Live The Masters 2025: Latest updates from third round at Augusta
12 April 2025 1:58pm
1:58PM
Sky Sports' Nick Faldo on Rory McIlroy
'It is fabulous stuff. To go on after yesterday [Thursday] and the two doubles, I felt he had basically gone back to zero and started again. This is going to be won at 10 or 12 under, he's got plenty of time; he's got three rounds to get to that score.
'He has looked great, it is all how you react when something goes wrong. Once you start seeing the trouble, you have to deal with it the next hole. He has been around here enough times, he knows sections of the green that are dangerous. Do not try and be a hero and land right on the number, give yourself half a chance. He really looks like he can do it this time.'
1:52PM
Later tee times
6.30pm
Ludvig Aberg, Hideki Matsuyama
6.50pm
Jason Day, Sungjae Im
7pm
Rasmus Hojgaard, Viktor Hovland
7.10pm
Scottie Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton
7.20pm
Matt McCarty, Shane Lowry
7.30pm
Rory McIlroy, Corey Conners
7.40pm
Justin Rose, Bryson DeChambeau
1:46PM
Early third-round tee times
All times BST
2.50pm
Tom Kim
3pm
Joaquin Niemann, Jordan Spieth
3.10pm
Stephan Jaeger, Max Greyserman
3.20pm
Danny Willett, JT Poston
3.30pm
Jon Rahm, Zach Johnson
3.40pm
Patrick Cantlay, Akshay Bhatia
3.50pm
Denny McCarthy, JJ Spaun
1:40PM
Those all-important pin positions
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— The Masters (@TheMasters) April 12, 2025
1:35PM
Round three at Augusta National
Good afternoon and welcome to coverage of round three from The 2025 Masters. 44-year-old Justin Rose heads into the weekend with a one-shot lead after backing up his opening round of 65 with a one-under 71 yesterday to be nine under through the first two rounds. Rose, who won his only major at the US Open in 2013, has come close to winning The Masters before, most notably in 2017 when he lost in a playoff to Sergio Garcia, and has said if anything he may enjoy winning it now more than he would have done when he was younger.
'I think I will take it any time. Beggars cannot be choosers, you know. But I would take it right now for sure. Sometimes if it happens too early in your career, you have got a lot to live up to. I think if it happens now, I would enjoy it, I think, probably a lot more, coming a bit more as a gift towards the end of your career. So I think there would be a lot more satisfaction in it for sure.
'I feel like there have been other sorts of great accomplishments in that time. I think winning the Olympic gold medal [in 2016] gave me a lot of satisfaction in that interim period, getting to world number one, winning the FedExCup. I think really big milestone moments in my career have happened in that 12 years, which distracts you from the fact that you have not won a major in that period. Yeah, 12 years slips by pretty quick. But I have not been dwelling on that fact at all.'
Rose will go off in the final pairing later at 7.40pm BST alongside 2024 US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau, who shot a four-under 68 yesterday to be just one shot behind Rose. One shot further back from DeChambeau is Rory McIlroy, who carded a six-under round of 66 to move within two of the lead. McIlroy had looked on course for a strong first round, only to be undone by two double bogeys on the closing stretch on day one. He responded with the best round of anyone yesterday and, speaking after his second round, was clearly delighted with how he bounced back from a rough end to his first round.
'I am proud of myself with how I responded today [Friday] after the finish last night [Thursday],' McIlroy said. 'I just had to remind myself that I played really good golf yesterday, and you know, I was not going to let two... you know, two bad holes sort of dictate the narrative for the rest of the week.
'I was so frustrated last night because I played so well, and you can make these big numbers from absolutely nowhere on this golf course, just like the most benign position. So it was a good reminder that you just have to have your wits about you on every single shot.'
McIlroy goes off in the penultimate group with Canadian Corey Conners at 7.30pm. McIlroy's good friend Shane Lowry is on five under alongside defending champion Scottie Scheffler and Tyrrell Hatton. Phil Mickelson, Tony Finau, Bob MacIntyre and Brooks Koepka were amongst those to miss the cut as well as defending champions Bernhard Langer and Fred Couples. Having announced ahead of the tournament that this would be his last Masters, the two-time former champion Langer looked like he would just make the weekend but it slipped away from him at the death.
Sit back and enjoy round three from Augusta National.
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