Scottie Scheffler

Scottie Scheffler is one of five players in Masters history with a five-shot lead after 36 holes. The other four went on to win.

Scheffler got his mistakes out of the way early and began to seize control with two birdies right before making the turn. "He clearly has control of everything right now based off the last couple of months, so I'm not too surprised," Thomas added. Scott was trying to stay in the mix until he had a wedge spin back into the water on the par-5 15th, hit the next over the green and took triple bogey. In his debut as the new No. 1 player in the world, Scheffler looked the part. Jordan Spieth hit two into Rae's Creek and took triple bogey on the par-3 12th. "And there's a bunch of other guys in he field. It exposes you when it gets this windy if you don't have control of your ball. "My game feels like it's in a good spot. I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and not overthink things.'' "You live on a knife's edge every hole, honestly,'' said Adam Scott, who played in Scheffler's group. The last four players who led by five shots going into the weekend went on to win. So I can't be paying too much attention to them either way.''

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And if I win this golf tournament, then great; and if I don't, that's okay, too, because I did everything I could and I'm prepared and the rest isn't up to me.” A 40-foot birdie putt on the 70th hole proved to be the difference for Nicklaus, who won by one. Scheffler followed Thursday’s 69 with a 67 that was the low round on a difficult day. He won 30 times on the PGA TOUR, but one of golf’s modern Grand Slam events wasn’t one of them (he did win the Western Open when it was one of golf’s top events, however). The Scheffler and Burns families have spent their downtime during one of golf’s most stressful weeks playing board games. He arrived at the Masters having won three of his last five starts, becoming the first player in a quarter century to pick up his first three TOUR wins in such short order. He’s been victorious in both stroke play and match play and across the continent, conquering a variety of courses and setups. Scheffler played alongside Phil Mickelson in the first two rounds of last year’s Masters. This is Scheffler’s first Masters, as well, with Ted Scott on the bag. Success in the game is fleeting, so it’s important to capitalize on the hot streaks, and Scheffler may be riding one to his first major championship. Four of the previous five to amass such an advantage after the first two rounds have gone on to win. He is five shots ahead at the halfway point of the Masters, tying the tournament’s record for largest 36-hole lead.

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“It was quite tricky out there, quite difficult, and I managed to play some good golf and hole some nice putts at the right times. “It was one of my better rounds of my career, I think,” he said. “That will be the goal going into [Saturday] — just to keep putting myself in good positions, execute shots, and as long as I’m committed to everything, everything should be fine. Then there was the win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on March 6. Everyone knew Scheffler, the quiet but affable New Jersey guy who moved to Texas as a kid when his mother, Diane, took a big job in Dallas, was a really good player. “I feel like my game is in a good spot,” Scheffler said.

On a wind-swept day at Augusta National that rendered some of the game's best players bereft, Scheffler dominated, all but mocking the golf gods.

To elude that little thicket with which he began, he started off with what he called a “great par on 4, great par on 5 and then a great par on 6.” Then he started a splendid tour of the middle parts of fairways. He would birdie No. 15 to reach 7 under, No. 16 to reach 8 under. With a voice so calm it might quell certain forms of anxiety, he said: “If I win this golf tournament, then great. He’s not sure how to explain the zoom but did say: “That’s a good question. Before Scheffler got going from No. 4 on, the day got going with carnage. Augusta National Chairman Fred Ridley said Mickelson was invited but chose not to play. Then, on a Friday when Augusta National and its accompanying gusts were really mean to the world’s best players, Scheffler played a form of golf beautiful enough to make the eyeballs luxuriate. What has happened since with Scottie Scheffler, who has a five-shot headlock on the 86th Masters after a shining 5-under-par 67 in the second round Friday, counts as one marvel of a whoosh. He began that week ranked 15th in the world, a boffo ranking that doesn’t beguile the planet. Waters rippled from the wind. He reached 8 under par and led by those five shots over 2021 Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama, 2011 Masters champion Charl Schwartzel, 2019 British Open champion Shane Lowry and the deeply promising 24-year-old from South Korea, Sungjae Im. He won the Arnold Palmer on March 6, won the big match play thing in Austin on March 27, reached a gosh of a world ranking of No. 1 with that latter win and said, “I never really got that far in my dreams.”

Scottie Scheffler affirmed his status as the World No.. 1 with a Friday 67 that gives him a five-shot lead heading into the weekend of the Masters.

“It's nice to build up a little bit of a lead, but I'm not really going to be thinking about it tonight or anything,” he said. Scheffler began with bogeys on two of his first three holes, but he played his final 12 holes in six under par to pull away from the field. But he came out of the battle with hardly a scratch on him. Scheffler is running like a thoroughbred of late, winning three of his last five starts, including the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play two weeks ago that propelled him to World No. 1 in lightning speed. The nearly invulnerable effort, tied for low round of the day with Justin Thomas, enabled Scheffler to build a five-stroke lead at eight-under 136—matching the largest two-round lead in Masters history. We are only 36 holes into the 86th Masters, but Scottie Scheffler established his bona fides as the No. 1 player in the world on Friday with an exhibition of power and patience we should expect from the game’s top-ranked golfer.

Scheffler is out to prove his world No. 1 ranking is no fluke at Augusta National.

A 63-year-old Larry Mize who averaged 230 yards off the tee this week beat a 28-year-old Bryson DeChambeau who averaged 310 yards off the tee at a golf course he once said played as a par 67 for him. He's missed his last six cuts worldwide and doesn't have a top 10 anywhere since last July. Danny Willett (the 2016 champion) shot 74 but still sits in the top 10. He matched Scheffler's 67 late in the day, birdied Nos. 14-16 and completely covered up his 76 from Thursday. He's legitimately in the mix, and after he gained 5.6 strokes on approach shots in Round 2, there's a path to contention on Sunday for him that does not seem inconceivable. After going out in 39, he churned his way to a 35 on the second nine and easily made the weekend. 6. Toughest test: The scoring average on Friday pushed to 74.6 mostly because of nightmarish gusting winds that were as lively as they were inconsistent. AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Perhaps it should not be surprising that the No. 1 golfer in the world, who has also won three of his last five tournaments, shot a 67 on Friday at the 2022 Masters and holds a five-stroke at the first major of the year. Watch live on CBSSports.com, the CBS Sports App and Paramount+. 3. Dustin Johnson is lurking: The grind was on for D.J. on Friday after two bogeys caused by horrific drives on Nos. 7 and 9 on the first nine. One of the storylines coming into the week was whether Scheffler was a true No. 1. D.J. knows the weekend is long, and he's simply trying to play his way into Sunday afternoon. Scheffler has quietly been a beast at majors over the last few years. The 25-year-old Scheffler's accelerated ride this week mimics his journey over the last two months.

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“The guy seems to play good every year. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “I learned a lot just by watching those guys manage their way around the golf course,” Scheffler said.

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He earmarked $50,000 to the Triumph Over Kid Cancer Foundation. His donations have not stopped, and he has partnered with Mecklin to create a program that brings kids battling cancer into golf. And now Scheffler’s ascension coincides with Masters week, the week Mecklin and James held sacred. Now 30, Mecklin—who was inspired by James to dedicate her life to pediatric care—is amazed that Scheffler has remained true to who he is in spite of the new heights he’s reached. “I think Scottie respected how James was trying to live his life, to have fun and get good at a sport he enjoyed while trying to deal with cancer and trying to help others with cancer. I like to think as touched as James was by the support, people liked being around him because he was a constant inspiration. "He would come down on Friday and be right back in Austin the next day, but he wanted to do what he could to keep the memory of James going.” And through his education and golf and treatments James continued to spread the word on his mission, annually holding a golf scramble that doubled as a toga party to raise funds to battle the disease, an event Scottie never missed. Shortly after he was told the end was near. In college we would fire up our computers and stream it in the back of class,” Mecklin says. “He spent most of his time at the local golf course.” “I’ve never seen them so happy,” Mecklin says. The surgery replaced 40 percent of his femur and 20 percent of his tibia with metal.

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He was inspirational.” “I don’t want to put words into Scottie’s mouth but I’d like to think that James had a really positive impact on him. "James would say to me, ‘I only have so many days, months, years to live, and I’m trying to make the most of what I can with my time. He also met Scottie. He had only just turned 13. “They met through golf.

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Leader Scottie Scheffler just added a vest at the third tee box. The weather channel says it's 50 degrees in Augusta right now, but no one actually out on the course would believe it. The par-3 16th will give him a chance at birdie and maybe another classic Verne call? He waved to the crowd, and had a look of relief on his face as he made his way to No. 13. But a third-round 71 is his best of the week, and he's currently T16 at +1. Woods had a difficult chip shot back onto the green and got too much on it, watching helplessly as it rolled to set up another three-putt “That's the guy you want to be playing with on Saturday at Augusta.” Scheffler has just birdied No. 13, getting back the stroke he lost with a bogey on No. 12. Getting into the clubhouse took a lot, and it'll be fascinating to see Smith and Scheffler duel on Sunday for the green jacket. He pulled out 3-iron, and struck it incredibly well, onto the green and rolling off the back of it. Scheffler and Cameron Smith – the two men to earn the most world ranking points in 2022 so far – will be together in the final pairing, where 26 of the last 31 Masters winners have come from. What's here and how to watch: We'll have updates from the course below, including everything Tiger does.

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That's because the publicity was dominated by the return of Tiger Woods, who made a remarkable return to professional golf following his high-speed car crash in February last year. And more was to come at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in Austin. Despite this, there was little media talk about Scheffler ahead of this week's tournament at Augusta.

Former Texas Longhorns Jordan Spieth and Scottie Scheffler tee off on Thursday with all of the eyes of Texas, and the rest of the golf world upon them.

Scheffler birdied his last two holes before he made the turn, and scored a par at No. 10. That would prove difficult for Scheffler after a rough start to the hole. However, Scheffler was able to recover quickly and had an opportunity to putt for birdie. However, Scheffler was once again able to overcome the set back, and knock in the ensuing putt for par. Scheffler has been steady throughout the round and continues to make clutch putt after clutch putt, as he makes his approach to No. 18 green. Spieth took an early jump on No. 2 with a birdie and looked to be in the groove early. Spieth will look to make a surge up the leaderboards in round two after a shaky round one. Meanwhile, Scottie Scheffler had a strong first round, entering day two at -3 and in a tie for third. After a bogie on No. 12, Scheffler was able to get a shot back on No. 13 with a birdie. Scheffler had an opportunity to grab a two-shot lead but missed his birdie par on No. 9. With the projected cut at +4, Spieth has little room for error. Now, he will look to continue his momentum into Saturday and further stretch his lead.

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IRONS: Srixon ZU85 (3), with Nippon Pro Modus3 Hybrid Tour X, Srixon ZX7 (4), TaylorMade P-7TW (5-PW), with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 shafts. FAIRWAY WOOD: TaylorMade Stealth 3HL (16.5 degrees), with Fujikura Ventus Black 8X shaft DRIVER: TaylorMade Stealth Plus+ (8 degrees), with Fujikura Ventus Black 7X shaft.

Scottie Scheffler leads by three shots from Cameron Smith going into the final round of the Masters at Augusta.

The Australian reached five under for his round at the 15th, giving a seven under total, before handing a shot back to the course on the par three 16th. Shane Lowry berated his caddie en route to a bogey at the 13th that shuffled him back to three under. The Irishman lies two under after a 73. Thomas, who signed for a 72 and one under total, must continue to rue his opening round of 76. It is to be remembered even playing in this Masters, let alone for 72 holes, is a remarkable achievement given the scale of his injuries after a car crash 14 months ago. The 28-year-old slipped back to even par at the 14th and collected shots at the 16th and 18th before a painful bogey at the last. Justin Thomas moved from one to three under par within a trio of holes. The greens were to bother Woods all day, with 36 putts included in a 78. As Scheffler dropped shots at the 14th and 15th, heads turned. Scheffler had birdied the 2nd and 3rd to move to double digits under par. His tee shot to the par five was wayward but rebounded from a tree and into semi-rough. Scheffler, playing in Schwartzel’s company, had no cause to feel threatened at all as Schwartzel holed out for a bogey.

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Woods needed a fairway wood to attempt to reach the green on the par-three fourth and tugged his shot left of the green, but produced a superb chip over a bunker to save par. After saving par on the first, Scheffler birdied the second and third to move six shots clear, before a bogey on the fourth and Lowry’s second birdie of the day on the sixth meant the gap was down to four. After a perfect drive on the first, Woods hit a mediocre approach and three-putted from long range for a disappointing bogey, but almost holed his greenside bunker shot for an eagle on the par-five second and tapped in for birdie.

Scheffler's lead fell from five strokes to three after he had four bogeys on the back nine on Saturday at Augusta National.

He missed the five-foot par putt but made up for it with birdies at No. 6 and No. 8, the latter of which pushed him to 11-under and gave him a six-shot lead. If he wins the Masters, he’ll be the first player to make the Masters his first win after becoming the world’s No. 1 since Ian Woosnam did it in 1991. With Scheffler back to 11-under and up five shots, he squandered a chance to maintain or build on that lead. He wrapped up the front nine with a par at the par-4 ninth. At 15, Scheffler played cautiously and his third shot found the green, but above the hole, leaving him about 30 feet for birdie. Briefly, Scheffler’s lead fell to three shots after Smith played the 15th hole perfectly and made a birdie. Scheffler played with an utter unflappability on the front nine, playing in the final group with Schwartzel. He also continued his mastery of Augusta National’s risk-reward par-5s. The list of players that have done it before include Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and fellow Longhorn Jordan Spieth, who held the 36-hole lead on his way to his 2015 championship. Instead, Cameron Smith will play with Scheffler on Sunday after shooting a 4-under 68 and finishing three shots back. He decided to take an unplayable lie and a drop, which put him playing his third shot off pine straw about 250 yards away from the green. He chose to putt off the fringe and rolled it to about three feet and made an incredible bogey. His ball was surrounded by branches and Scheffler discussed his options with a rules official.

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I just know the shot that I see and try to hit it, and after that it's not up to me.” Through 54 holes this week, Smith has 16 birdies and Scheffler 17. “The rest isn't up to me,” Scheffler said. And so that's something I've worked on, just being focused, and committed to each shot.” History suggests Scheffler controls his own destiny, but things can always go wrong. “He was 100 percent correct.

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Jessica Marksbury, senior editor ( @jess_marksbury): I want to believe in Scottie, but we all know that Sunday afternoon at the Masters is a different animal, and a three-shot cushion is basically nothing. The dude is entering Masters Sunday with a three-stroke lead and only two players within six shots of him. Scheffler sits at nine under, and the chasers include Cameron Smith (six under), Sungjae Im (four under) and Shane Lowry and Charl Schwartzel (both at two under). Justin Thomas and Corey Conners (both at one under) are the only two other players under par.

Masters leader Scottie Scheffler hit a wild tee on the 18th hole Saturday. For rules buffs, that's when things got really interesting.

Three-iron in hand, he morphed back into the world’s hottest golfer and laced a shot up to the left side of the green, his ball running by the back-left pin and just off the back of the green. When Scheffler had identified a suitable spot on which to drop, he dropped his ball from knee-level but it kicked into an area that was closer to the hole. Scheffler’s ball was close enough to the bed of needles by the fairway to take his drop there. Scheffler asked the official if he could move pine needles — which are loose impediments — in the intended area of his drop. … I was a bit of a hothead I think in high school and college, so to be able to just stay patient and realize mistakes are going to come, and winning golf tournaments out here is not easy. A return to the tee could have easily resulted in a double-bogey 6 for Scheffler, which would have cut his 54-hole to just two. If it didn’t turn up in the three minutes permitted under the rules, Scheffler would have had to return to the tee and play his third. The resulting spot gave him both a clean lie and a clean look at the green. Scheffler’s ball disappeared into the pines and descended into a snarl of bushes and branches below. The good news: the ball turned up. He wasn’t leading by seven, as he had been when he made the turn on this Masters Saturday, but he still enjoyed a four-shot advantage when he stepped on to the 18th tee. Up ahead of him, Cameron Smith had already signed for a four-under 68 that had moved him to six under for the tournament.

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Yet Scheffler did what many of his fellow competitors before him couldn’t do with his next shot: He hit a gentle chip that stayed up on the top tier of the green, nestling it to two feet. When Scheffler took his drop, it rolled outside the two clublengths, requiring a second drop. • Could he move some of the pine needles before he dropped the ball? And then all I was trying to do was figure out how I was going to get it on the green for my third shot. It would be his third shot after adding the unplayable penalty. His ball rattled in the trees left of the fairway only 220-some yards up the hole.

But a late stumble by the American partially opened the door for the chasing pack at Augusta National.

Last 10 holes just wasn’t good enough, and it’s unfortunate.” “Well done, well done Bo. Only 30 yards out.. I hit 1,000 putts out there today. “It was like practice putting. The 25-year-old American looked odds on to make it five out of six as he extended his lead to six shots after eight holes and was still five ahead with five holes to play, but a late stumble at least partially opened the door for the chasing pack. Scheffler was the sixth player in tournament history to hold a five-shot lead at the halfway stage, with four of the previous five going on to claim the green jacket at Augusta National.

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Scheffler’s journey became their journey from afar, and the Kopacs half-jokingly discussed showing up at one of Scottie’s tournaments and holding up a “9W Driving Range” sign — just so he knew they never forgot him. The Schefflers moved to Texas when their son was 6 — Diane had landed a COO job at a Dallas law firm — and over time the Kopacs lost track of the family. “I knew this kid was going to make it,” Kopac told his family before he died. The routine started one ice-cold day when young Scottie begged for a ride to the range, until his father relented and drove him there just to prove it was closed. Surrounded by family, Kopac, a former pro and golf lifer, watched a tournament for the final time last month inside Nyack Hospital. He was dying of pancreatic cancer when he watched Scottie Scheffler win the Arnold Palmer Invitational. His wife, Gertrude, and their five children all worked there, and so did his sister Florence, and they all kept the range open from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m., seven days a week.

Scottie Scheffler salvaged a 1-under 71 that gave him a 3-stroke lead heading to the final round of the Masters.

He yanked his tee shot into a canopy of trees and twisted branches, leaving him no choice but to take a penalty drop on the pine straw. Tiger Woods finished as Scheffler was still comfortably ahead, and the five-time Masters champion said he feels as though he has seen this before. But then a shot from the front bunker on the par-3 12th went over the green. "You hate bogeying the last hole, but the way I bogeyed it, it for sure felt like a par,'' Scheffler said. Scottie seems to be in that window right now.'' "We take care of it in those windows. And then all I was trying to do was figure out how I was going to get it on the green." Woods won back-to-back ahead of his Masters victory in 2001. He was at 2-under 214 along with Shane Lowry (73). "Should be a great fight tomorrow," Scheffler said. Maybe his next wardrobe change will be a green jacket. AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The harsh cold and relentless wind.

This Masters was no longer a coronation, not yet anyway: Up by seven at one point Saturday, Scheffler signed for a 1-under 71.

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Scottie Scheffler shot a 1-under 71 holds a three-stroke lead over Cameron Smith after the third round of the Masters at Augusta, Ga.

This is a place where it kills you with them — six or eight of them a day — and he’s continuing to make them. I mean, I’ve been playing well here before, and you feel like you’ve got it and you know how to play this place, and then you shoot a 78. “Should be a great fight,’’ Scheffler said. That sent him home for the night at 9-under with a three-shot lead over Smith, leaving Sunday a two-horse race. From there, Scheffler calmly two-putted and took a bogey that looked like it could have been much worse. Once the ball was located, it was completely jailed in some thick brush.