The Masters 2025: day two updates from Augusta
Yesterday was also about Rory McIlroy. Somebody shouted 'hallelujah!' when Scottie Scheffler hit his opening drive. Other well-worn biblical exclamations may well have been barked by fans of McIlroy, with some feeling, as he melted down on the homeward stretch, carding careless, clumsy, needless double bogeys at 15 and 17. Oh Rory. If we loved you less, we might be able to talk about it more.
Anyway, here's how the top of the leaderboard looks after an entertaining and dramatic opening day at Augusta National. Nobody on it is out of contention, so best to approach the task in hand calmly. Remember: angry people are not always wise.
-7: Rose -4: Conners, Scheffler, Åberg -3: Hatton, DeChambeau -2: Rai, English, Day, Bhatia -1: M Kim, Thompson, Smith, Couples, Harman, Reed, Greyserman, MW Lee, Watson, McCarty, McCarthy, Berger, Fitzpatrick, Im, Hovland, Lowry
E: Young, Z Johnson, Jaeger, Morikawa, Niemann, McNealy, Campbell, Hoge, Garcia, McIlroy, Theegala
Today's tee times
(USA unless stated, all times BST)
12.40 Rafael Campos (Pur), Cameron Davis (Aus), Austin Eckroat 12.51 Angel Cabrera (Arg), Laurie Canter (Eng), Adam Schenk 13.02 Brian Campbell, Thriston Lawrence (Rsa), Jose Maria Olazabal (Spa) 13.13 Evan Beck, Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Bubba Watson 13.24 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Tom Hoge, Matt McCarty 13.35 Denny McCarthy, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa), Hiroshi Tai (Sgp) 13.52 Max Homa, Justin Rose (Eng), JJ Spaun 14.03 Justin Hastings (Cay), Dustin Johnson, Nick Taylor (Can) 14.14 Daniel Berger, Sergio Garcia (Spa), Lucas Glover 14.25 Patrick Cantlay, Matthew Fitzpatrick (Eng), Rasmus Hoejgaard (Den) 14.36 Russell Henley, Sung-Jae Im (Kor), Brooks Koepka 14.47 Viktor Hovland (Nor), Xander Schauffele, Adam Scott (Aus) 14.58 Ludvig Aaberg (Swe), Akshay Bhatia, Rory McIlroy (NIrl) 15.15 Bryson DeChambeau, Shane Lowry (Irl), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn) 15.26 Wyndham Clark, Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Jon Rahm (Spa) 15.37 Sam Burns, Sepp Straka (Aut), Sahith Theegala 15.48 Patton Kizzire, Davis Riley 15.59 Nicolai Hoejgaard (Den), Jhonattan Vegas (Ven), Chun-An Yu (Tai) 16.10 Michael Kim, Mike Weir (Can), Cameron Young 16.21 Joe Highsmith, Zach Johnson, Chris Kirk 16.38 Nicolas Echavarria (Col), Davis Thompson, Danny Willett (Eng) 16.49 Noah Kent, Bernhard Langer (Ger), Will Zalatoris 17.00 J. T. Poston, Aaron Rai (Eng), Cameron Smith (Aus) 17.11 Fred Couples, Harris English, Taylor Pendrith (Can) 17.22 Corey Conners (Can), Brian Harman, Stephan Jaeger (Ger) 17.33 Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Max Greyserman, Patrick Reed 17.50 Nick Dunlap, Billy Horschel, Robert MacIntyre (Sco) 18.01 Min-Woo Lee (Aus), Collin Morikawa, Joaquin Niemann (Chi) 18.12 Keegan Bradley, Jason Day (Aus), Phil Mickelson 18.23 Jose Luis Ballester (Spa), Scottie Scheffler, Justin Thomas 18.34 Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor), Jordan Spieth
18.45 Thomas Detry (Bel), Tony Finau, Maverick McNealy Share
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