Scottie Scheffler of the U.S. celebrates after holing his eagle putt on the inexperienced on the thirteenth gap throughout the third spherical.
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Scottie Scheffler will take a one-shot lead into Sunday’s last spherical of the Masters which is shaping up as a Green Jacket showdown of youth and experience.
World primary Scheffler began the week because the red-hot favorite to say a second Masters title and can step on to the primary tee at 2.35 PM (1835 GMT) with taking part in companion and twice main winner Collin Morikawa nonetheless the person to beat.
Scheffler birdied his last gap on Saturday to emerge from a packed leaderboard to safe a one-shot edge on Morikawa, setting the stage for a final-round thriller that can play out on an ideal day at Augusta National.
With a win, Scheffler would grow to be the 18th participant to win the Masters a number of instances and the primary to perform the feat since Bubba Watson in 2014.
Already a British Open and PGA Championship winner, the 27-year-old Morikawa, the one golfer to interrupt par in all three rounds, stated that figuring out learn how to shut the deal was a key to profitable the Green Jacket.
The last spherical is way from a two-horse race although.
Max Homa, whose greatest Masters end in 4 visits to Augusta was a tie for forty third final 12 months, lurks two again whereas Swedish younger gun Ludvig Aberg has displayed nerves of metal in his main championship debut and sits alone in fourth, three off the tempo.
LIV Golf’s Bryson DeChambeau, who topped the leaderboard by the primary two rounds, will probably be a hazard man 4 again, with Olympic champion Xander Schauffele 5 behind.
Tiger Woods won’t be within the hunt for a sixth Green Jacket however will probably be motivated to atone for an horrific third-round 10-over-par 82, his worst main spherical as an expert.
Fresh off his Masters record-setting twenty fourth minimize, Woods appeared to easily run out of fuel on Saturday, piling up eight bogeys and two double bogeys offset by simply two birdies.
Coming into the Masters, Woods had performed simply 24 holes this 12 months and needed to get by practically as many on a marathon Friday that started with finishing the final 5 holes of his weather-delayed opening spherical adopted instantly by one other 18.
That effort, each bodily and psychological, gave the impression to be an excessive amount of for a golfer who has struggled for health for years coping with again, knee and ankle accidents and a close to deadly automobile crash in 2021 that just about resulted within the amputation of his proper leg.
But Woods was not waving the white flag and was again out for the ultimate spherical carrying his conventional Sunday crimson and seeking to make a cost.
