{"id":384771,"date":"2024-04-14T21:17:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T21:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=384771"},"modified":"2024-04-14T22:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T22:03:37","slug":"classy-stroke-puts-scheffler-in-box-seat-at-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=384771","title":{"rendered":"Classy stroke puts Scheffler in box-seat at Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final round of the Masters<\/a> got underway at warm, sunny Augusta National late on Sunday night (AEST), where Scottie Scheffler<\/a> began with a one-shot lead over Collin Morikawa and a two-shot advantage on Max Homa as he chases a second green jacket.<\/p>\n

Fast-forward to Monday morning and Scheffler has continued to remain in the lead at nine-under par, as both Homa and Morikawa battled it out behind him at 10-under. \ufeff<\/p>\n

Morikawa is trying to win the third leg of the career grand slam. Homa is trying to win his first major championship.<\/p>\n

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Tiger Woods finished with the worst score of his professional career<\/a>, with the five-time champion playing his 100th round at the Masters with Neal Shipley – the only amateur to make the cut at Augusta this year – and bowed out with grace in front of the fans.<\/p>\n

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The fierce winds that made Friday such a grind are gone now. But temps were expected to hit the mid-80s, and a golf course that was already playing firm and fast could become even tougher as the day wore on and it dried out even more.<\/p>\n

Six players had at least a share of the lead at one point during a wild third round Saturday, and there was a five-way tie for the lead early on the back nine.<\/p>\n

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Scheffler made an 8-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 1-under 71 that left him with the lead over Morikawa, the two-time major champion who has largely disappeared from the elite in golf.<\/p>\n

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Morikawa made two tough pars to finish off a 69 on Saturday, making him the only player to break par all three days at this Masters. Morikawa hasn't had a top 10 since the first week of the year, but he believes he found a swing key on Monday, and his switch of putters have the first round has put him in position to win the green jacket.<\/p>\n

Homa has gone 32 holes without a birdie and was only two behind after a round of 17 pars and one bogey for a 73 on Saturday. Xander Schauffele has gone 25 holes without a bogey, leaving him five back after his third-round 70.<\/p>\n

Australia's Cameron Smith<\/a> remained just out of the picture as the tournament reached its climax, despite a strong performance in the final round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The final round of the Masters got underway at warm, sunny Augusta National late on Sunday night (AEST), where Scottie Scheffler began with a one-shot […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384779,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384771\/revisions\/384779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/384775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}