Scottie Scheffler has 2 shots in the water and his first round over par in the Masters in 3 years
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler battled back from two bogeys and was even par for the second round, still very much in the mix Friday at the Masters and still with a pair of par 5s to play. The world's No.
1 player was not expecting two shots into the water. Scheffler hit 3-iron into a tributary of Rae's Creek on the par-5 13th, and his second shot into the par-5 15th went over the green and rolled into the pond on the 16th hole. Both led to bogeys, and he didn't recover.
His 2-over 74 was his first round over par at the Masters since a 75 in the second round in 2023. “It was frustrating to get it back to even, have a couple of par 5s in front of me, and then not do many things I felt wrong and wasn't able to convert basically anything coming down the stretch,” said Scheffler, who was at even-par 144. The water balls stand out.
Scheffler tried to play a draw into the 13th, a deceptively difficult shot because the ball is slightly above the feet but a shot not cleanly struck tends to stay out to the right, and that's where the trouble is. “I just tried to kind of swing it with the slope and just didn’t catch it that solid and kind of hung out there,” Scheffler said. “But that was one ...
to that pin specifically that’s a shot that I could get in there close, so I felt like it was worth the risk of going for it. ” The real problem was his putting. He didn't make many, mainly an issue of speed more than line.
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