10 master dramas you may miss

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Master Drama

Odds and Augusta Country.

If you highlighted the Grand Slam hunt for Rory McIlroy, you might be too far from registering for other things in the Masters. So let’s go back to these 10 interesting sub-graphs, side tasks, what-ifs, mini-dramas, and random actions:

1. Patrick Reed might give us a real curveball.

Remember staring at a three-foot bird when they cut into the green Reed on No. 13? When he missed the birdie putt – also missed the comer, which led to pain and unlikely taboo? This can be very, very large. Look, every player on the court dropped the shots throughout the week. However, these are two freebies, and six holes were wasted. A few minutes later, McIlroy will make a hole behind Reed and store his third shot in the river on the 13th Green Way to double bogey to reintegrate the entire field into the process.

Not long after, Reed made an impossible game in No. 17, with his goal hitting nine for Eagle 2, which was where he ended, two shots outside the playoffs. Can you imagine if that loophole brought him to 11 years old?

What might be…

Still, Reed won the second podium of his Augusta National career, notably a series of high scores for Reed at the Augusta National. He won the championship in 2018 and has five top 12 in the following seven years. His T36-T10-T8-T35-T4-T4-T12-3 means he should enter our radar every spring in the coming years.

2. Two surprise low left-handed men.

Enter the week you may choose Bob McIntyre or Akshay Bhatia The lowest in the championship record are eight left-handed golfers. Maybe Brian Harmanwin, or Phil Mickelson, Some forms are shown in the leadership of his favorite tournament.

How about those guys? Harman completed the T36. Bhatia completed T42. MacIntyre and Mickelson missed the layoffs. And your lefty is Bubba Watsonhe scored only the top ten in his LIV career, Matt McCarthyplays his second major in career. They finished T14. very good.

3. LudvigÅberg lost his ship at the end.

When Ludvig Åberg walked to the 17th tee on his 10th for the 10th, he felt he could still win the golf tournament. There is a risk of spoilers: He doesn’t. Instead, he bogeyed at 17 and then tried to become enterprising and pop up after finding the fairway bunker at 18. What turned into a triple bogey took him from solo third to seventh, losing $700,000 north.

What’s the point? These guys make a lot of money in one thing. Missing later has consequences.

But it is also a very obvious sign that Åberg is almost unhappy with the other one. Forgot the money – he made $4 million by winning Genesis. He wanted that jacket, for a moment, he might imagine gliding. Even the final rankings won’t make it look very close.

4. ShaneLowry bounces back for his partner.

If you see Shane Lowry In the early stages of his final round, passing two holes at one time with just four leading rears, and you see him greeting McIlroy again, with a wide smile and a lot of hugs, you’d think he had a proper golf day and ended near the board’s partner. In fact, his day turned into pain. He somehow piled up seven bogeys and two doubles, headed to 81, and then slid to T42.

Anyone who has ever played a round of golf knows how hard it is to get rid of it, but when one of your closest friends in the world is on the brink of a grand slam, you have to rise. Thanks to Lowry doing this…

5. Xander Schauffele’s winning streak continues.

You may still remember Xander Schauffele Winning two majors last year. you can no Knowing that his 71st Sunday lifted him to T8, his fifth consecutive heavy championship or higher, and his 12th straight (!) top 20 in a row. The last time he was worse than T18 in a professional competition was the Master of 2022. That was also the last time he missed the layoffs.

6. Max Homa received a return visit.

Hope this week is a sign of what’s coming Max Homa, Since then, no one has participated in the competition weekend Last year’s Open Champion And after finishing the T12 promotion with a 69-71 weekend match, he skated in the top 80.

7. Justin Rose and Zach Johnson gather for a while.

Heading to the weekend Justin Rose is a solo leader, while Zach Johnson is connected to the last place for layoffs. But then Johnson’s 66-year-old surprise shot him on the rankings on Saturday. When Rose fired 75, two major champions in their 40s competed in the same finals. Johnson actually did a good job. His 71-year-old stayed with the T8, his best professional result since the 2020 U.S. Open. But Rose’s 66-year-old almost won his golf tournament.

8.

On Saturday, Hideki Matsuyama scored the highest score in the field, 79, 79. He tied the rose to a low round of the day and shot below 66. He completed T21.

9. Rory McIlroy’s 15th hole iron shot is progressing better.

As you will remember, McIlroy’s withdrawal at last year’s U.S. Open started when he rinsed the iron behind the 15-shot green on the 3rd. Consensus is that it is a beat-just Wrong Shoot, or at least temporarily wrong club. this time? McIlroy hit one of the most spectacular shots in Masters history, with his second shot shot high from 7 iron to six feet on a 5-shot. (Even if he missed the Eagle putt.) This year-on-year improvement.

10. …He doesn’t say much about DeChambeau.

DeChambeau was asked at his press conference – although before the competition – how he thought McIlroy was doing.

“I don’t know,” he said. “I haven’t talked to me all day.”

What is the atmosphere?

“Electric. I like it. But he’s like- I want to just focus. But, not me.”

I don’t think there must be hostility Between these two. Months after the U.S. Open last year, McIlroy talked about DeChambeau, praising him as a valuable competitor and a needle-and-thread. DeChambeau said he also felt for McIlroy’s No. 13 fusion.

He said, “I want to cry for him.”

But I do think that it is now officially in the fierce, healthy, recognizable game competition. DeChambeau won the U.S. Open and smashed McIlroy’s dream. Now McIlroy won the Masters while competing with DeChambeau. Will the next chapter be in Quail Hollow? Oakmont? Augusta National?

Ryder Cup Watch

The movements of the big master.

On the American side, several familiar faces have made great moves – Jordan SpiethThe T14 jumped from No. 43 to No. 32, and the T12 from No. 36 to No. 23, but another familiar face beat them better than they did. Reed was a partner at Spieth, pulling 53 positions to No. 20.

DeChambeau rose to fourth place; I think he is an informal lock, with 1-3: Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele and Collin Morikawa.

The European team’s core has also been changed in the form of familiar faces: Ross jumped from No. 28 to No. 4. The British represented the old defender in Italy in 2023, which felt like his swan song. But if he can bottle more of his feelings this week, they will be happy to get him back to Bethpage.

One thing to see

Sahith takes root in Rory.

It’s cool and relevant to Sahith Theegala roots McIlroy – you can feel his pain after the first time you miss it, and you can feel his joy in a minute.