
for the 205 Champion Jordan SP he
dropped a shot here again on the 17th so
he moves to nine overp part and he’ll
miss the cup for only the second time
here at Augusta yeah he has had a a
terrible couple of days but many of the
big names have actually just a little
bit lower down the leader ball Patrick
klay’s dropped a shot on Ninth and he is
now two under uh Lucas Glover has gone
onto the leaderboard at two under Matt
Fitzpatrick is there as he approaches
the turn he is also on two under
the Masters live from Augusta National
with Mark Chapman on five live and BBC
sounds good evening uh welcome to
Augusta the sun is shining if you’re
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let’s just uh uh give you a leaderboard
first of all um it is tight it is very
very tight Alistar Bruce Ball could
change in the next couple of minutes or
so uh in terms of running right at the
top of the leaderboard Bryson D Shambo
with a 12-footer to come on the par five
13th he’s played it in a rather unusual
way but the third shot fantastic he’s at
seven under par Max Homer the clubhouse
leader six under par strange birdie
attempt on the 18th didn’t drop but two
very good rounds for him Scotty Sheffer
uh he’s got a sort of 12T parut to come
from the back of the seventh just had a
little wobble early in the second round
six under par though just one shot off
the lead Nikolai hoard the Dane ous
Masters for him so far Bogie’s at 17 and
18 today but four under par that’s just
three shots off the lead Danny will it
as well four holes to play today uh is
at four under par ludvig oer going up
the 18th play in his very first major
let alone his first Masters he is at
three under par not really happening for
Rory maroy again drop shot on the par 47
from maroy he’s at one over but Tiger
Woods in at the halfway stage at one
over par set a masters record there 24
consecutive Cuts made a fabulous up and
down from the front left of the 18th
green and the evasion was something else
uh as he marched off the golf course
here Brilliance from Tiger Woods again
can he win it can he I don’t know
probably too far away but he’s treated
the patrons to something special uh
again today the Shambo leading by one
Mark at 7 under par well aliser says too
far away and now all by all common
consense as you would think too far away
but I’m sitting here above the 15th
green he hit the best shot that we have
seen all all afternoon into the 15th his
second shot to within 20 25 ft to give
him an eagle opportunity which he didn’t
sing but it was a biry but but in these
conditions correspondent Ian Carter who
is at aen corner for us today so that’s
over the 11th green and the and the 12th
T in these conditions with his knowledge
of this golf course and its conditions
he is hitting the ball beautifully he is
hitting the ball beautifully he knows
his way around this golf course he knows
where to miss he knows everything that
there is to know there is no one in this
field who knows how better to play this
golf course and he doesn’t make mistakes
when he’s on song and so yes it’s a it’s
a real stretch to see him contending
come come Sunday but to have made it to
where he has made it and sorry to jump
in guys Scotty Sheffer trying to save
par on the seventh he’s missed it couple
of mistakes from Scotty Sheffer today
very short part missed on the par 4 fif
that was more challenging it was the
drive that cost him on the seventh he
missed to the right could only knock it
into the bunkers at the front of the
green and then knock that 12T past the
hole and putting from The Fringe Scotty
Sheffer has missed and has dropped back
to five under pass so he’s two behind
Bryson to Shambo Rory maroy dropping a
shot there as well he’s dropped back to
one over so if you’ve been listening on
Sports actually you would know that we
discussed Scotty E’s remarkable
consistency and patience and not making
mistakes and the benefit of the Mallet
put
and and probably since that conversation
that lasted a good six or seven minutes
he’s he’s going backwards Andrew
MC it’s tough out here Choppers I’m not
sure where you’re sitting but we’ve just
witnessed another triple bogey here on
number 12 Zack Johnson flew it almost in
the Augusta Country Club in the bushes
over this screen came back to the tea
which is very embarrassing um but uh
it’s very very difficult this wind is
swirling guys were being just completely
befuddled by it I mean you played here
times so given your knowledge of that
and you’re you’re out next to in on aen
Corner if you’re Max Homer in the
clubhouse on 6 under are you thinking I
I could well be in the lead come the end
of the day well he he probably will be
in what a great position what a great
feeling to be off the course after a
long day putting your feet up watching a
little bit of Telly see what the other
mates are doing but uh uh yeah Max hom
is just in I mean his best finish ever
here was what tied for 18th
soing Ali jump in Bryson Des Shambo that
looks really good it is good the 13th
he’s made a birdie and the lead is two
shots for Bryson Des Shambo he’s got it
to eight under par missed the Fairway on
the right then strategically played all
the way across the 14th Fairway to set
himself up for the best pitch into that
13th green and as soon as that putter
left the blade Trish Johnson it never
looked anywhere else Bryson D Shambo
eight underpar two shots ahead of Max
Homer that was a beauty wasn’t it up the
hill left to right had all the face on
it just a perfect putt never looked
anywhere else and he knew it the moment
he hid it what a great birdie that was
from a a very very poor
drive you Trish Johnson LPGA Tour winner
US Open winner tips yeah I know I keep
leaving that you got to put that in mate
okay I’m you know all right I love you
but that’s just not
true um you tipped Max Homer at the
start of the week you were the one that
went for him so what have you seen in
him that has pointed you in his
Direction I just love everything about
his game I I I think he you know he just
technically he’s very very correct uh
there’s not a lot that can go wrong in
any part of his game uh his short game
is Sensational he putts really well and
I love his attitude I think he’s got a
very sort of Carefree attitude it’s
almost as o gol is not the he’s a bit
like Scotty Sheffer it’s not the be all
and end all um everybody makes it so
important but he just looks like he
enjoys playing golf and I I just think
he I said earlier you know he himself he
knows how good he is but he hasn’t got
that arrogance you know I like watching
him because I I like his body uh body
language you know his demeanor and he
just is a top top player and I think
it’s inevitable he will win a major um
we talk about people enjoying golf um
Danny Willet last night after his first
round having come back from s shoulder
surgery talked about this being a
freebie he talked about himself having
Freedom playing here he had hit a shot
in anger for many months stood on the
first team he was talking about feeling
nervous but he had a brilliant round
yesterday shot at 68 so that was four
under part and he is on he is in front
of us here on the par five 15th John
Murray yes he’s playing the the 15th in
a textbook fashion I’m just looking down
at him now the winner here back in 2016
he’s gone very Sandy today sort of two
tone Sandy colors uh but he he laid up
with his second shot to round about 60
yards short of the water in front of the
15th G green and his approach shot bang
online towards the flag the hole is at
the back right today just fluttering
away there and it was right online and
he has given himself a birdy chance here
from round about 12 ft and that would
take Danny Willard to five underpar sort
of within three shots of the lead and um
and when you talk about him talking
about what he did of course with Danny
Willet he always talks about what we did
doesn’t he which is a little thing he
actually talked about how we had a
shoulder operation no you didn’t you had
a shoulder off let’s uh let’s go to
Bryson on 14 Ali yeah Bryson the Shambo
has gone with a fairway wood uh off the
14th T it’s the only hole here at
Augusta National without any bunkers it
was the one we were telling you about a
little while ago on five uh sports extra
enormous green with huge Contours in it
and Danny Willet negotiated that
magnificently a two- put that he got off
that green with the first one from from
a long way away um just shambo’s t- shot
fading left to right Trish I mean very
safe it’s just rolled off off the
Fairway into that into that first cut
here at Augusta yeah I don’t think it’s
going to make an awful lot of difference
to him um uh yeah he just uh just up the
right hand side would have been handier
I guess if he stayed in the Fairway but
no real problem for someone with his uh
his ability to hit the ball so high so
he’s eight under uh Markus a two- shot
lead over Max Homer and Scotty Sheffer
of course going going the wrong way uh
for once at the moment at five underpar
having dropped theot
uh at the fifth and the seventh and
Danny Willet with the opportunity here
to go level with Scotty Sheffer on 5
under who would have thought that maybe
half an hour or so ago I’m not sure
it’ll be Danny Willet to play next his
playing partners are well out of it and
really battling to make the clut the uh
the German Stefan joerger is nine over
and Austin e root another winner this
season on the PJ to her six over par
whilst we wait for Danny Willet should
we go from August to to Plymouth why not
John
akes I don’t have to whisper as well do
I actually no Plymouth W leester nil
here and uh they weren’t expecting it
this home crowd they really weren’t but
Plymouth have been really good for their
lead bundo it was in the first half in
the 21st minute leester have come out
the second half and have looked better
but they’ve lost their last two 1 nil
away from home Lester and this home
crowd are really up for it Plymouth one
Leicester nil can can I just say if
you’re a Leicester fan and you can can
hear Trish Johnson giggling that isn’t
that’s not me giggling well it what it
was and I didn’t know whether you’re
might I don’t know whether that’s just
me that can hear that or whether
everybody can hear that and just to just
to explain that that’s only because
obviously our go correspondent is a
Leicester fan in car and and I was
punching the air as a nip switch fan
that’s what that’s
what that’s not fair to Ian no I
wouldn’t do that to him I would noted
yeah you right you all right there thank
you not really no what’s there were a
few compens St aren there Corner you’re
not in theend at home park at the moment
you are at Amen Corner um I’ll I’ll move
quickly on from the football to Danny
Willet please do yes Danny Willet the uh
weight is just being cleared for him
here on the 15th at this stage of the
afternoon I mean it’s a magnificent
scene in front of us the uh the warmth
of the Augusta National it is a a sun
splashed scene here so many different
colors in the stands and around behind
the hopes of the spectators the patrons
and inside Danny Willet this is this is
quite a story having not played in a
tournament since September so he’s
slipped out now to 260 in the world
rankings but if you’ve won the Masters
you can always come back and play and
here he is Right In Contention no one
expected this the
yorkman is having a look at this this is
a birdie chance on the 15th this is 12
ft he has look at it from behind and
then steps up and there’s just a slight
movement as he shifts from foot to foot
he’s putting into the very edges of the
Shadows of the Tall Pine trees behind
the
green on its way now towards the hall
for birdie just slips by on the left
hand side chance not taken but he should
finish that off to remain at four under
par yeah so he will stay on four under
so that’s four off the lead of Bryson
Des Shambo who is on the well for the
second time this afternoon is on the par
for 14th having used that that hole to
get onto the 13th a few moments ago
you’ve got Max Homer in the clubhouse on
6 under then you have Scotty Sheffer on
5 under Nikolai hoard has finished his
round as well on 4 under will it 4 under
then ludig Aur he is on 300 and I’m
assuming Ali you have got a sight of the
swed on 18 have you not yet well we will
do shortly Mark Scotty Sheffer watching
uh at the moment so having dropped the
shot on the par 4 sth he’s just blasted
a fairway wood just up short right of
the par five eighth green so he’ll be
looking to get that up and down uh to
get himself a birdie and get himself
back to six under par and now we see
ludvig Oar the tall swed everything
seems to come so easy for him chipping
from the front of the 18th green bounces
it into the putting surface beyond the
flag is it going to use the slope and
roll back to the hole no it’s not he
looks disappointed with that trip yeah
then well he should be disappointed he’s
knocked it 15t past I’m not quite sure
what he was trying to do there cuz it
was never going to come all the way back
down um yeah he’s played that very
poorly he’s three under par then uh five
shots off Des shambo’s uh lead another
shot comes firing into the par five
eighth green that’s sander schofl who’s
really caught that flush and knocked it
beyond the green over the back down the
slope to the back of the green the pin
here today on the back right now you see
Xander Shuff going have to him now
aren’t I oh well I thought he was on
your screen yeah he was but the score
didn’t come up so I recognized him he’s
one over par we think okay so let me
just check that yes he is one over par I
can confirm okay if you are if if you’re
with us on on five live we’ve mixed
things up and haven’t been listening on
sport SE we mix things up a little bit
this afternoon and put Ally in charge of
the computers and the and the facts and
the stats and the the scoring and at
times I think stat M from the fantasy
606 pod will be will be enjoying alli’s
struggles as he tries to navigate
through the hardest played hole on the
course for example which is still 11 I’m
assuming yes L big Oar on the 18th well
that’s a brilliant part that is a
brilliant part from outside of 10 ft
down the slope on the 18th for a bogey
so we didn’t see the troubles that he
got into on that 18th so he’s in at two
under par at the halfway stage so a
disappointing drop shot but still on a
master’s debut some performance from
ludvig Oar Rory maoy we are now watching
with an iron in his hand third shot here
into the par 58 he’s all in whites and
creams today white baseball cap on his
head huge divot gets thrown forward from
the pit shot and it’s left of the flag
it’s slightly long and it Teeters on the
back of the green but it doesn’t take
the slope and roll to the bottom it’s
going to be a left to right part from
the back of the eighth green it just
seems a little off again Trish at the
moment yeah he’s not totally on his game
the fact that he’s got such a long shot
into the eighth hole when the other two
players have comfortably reached uh
would suggest he’s he’s a little all
over the shop it’s interesting isn’t he
he’s obviously been to see Butch Harman
and he’s got that pre-shot I’ve never
seen him do that before he’s got that
sort of pre-shot where he’s trying to
get the feel of getting the club going
back just you know just before he hits
it to get it in the right position and
uh obviously it you know it’ll take time
to work in but he’s not on it at the
moment uh Jordan SP has made a par on
the 18th but that is no good for him 90
par for the Masters this year he’s
normally brilliant Round Augusta not
this year so Jordan SP won’t be here for
the weekend Bryson Des Shambo our leader
by two eight under par ball in the first
cut of rough pine trees just to his
right he’s had a little bump and run
almost here trying to go round the trees
running it in up the slope at the front
of the green the ball needs to keep
going but as soon as it gets onto the
front of that green it’ll be thrown away
to the right and it’s not got the gas to
climb the hill uh away it goes Scotty
Sheffer now pitching in with his fourth
shot at the the par five8 magnificent
judgment Clips it beautifully off the
turf and he’s knocked it to about 3 feet
and he’ll have that uh for a birdie to
get himself back to 6 under parm Mark
talked about there Aly Jordan spe and he
won’t be here for the weekend another
former Champion has had an absolutely
horrific Day cat seen Dustin Johnson
loping off up the 18th with those long
arms swinging underneath his white
baseball cap he’s had one of those
Dustin Johnson days that he just
Shrugged off doesn’t he dropped a shot
here on the par for 17th to move to 12
overpar so they were two consecutive
former Champions going past me Jordan
spe first he dropped a shot on the 17th
so he moved to 9 overp par and Dustin
Johnson at 12 overp having great fun
here though on the 17th mark because
I’ve got a bit of a game going the the
wind it lulls the crowd into this false
sense of security they they all sit
there with their their hands on the top
of their hats and then grad the wind
just dropped and they all relax and they
take a sip of their drinks and then here
it comes again a 40 mph gust and there
are hats everywhere like a graduation
photo and I’m just guessing how many
hats come off at each G we have seen a
couple today when walking the course
that have blown off the heads of people
and gone on to the Fairway and seen the
owners of those hats
then wonder whether they should just
take three or four steps inside the
ropes to retrieve their hat when it’s
it’s a it’s a big risk the two people
who have done it I have seen them do it
and not get into trouble let’s go to aen
Corner shall we cuz a few people have
had difficulties there over the last 20
minutes Patrick kley will be coming into
sight for Ian well I think he’s just
teed off on 11 so he’ll probably be
there in about half an hour um uh but a
few people have got into all sorts of
trouble Ian yes we saw uh Zach Johnson
have to come back to the tea and retake
his t- shot because he lost his ball in
the or couldn’t find somewhere to drop
in in the bushes if he did locate his
ball there a number of of triple Bogies
Steven Jer he had a triple bogey we’ve
seen problems for Sergio Garcia and
through this sthe of Amen Corner is the
place where uh Herbert Warren wind once
uh wrote that it was a place where your
prayers could be answered well they
weren’t answered for Ryan Fox who New
Zealander was looking really good coming
down the uh 11th hole he went through
the back of the green didn’t get up and
down dropped a shot to go back to three
underpar and then dropped another shot
on the 12th as well so he’s headed off
to the 13th at two underpar it is just
devilishly difficult but one man who’s
in front of us right now Phil mikkelson
at one overp par well into his 50s now
but still able to get it around the golf
course with that knowhow with that ball
striking and you know all that we’ve
been saying about Tiger Woods today a
lot of that could apply to Phil
Mickelson as well Mark okay uh quickly
news of Danny Willet t-shot on 16 yeah
Danny Willet leading the the UK
challenge uh the englishman’s t-shot at
the PA 316th with the uh the the hall
cut right towards the top of the uh
green the the back right Danny Willet
has gone to the front right so he has a
put across that top level which is a
long outside chance for bird he’s four
under think Al leer has a very difficult
putt if memory Sayes me right Alli well
the ball actually rolled off the front
of this enormous 14th green he’s got a
huge Speedy slope in front of him so
he’s chipping from the front of the 14th
green no bunkers to negotiate here all
about just choosing his landing spot
seeing the shot how he then wants the
ball to release and react couple of
bounces stops up short well short of the
flag on the 14th and again that slope is
going to take that away and away and it
keeps rolling away and he’s got a long
long putut there TR Johnson to try and
save his PA yeah interesting decision he
tried to play the lob shot all the way
um probably regretting that thinking
maybe a chip and run he had so much
ground to cover he’s not played it to to
the best of Standards I can tell you as
well Mark Rory maroy has putted from the
back of the green at the par 58 and not
been able to make his birdie from there
he’s got about 4 foot remaining uh to
make his P just notice as well Sheffer
dropped shots at the fifth and the
seventh today and Rory maroy did exactly
the same so just at those moments where
sheff has made the mistakes maroy has
not been able to capitalize he’s done
exactly the same things and we think
that Sheffer well he is in very close
he’ll have a birdie chance to come on
that par 58 and maroy is not going to be
able to match that he’s got a
four-footer to come for par maroy two
over for his round today one over for
the tournament and Scotty shefer at five
under par with the birdie put to come
three shots off the and even though it’s
not match play Trish you know if if
Scotty Sheffer is in the lead or there
or there about if you are playing with
him and he is making a mistake that’s
when you need to capitalize yeah do you
know what CH chapers the the real thing
I’m just thinking about this now
watching Rory play it’s got actually
nothing to do with how good Sheffer is
playing Rory’s just not playing very
well it’s just a simple as that you know
that we know the golf that he can play
and the golf he’s playing at the moment
is just it’s very average and and I’m
sure he’d admit that if he was playing
at the top of his game it wouldn’t be
worrying how sheffer’s playing Scotty
Sheffer from two feet into the heart of
the hole there is the birdie the
bounceback birdie as well so Berg’s at
the fifth and the seventh but the part
five eth he has negotiated uh in four
shots just short of the green with the
second Beautiful chip shop in close and
knocked it in uh for the birdie four so
Sheffer is back to 6 under Pirates Two
Shots off the lead Chip Shot no I meant
Chip Shot and I thought I got away with
it I I actually didn’t spot it you you
will uh you will guess from the next
person’s Voice who did yeah I know I
know quite a lot of beautiful chip shop
um just just before you jump in there
John Bryson D Shambo uh from about 20t
feet or so here for so he could be
coming a shot closer to the field left
arm ram rod straight tall putter in his
hands giving it a good Biff oh good putt
hits the right edge of the hole but the
hole doesn’t receive it spits the ball
out it’s only a couple of inches away so
that is a drop shot for D shampo he’s
going to drop back to seven under par
Homer six under and Sheffer with the
birdie uh after the Fantastic Chip Shot
uh is uh is at 6 under par I guess
you’re not a gravy man as you’re as
you’re from the the South are you well
my my young son Rory has sort of um
experimented recently with with either
the curry sauce or the gravy on the
chips and I’ve got to say I think
there’s something in that are you are
you a late convert in life it could be I
mean it I’d still go classic salt and
vinegar but I you know I’m prepared to
have some fun with it at time as well
okay you you a gravy man on your chips
John Murray definitely not um salt and
vinegar lemon and Mushy Mushy peas lemon
lemon juice yeah I don’t I know yes I
know comes out of the inside of lemon
yeah I think you have a very different
type of chip shop in
harrian we’re more refined on the east
side of the penines now let’s not start
that here okay are we yeah we we’re
still waiting for Danny will Ian Carter
is Patrick kley arrived no he’s just
waiting for the green to clear oh okay
hence I thought I was fairly safe having
a big mouthful of cookie all right okay
um I’ll leave you alone then uh Let’s uh
we’ve got Bry without gravy without
gravy sensible Bryson D Shambo seven
under through 14 so he’ll be coming
round here shortly myself and John
Murray just stationed over the 15th
green and the 16th T so he’s just one
clear now Scotty Sheffer on six under uh
as he goes down the ninth you’ve got Max
Homer on six under as well uh and then
Nikolai hoard in the clubhouse like
Homer on four under Danny Willet on four
under he’s a just talking to his caddy
up ahead on the 16th green with the
yellow flag on that pin cut back right
fluttering from left to right uh in the
breeze and then there’s a little Gap as
well after four under You’ got several
players who were on two under l o after
that bogy on 18 Patrick Klay as well
Ryan Fox is on two under and Matt
Fitzpatrick very very consistent today
he started the down one under he birded
the par 5 Second to go two under and he
has parred everything since then not a
drop shot for Matt Fitzpatrick so far
any sign of an equalizer for Leicester
at Plymouth John akres Plymouth won
Leicester nil and yes is the answer to
that Daka has missed two really good
chances a first time effort from six
yards which he put wide and then a
moment ago he had all the time in the
world on his left foot other side of the
penalty area and he sliced it horribly
Jamie vardy has just come on for
Leicester we’ve got 22 2 minutes
remaining plus stoppage time it’s
Plymouth our go one leester
nil Danny Willet on 16 with the refined
at John Murray just thinking it doesn’t
get much more green to Green to Green
does it very good than uh Augusta to
Plymouth to
austa green shirts to Green Jackets and
a man who once wore a green jacket he’s
got one here in the clubhouse Danny
Willard right in the shakeup this is one
of the big surprises of the week and
he’s got a chance here an outside chance
on the 16th the green of the par three
this to go to 5 under but this is 25 ft
across the top tier of the green and he
rolls it up from right to left along the
slope and it comes up not too far away
but he will mark it but we’ll see if
he’s able to hold out now for his par
three to remain at 4 under with two
holes to play okay we wait for that PO
cat have you got anything up on 17 at
the moment all very quiet unless you’re
particularly interested in Eric Van
royan and Jake knp who are at five
overpar and two overpar respectively the
wind still gusting the sand eddying out
of the bunkers everyone having to shade
their eyes and uh there’s a sandwich
wrapper curling up towards the top of
the pine trees and blowing away we’re
really exposed up here on 17 and this is
why it’s been causing so many problems
we’ve seen uh ludvig oer just about
making his pop then bogging the 18th in
this wind swept area Danny um haven’t
had Danny will it yet Dustin Johnson
dropping shots Jordan spe dropping shots
it’s it’s really really tricky up here
today the wind is right in the faces of
the players as they look back down
towards the Fairway contemplating their
puts here on the 170 uh we’ve got
Scottish eff’s t-shot on nine Ali yes
par for ninth dog leg right to left
drive it as far as you can to try and
get a flat L for the second shot and
then it’s all the way uphill towards the
clubhouse with a green that sleep
steeply I can’t speak at all since chip
shop steeply slopes towards you and you
play from the sort of bottom of that
Valley sort of up beyond the flag Trish
don’t you then spin it back but try and
leave yourself that uphill putt uh if
you can John Ram by the way defending
Champion birdie chance on that ninth
green at the moment two over par for is
round today’s missed it to the right
hand side three over at the moment for
the tournament not happening to John Ram
I think I don’t know what you think here
and you spoke to him at the at the start
of the week it was a brilliant interview
that we we had on on Monday night but he
just I I I don’t know there’s no there’s
no oomph there every time I’ve watched
him this week no I think that’s a really
good way of putting it Mark he’s just
not had any kind of Mojo about him just
no momentum uh looked grumpy yesterday
when things were going against him I
just don’t think he’s playing as well as
he obviously can or as anywhere near as
well as he did last last year and given
these conditions given that the course
is now playing very firm as well that
it’s just totally unforgiving and he’s
not you know there’s no way back if
you’re not on your game you’ve got to be
absolutely spoton uh even if you are the
defending Champion Danny will it on 16
and he does haul out from just a couple
of feet maybe a little bit more than
that the Englishman to remain at four
under pass so three shots off the lead
and as you mentioned Mark I thought a
really really good sign with Dy Danny
Willet was as the others were playing
the other playing Partners having a bit
of a laugh and a joke it looks very
relaxed with his caddy and and why not
you know that’s the benefit isn’t it of
having not been in this environment in
the thick of things since September and
suddenly finding yourself it rain
contention in one of the major in the
major that you’ve won well he’s relaxed
and he’s enjoying it and uh and as we
are all aware when Sports people are
relaxed and enjoying it it’s quite often
and they perform at their very best Alli
have we described a golf shot this week
yet as a
stoner uh I don’t think we have partly
because I think the last time I heard
that was 1991 but Tommy Fleetwood hit an
absolute Stoner uh into the 18th green
to set himself up with a really short
range birdie putt which he has just
popped in so he is one under par at the
halfway stage of this Masters that is
currently six shots off the lead held by
Bryson D Shambo really nice interaction
as well Trish Johnson with his caddy as
we’ve been talking about on our coverage
over the last couple of days local caddy
not his regular caddy they’ve clearly
enjoyed their time together out in the
golf course yeah this is probably the
one Golf Course where having a local
caddy really rather than Ian finis
obviously and we wish him well we hope
he gets better very soon um can actually
be very helpful because he probably
knows every nook and cranny and
obviously helping Tommy I will say I
went to watch uh I went out to the range
earlier this morning and I sat down
behind the range and Fleetwood was there
and I saw him and he was absolutely nut
it he was hitting these low shot low
Stoners no no maybe not no but
absolutely I love I love watching
Fleetwood he’s one of my favorite
players and like I say when he’s on uh
there’s no better player it’s just
whether he makes enough Parts uh Mark
you and jum will have Bryson D Shambo
you can he he’s hit a boomer down the
right hand side of the exact well I’m
not going there again down the right
hand side of the 15th we saw that
wonderful approach shot didn’t we that
second shot such a key one on the back
nine at Augusta to try and attack that
green and get onto that putting service
Tiger Woods did it quite brilliantly D
Shamo clearly in range yeah t Tiger
Woods as myself and John have been
saying all even has hit the best shot
that we have seen on 15 today hit his
second shot to within 20 foot 25 foot of
the pin level with the pin I mean he got
the distance absolutely spot on so let’s
wait for Bryson John yeah and uh we can
see him there at the top of the hill uh
just talking to his caddy Greg bro the
two of them I mean they’re actually
probably within probably within 10 yards
of where Tiger Woods played his shot
from so it’s that similar sort of range
250 260 yards in playing Partners the
former US Open Champion Gary Woodland
he’s missing the cut I mean he’s an
amazing story having undergone brain
surgery since the last Open Championship
uh since the last major championship so
he’s undergone brain surgery but he
didn’t miss a major and here he is I
mean he’s presumably just very happy to
be in evolved this week and uh and
actually one of the halls in one that we
talked about during the par three
tournament was Gary Woodlands haul in
one and his all of his children and his
family were there and it was actually a
lovely scene but but missing the cut at
11 over par and to bjor Allison the Dane
who is a special
invitee uh is also one of um his right
on the cut line is toon Allison he’s on
four over at the moment still on our big
white leaderboards the cut is coming up
four over now that may change obviously
over the course of the next couple of
hours so he is right on the line at the
moment well one of them has uh has laid
up and Bri Bryson Des Shambo is still
waiting I think for the other one to
play the other the other two are over to
the to their left hand side of the
Fairway so uh it’s a bit difficult to
see them through all of the pine trees
and we’re just waiting for Bryson Dean B
to swing into action so while we wait
ali uh 89 yards for the world number one
Scotty Sheffer up the hill at the par
49th bounces into the front of the green
is it going to do what it did to Greg
Norman final round 1996 where the ball
tries to cling on to the front of the
slope but doesn’t manage to do so so
Scotty Sheffer comes up short and when
it starts to roll it really continues to
roll and he’s still going to have 30 or
40 yards to get the ball up on the
putting surface with his third shot
maroy is next to play Sher at six under
par but he has not found the green at
the ninth in two John he’s still w
Bryson D Shambo in navy blue trousers we
can see his white golf shoes he was
wearing a navy blue jumper this morning
very much the live Livery actually as
the Live players do you know wearing
here at the Masters in this major what
they would normally wear when they play
on the live golf tour but uh he’s peeled
off that sweater and he’s got a uh a
white and blue thinly striped shirt on
and uh with these buffeting gusting wind
that is blowing into his face down the
15th there’s there’s uh there’s quite a
bit of discussion going on here but I
think he’s made his decision and and
presumably the thought will be do we
give it a go it’s seven under par and
it’s into the wind as well you you look
at the the pin you look at the flag on
top of it that’s BL straight back down
the 15th f it is flapping away the
yellow flag on top of the the yellow
flag stick so stey waight so actually I
think one of his playing Partners has
still got to play I I think one of them
is in the is in the trees at the moment
so any sign of Patrick C Ian no he uh is
no we we we were a bit previous in our
anticipation of him to be fair because
uh Nick Taylor wacke Neeman and Russell
Henley had to come through first and
actually Neiman who you we’re just
talking about uh about olison being uh
an invite here Neiman was an invite as
well the Chilean Liv player and he
actually went into the water on 11
that’s the first ball I’ve seen going
there so his position is going to worsen
from levelar as it stands at the moment
I think we may be ready for Bry and
dambo now yeah Gary Woodland has has
played out he missed the Fairway to the
left hand side I cannot see where his
second shot has gone but it is Bryson
dambo then who is actually laying up
he’s laying up with this uh this very
brisk buffeting wind and it’s actually
rolled down towards the left hand side
of the Fairway still going still going
and it’s and it’s actually ended only
maybe four or five yards away from the
Rope down the left hand side but that
gives him the angle to come into the
hole which is cut at the back right so
the lead at Bryson dambo is there in two
on the PA 5 although that is not if you
know your golf and know your masses that
is not not far off where Molinari was
when he clipped a tree clipped the
branch in the final how many years ago
was that now it’s funny you should say
that I was actually just thinking that
earlier today when we sat down I looked
up at those branches cuz I was here that
day which was when Woods won CU he was
in contention with Woods in 2019 yeah
2019 was the year and it and it clipped
the branches and dropped into the water
and that was the end of Molinari at that
Masters yeah and that’s not far off what
Bryson Des Shambo has left that ball for
his third shot ali uh Scotty sheffler on
the ninth if you remember the last time
we were talking to you came up short
well the the approach shot actually hit
the putting surface but it’s a steeply
slope green that ninth it all comes back
towards you rolled off the front he has
played his third shot Trish Johnson six
feet or so to save the PA for Scotty
sheer on the ninth yeah he’s played a
beauty of a third shot probably just to
the right of the hole just took a bit of
a bounce right first bounce on the green
but he’s left himself about six feet but
it’s going to have a lot of break and
it’s going to be extremely quick if he
misses it if he gives it any Pace he’s
going to have about 8 foot coming back
so it’s a very tricky one tan b seven
under Max Homer in the clubhous at 6
under Sheffer currently at 6 under with
the parut to come a Hy guard in the
clubhouse at 4 under Danny Willet also
at four under par Rory maoy with a
birdie put to come on the ninth which he
really uh needs to make that’s going to
be another one of those really fast
downhillers for him on the ninth but
he’s currently at one over par Mark two
over for his round today so back to Ian
car and Andrew McGee who are over aen
corner at the moment Bry and dambo just
what 50 60 yards away to my right as he
talks to his caddy about his options for
uh this third his hat has just come off
in the wind actually his Bryson D Shambo
um we were we were talking off air
weren’t we Ian about you know we know
that he’s he’s got a scientific mind
Bryson we know that he studies the game
he’s looking for an edge in any possible
way that he can and he has different
irons that this tournament that he’s
playing with for the first time isn’t he
cuz they’ve only just been approved that
nobody else has yes and you trailed
ahead to it by saying that the word
bulge comes into play and that’s because
it’s the the way he’s designed them is
with a sort of convex face to them which
means a sort of Bulge on the face of the
club and his reasoning for that is that
if given the speed that he swings at if
he hits it out of the heel or out of the
toe of the club with that bulge on it it
will impart the kind of spin that will
then bring the ball back to uh roughly
the area that the ball was supposed to
go to if he’d hit it as he should have
done Ali Rory maroy birdie PT on the
ninth he needs it oh he hates it stood
up as soon as he’d hit that trickles
down the hill to the right of the hole
walks up immediately and Taps it in it’s
only a pass shakes he’s laughing he’s
laughing Trish at the mistakes he’s he’s
making you can’t believe it no and he’s
played a beautiful pitch in there as
well um as easy a put as he’s going to
have really but the moment he’s Hit It
One One bogey all the rest passs okay
for this kind of weather but not okay in
this kind of company right Scotty
Sheffer is next up 6 feet or so for par
on the ninth Sheffer not finding it as
easy as he did yesterday currently six
under pass a level par for is round
today Bird’s at the second and the E the
two par fives dro shots at the fifth and
the seventh the tall American bends down
in the Light Beige trousers the white
golfing shoes the bluish top the white
baseball cap bearded chin Mallet headed
putter behind the ball long Shadow
stretching out to his right not going to
take too long over this and into the
hole it goes for a PA from Scotty
Sheffer so uh slight error with the
second shot that came rolling off the
putting surface and back to his feet
great shot with the third though pitch
up onto the green and no mistake with
the putter sign of a champion there
really is cuz that was a shocking
mistake with his first chip but the the
second one was just well yeah almost
Perfection so Scotty Sheffer on his way
to start the back nine second round at
the Masters five live and radio five
sports extra one shot off the lead D
Shambo seven under Homer and Sheffer six
under and McGee just talking about that
design then for Bryson to shambo’s irons
does it make sense to you I don’t
understand why it’s legal I mean I don’t
I I know drivers and 3-woods and you
know any metal clubs that we have in
with a head cover has has bulge and roll
to the face um so I guess that the
precedent been set by those um but
uh would you well he’s he was approved
by the esga what Tuesday here on the
site so I believe um you know it’s all
good to go but I kind of want to hit
them don’t you hit hit them
hit the clubs okay see if it works yeah
yeah I’m I am intrigued by it and also I
did I not did I not read or hear that
they’re made by 3D printer as well yeah
that was the point I was just about to
make I heard that today as well which I
mean it’s just getting I don’t really
understand the concept of these 3D
printers I think they sound very very
Sinister to me but um anyway no that’s
that’s you know it is the embodiment of
modern technology and he is as I was
saying earlier on on on Sports extra he
is such an original thinker and this is
the guy who plays with his irons all the
same length the only golfer out there
doing it let’s see what he does with the
one in his hand now well he’s put an
awful lot of thought into this and he’s
actually just watched his two playing
Partners Woodland and uh Allison go over
the green here and it and it really is
gusting now yet as I speak it is calm
now but here we are playing wasting no
time and it’s right towards the hall and
it lands just to the left of the hole
actually probably only 2 or 3 ft if that
to the left of the hole then hops on to
the back of the green holds up so he’s
on the putting surface and he will have
a birdy chance to go to go back to8
under par from maybe 11 ft 12T he’s
played that beautifully back to Plymouth
John akres Plymouth W Leicester nil 5
minutes plus added time to go nerves
shredded fans of both sides here as
Leicester P forward mavi madidi is one
that’s just just a really good
opportunity 12 yds first time their
finishing been poor Leicester the
atmosphere and the defending and the
work rate from Plymouth has been
excellent they leave by one goal to n
well that that’s the other thing John
here when we’ve been talking about it
from a title perspective but from
keeping Plymouth in the championship
this would be
huge John I’m sorry M I didn’t know you
were talking to me yeah I mean it’s
massive you can hear you you can hear
what it means to these fans they’re on
feet this is the best atmosphere there’s
been at home park in months and months
and they’re literally all on their feet
willing them over the line three points
for Plymouth I think that’ only maybe
need one more Point their goal
difference is that good it would see
them to 49 but we can’t start talking
like that if you’re a Plymouth fan
you’ll hate me for saying that 5 minutes
to go plus added time Leicester are on
the front foot and Plymouth lead one nil
so of course we’ll be back there if
anything happens we’ll be back there at
the fulltime whistle Danny will it is on
on 17 what have you got cat I’ve got
Danny Willet standing leaning on the
handle of his putter Willet currently on
four under pass so three shots off the
lead of uh Bryson Des Shambo who’s at
the top of the Big White leaderboard
away to my right hand side just watching
Stefan Jer the German chipping his ball
back up onto the green all three of
these players through the back of the
green on 17 and Jer making a bit of a a
troubled second round here he’s nine
overpar the last man of course to beat
Scotty Sheffer when he won in Texas a
couple of weeks ago and consigned
Sheffer to a runner-up finish but Jager
just tapping in for his par on the 17th
so he’ll stay at 9 over and won’t be
making the cut for the weekend we’ve
also got Austin eot in this group as
well he’s at six overp par the projected
cut at four so eot also a recent winner
on the PJ tour unlikely to make it
through barring some miracle on the 18th
and Danny will it just standing here now
the 2016 Champion about to putt from
about 5T off the green through the back
of the 17th back into the wind over the
crest of the little Hill and then up
towards the hole here he’s wearing sage
green trousers a primrose yellow t-shirt
and this one rattling up towards the pin
and putting on the brakes as it reaches
that steep slope on which the hole is
cut and he’ll have a tap in par Danny
will it there to stay at four underpar
three shots of the lead of Bryson Shambo
Scotty Sheffer a shot back at six
underpar and Max Homer already in the
clubhouse with his six underpar for two
rounds completed at Augusta Danny Willet
bending down to pick the ball out of the
hole and he’ll toss the ball back to
Michael burrow and they head to the last
y they head to the last which is the
second most difficult hole on the course
Ali is it I’ll just get Trish to check
Trish has just actually passed me
another stat which I’m not going to pass
off as my own cuz obviously you wouldn’t
believe me uh best round of the day so
far lud O’s 69 he’s the only player to
break 70 so far I made a bit of mess at
the 18th uh as well so very good round
from L obber and we’re seeing players
back off putts all the time on the
greens at the moment Mark we’re not here
Bryson Des Shambo is ready to go yes he
is this this to go back to eight
underpar this for birdie at the 15th
he’s in the the Shadows of the Tall Pine
trees this from probably 15 ft actually
and he steps away and it catches the
edge of the hole and stays out
I think he thought that was enough there
the way that he just stepped back and
looked at it but it just took the left
Edge and then he pops it
in that’s one that’s got away there for
for Bryson dhan B he thought that was
him he did he did so he stays at at
seven under par with three holes of his
second round to play so that that is
where he started the second round
remember the first round leader after
his opening 65 so started 7 under a
second round and he’s still 7 under yeah
and then he’s on Patrick
Klay yes Patrick Klay is here on the
11th and he’s just chipped with his
third shot and he’s failed to find the
green with the Chip Shop from the Swale
down to the right hand side so he is in
severe danger of dropping a shot here
and that would take him back to one
under PA and what you will have Ian
coming soon actually is is Matt
Fitzpatrick who has completed the 10th
and he’s pared that as well so he stays
on 200 under he birded the second as was
saying earlier and he’s parred
everything else since then so he pared
the first birded the second and has
parred every hole since then in these
conditions that consistency is
impressive very impressive these are
Fitzpatrick kind of conditions hits the
ball low is tenacious doesn’t make too
many mistakes and I think since the
PLAYERS Championship just playing a
higher standard of golf than he has done
for much of this year he’s a US Open
champion and this is US Open tough here
at August at the moment and he’s got a
test coming through aen Corner hasn’t he
Andrew but if he a bit like John a is
not wanting to curse it for Plymouth you
know I don’t want to curse it for
Fitzpatrick but if he comes through aen
Corner unscathed he’s giving himself a
great opportunity yeah we haven’t seen
much UNCA in these uh these two holes in
front of us Phil Mickelson with you know
10ft par putt then a 15t par putt on 12
to to get through this with two pars but
that’s few and far between two two pars
mostly we’ve seen Bogies on 11 um always
10ft par putts or more uh playing very
very difficult this wind is just really
playing Havoc with these players out
here today and I just love the way they
look up into the trees and try to figure
out and then it just switches and right
in the mid they just stand there with
their legs crossed and change clubs and
it’s just the decision making is just
Paramount right now yeah there are
plenty of Lop Lolly Pines here that are
swaying in the breeze John Maring there
are yeah it’s a splendid scene I must
say isn’t it around here there’s an
explosion of color down from where we
look here we’re in a position where we
commentate at the uh this part of the
Augusta National so we’re in the back of
the grand stand which overlooks the 15th
green so we’re very close to the 15th
green and all of the patrons and the
Green Jackets sit in front of us and
then if we stand and turn and look down
we’re looking directly down on to the
16th T so it it’s right towards the back
today 180 yards it’s playing so I’m
looking down at Bryson
dambo who is leaning on his on his Club
he’s got his his green Liv golf bag
behind him which has got the name of his
team Crushers written up the side of it
that’s his team Mark are they are they
your team you’re a big fan of The
Crushers I’m I’m actually impartial when
it comes to uh live teams Liv teams yes
I am and um he’s just juggling his golf
ball in his right hand the lead leader
of the Masters talk about Danny Willet
that we didn’t expect that I don’t think
too many necessarily expected Bry and
dambo to be right where he is now but
he’s playing partner to bjor olison the
Dane who I remember contending for the
Open Championship a few years ago in
blue and green he strikes his t-shot up
towards the green and the hall today cut
towards the top right and it’s actually
right at it but I think it’s rolled on
Into the Bunker at the top so he was
right online just a little bit too much
on that and it’s thrown into the bunker
so it’ll be Bryson dambo to play next so
turning now discussions with his C so
the 16s to play this this narrow shoot
that he plays through with Spectators on
the right hand side and the stand on the
left and then the water and then that
sloping green and if you know your
Masters you will know that on a couple
of the days the uh the positions of the
holes on this 16th are very generous and
on another couple of days they are
trickier and today is one of the
trickier hold positions right at the top
of the green so you’re looking to find
that that top tier that upper level here
it goes on its way he’s staring after it
come right come right and they saying
come right which suggests is going left
and Spectators are running for cover
there were people jumping off their
green Picnic chairs and I think the ball
has landed ended up in amongst them so
it’s bounced into the spectators which
are beyond the green on the left hand
side so um he will have a shot from
there but uh he sent people running for
cover and as you were watching the
people Run for Cover I kept my eyes on
Bryson Des Shambo who looked up to the
skies as if he was looking for the wind
he then held both Palms outside either
put both arms down held both Palms out
as to as if to say what the heck
happened there I don’t understand that
at all we we’ve not seen anyone there in
the whole time we’ve been here and and
actually it’s a bit harder on that green
now if you go back only 45 minutes an
hour the green was clear when I say
clear I mean there were no Shadows on it
now but now one of the pine trees has
cast a very large Shadow over the whole
of that 16th green right up over the
hole as well so potting will be more
difficult on that green when he
eventually gets there that suggests
we’re later in the day Mark what time do
you think it is I have absolutely idea
because neither of us have bought a
watch out and we did think we’d try and
tell the time by the Sun and where it is
in the sky um and that is not proving
particularly easy for us I I think when
the I think when the pine tree crosses
the 16th green there it’s I think it’s
nearly
5:00 yeah who’ have thought that I mean
I mean maybe somebody spoke in your ear
who knows John Akers at Plymouth we are
seconds away from full time here I can
tell you it’s 5 to 10 GMT BST at the
moment here and the Aral fans are on
their feet because it’s Plymouth 1 ler
nil five added minutes and we’re past
that they’ve had a good shout for a
penalty Leicester waved away vardy
stretching a Really Brave save from
Michael Cooper in the AR Go goal this
would take Plymouth to 48 points and on
the cusp of safety in the championship
Leicester this this is their game in
hand they would still be Tau but it
would be three consecutive 1- n defeats
on the road AR Go have possession with
Michael Cooper and he’s going to take
this free kick and Aral fans are going
to pray that Robert Jones blows his
whistle and he
has arar’s players collaps on the
pitch they’ve beaten Leicester city
fouth W leester nil a huge night in the
race at the top and the race for
survival pth won leer
nil just I mean I mean that sounds
incredible there John at the moment that
what what belief that will have given
those ply fans that they are staying up
this season that’s seven points from
three matches since Ian Foster left as
manager and Neil dnip and Kevin
nanaville have galvanized this crowd
they lost five in a row here without
scoring a goal this is a team with
probably the best record in the efl nigh
on in 2023 in terms of their home record
I reckon they need two points to be
completely safe they might do it with 49
that’s one more point because their goal
difference is only minus 8 and it’s way
better than all the other teams down
there it is
absolutely huge this it is party time in
Plymouth thank you very much John
Plymouth won less than over to IP switch
and leads over the course of the weekend
in the race for promotion from the
championship up ahead away to my left in
that late afternoon early evening
sunshine a horses shoe of Spectators has
formed around Bryon D shambo’s ball and
the American is currently stalking the
16th green through the shadows as he
tries to plot a path for his ball it
that shot might be a little while
incoming so alist Bruce Ball birdie
ances rare ones on the 10th green maroy
again steps up straight away as soon as
he hits the P we could see the line the
camera angle was perfect for us it was
right to left he’s biffed it a good 4
feet by uh as well we saw him do exactly
the same thing on the ninth green as
well as soon as he’s hit the ball there
Trish he knows he’s he’s just not
playing well as you’ve been saying well
to be fair he’s hit some really good
iron shots the last few hoes he’s
putting appallingly and the sad thing is
it’s one or the other so the the put on
nine is tentative and he’s got no Pace
on it and that one he’s just hit
straight through the break and he’s just
got no field today with his putter which
is a shame cuz he’s hit some good
approach
shots Mark John so Bryson dambo is in
not too far away from where Tiger Woods
famously chipped in on his way to one of
his five victories but Bryson dambo is
chipping now from off the back of the
green up towards the hall and this looks
right on line and it just curls up on
the left hand side so the higher side
but he has played that brilliantly
actually despite his his often rigid
looking body language and stance that
was a beautiful touch for this
powerfully built man the leader of the
Masters and he is up by the hallside and
that should be a par three for him to
remain at 7 under and with a one shot
lead yes a one shot lead for now alist
not anymore Scotty Sheffer from close
range 6 feet or so has done what Rory
maroy wasn’t able to do putt right into
the heart of the hole he’s made a birdie
at the par 410th fabulous hole here at
austa right at the start of the back
nine it is the long dog leg PA for it’s
like a ski slope it hurtles away from
you down the slope his drive down there
trist was about 350 yards the pin today
cut short right at the front Rory maroy
pitched him first and we thought he’ did
a wonderful shot which he did Sheffer
hit it in uh even closer there’s been a
couple of Errors from Sheffer today but
some of the gulf we’ve seen as well to
make the birdies has been superb and
that was another example yeah that’s
just the perfect example of why these
two players at the moment are just not
on the same path trajectory at all you
got Sheffer hitting it into that
distance and you know he’s going to make
it you got Rory hitting a beautiful shot
in first but at no stage does he look
like he’s going to make the putts and
it’s it’s such a shame because he’s you
know he’s only one over par but he
should be banging contention yeah one
over par with a uh three4 footer here
for the par to stay at one over before
they head to the 11th in It Go so maroy
makes the par but it’s a sort of
resigned lean down into the hole and you
can actually see the shoulder slump and
a big sigh exhaled uh on that 10th green
he’s really really frustrated with
things at the moment eight shots off the
lead now held by D Shambo and Sheffer
sheffer’s birdie at the 10th has him in
a share of the lead at 7 under par and
he looks like he’s loving life and and
why wouldn’t he yeah we’re still waiting
for Bryon dh’s putt here on 164 par so
whilst we wait I me let me just bring in
our correspondent nean Carter who’s at
aen corner are you in any way surprised
by what you’re hearing about Rory today
given his form coming into the Masters H
it’s it’s just it’s just putting it all
together isn’t it that he just you know
it sounds from what the guys are saying
is that he is he is hitting the fairways
he’s hitting the greens he’s creating
opportunities and then he’s not able to
take to take them and that’s really been
the story of his PGA Tour Ser season so
far he is going with this patient
approach and that has to be the approach
and let’s face it the lead is only at
seven under par he’s within eight shots
he he would want to be in a better
position the key thing for him is
maintaining that patience and hoping
that the chances eventually come if he
can take advantage of the two par fivs
on the back nine then he will post a
decent score and will not be out of this
Masters if he tries to push in these
conditions he could be in big trouble
isn’t it strange how we’ve talked about
tiger not being out of it who is also
one over an eight off the lead and yet
and yet we’re not we’re not affording I
suppose Rory that same courtesy well
tiger is exceeding expectations and Rory
isn’t that’s the that’s the difference
um we’re still waiting I think aren’t we
for Bryson dambo is he going to go next
no there’s there’s still quite a lot of
shilly Shing going on between Allison
and and Woodland so uh I mean Shambo
it’s on Bron D Shambo it’s it’s 2T 18 in
so
uh I mean I don’t want to temp fade I
don’t want to temp fade but but but okay
we have places to go okay we do and and
the sh sorry who was going to come in
sound like somebody was going to come in
then the um the shil Shing cannot delay
us any longer on the 16th we’re going to
leave you on five live with dambo on 7
under and Sheffer on 7 under Max Homer
on 6 under Nikolai hoard in the
clubhouse on 4 under and Danny Willet is
going down 18 on four under so our golf
coverage is going to continue on Sports
extra and here on 5 live Richard Foster
has the
news and we continue on Sports extra
where uh the shilly Shing is continuing
uh up pop above on the 16 on the 16th
and Bryson Des Shambo is no nearer to
his ball on that alist breeze ball do do
you have eyes on will it on
18 uh not yet I tell you we just seen
Jose Maria alabel just come off the back
of the 18th green and he’s playing
alongside the Latin American amateur
champion and I’ve been itching to get
his name into our coverage at some point
this week cuz it’s fabulous Santiago de
lafuente uh who is not going to be here
for the weekend it was the very very
last chance to mention him uh and we’ve
managed to do it he qualified by winning
the Latin American amateur championship
at the Santa Maria Golf Club in Panama
Mark have you ever played there uh I
haven’t no no Trish have
you what’ you reckon
well I tell you what I reckon I reckon
you’re more likely to than me that’s
true I will just I will just say one
thing though Jose M Jose Maria alabel uh
back in
1985 I believe it was 84 I won the
Belgian girls the same and on the same
golf course he won the Belgian boys oh
nice yes indeed and I got to meet him
and he was an absolute gentleman God
lovely um shots on the 18th at the
moment Austin erro is just playing uh up
towards the 18th green and his ball is
now landed on the 18th green and climbed
up towards the top tier there and he’s
hoping it’s going to come back towards
the flag again that sand is is being
blown furiously the the white specks of
sand across the 18th green and he is
playing in the group with Danny Willet
now I think cat down saw Danny willit t-
shot off the 18th T and oh that’s right
K went way way right didn’t it it did it
didn’t look good Ally uh there’s a big
Bank of magnolia trees along the right
hand side as the players kind of plunge
down into that little dip before
climbing that steep slope up towards the
clubhouse and those crowds thronging up
on the horizon and poking out at the top
of that bank of magnolia trees are two
really tall lob Lolly pine trees and
Danny Willets ball was whistling when I
last saw it towards the one on the left
of those two lob lollies but into the
bank of Magnolia on the right hand side
towards the 10th Fairway the wind is
blowing an absolute hully up here and I
think what it did is it just came up
over those Magnolias got caught in the
wind and just disappeared outright we
saw the Personnel on the course up on
the 18th rushing off into the pine straw
on the right hand side but it it’s
really I don’t know what it’s like down
where you are Mark but up here it’s
blowing a Gale I’ve had an escaped hat
that blew from the walkway between the
15th and the 17th it rolled all the way
across the Fairway and a rules official
had to rescue it and a few moments ago
Christo Lam’s ball was blown backwards
off the 17th green it’s blowing that
hard yeah well and it’s blowing that
hard up here on 156 as well to the
extent that I mean John Murray talked
about them shilly Shing on on 16 one of
the problems was that either a
combination of one or all of Bryson Des
Shambo his caddy Gary Woodland or Gary
Woodland’s ball were hit by Falling pine
cones yeah and at one point I was I was
waiting for Bryon D Shambo to play and
Gary Woodland I know you he was he was
about to place his ball on the green
next thing I I saw a golf ball rolling
down the green and and whether it was
blown there through by a a particularly
violent gust of wind or whether it’s
something
I would say to Ali and Trish just to
keep an eye on the pictures cuz I’m sure
they’ll show it whether a pine cone or
some piece of flam and jets some blew
out of the trees and hit the ball and
knocked it down the
green oh yeah we’re seeing it now we’re
seeing it now John and I don’t think
anything hit it so Gary Woodland there
Trish has has marked the ball and he
wasn’t even looking at the ball he’s
backed off about four or five Paces just
to sort of get himself ready for the
sort of the the pre-shot preparation for
the put he’s looked back at where his
ball was and it’s disappeared from View
and it’s rolled 50 60 ft down to the
bottom of the green yes and well he I
didn’t actually see that he definitely
had marked the ball hadn’t he so this
shouldn’t be a problem he’s just going
to replace it exactly where it was he
hadn’t he had anything I was going to
say Trish so he did he did he did
replace it he’s rolled in the put Gary
Woodland who who’s who’s missing the cut
but at the same time the um Bryon D
Shambo was was was looking because I
think Gary Woodland was calling over an
official but Bryson D Shambo was saying
no it’s okay it’s all right but what I
would add to that is Bryon dambo and and
the players and all around the green
were we looking you know a little look
well there is stuff there are pine cones
falling off the trees all around here
and now they’ve not only fallen off the
trees they’re then being blown by the
wind across well the sort of walkway
between 15 and 16 but they’re getting
ever closer to the 15th green the
dropping off the loby Pines by the 16th
green and in fact ONN as as we look up
to the bunker that’s back right which is
where some of the balls have gone today
back right you can see there are maybe 8
10 quite sizable pine cones that have
fallen into the bunker and I think one
of them either hit Bryson D Shambo or
hit his caddy or or very nearly hit one
of them yeah and of course the the
serious Point here as well is remember
what happened last year not too far away
from here actually this very point on at
the Earl part of the 17th which is in
that area of the golf course and I think
it’s only a human natural human reaction
for Bryson dambo and everyone down there
to be very anxiously looking up at the
trees and they made their way very
quickly through the trees actually to
the uh to the 17th uh te and and the
wind last year was nowhere near as
strong as it is at the moment which was
when those three trees came down on the
17th Fairway alley uh Bryson D Shambo
giving it absolutely everything off the
17th t ball the Hang Time on it it stays
in the air for absolutely ages goes
shooting forward up the 17th C Downs is
definitely going to have a view of that
I was sitting in that commentary
position yesterday C on the 17th and I
was actually going to put an application
into Augusta National to just remove a
couple of the pine trees down the left
hand side which which obscure your view
slightly when the majority of the drives
land in the landing area that one to me
from Des Shambo looks like it’s gone way
beyond that I don’t know if you can see
the ball up on the right hand side of
the Fairway there it would be most
useful if they would honor your
application to remove some of those pine
trees I I can’t see any ball on The
Fairway at the moment I’m having to poke
my head up above our commentary
positions are protected by these little
screens of of um plastic you know clear
plastic that we can see through and if I
Bob my head down I’m quite sheltered
from the wind but I’ve got to stick my
head up to get a clear view down the
Fairway to look through my binoculars
and I can feel the sand from the bunkers
lodging in between my teeth it’s
crunching between my teeth as it blows
up the hill but no I can’t see any ball
on The Fairway at the moment that
doesn’t of course mean that it’s not
there and I’m scanning across the
Fairway at the moment with my binoculars
but I’m sure that Bryson Des Shambo Gary
Woodland and tojon olison will be coming
up the hill any moment now yeah no dambo
in in in good shape uh on the 17th but I
think he’s a long way up there and the
further you get up that 17th the easier
it makes that that second shot Mark news
as well of Danny Willet on the 18th cuz
we talked about his wild drive it was
one of those on the TV
where they put the shot tracer on it and
and you think surely he can’t have hit
it that far right this this sort of
yellow line just bananana off to the
right hand side but he actually went so
far right it seems as though he was
hitting his second uh from out towards
the 10th Fairway we then saw him swing
through and play the second shot and we
think the ball might be in the bunker at
the front of the 18th green but the
cameras didn’t actually pick it up so
we’ll confirm that when we can Danny
will it four under par uh playing the
18th that is three shots off the lead
held by the Shambo and Sheffer and Ian
Andrew McGee have a little wait for Rory
maroy and Scotty Sheffer to appear uh in
front of them on the 11th green because
the last shot we’ve had two shots of
them sitting on the 11th T there’s a big
sort of cooler box to the left hand side
of that 11th T and they’re all just
standing there and gassing and chatting
away and actually they’re just about
ready to play now uh on the 11th Scotty
Sheffer is standing over his drive so
there has been a hold up on that 11th T
let’s just see what sheer can do the
famous swinging right foot Trish Johnson
you’re nodding absolutely n of it hasn’t
he it’s perfect slight bit of draw
middle of the Fairway just just going to
curve a little bit down towards the left
but that is position a there you go Mark
um well if they’re going to be waiting
for sheffler and maroy that means the
group ahead must be uh near the green or
approaching the green because presumably
they’ve played their second shots and
that includes a very sort of indifferent
John Ram but a very much in the mix Matt
Fitzpatrick correct uh Mark and those
players are now coming into view and all
three have found the putting surface
with their approaches and I think that’s
pretty much the first Full House of
successful approach shots that we’ve
seen today the defending champion John
Ram is the last to appear at the putting
surface he’s at three overp par
Fitzpatrick at two under par has played
golf par golf ever since he birded the
second hole to get to two underpar so
very impressive stuff for a man who’s
wearing um white trousers and a a sort
of pale yellow shirt and white cap and
so he will be putting from the very
front edge of the green for an unlikely
birdie Ally you can see Rory maroy yeah
Rory maroy on the 11th T about to hit
the driver one over par for the
tournament two over par for his round
today started it down the right and it
doesn’t look like it is coming back back
towards the Fairway well it’s absolutely
fine actually goes flying over uh that
curtain of trees away to the right hand
side and pulls up uh in the Fairway on
the right Trish Johnson yeah perfect
just teed it down very different ball
flight to the other two and he had that
really teed down trying to hit a
slightly lower one down the right hand
side perfect position uh in terms of
that uh that cut line today players at
the moment in danger of potentially not
being here for the weekend defending
champion John Ram currently three over
par uh in front of Carter at the moment
in Amen Corner hii matama around about
that area of the golf course as well
he’s at four over Victor hland has
reached the turn in six over that is
seven over par for his front nine today
treble bogy on the second hold the par
58 and Justin Rose Mark in at seven over
part today so he was six over for his
round today Justin Rose the big white
leaderboards here can fit 10 names on so
there are there are 10 players on there
who are under par is is that the only 10
in the tournament uh no there is more
than that there are there are more than
10 players who there are a few more on
one under than just Glover Fox and can
they okay correct um let’s go over to 17
where the galleries look decent actually
K and you’ve seen brys and Des shambo’s
t-shot and you thing yeah and he’s given
them something to Marvel at Mark it’s an
absolute Whopper it’s 440 yards up the
hill here on 17 and he’s put it to
inside
100 yard from the pin all he’s got to do
is just toss this little wedge up into
the air and let the ball float in on the
wind that is whistling up behind him
biggest Drive of the day an absolute
Bryson dambo a textbook shot from the
2020 US Open Champion exactly the kind
of thing that the crowd have been
following him around wanting to see you
know he he did leave the tour didn’t he
for a couple of weeks here and to go
there to go and take part in longest
drive competitions when he was at his
very biggest and must lest and now here
he is just with the most delicate little
wedge Chip Shot from down in the middle
of the Fairway and he can hear the
murmur of appreciation and the Applause
from the crowd he’s put it to within 5
ft he’ll have a really good look at
birdie here and just reading an article
earlier on today in one of the golfing
magazines I think it was Golf Digest
earlier on about how Bry Des Shambo has
changed not only his attitude to the
game and and his physicality but uh just
the way that he approaches his golf just
doing the same thing not pushing not
trying to change the game and it’s
really really paying off for him here
completely different Golf Course to
Winged Foot where he muscled his way to
that US Open title in 2020 here he is
just picking his way around playing
delicate golf mixing that with that
blend of power that he has and it’s
really paying off for him Mark and let’s
go on 18 where Danny Willet is in
trouble I think Ali yeah not good news
so got away with a wayward drive to the
right right hand side second shot from a
away to the side of the 10th Hole uh
ended up in the bunker as we had
speculated third shot from in the bunker
he couldn’t get it out of there and then
the fourth shot Trish Johnson you just
saw that one from the bunker again and
he’s gone way over the flag to the back
of the 18th green so he’s already played
for his that’s a possible double there
on 18 it’s an extraordinary finish to a
round that’s been you know pretty pretty
decent uh a horrendous Drive I’ve never
actually seen anybody have a fairway
shot from the right of 18 but he had a
perfect shot got left it in the bunker
which players never do and then he’s
he’s actually thinned his next one out
of the bunker and he’s left himself with
a very very difficult two putt for you
know it could be triple bogy yeah
potentially yeah so Danny will it uh for
under par playing that last hole but so
his first one his first one out of the
bunker didn’t get out the bunker well
the problem the problem we got there
Mark and I know you’re going have a
little chuckle at this with me me at the
Helm of the control
you know when you said how many players
are there on the leader board are there
more than 10 in the red numbers so that
obviously that’s your fault so I go off
I go off to a leaderboard I turn my head
away at that second will it hits that
shot I didn’t see that shot so I’m now
going to have to go on the Master’s app
and find that shot and then I’ll report
back to you on exactly what happened
with that shot here he is anyway with
his should I ask you a question no fifth
shot this is for bogy and this is from
up at the top in the back of the 18th
green and as Trish said it’s really
slippy and fast and quick quick and it’s
missed the hole to the left couple of
feet to the left and it’s rolled on by
and that’s a nasty one to come back to
try and make a six there Trish yeah he’s
got at least six or seven feet there and
this is just a disastrous finish to what
really was a very very solid round of
golf indeed let’s hope he can knock that
one in because I’ll tell you what if he
doesn’t hold that he’s uh his dinner is
going to taste pretty shocking tonight
so four underpar playing the 18th if he
doesn’t hold that he drops back to one
under par if he can hold it it’ll be at
two under par and the camera’s just cut
away from that 18th green but goodness
me I’m not going to miss that one Mark
so so when it comes back we’ll be there
uh there with you all right I’m going to
go and try and find the shot on the app
as well by yeah we say this every time
by the way if you if you don’t have if
you’re listening to us download the
Masters app because it is a f it’s one
of the best sports apps that you can get
see all the shots all the stats all the
all the you leaderboards and so on and
so forth it is brilliant cat I’m glad
I’m not where Ali is at the moment it
sounds very stressful with all those
computer screens and having to dash
around the fandel the information I’m
just here on 17 on my own in this
tranquil corner of Augusta National
which is being absolutely buffeted by
the wind at the moment in the center of
the green there’s a away in the bunker
Behind the Green the sound is pouring
over the lip of the bunker like a tidal
wave and flying off towards the 18th T
but in the center of the green
Bryson Des Shambo is stock still just
crouching down behind the ball and using
the thick handle of that long Potter to
line up the ball now stepping back
taking another look at the ball from
behind couple of little Twitches of the
Potter head and now here he is ready to
take on a birdie putt that would see him
back in the outright lead at the 88th
Master can’t barely balance in the wind
he’s balancing on one foot just going to
pick up the ball once again it might
have twitched in the wind there were
pine cones and leaves Wheeling across
the surface of the
green really is extraordinary conditions
out here today and now he’s standing
behind the ball casting a vivid Dark
Shadow and the ball between his feet
white Go shoes Navy trousers blue
t-shirt and he slumps forward bends at
the hips as the ball curves around the
back edge of the hole and just trickles
by by a couple of spe he’s going to mark
this and have another go but a really
good birdy opportunity swinging out from
Bryson D Shambo should tidy up for par
though here the 2020 US Open Champion
he’s just dipping the peak of his cap to
protect his eyes from the white sand
that’s pouring out of these bunkers
ripped by the wind and flung into his
face and he Nestles the handle of
that slightly over long Potter into the
crook of his left elbow and sends the
ball into the hole for his PA just
touches is the peak of his cap as the
crowd rise around me here on the 17th to
follow him up the last hole hands the
putter to Greg Bodin and off they go
towards the last Bryson Des Shambo just
having a chat through it shaking his
head ruul knows that was a missed
opportunity to pull clear if Scotty
Sheffer right at the top of the leader
board but as they are Sheffer at seven
under Des Shambo at seven under and
dambo with just one more chance now to
get back into the outright lead let’s
just uh get news on Danny Willet on 18
yeah just waiting to see the pictures
Mark but I’m afraid it’s bad news for
Danny Willet because the uh the part we
were talking about the one he had
remaining for the double bogey 6 up the
hill we’re going to see it now so not
commentating on it live I know exactly
what is going to happen here from about
8 ft up the hill and it’s just missed on
the left hand side what a what an
annoying way to finish uh what has been
a fantastic Masters to the halfway point
a treble bogey s down the 18th CAU
caused initially by a wayward Drive
although he did have a a relatively
clear shot with his second into that
bunker Trish you’ve now seen the first
bunker shot that he tried to play his
third shot on the hole to try and get
out what what happened there yeah
basically he was at the back of the
bunker and the wind was absolutely
howling and he just I don’t think he I
don’t think he hit it poor that poorly
it just the wind got it and he just
didn’t get out of the bunker he just it
wasn’t a total dff but it was certainly
nowhere near enough and then obviously
the compensation caught the ball very
very much first and uh left himself such
an impossible part yeah and as soon as
you saw where he was putting from you
said there’s a danger of a three putt
there that’s exactly what’s happened
Mark so I mean it’s it’s you know he
didn’t even think he was going to be
playing this week we heard him talk
yesterday he was really enjoying himself
and he described it as a freebie but
that really is going to annoy him
because that it’s what happens isn’t it
you you you know you you play 35
fabulous holes of golf and then one is
just so costly and from four underpar
you know and and looking like possibly
making a 72 there and four underpar
three shots off the lead drops three
shots on the one hole it’s a 75 today
and he’s back to one under it’s uh it’s
six shots off the lead through actually
Trish not you know even though he went
way right on on 18 he still had a shot
with his second shot so it’s I mean he
must well we might hear from him but the
frustration from possibly being two
three shots off the lead overnight
depending on what Sheffer and Des shampo
to to now 67 off the lead yeah I think I
think alli’s just understatement of the
Year there to be honest he’s to say
he’ll be lied will be an understatement
um and yes he got away with the drive uh
he had a decent you know chance to hit a
decent second shot and it’s not that
hard up and down to be perfectly honest
because he’s got a load of green to play
with players very rarely chunk it and
leave it in a bunker when you’ve got so
much room to play with and and then to
overcompensate and do the complete
opposite I never see anybody thin it out
of the bunker these guys are so good out
of bunkers it’s just such a rare
occasion to see that just just while
Trish is talking to you there Martin and
Bryson dambo off the 18th T cat yeah
another absolute Whopper for Bryson Des
Shambo his last t-shot of the day just
creeping along the right hand side of
the Fairway and I can see there’s a
little Gap through two uh lob lli Pines
that look like rugby posts up towards
the uh the the cabins in the top in the
distance those little white clapboard
houses at the top of the hill Bryson Des
ball just nestled in tucked on the right
hand side of the bend as it goes round
up towards that last screen it’s in
Prime position he should have absolutely
no problem going for the pin on the 18th
here there are a lot of officials round
15 and 16 who are scurrying around
trying to remove pan cones or keep them
off the green or try and keep them out
of the the bunkers and I would imagine
it’s a scene that’s being replicated on
other holes
in this is why there has been a hole up
on the 11th because after each group
that comes through uh two guys come on
with leaf blowers portable leaf blowers
to clear the debris from the putting
surface but actually with this group
that is here now and John Ram is in the
process of three putting this 11th to
slip to four over par the defending
Champion now on the predicted cut Mark
with that dropped shot but when they
arrived here Ram was about to put from
the very front edge of the green and a
huge gust swept across and all the
debber was deposited on the green so he
then insisted on the grounds Keepers to
come back with their leaf blowers and
they had to do a big well it’s the
opposite of hoovering isn’t it but you
know what I’m I’m I’m saying to clear
the green he’s finally putted came up
way way short had his putt just now for
par which has just missed and then it
was Matt Fitzpatrick who’s at two
underpar completely clean scorecard
today but that is under huge stress now
because he puted gave it a little bit
too much and the ball has run on by 8 ft
and he’s putting from the Shadows at the
back of this 11th green with the trees
waving animatedly in the background but
he’s in an area of apparent calm as he
sends this forward and into the hole
that’s brilliant from the Englishman and
Matt Fitzpatrick makes a precious par at
the 11th and it keeps him in contention
at two under par yeah lovely just
trudging along making pars on on a hard
day like this that’s exactly what you
have to do but that’s just that’s just
the key today making those 6′ 8ft par
putts I think he learned from John ROM
John ROM left it maybe 15t shorter than
his long Putt and Matt said I’m going to
at least give it a go had a left to
right break on it and it was R perfectly
Matt Fitzpatrick to the 12th T at 200
under how much Andrew mcge having having
played this seven times are you second
third fourth guessing yourself With the
Wind yeah we’ve been talking about that
that’s why we loved oberg so much the
way he sets the club down behind the
ball and just swings away you can tell
his mind is free and it’s clear he’s
made his mind up he’s been very decisive
key for everybody out there listening be
decisive on these kind of days don’t
change your mind and don’t change clubs
get up there and play away Scotty sheffy
yesterday when he was asked about the
wind said well I did try to wait until
it stopped and it just never
stopped well it it does beg the question
doesn’t it at what point um do you do
you have to have to hit because you are
given in the rules of the game you’re
give them 40 seconds to hit well these
players are taking way over that I timed
Jason day on the 12th T and he was a
minute and 20 seconds for his t-shot and
he was by no means the slowest because
of the fluctuating conditions with these
winds Sweeping in he also said Andrew it
it’s kind of one of those deals where
really you are guessing sometimes and
you can’t get get every wind right it’s
not possible so actually sometimes I
suppose I guess it’s not punishing
yourself or your caddy for that matter
for getting a wind wrong um correct I
mean this this 12th hole is indicative
of just what you just said guys are just
standing there with their legs crossed
and legs crossed means they’re taking
more time than they should to me and
they’re just they just don’t know what
to do this is the classic number 12 Day
right here 152 yards only but it’s just
it’s just the hardest I think I’ve seen
it play in many many years cuz then
there are other things aren’t there
Trish really you know the you wait for
it to stop and then you think it has
stopped so then you try and take your
shot but then but then you might rush it
if you’re trying to take your shot if
you’re trying to get that window of 15
seconds when it hasn’t when when you
think it’s stopped yeah it it’s so
incredibly difficult and we’re just
watching Sheffer here he’s he stood in
the middle of the 11th Fairway and he
just stood over it and this gust has
come up you can see his shirt I mean
it’s it’s ripped off his back so he’s
he’s got a club in his hand that he’s
thinking okay this is a certain distance
but with that wind uh just no chance
really just watching Sergio Garcia after
all of the delays on the 16th green
Sergio Garcia’s just missed a short put
for par and that means that Sergio
Garcia former Champion here he is four
over par so so right on the the current
cut line John I’m just going to jump in
there because Matt Fitzpatrick has hit
his t-shot
at the 12th and has found the putting
surface low trajectory boring its way on
that 152 yd Journey towards the flag and
Scotty Sheffer has simultaneously hit
his second shot into the 11th and has
got it right up to the right edge of the
green he will have a big swinging right
to left putt but he will be putting with
his third shot now mooy with his shot
into this 11th so often the Nemesis for
Rory Rory mroy and he’s found the water
down the left hand side it is impossible
it would seem for Rory mroy to play a
masters and not find the water on 11
incredible I mean that’s the second ball
we’ve seen in the water after Neiman um
just you have to play out to the right
you just can’t lose your there there was
one he lost his patience lost his
patience he tried to bite off too much
you have to take your time say out to
the right one over is not terrible
tomorrow might be calm shoot a 65 kind
of play your way back in stay patient
but he but he knows that Andrew and and
I me you you two I think were talking
what 90 minutes ago two hours ago about
how everything goes right at 11 that you
that you don’t you don’t you you know if
you’re going to play it you go to the
right of the green yep it’s the Miss
Xander Cha’s missed it to the right of
the green if anything was going to go
wrong with Scotty sheffer’s approach it
would either go a little bit to the left
in which case it’d be on course for the
flag or it a little bit to the right and
it would be in that Swale from where he
he could comfortably chip and yet mroy
has gone left and he has found the water
and this is just such a familiar
familiar process that he is going to be
going through I mean he knows the
yardage from here doesn’t he Andrew
because he just he just does it every
single time he usually misses out to the
right gets that angle and then bites off
too much and um I’m I’m I’m sorry but
that is a a a really really bad error
from Rory maroy are are you shaking your
head more at maroy or alli’s Mastery of
the control center I think alli’s been
magnificent it’s a very very difficult
job I think I’m proving that here aren’t
I do you want use a Bryson D Shambo the
18th is that is that what you were
asking for and then I was I wasn’t there
well he’s he’s trudging his way up the
18th Fairway he’s played his second shot
into the 18th green and a bit like his
t-shot at the 16th actually he he’s been
surprised he’s gone big and he’s gone
long and where he’s ended up actually
Trish is is very similar to where Danny
will at three putted from right at the
top slope of that of that 18th green
well it’s an extraordinary shot to be
honest he’s in A1 position on 18
absolutely m a drive up there he’s
hardly got any club in in comparison to
most of the players we’ve seen today and
he’s pitched it about I’d say a full 20
yards behind the flag which is
extraordinary admittedly it is playing
ridiculously you know is is incredibly
windy and Gusty but that’s just an
extraordinary shot he’s got about a 90ft
putt coming down the hill I can’t
remember it Mark being I can’t remember
the last time it was as windy as this
but it’s certainly you know it’s
challenging for the players but it’s um
it’s fun to watch isn’t it them them
trying to deal with it and wrestle with
it and cope with it I I I mean I think
my first one here might have been
2013 uh obviously there were a couple
where we weren’t here because of covid
but but I can’t remember it in the last
decade Ian Ian will will probably
correct me here but I can’t remember
experiencing conditions as blustery as
this in the last decade I I think these
are the windiest conditions I can
remember I was thinking that when I was
walking down here um they were very
windy uh and hostile in the year that
Trevor imman won which was that
208 and8 I just beat you that was cold
that was cold you you’ve got a screen
here’s Rory mroy now playing his fourth
shot on this par 4 11th having taken the
penalty drop from the water sending it
Forward on a low trajectory and
beautifully controlled by meloy the
brakes coming on as the ball entered the
Shadows where the hole is located and
he’s given himself 5T for a bogey five
and must make 5T and somehow he’s got to
do something on the closing stretch of
Holes without losing his patience yeah
he’s he’s got to forget everything that
he’s been you know taught lately and get
in there and grind this out Rory Mao
style and do it on his own I know Brad
Faxon is putting Guru and he just went
and saw books last week but maybe he’s
had too much information or maybe it’s
going to take more time to for him to
settle in but uh he’s got a downwind
downhill very fast putt here for five
and just looking away to my right in the
distance the 12th green that’s where
Matt Fitzpatrick is he’s down on his
haunches he’s come off the green to get
his ey is actually at Green level
because of that bank at the front it’s
not his turn to putt yet but he’s going
to have a putt to go two underpar for
his round and three underpar overall and
that is very much in the mix here
remember Bryson deso and Scotty Sheffer
are the leaders at seven underpar and
Sheffer is here on the 11th and he is
surveying his birdie putt here and one
thing we know for certain as far as
that’s concerned and
is that it’s going to move from right to
left all day long we’ve seen this putt I
don’t think Fitzpatrick was above the
hole I’m trying to count how many other
folks have have played this and read
this correctly I know you’re coming
through the out the sun into the Shadows
which is always difficult to read the
wind is ripping from right to left the
slope is a little bit from right to left
but no one has played it high enough but
if anybody can Scotty Sheffer with his
new face balanced Mallet p
has he got a chance well let’s see tall
figure bearded figure the world number
one one practice swing two practice
swings just feeling the pace that he
needs to put on this putt he’s been
grinding over it for a long time it’s
downwind as well so that’s another
factor that needs to come into play
he’ll be putting right next to the
Fringe of the right side of the green
yawning bunker just away out from from
his right hand side sends it on its way
swinging from right to left swinging
from right to left and that’s a pretty
decent effort that should be his par for
there Ali will have a birdie put for mat
Fitzpatrick on 12 momentarily but over
to you yeah just waiting to see what
Bryson Des Shambo can do from the back
of the 18th green inan so’s posted on
Matt Fitzpatrick if you need it back we
will be right there we saw Danny Willet
three put for his treble bogey seven on
the 18th and here we go Trish this is
even further away isn’t it oh it’s miles
away this I mean and he’s coming this
totally different way so he’s playing
this massively out to the right the wind
is hugely right to left but he’s playing
about 10t a break on this so he’s he’s
going down the hill he’s got to get it
just about to stop halfway maybe 3/4 of
the way down and then just let the
Contours and the hill just bring it down
slowly to the uh to where the flag is
but on its way down isn’t it sort of
trickling its way rolling from right to
left not quite giving it enough left
himself maybe 10 ft or so for the Paran
12th green and Matt Fitzpatrick down on
his haunches holding his putter out in
front of him like a water deer just
lining up there he’s dispensed with the
habit of keeping the flag in the hole
might be because they’re sort of rock
rocketing around in there but anyway
he’s putting for birdie up the hill now
and he’s up and he’s after it and he’s
disappointed because that’s missed to
the right and it’s gone on by around
about 3 4 feet as well so a tester
coming back for Fitzpatrick who’s
currently at two under
par John ROM with a three just if
anybody’s interested four over John ROM
can he make the cut not not a good place
to be for a past Champion to come back
and miss the cut the next year the
defending Champion he’s just looks so
disinterested how can he be
disinterested at the Masters I don’t
quite get that I think it’s just a an
expression of frustration as much as any
else and all these players Mark they’re
standing and waiting and it’s going to
be Rah who’s going to be putting next
here on the 11th but they’re all having
to hold on to their hats um I agree with
you I I this is as as windy as I’ve ever
known it here yeah I mean as is as are
the majority of people around us here in
the galleries one uh one small child
just in front of us here his baseball
capat went flying across in front of us
and was picked up by someone three or
four feets away from me uh there’s a man
in front of me who’s got a sort of
floppy sun hat on but it comes with a an
elasticated piece of string and he has
put that under his chin to keep that hat
on his head so it doesn’t go blowing
across and actually in front of us here
and we talked to Ally earlier about
there are 10 names on a leaderboard are
they the only ones who are on par well
actually uh there is a a man in this
group in SE ster who is under par he is
one under uh for the tournament and
actually he isn’t on the leaderboard at
the moment they kept Lucas Glover on
there who is level par but sep ster one
of the three we are seeing here along
with Michelson and Fina yeah and Lucas
Glover has just come through and
actually missed a chance for a birdie at
the uh at the 15th so he remains at
level par and sep ster the big rder cup
player as he is now made his debut in
the Autumn the uh Austrian American is
very well placed having laid up in two
at the par five here John Mark if you
can hear me uh just to let you know that
Matt Fitzpatrick is striding off to the
13th t with the par in his pocket no
fuss at all with his two put par on the
12th now we just turn our attention to
the co-leader Scotty Sheffer because
this putt is to remain in a share of the
lead with Bryson deson Boo and uh before
that it will be Rory mroy and mroy who
is putting of course here for a bogey
five and it’s must make for the northern
Irishman
and he just bends down and picks up a
little bit of debris that just came
across and landed between his ball and
the hole all of this putt in Shadow
there’s just a little pale smidge of
lighter grass just to the left of the
hole and now here he is this is 6 ft
sends it Forward vital Puck and it’s
missed and it’s missed and it’s going to
be a double bogey at the 11th his worst
hole
traditionally at every Masters and it’s
still not a gimme alley but it looks
like it’s going to be a double bogey six
for Rory M the 11 ooze and ARS because
Bryson D Shambo has dropped one at the
18th he had that six-footer from down
the hill it was the second shot that’s
cost him he went big he went way long we
saw Danny will it three put from back
there and Bryson to Shambo Trish as long
as he pops this one in is going to do
exactly the same thing which means he
will drop to six under and Scotty chefer
will lead on his own at seven under yeah
disappointing way to finish hit a good
putt a positive putt but it just didn’t
come back at the end thought it was
going to break a tad right to left and
it just didn’t move it was a straight
Putt and it goes from very short range
for Bryon dambo and very theatrically he
lets the shoulders slump a little bit
Drop shots on the last so a 72 becomes a
73 handshakes all round but in very very
good position to attack the weekend
dambo 600 par one behind Scotty shefley
you’re watching him in yes I am and he’s
just waiting for Xander shle to finish
off on this 11th hole before he finishes
off from short range for his par but
Rory mooy did make his putt for a double
bogey six and that drops him back to
three overpar so meloy now from
potentially vying for maybe a little bit
of contention going into the weekend is
instead having to knuckle down and make
sure he is here for the weekend he’s at
three overpar and that is just one shot
better than the four overpar Mark that
the cut line is at the moment a lone
figure on that 11th green right now down
on his hunches is Scotty Sheffer and he
is getting himself ready for this short
par putt having hit a wonderful approach
in gave it a good go with the birdie
attempt it’s only 18 in and Sheffer
knocks it forward and into the cup
remains in a share of the lead at seven
under parar indeed the outright lead now
because deso back at six underpar so
Scotty Sheffer the hot favorite the
world number one goes to the 12th T at
seven under par and out in
front well he has holes to play um I’m
going to bet you a dollar he doesn’t end
up at seven I’m going to say less but
and by that you mean less according to
par or what better than better than
seven seven under of course is’s playing
just really really difficult and let’s
see what happens on 12 let’s get past
let’s go one hole at a time what our
coaches tell us to do and one shot at a
time that’s the crucial thing so here he
is he Lopes up onto that 12th tier and
look at Rory mroy just standing there
arms folded and he must be he must be
because he can’t divorce himself from
the reality he must be contemplating
yet another visit to Augusta that is
going to end in disappointment here we
are it’s only Friday afternoon there is
an awful lot of golf still to be played
but he after making such a mess of that
11th hole can look across at the most
formidable force in the game right now
and see him Scotty Sheffer out on his
own at the top of the
leaderboard I’m
disgusted you know it’s just really
really hard to watch and you you know
as you’re out here and know we’re all
telling everybody what’s happening but
it’s just hard to hard to watch what’s
going on in his mind how does he get
over this hump here at a gusta who knows
I don’t know I don’t know what to do
he’s just not played well enough has he
and then an error like that on the 11th
most difficult hole on the golf course
as it is today
nonetheless you just got to make sure
that treat it as a par five get out of
town with a five and you’re matching
most of the field
it feels like today and it feels like
for sheffo made a routine for there that
he’s picked up momentum on the field
with a par well here he is now Sheffer
on this 12th hole lovely late afternoon
sunshine suggesting a calm but the winds
are swirling and he’s got to gauge them
here fires this shot high up to the
towards the top of the Pines and then
down towards the green it lands on the
back left of the green and it holds on
and it doesn’t go into the bunker at the
back and that’s a fantastic shot and a
little touch of the knuckles with his
caddy Teddy and that is mission
accomplished as far as the 12th is
concerned off that te you know sorry do
you know what I I was just I was just
thinking your point there about treat it
as a five take a five and get off and
I’m I’m I’m literally just looking at
the leaderboard here Bryson Des Shambo
bed the 11th herard B bed the 11th Homer
bed the 11th Klay bed the 11th Fox bed
the 11th Glover bed the 11th so half the
leaderboard or half the names that are
on my leaderboard at the moment all kind
of went along with that theory of take
it as a five play it as a five take the
five get off yeah miss the green to the
right into that area that we’re talking
about where Larry m so famously chipped
in to beat Greg Norman all those years
ago and if you can get up and down then
that feels like a birdie On a par five
and and and it’s a real bonus you yes as
far as the scorecards concerned it’s
it’s a par but you’ve not brought into
play the prospect of a double Bogey and
it’s a double bogey that is going to to
do the damage far more than just the
single shot that it goes that it goes on
there because this now has altered the
whole mentality
potentially this is a fight to stay in a
fight to stay in it and he has to remain
patient because that’s the only way you
can play this course but the Temptation
will be to force it here he goes with
his t-shot Rory mroy on the 12th this
one is turning from right to left and is
heading towards the back left of the
green just creeps off the back of the
green it hasn’t reached the pine straw
there but boy that is a disconsolate
figure he has worked very very hard on
his body language throughout this
tournament to try and remain positive
and patient even even though his aame
hasn’t arrived but the the the chinks in
his game have caught up with him here
and he is trying to walk with a a little
bit of jauntiness but you can tell those
shoulders have slumped and well they
might after that double bogey six at the
11th and Andrew given the holes he’s got
coming up that’s why I say that’s why I
say it’s a a fight you know the
projected cut is still at four over
again I’m looking at the numbers on this
leaderboard and where players have had
problems I mean BL me he’s still got to
go down 18
all right but he does have two par fives
let’s don’t forget that let’s see if he
can let’s see if he can pick it up let’s
see what let’s see what he’s got here
let’s see what kind of toughness Rory
can muster here coming down the stretch
he’s been in this position before we all
know that let’s see if he can get a good
drive on the next one and and perhaps
knocking on and having Eagle try we’re
all very hopeful yeah and and if you’re
only just joining us want to know how
tough 18 he’s playing uh o uh bid 18
hoard bid 18 Des Shambo bid 18 Danny
Willet had a had an awful awful 18th and
triple Boger it to go from four under to
one under after 36 holes but the cut uh
allei uh captain of our control has
changed yeah moved out to five overpar
just popped up on the screens uh in
front of us didn’t have to do anything
to go and find that Mark there it was
looking at the screen that’s how it
works back here so it’s gone out to five
over par maroy at three over mat ymer on
the back nine at four over John Ram
defend champion at 4 over and Victor
hovland at 6 over uh all fighting to
make that cut 16 players I’ve got at the
moment Mark who were in The Red Feld
let’s do a lead let’s do lead so let’s
do all those underp Scotty Sheffer
leader seven under par playing the 12th
uh Max Homer at six under paraz is
Bryson D Shambo both of those two
players have completed their second
rounds uh Nikolai hoard at four underpar
in the clubhouse Cameron Davis uh the
Australian at three underpar Colin carwa
former open Champion also at three under
par ludvig oer one of those at two under
he’s in the clubhouse as well Matt
Fitzpatrick making par after par after
par at the moment he’s at two under par
mat pavon at one under so is Cam young
so is Tommy Fleetwood so is Danny Willet
they’ve all completed their second
rounds Ryan Fox one under with one to
play Ben AR is one under with two to
play strier one under Klay one under cam
Smith also one under Paran Rory maroy
chipping from just off the right back
right of the 12th and shaving the edge
of the hole in fact I think that clipped
the flag as well and it is just three
feet away from the hole so lovely touch
from maroy there Andrew McGee yeah great
bounce back right there he he played
very fast I’ve looked up on my
binoculars and he was ready to hit um
maybe that’s being more decisive there
what what the heck you know he just
taken too long and and things aren’t
working out maybe let’s speed up our
play a little bit and make some
decisions and go ahead and hit away what
you did there and almost hold a
chip just as Ali went through the
leaderboard there Trish just a couple of
names jumped out to me who we haven’t
really talked about at all over the last
couple of days and they’re certainly not
on the big white leader boards in front
of us and they’re both major Champions
which is Colin morawa and cam Smith yeah
absolutely I noticed morawa cuz he’s had
a pretty awful time far as blam me I
almost feel like the last time he played
well was when he won the open at R st
georgees but that might be a bit harsh
but but cracking round today yeah he’s
got it to three andart and he’s he’s one
of the few people that has birdied the
18th and uh the second one you mentioned
was cam Smith cam Smith yes indeed the
live player the Open champ at St Andrews
um yeah he’s got it to one underpar so
and he he’s again it’s so difficult
isn’t it Mark because we just don’t
really talk about the Live players I
haven’t watched a single shot of Liv
golf whatsoever so I wouldn’t have a
Scooby who’s been playing well on that
but it’s good to see him playing well
he’s he’s a character uh is possibly the
person with the worst hair style in the
world and not the greatest dress sense
but what a golfer he is that’s for sure
but also a man Ian Carter who knows his
way around this course he does he’s got
a three top five finishes to his name
and he’s won a major championship
winning the 150th open at St Andrews and
to get it to one under par is uh is
pretty decent now he’s up here on the
11th green we’ll be keeping an eye on
him but we’re keeping an eye on the
leader as well Scotty sheffler because
he is on the 12th green and he is
surveying a birdie putt Here Andrew
McGee yeah just uh just what we all want
to see Scotty schler take control of
this tournament on Friday afternoon
Windam Clark in front of us an 11 Tiding
up uh at four over par in danger of
missing the cut after such a nice start
yesterday in the opening round Scotty
chevler just off the back of the green
left right putt just off The Fringe
coming down the hill a little bit back
into the wind he backed off stepping
down into that bunker very close to
going in that bunker but he didn’t and
he has this for birdie I think he’s kind
of in a defensive mode right
now he would take pars on these holes
ball is on the way and he’s missed it to
the low side and running by just a
couple feet not a bad
try so Sheffer is uh likely to come
through Amen Corner unscathed with that
excellent par on the 11th and he’s got
it to within a couple of feet on this
par 31 12th so he’s in decent shape Rory
mroy should make his par as well oh it’s
run on I’m hearing it’s it’s very
difficult we’re a good 200 yards away
and actually Sheffer has moved rolled on
by seven or eight ft here so a tester
for
Sheffer to keep himself in the lead so
we’ll be watching this very very closely
indeed now I can see cam Smith on the
11th here I believe this is for par here
to remain at one under par short range
putt coming from just inside the Shadows
so I’m eyes are darting from one green
to the
other now Sheffer is
settling himself down putting the ball
onto the
green down on his hunches he’ll Retreat
back have one last look at that on the
11th cam Smith settling over his par
putt to remain at one under
par and now Sheffer it is who will go
first and hit his let’s concentrate on
the leader this to save par and he does
very secure and simultaneously the balls
of Smith and Sheffer dis appear and I’m
pretty certain that that keeps the
Australian at one andart I’m absolutely
certain that the leader Scotty sheffler
remains at seven underpar and one clear
at the
M yeah good stuff from Scottish schaer
just escaping 11 escaping 12 give a big
sigh of relief saying Amen to the gulf
gods and moving right along
Rory the put let’s see how much how much
has he up left can you sell it looks
like around about 3 ft to me was a
really good chip didn’t waste any time
over that which you know is one of those
one of those where you think oh has he
given up here and and just hitting it
without taking due care and attention it
was a it was a fine chip though
nonetheless and now he’s got this
three-footer to make sure that he
remains at three overp par sends it in
and that’s good enough for a par three
on the 12th and he’ll then go to the
13th and look to press the accelerator
if he possibly can and we’ll confirm we
have confirmed for you that that was a
PA for cam Smith so the Aussie remains
at one under par and the final group on
this second day have arrived on the 12th
T and they will be ready to hit once the
green clears on 12 and it’s just sander
chaule who’s got to do a bit of Tiding
up there mark but he’s not really a
factor and and and I’m guessing neither
hovland or Windham Clark are a factor
either no holand is at 6 over par uh
Windam Clark I think is a little bit
better than that I think he’s two or
three over um they’ve four over uh
rather unhelpfully they have they clear
that scoreboard very quickly very
quickly one thing and and and I’ve been
wanting to talk about if we’ve got time
we’ve got PL I mean it’s with you at the
moment so when you see cam Smith tea off
you you go with that but it’s all yours
well there’s just one there’s there
there’s someone that I do want to make
reference to there’s a guy a groundsman
in sort of the caddy boiler suit outfit
and his job today has to be keep the 12T
pristine so after every group has has
hit off there whatever divots have been
left he nips around tiddies them all up
tiddies away uh all the imperfections
and that’s why this hole always looks so
so pristine it’s just so austa that that
happens but given the conditions today
and given all sorts of debris that has
been flying around pine cones plastic
bags you know hats all sorts he has put
a shif in let’s put it that way he’s
been scurrying around all the time uh so
it’s been fascinating just to watch him
just to make sure because this 12th hole
I I don’t think it always surprises me
whenever I come down here it’s you know
it’s like just hitting over a field and
then you’ve got the the the the the
creek and then you’ve got the bunker and
then you’ve got the green and it’s all
sort of layered in front of you
and it’s just a a magnificent scene but
not a blade of grass out of place and
after every shot this groundsman just
make sure every group that’s gone
through anyway here’s cam Smith and he
is ready to go with his t-shot here the
camera TV Camera in the tower
immediately behind the flag is just
glistening in the evening sunlight here
as Smith hits it high to the right of
the flag letting the wind just draw it
back towards the flag that looks very
good in indeed beautiful t-shot from cam
Smith of
Australia yeah not just sanding the div
sanding it with green color dye in the
sand to make it all match perfectly how
many places do that Ian I don’t know
what a shot by cam Smith wow yeah really
good stuff birdie chance for Smith to
maybe get to two under par just feels to
me like the like the wind is just
dropping a little bit uh Ali bring us up
to date with the leader yeah Scotty
Sheffer uh off the 13th T has had a good
drive down there he’s gone very tight
down the left hand side Ray Creek
winding its way down the left hand side
of that par five Fairway but he safely
found the short stuff slightly trickier
angle of attack from that left hand side
uh but again Scotty Sheffer has found
the Fairway off the 13th team I was just
saying what’s always interesting whereas
it feels might feel where you are that
the conditions have eased slightly I
would say here at 15 the the flag of 15
is fluttering as
as as strongly as it has been all
afternoon the lob Lolli pie still lob
lob Lolli pie still swaying as well I
mean they got a real degree angle of
sort of as they Bend is quite quite
strong actually so down here or up here
a little bit from where you are the wind
is still incredibly strong the
reassuring thing is that they have done
that for a while hang on hang on hang on
if I’m not allowed to get away with chip
shop you not getting away with L Lolli
pies very yes well we’ll call that one
all they’re available in the chip shops
in harut ping chips anyone the Final t-
Shots have been played off the 12T and
off they go and they’re all on the green
and uh the grand stand here as one uh
just stands up and off they go and uh
well what news of Rory mroy off the 13th
big hole for him Sally yeah absolutely
uh three over par so projected cut of
five over par maroy with six holes to
play of this second round is that
Fairway Wood Trish off the 13th team
yeah three wood trying to turn it over
easier to turn over a three-wood long
way back though miles back from Sheffer
I think that’s just got straight up into
the air and gone know he’s laughing
about it yeah yeah yeah that’s already
maoy so maroy is as Trish says he a long
way back par five 13th so you know I
mean I can’t imagine he’s going to be
able to get the green and two from there
Scotty sheffer’s gone round the corner
on the par five 13 so when he gets to
his ball we’ll see what sort of shot
he’s got into that green but there are
well they’re playing very different golf
at the moment sheffer’s The Leader by
one he’s at seven under par and Rory
maroy is battling to make the cut at
three over par we keep me an eye on cam
Smith the Australian Open champion at St
Andrews uh because he is one under he
actually started the day one under as
well in the final three ball here is
alongside Windham Clark and Victor
holand has he reached the 12th green yes
he’s just walked on I think he’s going
to be third to to putt because it was a
brilliant t-shot and he’s just walking
up to go and Mark his ball it was a
fantastic April fall that he did did you
hear about that what did he do well he
he he made out that he’ um he’d cut off
his his mullet and um and the whole
world believed it for a while Trish did
you fall for that well actually funny
enough I heard this on the cuz I heard
Ian’s interview with him and he
apparently just around he said his wife
said but he wasn’t going to do it for
his wedding he was never going to do it
because was an April fo he said he I
said to him that was a heck of an April
Fool and he just fell about laughing he
absolutely loved the idea that people
had bought into the fact that the the
mullet might
go well if it’s your trademark you’re
going to have to keep it aren’t you
really yeah and it’s um it’s a very
distinctive look for him and uh yeah he
seemed to me when I was talking to him
that he he seems very very comfortable
with the live life if I can put it that
way and what he likes about it is that
it means that he goes to Australia and
that’s where Liv goes to after the
Masters and the ticket sales by all
accounts for Adelaide have been
absolutely huge so that’s the one in
though isn’t it that’s the one that you
talk to people within Liv that’s the one
they site as their success the biggest
success when it comes to atmosphere and
they also quite rightly point out I
suppose that that is about going to
places which don’t get the golf that
they may feel they deserve was it was it
so was it about playing back at home or
was it the 100 million in the back
pocket oh you are a cynical cynical
person well there’s obviously uh that
that benefit there but as we know money
doesn’t make you happy well you could
have a damn good try though could you
with 100 million your back pocket
there’s no guarantees though um we’re
just looking at Windam Clark actually
and he need needs a a good finish here
and he has found the green he is uh
first to play Victor hovland’s having a
sorry old time of his season at the
moment dispensed with his uh with his
coach Joe mayo and he hasn’t been the
same player this year here is Windam
Clark then at three overpar looking for
a birdie putting into the Shadows that
have lengthened as they do at this time
of day sending the ball across this 12th
green will it disappear no it won’t but
that looks pretty decent from the US
Open Champion making his master’s debut
the highest ranked player number four in
the world ever to be making a debut here
at the Augusta National next up to play
will be vikor holand what have you made
of of hovland’s trials and tribulations
this year we’ve done a lot of different
things like move from Oklahoma to
Florida um which was a good move um you
know it’s it’s it’s it’s a slump that
you know it’s probably going to help him
in the future it’s going to help him
learn what he what he was doing and try
to get back to what he was doing and um
you know it happens to everybody you
just don’t start off on gang busers and
stay that way for forever you know so I
think I think this is a good
thing well here he goes now with his
attempted a birdie here that could just
give him a sniff of being here at the
weekend currently at 6 overp par the
Norwegian hero of Luke Donald’s European
Ridder Cup team in Italy last September
needs a bit of that form here to make
sure he’s here for the weekend sends it
forward through the sunlight into the
Shadows looking for a birdie on 12 we
haven’t seen too many and that doesn’t
add to the tally now can cam Smith get
himself to two underp because if he does
he’s right into this tournament for the
weekend and he just goes through that
green reading Mantra that has uh become
so prevalent on the game of
straddling the line of the putt to just
feel it in the feet as to what the
Contours might do
here yeah I’m aim Point um I think it
just slows the game down a little bit I
mean I I think these guys have played
here enough when when they hit the shot
from the tea they pretty much know how
the break’s going to be before they get
there I mean I certainly had an idea if
I was right of the hole it’s probably
going to be right to left putt um so
here we go cam Smith I’m going to go
he’s going to make this one because he’s
an excellent 8ft putter well let’s see
it was one of the best t- shots that
we’ve seen today on the 12th is he going
to make the final birdie of the day on
this 12th
hole great putter is Cam Smith when he’s
on song just gives the ball a a wrap and
he’s ready to do that now over it and
then we’ll draw the putter head back as
he does now sends it on his way up the
hill looks good and in and it is a
birdie for cam Smith and that gets him
to two underpar and that’s a real treat
a real treat there’s only a handful of
people left in the grand stand here mark
But there patience has been rewarded
with a birdie from campsmith and he
heads to the 13th at two underp well I
think there are more people in the 13th
grand stand because here on 15 we could
hear the groans from that grand stand
traveling through the trees to us and
the reason for those groans Ali Scotty
sheffer’s second shot so having found
the left hand side of the Fairway had to
go with the long iron at the par five
green to get there in two and it was a
low swinging draw that came skidding in
towards that 13th green but it just
caught the UPS slope right at the front
of the green and you’ve got Ray Creek
that’s snakes its way around the front
of that green and away to the right and
Trish Johnson it took the bounce and
once it bounces there it’s not hopping
up it’s only hopping down and Scotty
Sheffer found the water yeah it was as
you say it was a very straight-faced
Club it was a bold move to be perfectly
honest and he I think he just thought he
was just on a slight right to left slope
so it was just going to turn over a
fraction just didn’t get enough right to
left on it probably startled it a couple
of yards too far right of where he was
intending to didn’t come back and yeah
just caught the edge of Ray Creek and uh
very wet so so um golf swing mistake
sort of technical mistake rather than
strategy mistake do you think no I just
think he thought it was going to turn
more off that slope and it just didn’t I
think he quite liked it when he first
hit it but he thought it was going to
just and then there might be a little
bit of wind coming off the other side as
well slight left to right wind just
maybe started it a fraction too far
right okay so next shot he plays Mark
will be his fourth on the par five he
will drop from behind Ray Creek and he
will play his fourth Xander schofl is
lining up his third shot at the moment
he’s one overpar projected cut line at
the moment is at five over par we’ve not
yet seen what Rory maroy did with his
second shot but he was so far back of
the te that I’m presuming that he has
laid up and quite soon we will see him
playing his third shot into the par five
13th but the main news is that Scotty
Sheffer is in the water he’s the Leader
by one but he’s now going to have to get
up and down uh on the 13th to stay at
7even under par and of course Andrew
McGee was making the BET wasn’t he that
he wasn’t going to finish as high as
7even under par yeah and he’s on his way
to join cat on 17 so he won’t actually
have heard what’s happened to Scotty
Sheffer at the moment was that is that
one of the few times
you think Trish and I appreciate you
haven’t seen every shot that he’s played
around this course over the last couple
of days one of the few times he’s gone
risk versus
reward uh I I I don’t think he’s a
particularly safe player in any shape or
form I think he’s just so confident in
what he does all the time he he pulls it
off his iron plate is absolutely
Sensational I just think it’s one of
those shots that may be just a a
fraction is only literally a fraction
out um there’s no way he wasn’t going to
go for it without a shadow of a doubt
because he’s such a good long iron
player but you know there’s no room for
error on on this particular hole it’s uh
as as Nicholas said you know the first
the the drive and the second shot here
are two of the most important shots on
the whole golf course and if you can
pull it off you end up with an eagle
putt but if you don’t you you’re staring
bogy in your face yeah and that’s the
beauty of Augusta National Mark we’ll
talk about it time and time again over
the weekend the risk reward nature of
the holes and the way that they’re set
up and and make the shot so tricky for
you to hit so Scotty Sheffer at the
moment is lining up uh exactly where
he’s going to drop this ball to play his
fourth shot um while you were talking
there Trish I think you had eyes on Rory
maroy as well so he did lay up third
shot with the wedge has come up well
short into that 13th green
and you know a bit isn’t it really 35 ft
from the flag with half a wedge in your
hand I mean to be fair to him on this
particular hole we haven’t seen one
single player within 10 15 ft anywhere
everyone’s been short cuz you cannot go
you cannot get the ball bouncing and go
over for this flag cuz you’ll you’ll
have a 35-footer coming back but we were
just talking about Rory earlier and you
know I I know 11 was a mistake but the
the trouble is he’s missed a he’s missed
a 5 foot putt at nine he’s missed a six
foot putt at 10 and he’s missed a 4 foot
putt at 11 it doesn’t matter how well
and I think that’s why 11 has happened
he’s missing these short putts he’s not
making anything and that’s making him
push and you can you can stay patient
all you like if you can’t make four five
six Footers in professional golf you’re
not winning diddly Squad so is that the
diff is that the difference on the
putting here which was which is why some
people can be could be critical of him
today because to play Devil’s Advocate I
could also say we spent a lot of time
today talking about how difficult it is
out here how tricky the conditions are
the wind and it’s almost as if some
people might say well everybody else is
being given leeway for the conditions
but not mooy but you think it’s it’s
it’s less about the conditions with him
do come to that 1 second Mark Scotty
Sheffer with a slightly sort of awkward
stance here so his his feet are either
side of the hazard line just short of
Ray Creek so the ball is uh above his
feet there and he’s bumped this one in
low and hard and trying to roll it up
towards the flag and as Trish has been
saying no one’s gone past that flag it’s
a very risky thing to do probably left
himself maybe 12T or so for his path
yeah that’s a really
interesting it’s hard to explain quite
what he did there so he dropped it
within about an inch of the yellow line
now he’s got the choice to go further
back but there was one bit of grass
there just by that yellow line that was
a little bit more let’s say a bit more
grass than just before it and it’s very
much a downhill line and I think he just
wanted to make sure he had that little
bit of extra grass cuz otherwise it’s a
really bare lie and you’re going uphill
you’re coming off a downhill slope to go
uphill and it’s not a very pleasant shot
I think that’s one of those things Trish
that people don’t necessarily appreciate
when they’re watching the Masters on
television so everything looks so sort
of lush and verdant and obviously we
know that the greens are slippery and
quick but actually that that grass so
close to the greens even on the fa is so
tightly is it AB
absolutely so um Scotty Sheffer is
making his way Mark onto uh that 13th
just to remind you having found Ray cre
with his second shot he’s played four so
he’s got a 12 foter for par he leads by
one at 7 under okay well go back go back
to that point then Trish on are we
giving other players more leeway than
maroy for the conditions but I’m all I’m
saying is I’ve watched most of the golf
this afternoon and any of the players
including tiger including whoever you
want that’s had any chance to make any
leeway they’re not missing three four
five foot putts I mean he’s missed he’s
missed four of them today and he’s only
played 13 he’s only played 12 holes so
far um that’s just not you know the
thing is with Rory when his putting’s on
he wins tournaments but when it’s off
it’s off and it’s way too it can’t be
that off you can’t be missing and he’s
not even hitting the hole he’s up and
out of it before he’s even you know made
contact with it which shows you that
he’s got no trust at the moment in what
he’s doing he’s spooked by these greens
at the moment maybe it’s the pace
whatever and I’m I’m not making excuses
for I’m just saying that is why he’s hit
the shot on 11 because if he’s missing
you know it’s all very well saying knock
it down the right hand side he’s got
did’s got chance of getting up and down
if he’s not holding putts from inside
six feet um and I think that’s what’s
made him push that because obviously
it’s a dreadful shot to go in that to
pitch it in that water on 11 that’s 30
yards pretty much from where he wants to
start the ball with that right to left
wind and with that PIN so it’s uh yeah
and as we talked about it’s austa it
makes you do that and if you’re missing
those short parts you’ve literally got
no chance of winning anyway
Ian yeah I’ve just been looking actually
at uh his figures for this 11th hole cuz
I’m just intrigued um by it and um it’s
it it’s just so frustrating he averaged
coming in this week 4 35 on this Par
Four Hole and that average has has
worsened even further Ian just going to
see if he can make a birdie from long
range on the 13 that is a good put from
long range and it comes up a couple of
inches short now he’s not missing that
one that one is so close you can just
basically walk up and kick it in so Rory
maroy will make his par but th those
aren’t the kind of putts we’re talking
about we’re not talking about in trying
to make birdies you know from 20 30 40
feet those are those are the ones that
are an absolute bonus and you go
striding off the green with a real
bounce in your stride it’s it’s the one
you have to make to win major
championships that Scotty Sheffer and
others are making time and time and time
again he’s played this 11th Trish 56
times he’s had 15 Bogies now four double
Bogies and one worse than that um I have
half a feeling it was an eight but even
if it was a seven a treble treble bogey
so that’s 20 times out of 56 that he’s
not been able to par that hole that is a
hole that is in someone’s head isn’t it
yeah I don’t disagree with that I I
totally agree with you in in General on
that comment Ian it’s just the fact I’m
just thinking today I can only remember
him holding one putt which is a one putt
which is when he missed the Green from
30 yards Scotty shefflers missed it for
par on the 13th so he’s going to drop a
shot there the P from 12T was a left to
wrer up the hill it looked good from a
few feet away and then it just continued
to take the break slid by on the right
hand side he Taps him for a bogey six on
the par 513 three birdies and three
Bogies in the rounds so far today six
underpar overall level with Max Homer
and Bryson D Shambo in the clubhouse so
Scotty Sheffer dropping shots as well as
making uh the birdies today and the more
he comes back to the field Ian Carter
the greater the confidence of the field
exactly and the the more people you know
start to think hang on a minute I’ve got
a chance here and as we discussed very
early on in the program when Tiger Woods
went into the club house at one over par
you know if the leaders start coming
back towards him the more he’s going to
think well this is going to be a weekend
that could potentially be well worth
sticking around for absolutely we’re
going to be keeping an eye on uh uh who
was I just thinking of then I got Matt
Fitzpatrick that’s what I was thinking
of Ali because he must be on 14 so you
must have pictures of him and then he
will Loom into view at some point at
down 15 for myself John cuz it’s just a
little bit of a lull at the moment at
this part of the course and certainly
where cat is on 17 in fact cat as I look
through to your stand on 17 was that
half full at best yeah I think you know
everything’s taking a bit of a pause
we’ve had a bit of an influx because
Phil mikkelson is here and he’s always
been an entertaining character to watch
around austa knows his way around play
some good golf here doesn’t he run her
up last year you’ll remember coming
steaming through the field on the final
day Tony fenals in front of me as well
sep ster on one underpar but yeah I I
imagine they’re waiting they’re keeping
their powder dry the uh the centel here
they might have gone off to find a I
don’t know a souvenir or a cocktail or
it’s it’s definitely feels like cocktail
more cocktail than even here at this at
this time of night garden gnome sold
out hang on a minute they’ve sold out
they’ve sold out of the austa garden
went you must have asked for one no I
didn’t the person next to me asked for
the first thing he asked for when he got
into the merchandise shop he that’s
exactly what he said like John just said
he went garden gnomes and the and the
chap said sold out they sold out in you
know with a couple of day before the
weekend very very it’s it’s the most
popular purchase here the garden and the
thing I don’t get about it Mark it is
your classic garden gnome so I thought
well hang on a minute what do you expect
I mean the clu in the
title let me finish because I would have
thought a very clever thing to do
possibly would be what about sort of
caricature garden homes your Rory maroy
Garden gome your Tiger Woods Garden well
then you’re into image right well I know
exactly that’s the problem listen Rory
maroy is standing on the 14th T par 4
and it looks like it’s showered in
confetti with all these katkins and burs
and pine cones all over it out of the
shade into the sunshine he hates it he’s
pulled it to the left hand side you
heard the thut the driver head go down
into the turf it’s crashed into one of
those Tall Pines away to the left of the
14th and Rory mckoy’s day going from bad
to worse three overp for the tournament
still looks like that’s going to be good
enough to make the cut but he’s missed
the 14 he’s not got much leeway Ali has
he the project Cuts is five and he’s on
three so you know and we you know we
keep going back to it 18 is is not is
playing very very hard today uh we’ll
come back to the garden gnomes in a
second Scotty Sheffer though is our
joint leader now at 6 under power having
dropped one on the 13th so Homer
dambo Sheffer three leaders at six under
uh this hole no bunkers on it 440 yard
Par Four called Chinese fur shapes from
left to right Sheffer steadies himself
again the right foot swings away Loosely
behind him and the ball is shaping from
left to right down it lands on The
Fairway but then everything on that
Fairway rolls away to the right hand
side it just comes off the Fairway on
that little carpet of first cut Trish
yeah it’s absolutely fine
could be you know would have been easier
had it been just uh maybe a couple of
yards further left but uh that’s no
problem at all okay so Sheffer and maroy
Away we’ll have to see exactly where
Rory maro’s ball ended up uh in the nmar
but he’s missed that 14th Fairway a Long
Way to the left and still waiting for
news and Matt Fitzpatrick uh on the 14th
as well he is two under at the moment
interestingly coming into view here on
15 and I’m I’m not sure we’ have
necessarily John Murray being drawn to
them at at this stage I’m looking at
will zalatoris I’m also looking at
Justin Thomas as they come down here
zalatoris one over Thomas is level and
and because sheffer’s just come back to
six over and Bryson dambo in the
clubhous on six over after a one over
pass 73 today that there are those you
know who are in green numbers which is
overpar that all of a sudden we’ve
talked about tiger obviously that are
most definitely not out of this my
thoughts entirely and and they must be
keeping an eye you can’t miss them can
you these these huge leader boards so
here they come down the 15th whe
zalatoris Justin Thomas who we’ve barely
mentioned this week uh zator W over
Thomas levelar and also Patrick cantlay
who has just come through here and
actually that’s the noise of him just
teeing off on the 16th behind us he’s
also level par for the
tournament uh HEI Maxi armor in this
group as well coming down uh f former
Champion uh he is four over uh back to
Ali any sign of Fitz Patrick do you know
what Mark we we we’ve not really had him
picked up on the screens have we Trish
we we’ve not you’re on the right
channel yeah we’re on the CH wednesy
channel it’s the wrong one isn’t it yeah
so Fitzpatrick I mean Ian said it
earlier in the coverage it’s sort of
falo at mirfield in 87 he birded the par
five second to get himself to two under
par and since then it’s been pars all
the way through he’s made one on the par
513 so he’s on the 14th ahead of Scotty
Sheffer and Rory maroy but but we’ve not
seen any footage of him and it’s you
know I mean there’s one Mark you’re
talking about that he’s in great shape
at the moment here with Sheffer D Shambo
and Homer at 6 under par and Matt
Fitzpatrick TR he a golf who likes likes
Augustin naal yeah do you know what what
I like about Fitzpatrick as well I think
he likes tough golf courses I think he
really does in tough conditions suit him
as well I think the conditions are going
to get you know easier over the weekend
but if he’s you know if he’s in the
thick of things I I don’t think he’s a
one-time major Champion I got a funny
feeling he’s at least a two or three
time major champion and I like his
demeanor and my my work can you imagine
Billy Foster wins
this but but also more than more than
just a tough weather condition player oh
he’s a top no he’s a top player yeah
yeah but I mean I think he what I mean
is he could you know if if he if he
stays at 200 if if he can pick up one
more if it’s more benign over the
weekend he’s right in you know he
doesn’t need the win
to give him advantage that’s what I’m
trying to no absolutely not at all no he
can go as as low as you like but I just
think he’s got that mentality that if
there are tough conditions he’s quite
happy about it and no sooner did we
mention Justin Thomas than he’s landed
his approach shot in the water here at
15 so level P but in the water in
two uh we’re waiting for Rory maroy news
of Rory maroy Mark having hit the t-shot
off the par 44th if anyone is just
tuning into our coverage of the Masters
second day radio five sports extra
glorious weather bright blue skies and
sunshine but testing breezes buffeting
winds all day three-way tie for the lead
Homer Des Shambo both in the clubhouse
at six under Scotty Sheffer playing the
14th alongside Rory maroy uh at six
under par Nikolai hoard their closest
Challenger at the moment uh at four
under par but maroy off that 14th T at
three over par went way way to the left
hand side and he’s gone off in search of
his ball and they’re still not picked
him up as yet uh on the cameras and
that’s about as much filling as I can do
uh for now because the only pictures
I’ve got I think are of what’s happening
in front of you on the 15th and if I
start commentating on that you’re going
to give it the old Alistar Bruce Ball
show again so I’m definitely not doing
that yeah we have matama and zala Tores
in front of us John Murray we do so
Hideki Matsuyama who has an excellent
record here the winner of course and uh
he is right in the middle of the
approach to the 15th green so this is
his second shot his third shot having
laid up and he lands it over the water
and onto the front of the green and it
takes a hop forward but he’s still 35 40
ft away so we will have a birdie chance
from there but he is four over the
projected cut right now is at five
overpar but will zuris is to play next
Justin Thomas just standing to one side
having gone in the water here so
zalatoris the tall lean will B zat
Taurus
fairhead missed almost the whole of last
year when we came here last year you
there were suggestions that he wouldn’t
make it into the field because he had a
back problem he did pull out on the eve
of the Masters last year had a back
operation and has been out of action you
know for the whole of 2023 so he’s
certainly someone who I’m sure a little
like Danny Willet really will be so
relieved and pleased to be back in this
environment so with the sun shining but
the wind still swirling around through
the pine trees and actually because of
that zalatoris backs away and just puts
his hand to his capped head possibly to
make sure that his cap stays on his head
and there’s a couple of swishes of the
club head just waiting for things to
settle again but he might have to wait a
while again just just backs away the
water in front of him is Rippling White
l in all
directions going to hear about Rory
maroy in a moment but let’s just see
what happens to Wills Alat Taurus’s
third shot on its way we can clearly see
the ball against the Green lands in the
middle of the green and then hops on and
is through the back and is rolling down
the slope by 8 or 10 yards so through
the back will Wills alores more to come
from here Ali Rory maroy entertain in
the galleries trying the spectacular
found his ball in amongst the Pines down
the left of the 14th Sora Gap Trish but
the Gap that he’d seen it needed some
incredible launch angle to sort of get
it up and out of the trouble he was in
he’s actually gone over the back of the
14th green that’s a pretty remarkable
shot from there though yeah it was um
you sort of looking at it thinking oh
he’s going underneath there and you
suddenly looks up and you think oh my
word he’s going over the trees hit an
amazing shot but just got a little bit
too much release on it and he’s got a
tricky up and down from the back of the
green couple of shouts are get in the
hole for Scotty sheffer’s ball from the
right hand side of the Fairway first cut
actually just off the Fairway and it’s
hit the left hand side of this 14th
green this enormous 14th green the pin
is cut away back in the left and Scotty
sheffer’s ball is just run round the
back left of that green and just toppled
off over the back onto the Fringe he’ll
be chipping back onto that green and he
currently shares the lead at the Masters
here having bogy the 13th at 6 under par
with Max Homer and Bryson D Shambo
Andrew MC has made his way from aen
corner to join Katherine DS on uh 17 we
were you fighting against the wind all
the way up there it’s different up here
isn’t it Andrew oh my gosh I just got
here and I’m like where what kind of
climate zone is this I mean I’m going up
and up and up and on top of the Alps
it’s a a little more windy a little
chilly cat’s in a full rain gear I’m
going I don’t see any rain very
sensitive so I’ve had to go for the full
waterproofs about an hour ago it’s
chilly and windy and let’s do some bires
let’s go I don’t think we’re going to
see many up here Andrew it’s blowing an
absolute Gil and everybody’s really
struggling coming up the hill I’ve got
Nick Taylor walking into my sights the
American currently struggling on 14
overp par that’s a stinker of a day you
won to see many bird CH the flight let’s
get out of here on 17 have you there
hasn’t been many there’s been one or two
but uh not many it’s been a whole for
dropped shots if you look over at the
leader board we saw High guard drop a
shot here uh who else dropped a shot
here obber dropped a shot on the uh on
the 18th didn’t he it’s it’s a really
difficult closing couple of holes today
with I don’t know if you can hear that
wind on my microphone it is it is really
something else up here and right at the
top of the grand stand as well at the
back of the 17 I can just see in the
middle of the green wacky nean just
ducking for cover as the the sand comes
in in an enormous tidal wave of white
sand out of the bunker and down the back
of his collar as he’s pacing around uh
his P the Liv golfer on five overpar
Russell Henley six overpar so nean with
a slight chance here of making the cut
if he can he can get up and down from
the sand um let’s uh let’s get news of
Matt’s Matt Fitzpatrick who has parred
the 14th did you see it Ali no no still
not picked him up have you seen John Ram
double bogey the 14th no okay he now
goes to six over does John Ram so that
means the defending Champion Trish is
going to miss the weekend as things
stand yeah well we did have a chat
didn’t we earlier in the week about you
know whether we thought John Ram had a
good chance to defend his title and I
don’t know I just feel like uh well you
know my opinion on on the the live
golfers uh he doesn’t look right he just
doesn’t he doesn’t look like he’s
enjoying being here he doesn’t look like
he’s enjoying defending maybe he’s just
not playing very well to be fair and
that could be all the reason you need
but uh yeah it’s it’s you know he looked
amazing he looked like he had an amazing
evening at the Champions dinner
obviously his choice of dinner and all
those unbelievable players of yesterday
year and today but he just looks as
though he’s he can’t be disinterested I
know we like to think that it’s the be
all and end all and you know it’s it’s
it’s weird it’s weird his body language
is not good and for someone that uh what
3 months ago four months ago was
considered probably the second best
player in the world Uh something’s not
quite right zot torus within 6 in of a
birdie lovely lovely played it actually
puted it from from off the back of the
15th green and as you say right up by
the hall side and actually one or two of
the members in front and their friends
and family thought that was going to
drop in but it’s a par five for will
zures to remain at one over par Justin
Thomas though is struggling to make his
par here he rather thinned having taken
a drop after going in the water rather
thinned it over the green and so he is
um is just having a look at this I must
I must say as well you know if John Ram
misses the cut it’s not it’s not
unprecedented to miss the cut as
defending Champion I was looking Sergio
Garcia and Danny Willet as well both
missed the cut as defending Champion but
different circumstances yeah
absolutely so just in Thomas now from
off the back down down towards the hall
and it’s rolled by on the left hand side
and it keeps going and he still got work
just in Thomas to ball from there he’s
rolled that all of five ft past have you
seen those golf shoes close up that
Justin Thomas is wearing you might need
binocular actually see them properly
which I do now own oh Scotty Sheffer
pitching up from the back of the 14th
green here using the slope just to kill
the pace of the ball it rolls away uh
from right to left I beg your pardon
Rory maroy it was playing the shot now
he needs the ball to stop maroy but it’s
not stopping it’s gently rolling away
from the flag all the time it got up to
pin high it was a about 10 ft away and
he needs this to stop and it’s just
toppling and toppling and eventually it
does stop and Rory maroy will walk onto
that green and he will have a par part
from well further away than we initially
thought it might be but those are the
Contours of that green so that’s mooy on
in three three over pass second round of
the Masters on five live radio 5 sports
extra and BBC sound Sheffer joint leader
chips onto that 14th green plays it to
the right of the flag it takes the
borrow it’s perfect it’s a foot or so
away maybe two perfect for distance yeah
lovely little Chip Shot from Sheffer did
say he’s got a pretty tasty short game
and he showed it once
again so Scotty Sheffer will have that
Mark to pop it in for a par with four
holes to play he’d be joint leader at
six under par with Max Homer and Bryson
D Shambo but testing parut to come for
Rory maroy if he doesn’t make that he’s
at four over and then it’s four holes to
play and he’s really battling to try and
make the cut and here he is Rory maroy
glorious sunshine on the 14th green and
you can see the the little bits of
Branch kins on the green as the ball
comes speeding towards the hole it’s
going to miss on the right it’s another
drop shot for Rory maroy he leans over
the putter sticks it between his legs
topples forward uh off balance to
express his disappointment TAPS in boy
on the 14th four over par Rory maroy
trouble off the tea there Trish went way
left and tried to escape from the trees
on the left hand side went over the back
of the green couldn’t get up and down
yeah t-shot was pretty awful gave him
you know little chance he did hit an
amazing recovery shot and the up and
down well it wasn’t that difficult to be
honest but he just didn’t give it
anywhere near enough borrow hit it
straight at the flag and the first
bounce went straight left and that’s
just you can’t do that on 14 you know
where it’s going to go just had a stat
there popped up on the screen TR did you
see that so no birdies so far in 14
holes for Ori maoy the last time he
played around at the Masters and was
birdie three and he still got four holes
to go I know was 2016 that’s 8 years ago
yeah and I’d also look at this round
today I’m trying to think if he’s one
putted a single green today and I think
the only one he do he has was early on
when he missed the Green from 30 yard
short so he’s he’s on for sort of 35 30
you know 34 35 putts that’s in these in
this weather that’s eight too many so
it’s just not you know it’s just it’s
yeah it’s not good enough double bogey
for Justin Thomas here on 15 so that
takes him to two over and you know we’ve
relied on others to bring us Matt
Fitzpatrick news um without success John
so we might we might as well do it
ourselves as he comes down 15 yeah
that’s uh that’s not a good although I
have to say I did try to see the detail
on Justin Thomas’s shoes and I I
couldn’t make it out clearly enough okay
white shoes with green heels so it’s the
Augusta Green with a pink aelia on the
outside back right of each shoe as
Scotty Sheffer TAPS in for his pass so
he negotiates the 14th safely Scotty
Sheffer three birdies three Bogies on
the card level PA for the round today
four holes to go joint leader at six
under par he’s on his way to the 15th te
here’s Matt Fitzpatrick yep so um Matt
Fitzpatrick marching down y lemon yellow
shirt he’s actually just been given a
little bit of encouragement I mean the
galleries are quite thin now it must be
said but someone’s given him
encouragement there’s a little wave and
his ball now has it has it gone in has
it gone in the water I I have a feeling
that he thought that that was his ball
cuz that’s his he he thought he thought
that was his ball he walked to it saw it
wasn’t looked towards the rules official
away to the right has got his hands a
bit like we saw Bry and dambo earlier on
the 16d arms outstretch Palms upwards as
if say what on Earth has happened there
and he is still chuntering away to Billy
Foster yeah and it’s it’s actually Neil
it’s actually Nick dunlap’s ball that is
has pulled up maybe 5 yards short of the
water and so it’s going to have to be a
drop for Matt Fitzpatrick this is this
is almost exactly where where just in
Thomas was a few moments ago and he
ended up taking a seven so that shows
you what what might lie ahead here for
for Matt Fitzpatrick who’s pared every
hole since the second and a and a rules
official in a blue blazer is now being
called across meanwhile John Ram who if
youve just switched on is six overp par
and and right now on that Mark is
missing the cut he is about 50 60 yards
short of the green he’s laid up there
and is preparing to play but first of
all they’re trying to work out exactly
where Matt Fitzpatrick is going to be
able to drop
this they I’m guessing they will be
asking trying to get from the rules
official who who doesn’t I’ll be honest
hasn’t appeared that Cooperative to try
and ask the rules official where his
ball where his ball went into the water
yeah that’s exactly right and
Fitzpatrick is sort of gesturing well
was it here was it there and and the
rules official only now has sort of in a
vague wayed pointed hasn’t he pointed to
a pointed to a spot on the line for the
hazard which is just where the where the
grass falls away into the water just
sort of per Cally pointed at that and
Matt Fitzpatrick rather quickly walked
up stuck his tea in there to show where
he’s going to need to drop it so um
fatrick is going to be struggling to
make his part he is not happy he has got
hands on both hips and he will be
struggling to continue this run of pars
here at two under alley he’s gone the
double teapot has he that’s what happens
isn’t it when you when you run into bowl
and your best delivery gets smashed for
four and he’s stand there just give or
someone’s Mis fielded it over oh how
annoying is that John yeah yeah uh
Scotty Sheffer is back on the tea of the
par 515 so he’ll be with you shortly I
mean you can hear you can hear just how
strong those gusts of wind are and we
can see it on the screens here out at
that 15t you’re in it as well but the
branches of the tall trees are just
swaying around furiously either side of
Scotty Sheffer here he is joint leader
at the master six
underpar small rectangle of closely moan
Turf the 15 T needs a good drive away
here down the 15th that one is heading
down the left hand side he likes it they
like it as well ball goes bouncing
merrily along and he’s found the Fairway
at the 15th and then as Trish was
talking about the six key shots that
Jack Nicholas talks about if you’re
going to have any chance of winning the
Masters second shot at 15 absolutely
crucial trying to hit in from a long way
out we still think Tiger Wood’s probably
the best of the day uh that we’ve seen
at the 15th today Rory Roy is battling
to make the cut he’s only got a shot to
play with on that front at the moment
four over par cut at five over that’s
gone left from Rory maroy and stayed
left the patrons quite like it you can
sometimes Trish if you go too far left
sort of get blocked off by that screen
of Pines can’t he down the left yeah you
certainly can I don’t know he that he he
seemed to like it though which was maybe
it is maybe it’s going to be far enough
back Kam Smith has bogied the uh par
five 13 so he drops to one under Matt
Fitzpatrick here has dropped his ball
and has maybe calmed down a bit Angel
Murray if he could do what his playing
partner Nick Dunlap has just done he’d
be very happy yes Nick Dunlap the the
20-year-old the US amateur champion of
last year now professional has hit a
lovely shot right by the hall side uh
Matt Fitzpatrick ready to play already
actually Loft this rather more than
Dunlap did and it is bouncing past the
flag and it holds up there uh 9 10 ft
past so he is there in four so he needs
to haul that to maintain this run of
passs that he’s been on since he uh
picked up a birdie at the second and a
bit like we talked about with the 16th
earlier on the Shadows lengthening
across this 15th green which just adds a
little bit of extra difficulty to those
putting on it uh he’s inside John R’s
ball is Matt Fitzpatrick but he’s coming
back down the hill as John says 10t for
pal yeah birdie birdie put for John ROM
though which would take him back to five
under and would see him making the cut
if he was able to hold this but this is
we know don’t we we’ve sat here for
hours and hours we know that this and
indeed Matt Fitzpatrick’s put as well
the these are really really tricky puts
if if they hold these well it’s a case
of well done to them we should stick
with unless Ally you have anything but
we should stick with ram really here
because he’s six over and the projector
cut is five over so it’s Big John Ram
just hitching up his gray trousers with
this heavy tread of his I always think
that when I when I see him big shoulders
big beard Black Beard big
hips and uh big knees yeah they’re big
as well feet feet also large and wearing
this green mtled
shirt battling to make the cut so much
talk this week about whether he could
perhaps successfully defend his title
but that seems a long way away now the
lead currently six underpar John Ram six
overpar but this to get a shot back here
at the 15th in amongst the Long Long
Shadows that are being cast across the
15th green just a heavy movement from
foot to foot and then this from best
part of 15 ft he’s only gone and hold it
and he’s got his birdie at the 15th and
one or two people actually get to their
feet and applaud and there’s a little
wave from him to the people in the stand
so he’s back to 5
under and now it’s Matt Fitzpatrick who
will will take the stage well John Ram
has shown him what is possible with the
the hole here at the 15th cut towards
the the back right and this would be an
escape after his approach shot ended up
in the water very much to the
yorkshire’s shagr as they say in
Sheffield so Fitz Patrick is down on his
hunches white trousers this as I say
lemon yellow shirt very sort of light
powder
yellow matched almost by this late
evening sunshine now short sleeves are
all round despite this talk about the
wind I mean it’s not cold not by any
means it’s just Gusty blustery winds I
suspect Andrew McGee listening on 17
we’ll be saying what what are you
talking
about but uh but for us it’s actually
very very pleasant as it will be for
Matt’s Fitzpatrick not thinking about
the temperature though there’s lots of
fidgeting he’s all hustle and bustle
steps forward just removes a a piece of
debris and then this this for his par
five here it goes he’s lefted short it’s
just pulled up short on the right and
it’s a bogy for mat Fitz Patrick he was
leading the UK Challenge on his own but
now he’s dropped back alongside his
fellow
yorkman Danny Willard on one underpar so
there we are a drop chop for Matt fit
Patrick one underpar and uh that leaves
him however five shots off the lead and
he’s got the 16th ahead of him right now
walking towards us now Mark yes he’s uh
heading towards the 16th team it’s a
busy period here on 156 cuz it’s Patrick
it goes to the 16t with ram and up ahead
on the 15th Fairway still bathed in
sunlight we have Sheffer and maroy so we
are watching them coming in next I think
the difference between uh someone who
lives in the North of England like
myself and John and Andrew McGee who
lives in Phoenix Arizona is that myself
and John think this is pleasant and the
last time we heard from Andrew McGee he
likened it to being on top of the Alps
uh we that’s that’s Scotty sheff there
Scotty shefley 10 yard yard 10 yards
short of the water so he’s laid up there
uh so he’s in a good position and I
think is that chuffle playing through
the trees yes it is with the the dark
top and the white trousers Ander choffle
again a player many of whom thought
might do very well this week but uh as
the the players at the top of the
leaderboard come come back you know he’s
still in it and indeed his his layup his
second shot is right next to Scotty
sheffer’s ball they are they are
equidistant probably 10 yards apart
something like 10 or 15 yards in front
of the
water and Rory mroy to playing next but
I’m also having a look over my shoulder
just to see what um Matt Fitzpatrick is
doing but they’re standing on the te so
Rory mroy is also laying up here comes
his ball down the 15th Fairway and is
just about 255 yd short of the water so
all three of them have laid up they
short of the water in two here at the
15th and what we have seen actually John
the M the majority not not not everybody
as we wait for there’s a big delay on
the on the 16th green so Fitzpatrick
won’t be teeing off for a little while
what we’ve seen is a lot of players from
there have gone over the back of this
15th green haven’t they very few have
have left themselves an uphill putt most
of them and they’re playing into the
wind we have to keep saying this you
know that flag is still fluttering
strongly
on top of the yellow flag pole but most
have gone over the back of this green
which is what John Ram did and and I
know Fitz Patrick stayed on the green
but went beyond the pin yes uh and we
know that but in these blustery
conditions which again just ease for a
moment and then it picks up again and
the and the and the flag on the 15th
right now is not is not rattling away as
it has been but then as I say that
here’s another gust that comes up behind
us I mean in terms of whether it’s the
whether these are the windiest
conditions we’ve experienced here I have
to say thinking back into the sort of
2010s I remember some Masters here where
I mean the wind could be furious for a
spell you know when we had storms
blowing through and all that sort of
thing and trees would be blown down all
over the property but I think for for
sustained blustery conditions these have
been and I’m sure we’ll hear it from the
players as well today these these have
been a
testing wind conditions as you would get
here at the Augusta National anyway
these three men have all arrived at
their balls this is the penultimate
match out on the course Rory
maroy four overp par what a
disappointment this is for him coming
here for the 10th time this year where
he had the opportunity to win The
Masters and complete the grand and slam
of all four major titles and from a
position now four
overpar 10 shots off the lead this would
be some turnaround some achievement if
he’s able to get the green jacket in
2024 he needs to make forward strides
very very quickly and from what we’ve
been hearing from from our colleagues
out on the course and Ali back in the uh
in the studio at the
clubhouse you know things are
things are going in the trending in the
wrong direction so he’s 72 yards
short and
uh he’s over it now maroy in these sort
of beige Sandy colors today ball takes
it on right to the back of the green and
just as Mark Chapman said it takes a
bounce and it’s through the back by five
yards and mroy turns looks at his cat
Harry diamond and wonders how it can be
that that just skipped on through
there so there is the there’s the markup
there’s the warning for sander schaule
and indeed Scotty Sheffer The Joint
leader of the Masters and first of all
it’s the smaller man the sler man the
Olympic champion Xander
choffle in his olive green
shirt who is over his ball now this from
just short of the water over it it goes
over and lands on the green and then
actually pulls up short and rolls back
after the initial check so he got the
warning from mroy and he’s left it he’s
left it short by a similar distance
actually probably uh 20 ft 22 feet he
will have for his birdie put and so the
world number one Scotty
Sheffer many thought that today he would
step on the accelerator and perhaps have
a healthy lead tonight well he has the
lead the joint lead and here he is with
his shot which lands right in
equidistant position between the front
of the green and the hole and then it
just bounces on and rolls past but he
has the best opportunity here it’s
actually not very far away from where
John Ram H for his birdie just a few
minutes ago so what is it something like
14 ft that Scotty sheer will have to
take the lead again on his own at 700
just want to go up to 17 because we’ve
had Patrick Klay on this leaderboard
throughout the course of the afternoon
at one stage he got to three under as he
approached the turn two under at the
turn but like many as they’ve approached
17 he sort of drifted away K yeah he
found the sand just uh in the big bunker
at the front of the 17th and uh spent
ages in there trying to avoid getting
the sand in his eyes in this gusting
wind picked it up out of the sand and
just left it a little bit short couldn’t
couldn’t sink the popart yeah he he
looked disgusted he actually no he
didn’t hit it hard enough and he had a
downwind downhill you know 15 footer to
save par and he didn’t he didn’t make it
but he just swished his hand like I’ve
had enough of this or something like
that whatever Patrick kentley thinks
like I don’t think any of us could quite
replicate that but uh yeah he’s twoo
overpar yeah probably going to make the
cut and we’ll see him for the weekend
best chance of the birdie hont was for
Ricky Fowler who’s at six overpar he put
it in close with his second but couldn’t
sink the birdie put so Fowler goes to
the last with one last shot at a birdie
that would see him here at the weekend
well mat armas alot Tores and Thomas
have taken an age on the 16th green and
it has delayed the Matt Fitz Patrick
John Ram group and Nick Dunlap is
playing first for them on the 16th t as
the maroy and Sheffer group uh reach the
uh 15th green it is very difficult
looking into the distance for for for I
would say 78 of that green now fully in
Shadow I was just going to say mark this
is going to be a good tester for us to
see if we can actually see because half
of the green is in Shadow oh more than
that and uh and there’s a there’s a
Shard of sunlight at the back and I have
to say there was no applause I can’t see
the ball so I presume he missed the
green right anyway back on 15 back on
15 first of all it’s going to be Rory M
from off the back of the green just
bumps it up there to towards the top of
the slope and then rolling down towards
the hole but uh just to the right but it
will be a a par five for Mel Royce and
not able to take advantage of the 15th
not able to take advantage of the par
five and make a move back in the right
direction so remains at 4 over par Rory
maroy and behind us we’ve got the
defending champion John Ram right all
hands on deck here they’re staring after
it and there’s a smattering of Applause
and I think Trish have you got your eyes
on the
pictures yeah John he’s uh he’s hit it
on the left hand side long of the flag
and it’s just gone down to well pretty
much to where Sunday Sunday afternoon’s
flag will be y got it got it yeah the uh
the big bunker with the white sand down
at the front left next to the water do
you want your binoculars well the
problem is I’ve got I can’t take my
glasses off put my binoculars on so I’ve
got to do it here with the naked eye why
can’t you take your glasses off well
because then I’m I’ve then got to
commentate on the 15th which is closer
to
it mat Fitz Patrick is now
playing ball at its height now and there
is Applause for that which is landed
front right so it’s on the green but
it’s a long way from the hole so he’s
got 40 ft at least that hasn’t and back
on the 15 this is Xander choffle for
birdie this this is from best part of 25
ft and I think he might have just left
it short he
has walks after that so that opportunity
has passed him by so mroy and
Shuffle walk away with par fives but
Scotty
Sheffer for the lead if he rolls this in
from just on the back right of the green
so this is 14
ft you can hear the wind whipping the
papers in front of us a man just in the
front row in the row in front puts his
hand right on the top of his straw
cowboy style hat and actually then
plucks it off his head all together to
make sure he’s still got it and Scotty
sheffler I can see the the the wind
Rippling his Bluey Gray
shirt this for the birdie that would
take him back into the lead on his own
no it’s by on the right and he stares
after it that bearded face of his now as
if to say how could you how could you
not drop but uh I guess he will uh haul
this this is just from a few inches
really just marks his ball steps away
from behind it and now walks forward and
Scotty Sheffer this to at six underpar
in it goes and he remains in a share of
the lead with Bryson D Shambo and the
long finish now Max hmer BL me they’re
not hanging around for cam Smith are
they no is the answer uh no they’re not
they they’re off the that that’s Scotty
sheffler that’s who many of them came to
see and have probably probably sitting
there free thinking these are the
coldest conditions I’ve ever seen for at
the Masters and they seeing Scotty sheff
make his par five they’re not even
hanging around to him seeing him play
his t-shot on on 16 however you can hear
there are still some Hardy Souls who are
very well wrapped up many of them who
are applauding Rory mroy and indeed
Scotty Sheffer under the 16th
T so we’ll have a little delay while uh
oh we got now now you can take your
glasses off and put your binoculars
there and now we’ve got a great view or
you should have a great view of Dunlap
and Fitz Patrick and RAM up 16 dunlap’s
just in the bunker yes he is he’s in the
in the back bunker which is now has so
many pieces of branch and cones
and various pieces of debris from the
pine trees but he splashes it out that’s
a lovely touch actually from the young
man the US amateur champion of last year
who splashed it out of the sand and and
he’s left it probably 6 7 ft that sort
of range away from the
hall next to play it will be John Ram
five under par now and in what will be a
real tussle for him to make the cut as
it is the projected cut is five under
par so he is five overpar so he’s okay
he’s okay with this Mark but John Ram
who’s right down the bottom of the slope
as as Johnson said back in our studio up
near the clubhouse this is where his
ball is is very often where the the hole
is on Sunday afternoon so that that that
whole location where Tiger Woods on this
16th hole famously chipped in from off
the back and it rolled in with that
final roll and that last sight of the
Nike logo on the ball before it dropped
on his way to Victory so that’s where
the ball is but the the hole is up near
the the top of the green right towards
the top of the slope and it’s actually
Matt Fitzpatrick who’s going to play it
first so Matt Fitzpatrick one under
par five shots off the lead Fitzpatrick
from long long range rolling his ball up
towards the hole that is beautifully
judged in terms of length and there’s
Applause for that he walks after it in
that uh in that style of his with the
slightly drooped shoulders and it’s
close enough for the flag to be plucked
out it just removes again some little
piece of pine cone or fur or whatever it
is and then rolls it in so that’s his
par three comfortable for him to remain
at one under part with two holes to play
certainly very much in this Matt
Fitzpatrick as we go into the weekend uh
and then it’ll be John Ram to take this
put on from way down the slope so this
is a good
3540 ft and this this is one that
certainly requires touch
John
Ram in that almost camouflaged shirt
actually sort of mtled green and in
these conditions he almost disappears
into the crowd behind him but I suppose
that is the nature of
camouflage as RAM stands up
now such a big man that that put a head
from this distance through the
binoculars almost looks like a a little
toy putter in his hand
hunched right over
it the ball now on its way rolling up
the slope the flag tended by his caddy
up the slope and in well what a finish
from John
Ram wow I’m not sure he’ll have hold a
longer one than that in the defense of
his title that was all of 40 ft maybe
even a little bit more than that and it
dropped into the hole and it’s a birdie
for John RAM on the the 16th green and a
clench of the Fist for him there’s not
been too much of that this year but that
takes him back to four overpar and
Bird’s in two consecutive holes for the
defending Champion exactly birdie
Birdie’s gone from wrong side of the cut
to right side of the cut in two holes
and maroy and Sheffer continue to wait
on the 16th green just been a bit of a
lock Jam here over the last half hour or
so cat do you have anything on S team
yes we’ve got uh Matt Hideki Matt at
four overp pass the former Champion
struggling to make the cut here which is
currently projected at five overp power
will zalatoris who was going pretty well
wasn’t he up until fairly recently he’s
back at two over par now and Justin
Thomas He Slipped back to four over as
well he was up at almost level par or
something wasn’t he earlier on today
Justin Thomas he was doing pretty well
but uh the conditions have got the
better of this three zuris and Thomas
dropping shots and uh will zuris just
strolling onto the green now to repair
his pitchmark as he sizes up a shot from
the sand to the left of the green Justin
Thomas walking up at the moment in a
kind of navy blue proper dress shirt
that with the buttons all the way down
the front for Justin Thomas what do you
make of that very stylish I like it I
like it nice and tight I don’t think
Jason Dave would wear an outfit like
that he likes that baggy stuff Justin
Thomas continues to walk over the 17th
green of course it is straight down wind
you have to really put some height on
your second shot with some spin
difficult to do on a downwind zot Taurus
in the bunker beautiful bunkers here at
Augusta easy to spin the ball the b ball
always sits up nice on This brilliant
white sand that they’re losing tons of
today as it blows out they’ll be headed
to the hardware store after this round
to fill these back up you mentioned
Jason day’s trousers there was a
question buzzing around on the how many
golfers could you fit in Jason day’s
trousers from yesterday and I thought
instantly of will zures he’s one of the
skinniest golfers on touris and he could
fit at least four will zot Tauruses in
Jason day trousers from yesterday and
he’s picked this one beautifully up from
the sand lovely judgment from will
zalatoris sliding it up to within a
couple of feet of the hole here on the
17th and he should just be able to tap
that into par and stay at 200 under par
and safely inside the cut line for zalot
Taurus and uh we now have a clear green
on 16 for the maoy Sheffer shuffl group
shuff’s gone first Jo Mar yes you’ve
you’ve bullied me into taking off my
glasses so now I’m doing it through my
binoculars but I want to look without my
glasses without the aid of my glasses to
see that is a Scotti
Sher
thanks right I’ll I’ll stick to the
binoculars I’ll work on I’ll work on
sound so Scotty
Sheffer he waiting down to my left on
the
tea still we’ve got thousands of people
gathered around the 16th green here even
though the galleries are thin and Scotty
shefley to a murmur a murmur and the
ball lands right in the middle of the
16th green but then starts to roll roll
down to where John Rams ball was and
actually might continue to roll down
towards the front right no it holds up
there so a long long put almost across
the entire width of the 16th green this
is Rory maoy jump thanks very much Mark
I don’t know what I’d do without you the
water
Rippling in the pond that stretches most
of the way from the green back towards
the team and Rory mroy now on four over
par lands it right on the top tier of
the 16th green he went for it melroy and
it clings on up there and this does give
him a real live birdie chance from 10 or
12 feet so Mel with a chance to pick up
a shot here at the 16th as he sets off
towards the green and remember he is
four over over and the cut is five over
and 17 and 18 are difficult today back
down 15 the final three ball of this
second round have all laid up so that’s
Victor holand and Windam Clark both
overp par both in danger of missing the
cut as well Clark Five over uh and hland
six over cam Smith one under as he plays
15 so this is the final group as maroy
and Sheffer and chuffle head towards 16
we’ve got uh cat and Andrew McGee on 17
waiting uh for Matt
Fitzpatrick uh they won’t come into view
yet Ian Carter has headed back to uh the
media center and is with uh Trish
Johnson and alist Bruce B so we have
everybody with us as we wait for this
final group in front of us it it’s
always you we never do we to be taken by
surprise but what the atmosphere is like
when you’re at the Master’s on the
second round evening I mean it’s unlike
any other sporting occasion because the
way that the Masters works the way that
the groups go out you have some high
power high-profile groups that are the
last groups out on the course but the
Masters is such a social event and it’s
so exclusive and you come here to meet
your friends and it’s a tradition and
this is what you do year after year that
many people at this time of the day have
just decided they’ve got better things
to do they’ve had they’ve had their fun
they’ve had their day out and actually
so we’ve got hundreds of empty seats
really in all of the S stands that are
here but there is also a mix of the and
you’ve got three of the best players in
the world in front of us in Windam Clark
and Victor holand and Cameron Smith and
and even better players in the world up
ahead in Sheffer and chuffle and mroy
but you’ve also got you’ve still got a
mix of ardent golf f as well who are on
their green
Master’s picnic seats that are all
around the the back of the Green in
amongst the trees up and down the slopes
here and at certain points over there
they are six and seven deep and Xander
Shuffle has climbed
into that bunker right at the top right
at the back of the green I can see him
feet wide apart and he’s actually he’s
actually bathed in sunshine in a a
sliver of sunshine as he stands with
feet apart in the bunker and he just
splashes it out onto the top of the
slope and then down towards the hole and
it rolls just by on the right hand side
Xander chof but that was very well
played from him Rory maoy has this good
birdy chance up there but it will be uh
Scotty Sheffer to play next he’s just
having a look at it Scotty Sheffer from
behind the line up at the top of the
slope and then we’ll walk back down he’s
actually uh he’s now put a jumper on
hasn’t he that’s what that’s what that’s
what fooled me on the uh on the 16th
T So a dark Rich looking navy blue
pullover zip
neck and
um oh that Applause by the way it’s just
for cam Smith who has put his third to
within about 6 ft of the PIN to give
himself a birdie opportunity here on 15
so it’ll be Scotty sheffet to play
next just Waits just stops there are
strips of sunshine across various parts
of this 16th green and they just catches
his light colored trousers as he walks
and and stops along the line of this
ball along the line of this put and now
gets down to to the point where he is
preparing now for the the lengthy
lengthy birdie
P 45 ft it is similar sort of length to
to John Ram who hold quite spectacularly
here just a few minutes ago Scotty
sheffa the world number one sends his
ball up the slope and that looks as
though it’s pulled up quite short
actually I think he’s still got probably
F four five ft to uh to finish off there
to remain at six under
par and he walks after it and marks his
ball but it will be Rory mroy to play
next now he needs this mroy he needs
something he needs something to take
into the weekend some forward momentum
over the course of these final holes
it’s been a tough tough experience for
him
today but this is the psyche of the top
Sportsman to put that behind him to
focus on the present to try and shrug
everything off and so mroy this must be
absolute magic for the the great Sports
photographers that we have the the light
here with the Shadow and the Sunshine is
absolutely it makes it all the more
dramatic and mooy is now in that shaft
of sunshine sending his ball down the
green towards the hole this for birdie
and it will not drop it will not drop
for meloy it is one of those days and
he’s actually going to mark it so it has
rolled by by a little way and he turns
maoy and he looks up to the skies and he
twiddles his Putter and he hands it to
his caddy
Harry and the the body language says
everything there the two of them talking
to one another I mean it’s not angry
it’s just rather resigned as I say the
sort of it’s it’s just not happened for
me kind of body language and now he’s
standing with his arms tightly crossed
and uh as long as he holds that melroy
will remain at four over par Scotty
Sheffer now as I say there is work to be
done on
this Bryson dambo and Max Homer who are
both long finished now six and apart I’m
not sure whether they’ll be paying
attention to this probably going through
their routine wherever they are might be
casting an eye on this and perhaps
raising an eyebrow as
Sheffer holds it and makes his par three
at the 16th and remains in a share of
the lead with his two fellow Americans
and it only remains for Xander schofl to
to finish off now and remain at one over
par at the
16th uh okay and we’re still waiting for
cam Smith as well in front of us who has
a birdie opportunity which would take
him uh to two under Matt fix Patrick has
been standing in the shaft of sunlight
that I can see across on the 17th
Fairway for quite a while uh cat with
hands on hips yes and he’s just been
able to hit his second shot into the
17th John Ram as well with that Punchy
little short back swing thrashing one
towards the green as well and that’s
just skipping on from the front edge and
getting better and better as it inches
up towards the hole coming up about 25
ft short the shot of this three on the
17th though from Nick Dunlap the amate
champion who’s put it to within a couple
of feet so he should be able to make a
birdie here but he’s still eight over
par at the moment Mark uh maroy just
finishes off on 16 so we parred that so
pars for all three of them as they uh
move on Victor
hovland has
just no uh Windam Clark sorry y has uh
has just gone for what I presume was
his I think that he Bing though y so
yeah well and the body language would
suggest that’s the case the way that he
the way that he um allowed his putter to
roll against the bag and that actually
if he has bogy that puts him the wrong
side of the cut line takes him to six
over well I mean that is quite a that’s
quite a a tumble down the leaderboard
isn’t it from uh from from yesterday
morning when he was right in the thick
of it and right at the top of the
leaderboard uh so it will be cam Smith
now so this this is
for birdie so this is Cam Smith for
Birdie on the 15th this to go to two and
AP par this puts him right in the
picture and this is this is 78 ft this
this is a real chance for cam Smith but
he doesn’t see it drop and he turns away
and he looks in our Direction almost as
if to say he might have even been able
to hear what we were saying because
there are so few people around here now
that it would be entirely possible that
our voices would have
carried so um yours uh mine and Brian’s
who’s working for American radio to our
left let’s go to cat as cam Smith TOS
that him for his part yeah M Fitzpatrick
far enough away from us that he’s not
going to hear Andrew and I discussing
this little that he’s got to make he was
down the left hand side of the Fairway
with his t- shot and then you could see
him turning his hands over trying to
bring a hook in around the overhanging
pine trees but it leaked out to the
right hand side of uh the green this is
a lovely little effort from him though
to within a few feet stop rolling the
wind just kind of grabs it we thought it
would be 3T now it’s 6 feet I just love
the way how fast he plays he gets up up
up over and just hits away very
confidently he’s got a six-footer for
four to remain at one and par so there
we go Ally what’s going on with you well
a little bit further back down the 17th
cat you’re up by the green Scotty
chefler down on the t two holes to play
of this his second round joint leader
with Max Homer and Bryson D Shambo shiny
blackheaded driver in his hand long back
swing swinging drive with the fade on it
from left to right and the ball bounces
slap bang in the middle of the Fairway
as it so often has this afternoon and
goes a we Way Beyond Ander chof in the
middle of that Fairway as well and
that’s another little challenge
completed uh there for Scotty Sheffer so
he’s in the middle of the 17th Fairway
joint leader at six under par cat John
Ram just crouching down casting a shadow
across the ball and then his shadow
because it’s so long with the sun
dipping down towards the top of those
pine trees is chasing up towards the
hole he’s got a hit basically along the
shadow cast by the shaft of his poter
towards the hole about 25 ft down the
slope from the top of the green here on
17 for a birdie that would see him move
to three underpar and comfortably within
the cut line a bit of breathing space
for the defending Champion if this drops
oh just tickles the left hand side of
the hole and runs on by a good two or
three feet or so some work to do for
John Ram to save his par now and to stay
at four over ali uh Rory maroy Trish has
has missed the 17th Fairway it looked
like the Fairway W in his hand ding the
driver away to the right hand side M oh
Victor holand what’s he
done Victor hovland that’s on the 15th
green isn’t it Miss putt the ball ended
up like a foot beyond the hole he went
to tap it in with his right hand John
and he’s missed it and had to go back
and put another one out that’s a double
bogey seven I think yeah it is it is wow
and and also after that he he’s threw
threw his ball in the water in the least
angry way I’ve ever seen he just sort of
TOS it off her arm yeah it it wasn’t
with the Turell Hatten Fury from earlier
on this
afternoon strange thing to see though
professional golfer at the Masters Trish
I’ve never well I’ve only ever seen that
one time before and that Mickelson when
he was uh basically playing hockey with
a ball and he was yeah he was making a
point but I don’t know the last person
on Earth I thought I’d see do that would
be Victor holand that was extraordinary
and it must have just finally got to him
so Rory maroy has got problems as well
four over par projected cut line at five
over par and he’s missed that 17th
Fairway away to the right it even looked
like the ball struck one of those tall
thin Pines and maybe went back the way
as well so we wait for confirmation to
see exactly where that has ended up and
then maroy and sheff will play their
second shot up towards the 17th green
cat Downs is there yeah Matt Fitzpatrick
just rolling one in from about 6 feet
away to save his par doing the business
Matt Fitzpatrick no hanging around on
Rails towards the hole and he’s given a
really good read to John Ram Here Andrew
McGee yeah John ROM here to remain at
four over little cushion for the 18th to
make this cut needs to make this you
want a cushion you make the cut you
don’t want to be on the cut line do you
make it tough cuz 18 is very difficult
John ROM over his put backstroke ball on
its way he’s missed it he pushed it to
the left and it’s gone round behind the
hole and John Ram the defending Champion
great gray trousers Green Top with the
aelas etched all over it stands and just
pinches the bridge of his nose in
frustration Taps it in and he’s bending
down with an air of resignation stares
at the hole with bitterness in his eyes
and off he marches back towards his
caddy with the Potter in his hand mat
Fitzpatrick standing with his hands in
his pocket looks a bit chilly he is from
Sheffield I think he’s feeling the cold
a little though the York oh get out in
the sun you’re over in the shadows I
love this Tour player action ROM looking
at the looking at the green like it’s
the Green’s fault you know he missed
Reddit and it’s his fault for hitting it
poorly but I love the all tour players
do that for the television cameras best
uh second shot on this 17th of this
three ball though for Nick Dunlap the
amateur Champion looking to make the cut
at a major championship for the first
time but I don’t think he’s going to do
it that was a birdie take him to seven
overpar if he can pull off some kind of
Miracle down the 18th which is not
looking very likely in these conditions
he might might just do it but it’s
Fitzpatrick and RAM marching off to the
18th t as a look down the Fairway here
on 17 as the sun dips into my eyes and I
can see Scotty sheer the world number
one in the middle of the Fairway just
about to hit their second shots in Mark
uh we’ve got news of Cam Smith here on
16 yeah cam Smith t-shot at the par
three uh actually went right but landed
between the two bunkers and then curled
around so so he’s he’s got a he’s got a
chip shot to play there from off the
front right of the green and It’s Tricky
with the the flag cut towards the top of
the green the uh the back right um but
uh he is there and they are walking
towards the green with uh with Victor
hovland who after his double bulgy at
the 15th which has taken him to eight
overp par holand has hit an excellent
shot in there there was a bit of anger
in that if there wasn’t anger in the
throwing of the ball into the water and
uh and he’s put himself actually more or
less where Rory mroy was so he has a
chance of Birdie to get back to seven
Clark and uh and Smith walking together
chatting leaving holand 10 yards behind
uh with his own thoughts ali uh Rory
maroy we were right about the t- shop
way right at the 17th is well over 200
yds away from the 17th green so cat
Downs is up there with Andrew McGee
waiting for Rory mckoy’s ball to arrive
they’ve got absolutely no chance of
seeing him here because Trish there’s a
there’s a slope to climb isn’t there
theot is meant to climb that slope and
sort of get up on the flat and Scotty
Sheffer I think he’s got about 150 yards
to the flag maroy has got something like
230 240 yards from back here right hand
side of the 17th Fairway in one of The
Spectator walkways you very rarely see
people back here well no I think he’s
been pretty shocked where he is I mean
this is a an extraordinary shot to have
to play when you’re four over par he’s
obviously you would get a drop of that
walkway but he’s decided not to because
actually he either likes the life for
starters and also if he go further back
it’s just making it more and more
difficult so he’s got to squeeze this
one out a little bit possibly he’s got
some branches just up there he’s got a
miss so squeeze it out low left to
right he’s not sure is he no there a lot
of Club in his hand as well this is not
a green that’s conducive to hitting in a
long iron either Rory maroy four over
par cut at five over par in trouble here
on the 17th Kat and Andrew get ready
Rory maroy second shot on its way to you
shortly takes the club head about a
quarter of the way back in preparation
sets himself then pushes himself through
the iron shot looks good in the air
maroy runs to his left it’s heading
towards ukat it’s splashed down into the
bunker at the front right hand edge of
the green those two bunkers just
creating a little narrow neck in and
melroy’s ball sent up this puff of white
sand that got caught by the wind and
he’s come up short on the 17th here Rory
maoy needs to get up and down from the
bunker to stay at four over par inside
the cut line so my eyes now trained back
down the Fairway back towards the
Olympic champion Xander schofl who’s
standing in the middle of the Fairway
Scotty Sheffer in that little dip that
we saw John Ram play from just a short
while ago towards the right hand edge of
the Fairway but maroy did pretty well to
get it that far that close from there
yeah I mean you don’t you don’t practice
something like that this is usually a a
short iron coming into this into this
really difficult green um yeah let we’re
going to have to see some golf game here
with this sandshot we just saw it from
John ROM or excuse me who was that that
left it way short and they didn’t quite
get it there it wasn’t wrom there’s
Cantley so pressure’s on we got to make
the cut we got to make the cut a ball
has appeared on the green and it is
right in the middle of the green and
just a couple of Paces away from the
flag it is an absolutely superb second
shot from I think the world number one
and that no sorry that was Xander cha
being corrected in my ear thank you very
much and that is the Olympic champion
then with a really really good birdie
chance here for Xander chof that would
move him to uh five I know back to level
pass sorry I should say and uh he’s
comfortably inside the cut line anyway
so Xander chuffle with an absolutely
glorious shot into the penultimate hole
here on the second day of the Masters
and Sheffer Bo just reaching the front
edge of the green as well so the world
number one and the co-leader of the
Masters at the moment at six underpar
alongside Bryson Des Shambo and Max
Homer at the top of the
leaderboard uh he has found the front
edge of the green as the wind is tugging
at the flag here on 17 eyes now turning
to the t-x on 18 which is a little bit
sheltered now and in the Lee of the wind
thanks to the KN of spectator that have
gathered around there and I’m looking
down through my binoculars towards John
Ram the defending Champion gray trousers
green t-shirt with those black aelia
flowers etched all over it and here he
goes that Punchy little back swing and
the aggressive follow through the ball
low and long and leaking out towards the
left hand side of the Fairway shouldn’t
be in too much trouble down there there
are of course those big sprawling
bunkers on the turn and Alley I think
you can see where it’s landed yes sking
its way through uh the leaves away to
the left hand side of that 18th Fairway
first cut on the left for John Ron but
no further trouble uh than that so he’s
okay on the cut line John Ram defending
Champion five overpar needs a par up the
last Rory maroy then walking onto the
green here at 17 having found the bunker
with his second shot his drive out of
position down the right hand side of 17
the second shot splashing down into the
white sand of the bunker head to toe
cream for melroy today and it has been a
struggle for him as I glan over at the
leaderboard to remind myself of the
scores Xander chuff’s name has been
blown off the leaderboard I can barely
read the end of his name I Can See the s
the C and the H is the rest of the label
dangles down from that big white leader
board Rory mroy four over par the cut at
five needs an up and down from the sand
Here Andrew yes he’s looking at it he’s
got this same shot we saw kley hit
earlier he’s got to fly it halfway to
the hole take the ridge downwind balls
in the air oh yes sit now right oh
lovely will the spin just left of the
hole 5T excellent and now Mor maroy has
about 5T then to save his par but these
aren’t the distances that he’s been
making today heard Trish Johnson saying
he’s missed four or five from this
distance and that’s really what’s cost
him today well I mean I can say the wind
is buffeting and it’s hard to stay still
but um he’s missed too many to really
believe all that um let’s uh see if we
can make this let’s go to John yep in
the last group out on the course Andrew
on the 16th cam Smith one under par he’s
got a tester here to stay at one under
par this from 6 feet or
so for his par three and he has holded
it it was a little longer than that it
might have been 8 ft actually but he
rolled it in very nicely the Australian
and he remains at one under part and
he’ll be heading your way very shortly
up the 17th yeah the final groups coming
through these closing holes here as the
sun dips down towards the horizon we’re
just about to lose it golden and bright
from the Blue Sky heading down towards
the tops of those fur trees reaching up
towards couple of fluffy white clouds
that are appearing as we head towards
the end of the day here at Augusta
Georgia and Scotty Sheffer the world
number one casting a really long Shadow
towards the hole the ball coming up 40
ft or so over the crest of a ridge on
the green and this looks incredibly good
from Scotty Sheffer the man who
struggled with
puttting whilst dominating the game of
golf and with a Potter like that you
wouldn’t bet against him would he he’s
put it couple of feet past for his part
but that was a good birdy attempt from
Sheffer the co-leader yeah it’s amazing
how many how many Putters have become
famous at austa was it was it falo that
made everything with a with a mallet
putter one year and everybody went out
and bought that particular putter
you know it’s uh maybe uh the US Open
Windham Clark made a bunch of putts with
that putter everybody went and bought
that putter but of course the Scottish
shler almost hold it from what 50 ft
crazy yeah he’s been uh working with his
new POA for the past few weeks or so
those back-to-back wins for him on the
PGA tour including of course the players
title backto back players titles for the
first time in history and then the the
runner up a couple of weeks ago in Texas
many people said it could have been
because of the beard he had the beard
for the first two wins and then he
shaved it off why would you do that
Texas and came second but the beard is
back and the putter is hot once again
for Scotty Sheffer is it the same for
Rory mroy putting for par from 5T up the
hill towards the hole here lightest of
touches and in for Rory mroy safely done
he’s safely navigated the 17th it’s been
a real roller coaster ferari today he’s
got one more hole to navigate and
currently one shot inside the cut line
but not the day he’d have been hoping
for Scotty Sheffer well he has played
some tenacious golf couple of uh Drop
shots couple of
birdies six underpar level par for his
day the world number one down on his
hunches white trousers navy blue long
sleeve top white baseball C and uh about
the same kind of length as we saw from
Rory
melro and the same kind of length we saw
Matt Fitz Patrick sink a few moments ago
and Scotty sheffler does just the same
and it goes for par for the 2022 Masters
champion you just you just can’t imagine
him missing a short putt like several
weeks ago I mean he’s just he’s just
holding him right in the middle they’re
not lipping in they’re not lucky they’re
going right in the middle and how could
he what he miss a tidler a couple weeks
ago the final hole like
what oh here we go a birdie we got a
birdie putt very very nice I to shle
just plotting along doing his Xander
shly Shuffle can I say that yes you can
well it’s it’s not easy but you did I
did it I did it and here we go the long
Shadow is that the longest Shadow you’ve
ever seen it starts there it’s 30 yards
long maybe 40 where his head is almost
touching the patrons way down there okay
downwind downhill just touch it touch it
easy yes and it goes for Xander Shuffle
and that’s one of very few birdies we’ve
seen on 17 the wind perhaps dropping
just a touch as uh the world number one
Rory maroy as well and Xander Shuffle
the Olympic champion heading off to the
18th T looking back down the course
we’ll see Windam Clark Victor hland and
cam Smith appearing over the crest of
the Hill shortly but uh Xander Shuffle
is just chasing down Rory mooy and
Scotty Sheffer as they head to the last
Sheffer at six andap par Des Shambo in
the clubhouse alongside Max Homer at six
under par Scotty Sheffer has one hole to
try and claim the outright lead here on
day two of the 88th Masters Mark just
got to go back up to 18 I think alist
Bruce Ball will be watching this as well
but it looks like a former Champion
another former Champion will be going
home this weekend for after a a terrible
final hole well it’s interesting you’re
talking Hideki matama has just taken a
double bogey six up the 18th to move out
to six over par the projected cut line
still at the moment is at five over par
but Ian Carter our golf correspondent is
just back in from the golf course having
spend his afternoon at Amen Corner back
here with us in the studio and you were
just saying to me Ian if John Ram were
now to Bogey the last and move to six
over par then six overpowers that right
will become the cut line and a whole
load of players are going to get in that
didn’t think they were going to be here
for the week weekend exactly there are
50 players at uh well in fact the cut
line has moved it has moved to that six
over par mark because there are now 50
players at six over par well they’re in
fact 61 players at six overpar or better
um and those at six overpar are in a
share of fifth place so it looks like
the cut has moved to that Mark which
gives a little bit of breathing space
obviously for Rory maroy
and for John RAM and that double bogey
from Justin Thomas from Justin Thomas
has taken him out to seven overpar but
the double bogey of Hideki matama
contributed to that shift in the
leaderboard and allowing the six overs
to make it do you have just out of
interest for Justin Thomas he came down
15 with with myself and John level what
on Earth has happened on 15 16 17 and 18
double bogey at the 16th so took a five
at the 16th has bogeyed the
17th and then has double bogied the
18th and we’ve got Matt Fitzpatrick in
sight in the middle of the 18th Fairway
at one under par that’s just five shots
off the lead approach shot into the 18th
green Trish has just hit the bank on the
left hand side of the green and tumbled
away to the left just in front of the
the patrons feet who’ve got their seats
planted there all afternoon watching the
action closeup yeah not the best uh not
the best shot he’s ever hit but to be
honest it’s one of the better shots
we’ve seen into 18 in the last hour or
so so John Ram at five over now cut Mark
is at 6 over left hand side of the 18th
in the shadow of the bushes and the
trees fearsome swipe clatter of ball
towards the green hits the UPS slope in
the middle of that green and rolls all
the way to the back at the green and
we’ve seen trouble up there for the
likes of Danny Willet and Bryson D
Shambo earlier on today yeah that’s not
easy it’s uh you’d expect him to get
down in two from there he knows probably
that five over is going to be the cut
you just get a a feel of things there
might even be on the leader board it
might tell them that it’ll be five over
obviously it’s six at this moment in
time yeah but uh yeah that’s going to be
a tough tup I just remember 12 months
ago Justin Thomas
capitulating around the cut line on at
the Saturday as it was and by doing that
he missed the cut and brought Tiger
Woods in and maintained Tiger Wood’s
record that enabled him to make the cut
orbe it to withdraw later through injury
and he was in tears Justin Thomas at
that time now this I he looked not far
off tears there on the pictures I was
seeing cat just watching Xander chaet
teeing off after making that Birdie on
the 17th this one looking nice murmurs
of appreciation from the patrons down
the 18th and the indication is that that
is straight down the middle Aly can you
see straight down the middle indeed
right in the heart of the 18 Fairway
that’s the t- shot from the back of that
long narrow 18th te all you can really
see are those two bunkers the white sand
away to the left you can’t really see
the the 18th Fairway which hides away to
the right hand side so that’s the shape
the right-handers are trying to hit and
now cat uh it’s Scotty sheffler yeah the
world number one one more chance then to
get to the top of the leaderboard on his
own currently in a three-way tie at the
top alongside Bryson Des Shambo and Max
Homer at six under pal he’s been playing
steady patient goal
the world number one the 2022 Champion
that one heading down towards the left
hand side I guess Ali as it lands yeah
no that’s safe as houses as well it’s
come up maybe 10 15 20 yards short of
the bunker on the left hand side as soon
as he hit that Scotty Sheffer knew that
was okay you heard the uh the polite
Applause from the uh The horseshoer
Spectators that line themselves all the
way along the length of that 18th T and
now Rory maroy yeah just picked out in
cream a shaft of sunlight slicing
through the spectators and uh bringing
out a glow on those cream shoulders of
Rory maoy who just backs away from the
ball gust of wind perhaps and he won’t
know will he that the cut has drifted
out to six overon and that he’s
comfortably inside at four overpar can’t
afford to make any mistakes and we’ve
seen a number of double
Bogies squandering chances up this final
and that looks absolutely awful from
Rory mroy is let go of the club with one
hand that one looked like it was flying
off to the right hand side I think Alli
yeah I have no idea where that has ended
up but as you say let go of the club
Trish that’s gone flying off to the
right and lap of the guy I mean no idea
how far that’s gone I don’t think he’s
gone anywhere I think he’s got
absolutely bundles in there I think
that’s H the tree probably not that far
off of the uh off the t- box maybe 150
180 yards off the T box he’s going to if
he’s lucky enough to have a shot at all
he’s he’s not going to be able to reach
the green no chance whatsoever it was
almost like he heard something at the
top of his back swinging know someone
shouting or something like that the way
he looked around afterwards just it
wasn’t weird is the word uh mat Fitz
Patrick uh chipping onto the 18th Green
from the left hand side one under par
right in contention for this year’s 88th
Masters he’s knocked that into about 10
ft sort of around taking the curvature
of the slopes behind the pin it’s all
the way over to the right hand side of
the green and 10 ft uh on the way back
and I would say he was chuntering away
there Trish isn’t the best pleased there
yeah definitely words of um not too
chuffed with with himself with Billy
with life not sure I think Trish his
demeanor has changed since here at 15 he
walked up to what he thought was his
ball and realized it wasn’t it was Nick
Dunlap and his had gone into the water
and and nobody at that stage was able to
tell him where or why it had gone into
the water and I think since then that
may have just changed his demeanor well
to be fair and and I you know you I
can’t I didn’t see the shot we obviously
none of us really saw the shot but if
you lay up into water then um
unfortunately uh the caddy tends to take
uh most of the abuse cuz that’s just a
no no and even even though you’ve hit it
well absolutely cuz he’s given you the
number no no no but you’ve hit it I
don’t think I’d be a very good C I don’t
think you would jum goodness I don’t
think you take the abuse that’s
required got be dropping the bag at your
feet and go carry it yourself I’ve had
that done to me don’t you worry
defending champion John Ron putting for
birdie outside outside chance of Birdie
uh from the top Step at the back of the
18th green got to be at least 40 ft
prods the ball down the slope picks up
speed as it takes the slope towards the
hole here we go oh hits the right hand
edge of the hole John ROM very nearly
makes an outrageous Birdie on the 18th
he should be able to tap that in for par
and that will keep him at five over par
and he’s going to be here for the
weekend as the defending Champion what a
p that was a sensational part wasn’t it
I mean really we all thought that was in
no question about it and do you know
what Trish his demeanor has changed
since here on 15 when he he sank his
putt on 15 and then a long birdie putt
on 16 so the gist of it is it’s either
you or John are getting to these players
another is
it
C hello how are are
you good an unexpected cat out out of
nowhere thanks japers I just wonder what
cam Smith was doing on 17 cam Smith had
a moment of magic it was one of those
chips that just puts the fear into any
amate golfer you your ball comes up just
short of a bunker you’ve got to pick it
up and put it over the sand then you’ve
got to get some kind of control on the
ball because there such a steep slope
coming down towards the hole cam Smith
he’s a good golfer we decided didn’t we
Andrew McGee he picked it up over the
sand landed it halfway between the the
the the the hole and the and the edge of
the bunker and it just crept gently down
the hill and came to rest a couple of
inches from the hole it was spectacular
just a tap in he’s off the side of the
green just quietly watching just
scratching his face like that wasn’t a
big deal yeah really easy for cam Smith
just a tap in for his par he stays at
one undera the open champion from a
couple of years ago at St Andrews and
wind Clark now potting for a birdie that
would see him slip inside the cut line
currently six overp par the US Open
champion and he’s left that well short
oh he’s left at 6 feet short that is no
way to try to make the cut there what
what is he at 8 over six over Rory maroy
Rory maroy guys uh right of the 18th
playing his second shot Fairway Wood
having a right old thrash at that trying
to turn it Round the Corner the ball
will have hit the trees on the way up
out of that that corridor from the 18th
T they’ve not even shown us where that
ball has ended up but he was trying to
work it away from the right hand side
short of the 18th up into a position
that he can attack the green and try and
knock it on in three remember mroy uh at
the moment uh is currently at four over
par five over for his round today so if
he pars this 18th that’s going to be a
77 today in the second round of the
Masters here so on the 18th it’s Matt
Fitzpatrick this for aart to finish his
round from around about 10 ft sending it
on its way shaving the right edge of the
hole and he offers up his right hand in
frustration and he utters a couple of
Oaths and then bends down and marks his
ball I think he will just uh finish off
here and that means he will finish at
level par and it’s kind of like
yesterday when his round promised so
much but then just ran out of steam
towards the end and that’s set back on
the 15th and now the bogey on the 18th
means that he go reaches the halfway
stage at level par a first round 71 a
second round
73 so Matt Fitzpatrick that put him six
shots off the lead held by Max Homer in
the clubhouse at 6 under par alongside
fellow American Bryson D Shambo and
Scotty Sheffer coming up the 18th drive
off the 18th T found the middle of the
Fairway way cat what’s happening with
you on the 17th Windam Clark hoping to
slide this one in for a par after
leading leaving his long range birdie
putt very short John Ellis the caddy
just they’ve always got this little
routine he and John Ellis where John
Ellis comes along they read the the line
together from all angles and then John
Ellis comes along with a wedge and just
slides the face of the wedge behind the
ball to show Windham Clark the line how
does that work um I’m not really sure
but wind par is looking all around
looking at the wind he’s noticed the six
over projected cut on the board over
here this is a big putt for him let’s go
to Al John Ram tapping in on the 18th
defending Champion picks the ball out of
the hole pops it in his pocket takes the
baseball cap off his head Ruffles the
dark hair on top of his head and goes
for the handshakes of his playing
partners and their caddies not best
pleased with that Ry grin to himself but
he’s here for the weekend John Ron
Champions did hosted on Tuesday night
it’s going to take some going to become
Champion again uh this year hard work
for John Ram today but five over par
here for the weekend a full 11 shots off
the lead as he marches his way off the
back of the 18th green Ian there’s quite
a little byplay there between John RAM
and Billy Foster the caddy of Matt
Fitzpatrick and I may be misinterpreting
this but the kind of bemused look on
rah’s face as he was looking at Billy
Foster suggested that um potentially um
he had some sympathy for whatever um
admonishments might have been coming
from Fitzpatrick who seemed very
animated after he finished his round he
was Ian he was still he was still wasn’t
he talking to Billy Foster and gesturing
at Billy Foster once he’ completed his
round picked the ball out of the hole I
mean he was still got Billy Foster just
kind of looked into I mean didn’t even
make eye contact with him he just looked
into the distance with his arms yeah no
no disrespect to Matt Fitzpatrick but
he’s had bigger Stars than Matt
Fitzpatrick have a go at him on green
for sevie uh amongst others right Scotty
Sheffer world number one with the long
sleeve dark blue top on now sleeve sort
of pulled up almost to the Elbow just to
free the arms up white golf glove on his
hand pine cones strewn At His Feet
they’ve been tumbling from the tops of
the Tall Pines all afternoon at Augusta
it’s it’s an incredible picture the
Setting Sun that sort of gold tinge that
it’s put on everything trees are swaying
in the breeze important shot for Scotty
Sheffer hasn’t had it all his own way
this afternoon three Bogies three
birdies level par of the round today 167
yards up the hill to the 18th green s
iron in his hand stands over the ball he
was distracted initially but he’s ready
to go and sends it high arcing towards
the TV towers behind that 18th green
lands in the Left Channel of that 18th
green climbs the slope up towards the
top tier Trish and stays there yeah and
that would be a tricky putt because it’s
on the left hand side it’s not even sort
of straight where we’ve seen most
players coming down the hill like John
Rah he’s going to have a huge break to
begin with which is going to be
massively left to right and then maybe
just come back a little bit at the end
here on 15 there are so many players
today that have laid up they haven’t
gone for the Green in two although tiger
was one of the ones that did but most
laid up uh and then took a third into
the green that obviously there are a lot
of marks on The Fairway maybe sort of
within 100 yards of the green and there
are at least a dozen members of Staff
here with buckets of green sand and
little cups to be able to tip out into
all of those small divots and little
pitch marks that they just need to fill
in here so that everything looks green
on the Telly and now the 12 of them are
working their way back up the Fairway to
where the players hit their second shots
it just gives you an idea into all of
the work that is done here as soon as a
hole is completed for the day back to 17
which has finished cat it has finished
Windam Clark Victor holand cam Smith now
standing waiting their turn on the 18th
T Windam Clark I have to say he was
lining up that six uh feet or so put for
his par and he looked to his left I
don’t know whether he was testing for
the wind or just waiting for a leaf to
make its way across the green but he
looked up to his left and he must have
caught his eye on the big white leader
board to the left and saw that the
projected cut had moved to six and then
all of a sudden that part became so
important to him backed off it he
thought about it over again and he just
seemed to overthink it and he pushed the
part and it missed and now he’s slipped
to seven overp pass so he needs to make
a birdie on the last if he’s to make it
into the weekend and a master’s debut
that promised so much for the US Open
Champion is currently hanging by a
thread Victor holand he managed to make
his par eight and a par Victor holand
though it’s been a really Dreadful day
for him after a good opening day
yesterday and cam Smith a par for him as
well after a beautiful chip from the
other side of the bunker onto the green
he is at one underpar and just teeing
off now on the last hole heading up
towards uh the cabin and the and the big
crowds up at the top of the hill Mark uh
let’s find out uh where Rory went with
his second any any ideas Trish or Ally
or Ian it looks like like it went just
down into the Gully to the left of the
green so he gave it the the absolute
kitchen sink and that’s exactly where it
finished up there’s a little horseshoe
of
Spectators that have moved back behind
him so they don’t get clobbered by his
back swing on this delicate little chip
here for melroy was trying to think of a
color for his it’s just a very anemic
color for his outfit today it’s almost
imulsion isn’t it anyway here he goes
and and bumps this forward into the bank
not with quite enough impetus and the
ball dribbles forward but comes to rest
12 15 ft short of the cup so he’s got
that for a round of 77 a 78 potentially
here for Rory maroy on a very windy
second day and the strange thing there
is actually when we were seeing that
Fitzpatrick was putting so maroy hit his
second shot there he’s pretty much green
high isn’t he cuz when John ran was on
that green we were saying oh well Mao
must have come up short well he wasn’t
he was pretty much pin good job he
didn’t nail it and hit it dead
straight uh so leaderboard closing
stages of the second round of the 88th
Masters uh Scotty Sheffer is on this
18th green two putts from here back
right of the green 40 ft or so away you
can see the way he’s lining this up
actually Trish he’s going to have to
aim away high above the hole I mean a
good poof I don’t know 20 ft 25 ft wide
of the hole he’s going to try and sort
of get it to a certain point on the
green get it to die lose its pace and
then come tumbling down that Hill is it
yeah Al that’s exactly right it’s going
to be hugely left or right to begin with
and then it’s so he’s picking a spot
basically about 15 20 ft in front of him
that he wants to get it to which will be
about 10t left of the flag and then just
gently let it go down the slope and it
will turn at right angles and hopefully
if he gets his angles and his Pace right
it’ll be good here we go on its way
roller coaster ride towards the hole on
the 18th green picks up speed as it
takes the slope and it’s not going to
turn as much as he wants it to and he’s
leaving himself five or six feet for the
par on the 18th green joint leader at
the moment with Bryson D Shambo and Max
Homer Scotty Sheffer as well at 6 under
T Nikolai hyar the DNE finished hours
and hours ago earlier on today and just
two shots off the lead at the Masters on
four under par what a weekend ahead for
him uh very very exciting weekend ahead
the first time that he will have tasted
the sharp end of a major at a weekend
but with a rider cup experience in his
back pocket uh let’s see how he copes
with that he’s such an exciting Talent
both the the Hoy guard twins are one of
them plying their trade Rasmus on the DP
World Tour Nikolai graduating to the PGA
Tour after winning the DP World Tour
Championship so a big weekend ahead for
him now Rory mroy this for par this to
go into the half stage at 4 over sends
this forward and in well that’s gutsy
that is gutsy from Rory mroy it’s been a
a really trying day he will go away ruin
that 11th hole not for the first time at
austa but that will cheer him up
somewhat it’s a round of 77 today for
Rory mooy to go with his first round 71
it is highly highly unlikely that he’s
going to break his master’s duck this
weekend end but he is going to be there
after that 77 which means that he is at
four overpar and that is fully 10 shots
off the lead at the halfway stage yeah
and the iron need to kind of not lost on
us that when it doesn’t really matter
the pace that that puck went in at was
just absolutely glorious it’s the that
pace has not been seen all day long not
the confidence to go and give it a wrap
like that and it’s the first one he’s
hold all day Xander chof is only six
shots off the lead if he pops this in
it’s just five shots off the lead go
into the weekend form golfer uh at the
moment Xander schofl with the dark
redheaded putter two forks that poke out
of the back he’s missed that to the left
hand side never really moved he was
looking for the left to right turn and
it’s come off about a foot away to the
left sander schofl will walk Round I
imagine he’s going to tap that in for p
which he does leans forward prods it in
good round of golf from Xander schofl
level par halfway stage
7272 definitely alive Contender this
weekend without a shadow of a doubt he’s
played some really decent golf hasn’t
hold a great deal on the greens but I
think T green today considering the
conditions he’s been one of the top
performers very impressive still looking
to win a first major playing in a a dark
green polo shirt this afternoon
four-footer then Scotty Sheffer for the
par on the 18th Mallet headed putter
behind the ball on its way and in it
goes so Scotty Sheffer the world number
one the red hot fa
stays right at the top of the
leaderboard at the halfway stage 66 in
the first round couldn’t be quite as
good as that today three birdies three
Bogies on the card level past 72 but
exactly where he wants to be Sun is
setting as he marches off the 18th green
and he very much Remains the man to beat
six under par sharing the lead with Max
Homer and Bryson dambo okay let’s as we
wait for Cameron Smith to finish on 18
let’s just bring you a couple of
interviews uh from the day seems a very
very long time ago uh that Tiger Woods
finished his round but uh he has made
the cut it’s the 24th time that he has
made the cut uh the Masters in a row
that is a new record and afterwards he
was asked what he thought about that
means I have a chance going in the
weekend I’m I’m here I got a chance to
win the golf
tournament um I don’t know if they’re
going all going to finish today but uh
I’m I’m done I got my uh my two rounds
in just need some food and some caffeine
and I’ll be good to go I’m right there
I’m only what eight back as of right now
um I don’t think anyone’s going to run
off and hide right now but it’s really
bunched the way the the ball is moving
on the greens uh chip shots are being
blown uh it’s it’s it’s all you wanted
in a golf course today um I’ve been off
for a while while uh competing um
grinding it’s it’s a it’s been a long 23
holes on a a long day uh but uh Lance
and I really did some good fighting
today and was um we got a
chance he’s actually seven off the lead
now he was he was one over wasn’t he in
if I remember rightly one over yeah so
one over so leaders are six under so
he’s seven off the lead cam Smith second
at 18 Alli yeah yes Into the Heart of
the 18th green we’ve just seen him
marching up that 18th Fairway staring
maniacally towards the 18th green but
the ball is safely on the putting
surface one under pass so also uh very
much a contender over the weekend cam
Smith three top five finishes uh at the
Masters for him so I’d keep looking out
for him this weekend Victor hin though
don’t think going to be here he has
found the 18th green with his second
shot but goodness me what happened with
him and that Tiddly little put on the
15th had a swing at that with a a
one-handed effort missed a hole and it
cost him a an extra shot Mark yeah um no
surprise really is there Ian that that
Tiger’s response to what do you make to
to to making your 24th consecutive cut
of the Masters isn’t yeah I’m really
pleased about that it’s actually I have
a chance of winning that is the Tiger
Wood psyche it’s remarkable isn’t it and
I I I honestly felt that if he gave us
that stick ahead of the the the Masters
he would potentially damage his own
credibility and Frank my thought
processes damaged my credibility because
every time you dismiss that notion that
he feels he can still win you actually
diss what his psyche is and the psyche
that made him such a great Champion
that’s not me saying he’s going to go
and win The Masters or even contend but
that’s what he feels and that’s why he’s
able to do that I mean to make the cut
in those conditions having not played
basically having not completed a
tournament for well over a year is is
just ridiculous it’s it’s it it speaks
to someone who is unique in the game um
have we got time for Bryson dish Ando
Ali I don’t have pictures so I don’t
know how long this is well the last
group are Marching up towards the 18th
green yeah go
on here is our co-leader six under after
two rounds he shot a 73 today Bryson
dambo I wouldn’t say I’m playing it
differently necessar
I’m able to hit the golf shots exactly
well for the most part where I want them
to go and I’m a little bit more
conservative in certain situations for
example s
today normally I’d be like all right
let’s let’s hit one really close to the
flag but there’s just really no place to
land it but by the hole you got a four
five yard area and you know Jibo was
like dude just hit it left take a
20-footer and knock it in and that was
one of the first times in my
professional career where I stood up
there and I said I’m going to headit it
over here and I’m going to make it get
20f footer and I did it and he was
really proud of me actually at that
moment he’s like dude look at you
hitting away from a flag which is not
normal for me so that would be one of
the scenarios where I’m playing it
strategically a little different and
making sure I’m using slopes uh when I
can and trying to take in as much
information as I can with the wind and
um use what I’ve um accumulated over the
past few years and funny enough Jibo was
uh in the final round with tiger in 2019
with Tony f
so he he knows a bit of pressure he
knows and understands the
situation and having me um kept calm is
always a good thing and he’s able to do
that really
well feels Trish Johnson like what we’ve
been saying for the last couple of days
that that that sums up the new Bryson D
Ando yeah he sounds very chilled didn’t
he very happy obviously with his uh two
days work and I think in those
conditions he’s not one of those players
I really feel like in tough conditions
like that would be you know up at the
top of the leaderboard I just think that
short game wise as well with his the the
you know the the length of the clubs all
being one length his irons when he’s
playing these short shots around Augusto
must be very very difficult especially
bunker shots but he’s been he’s he’s
obviously looked at a different way of
playing the game and uh it’s working for
him and he was very very good today I
must admit and he looks in a he looks in
a good place both professionally and
personally cam Smith and Ali yeah cam
Smith can definitely tell it’s him
because there’s a big yellow yardage
chart sticking out of the uh the back
pocket of of his trousers and in bold
block red capitals says Smith uh on the
back of it just to confirm that that is
the Australian uh with the mullet the
long hair poking out of the back of the
white baseball cap he’s at one underpot
interesting pu coming actually on this
18th green for the US Open Champion
Windam Clark downhiller from about 12T
at 7 over for a birdie though so if he
can make that that would get him in uh
for the weekend so let’s see what
happens with that one a little bit later
on but cam Smith just five shots are off
the lead Trish in terms of this PCH
Scotty Sheffer it’s sort of similar but
he won’t have to aim quite as far left
will he as Sheffer no and and we’ve seen
this putt or any putt from the top here
everybody has misread it they keep
thinking it’s going to go left or right
and at the end it goes right to left so
everybody is playing this way too much
left to right break and I’ve got a funny
feeling cam Smith is going to do exactly
the same here we go then cam Smith
looking to get the perfect Pace sets it
on its way rolling down the slope it’s
going to miss on the left left hand side
perfect for Pace actually rolls up cozes
itself up and parks next to the hole
foot and a half or so for cam Smith to
deal with Taps that in and he’ll be in
at one underpar five shots off the lead
so cam Smith on that green with Victor
hovland and Windam Clark so we’re just
waiting to see whose turn it is to put
next hovland is at eight over par so his
chances of making the cut having played
two shots on this ho and already gone
yep they’ve gone he’s had too many shots
already and uh how he’s going to Ru that
very careless one-handed putt from a
couple of inches on the 15th he putts
across the green for Birdie on the 18th
and the ball just stays up on the high
side and it’s a disappointing Masters
for the Norwegian an 81 today and he
finishes at eight over par had a treble
bogey on the par five second today and
then that swipe at the ball which cost
him a double bogey on the 15th yeah
strange uh 7181 I bet you the last time
he did that was a good few years ago to
say the very least and a very happy
chappie in general but that’s as
miserable as I’ve ever seen Victor
holand Look on a golf course he always
has a cheery look on his face but that’s
utter misery that’s written all across
his Visage right now so Victor hovland
won’t be here for the weekend at the
Masters Windam Clark has a chance though
to play the last two rounds of this
tournament he’s got a hold this putt
coming down the slope just inside 15 ft
and it’s a putt again Trish that we’ve
been talking about all day haven’t we
what’s what’s what’s well this one is
slightly different angle this is the one
that everybody just thinks is going to
break right to left and just seems to
hang out on the right hand side so it’s
pretty straight this one most players
have just let this just feed out on the
right and miss it there so I think he
needs to start this just left Center
he’s a gutsy character yeah this is the
man who had that put lip P to get into
the playoff at the Players championship
ball on its way down the 18th heading
for the hle misses on the right and he
won’t be here for the weekend
millimeters away just gliding by on the
right hand side PA for Windam Clark had
a great try at that but not going to be
here uh on the weekend of his very first
Masters he’ll be hugely disappointed
with that finishes at s overp par cam
smithan uh TAPS in for his par he’s at
one under yeah the cap comes off the
head and there it is a level part 72
today that is really really good play in
what were as difficult conditions
Without Rain certainly that I think any
of us have have experienced and
witnessed um here uh at Augusta and
we’ve got a fair few Masters between us
haven’t we ludvig oer only man I think
to break 7069 today Patrick Reed shot at
70 and no one else better than that 71
and above for everyone else Mark yeah
tough old day for the golfers a dramatic
day for the rest of us it has ebbed and
it has flowed and it is a tight leader
board with plenty of story lines for you
to follow throughout the course of the
weekend thank you to the whole team here
at Augusta thank you to you for
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