Brooks Koepka is super close to winning this year’s Masters, as his score of 12 under after 36 holes was the third best of all contenders. The leaderboard for the 2023 Masters shows Koepka in first place, followed by Jon Rahm from Spain in second with 9-under and Sean Bennett from the US in third place at 6-under. Other easily recognizable names towards the top are Patrick Cantlay from the US, Collin Morikawa from the US, Matthew Fitzpatrick from England, and Viktor Hovland from Norway. Some other popular golfers include Phil Mickelson (US), Justin Rose (England), Jason Day (Australia), Scott Scheffler (US) Shane Lowry (Ireland), Jordan Spieth (US) Tyrrell Hatton (England), Tommy Fleetwood(England)and finally Tiger Woods who sits at +9
On the third day of the Masters, it was raining so hard that the game had to be stopped. Before this, American Brooks Koepka had already made significant progress. Both players managed to get a birdie on the second hole despite the cold and wet conditions. Unfortunately, Tiger Woods had two terrible shots with double bogeys on the 15th and 16th holes which caused him to drop his score to nine over par overall.
On Saturday, 47-year-old Tiger Woods – a 5-time champion – began playing on the 10th tee at Augusta. The organizers wanted to finish as much of the course as possible before it started raining too hard and making it unplayable.
Tiger tried his best to get beyond the halfway mark, which meant that he tied Gary Player’s and Fred Couple’s record of 23 cut-made consecutively in tournaments. He was last among the 54 remaining players when play got suspended.
Rahm managed to shorten the lead held by Woods while they both were able to survive through the wet Round 3 at Masters. On the other hand, Lyle decided to end his career and enjoyed his last night with tequila and whiskey!
The rain stopped for a short period of time on the third round but it came again around 3:15 PM in local time (8:15PM BST). So, play had to be cancelled for that day.
Four-time major winner Koepka was playing with Rahm and an amateur golfer, Sam Bennett. They were on the seventh green putting and trying to finish before it started raining when they were forced off the course.
Rahm said that although it was a bit too late to stop them from playing, he expressed his understanding and also noted that he had made great swings on six and seven holes despite the conditions of the green being close to flooding.
Rahm, the third best golfer in the world, was one of 39 players who had to finish their second round on Saturday. Despite the bad weather, Rahm managed to cut Koepka’s lead to two shots. When his third round started, he birdied on the second but unfortunately Koepka matched him. Afterwards, Rahm bogeyed on four and five holes which made it difficult for him to catch up with Koepka.
23-year-old Bennett stated he had a chance to become the first amateur in 90 years to win a major, but his dreams were dampened when he got bad scores on the first and second holes.
If the tournament is to finish on time, Sunday must have 29 holes of play, otherwise it will be the first Monday finish since 1983. Luckily, there’s good news – since drier, sunnier weather is expected!
Brooks Koepka, a golfer on the “Saudi-backed breakaway LIV Golf circuit,” is not worried about playing 29 holes of golf as part of the Masters tournament. He said he is confident that he will be up for it and doesn’t think anyone else should have issues with it. On the other hand, Matt Fitzpatrick from England is hoping that this break will not ruin his current momentum–he already got 3 birdies in 8 rounds and is now 5 under par in joint fourth place!
At 1:30 PM today, the third round of golfing will begin. The final round is going to start at 5:30 PM, with people playing from hole one and hole ten.
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