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LATEST UPDATE ON THE MASTERS TOURNAMENT: WHO’S ON TOP?

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) – the newest on Friday’s second round of the Masters (all times local):

LATEST UPDATE ON THE MASTERS TOURNAMENT: WHO’S ON TOP?

11:55 a.m.

Jordan Spieth is missing fairways and battling his putter.

Spieth opened the second round of the Masters with a double-bogey and a bogey, squandering a two-shot lead. Spieth pushed his 1st drive way right and force his next one well left.

Spieth conjointly missed putts of eleven and five feet. and that is when needing simply ten putts on the rear 9Thursday.

Spieth went from 6 underneath to 3 underneath through 2 holes Friday.

He is currently in a seven-way tie for the lead at 3 underneath.

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LATEST UPDATE ON THE MASTERS TOURNAMENT: WHO’S ON TOP?

11:30 a.m.

Jordan Spieth is off to a shaky start within the second round at the Masters.

Spieth double-bogeyed the primary hole to drop to 4 underneath within the 72-hole tournament.

Spieth pushed his tee shot at the par-4 No. 1 way right. He did not get his second shot back to the fairway|the golf green} so left his third one in need of the green. He missed an 11-footer for bogey. it had been a frustrating start for the 2015 Masters champion and opened the door for everybody else on the leaderboard.

Spieth birdied 5 straight holes down the stretch within the opening round and finished with a 6-under 66. He bogeyed the par-4 18th.

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10:55 a.m.

First-round leader and 2015 Masters champion Jordan Spieth is back on the course at golf’s 1st major.

Spieth took a two-stroke result in the primary tee at Augusta National on Friday. Spieth is playing alongside Alex Noren and Louis Oosthuizen for the second straight day.

Phil Mickelson, Rickie Fowler and Matt Kuchar are among the featured teams teeing off within the morning. Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott and Jon Rahm are right behind that threesome.

Webb Simpson can be creating a move with consecutive birdies at the second and third holes. he’s currently 2 over when shooting a 76 within the opening round.

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9:30 a.m.

Li Haotong has begun his second spherical at the Masters.

The 22-year-old from China opened the day 3 shots off the lead when finishing with a 69 on the opening day of the tournament. For near an hour, his name was atop those white leaderboards around Augusta National with Tony Finau tillJordan Spieth took over.

Li qualified for the Masters by closing with a 63 at Royal Birkdale within the British Open last summer. Earlier this year, he rallied to beat Rory McIlroy in an exceedingly duel at the city Desert Classic that allowed him to crack the highestfifty within the world for the first time.

Li entered the week at No. 42 within the world.

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3 a.m.
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Rory McIlroy heads into the second spherical of the Masters with the career sweep still visible .

McIlroy saved par on the ultimate 3 holes within the opening round Thursday and finished with a 3-under sixty-nine. He stone-broke seventy within the 1st round at Augusta National for the primary time since 2011. He shot a sixty-five that year and sounded like he would win an inexperienced jacket before a final-round meltdown.

McIlroy is 3 shots behind Jordan Spieth, who created 5 consecutive birdies on the rear 9 to make a two-stroke lead over Tony Finau and Matt Kuchar.

LATEST UPDATE ON THE MASTERS TOURNAMENT: WHO’S ON TOP?

“You look into it and not anyone is de facto getting away,” McIlroy aforesaid. “Jordan had a reasonably strong finish there. However, this can be my best begin in an exceedingly few years. And, yeah, it’s such a tough golf links to play catch-up on. If you begin to chase it around here, that is once you begin to create mistakes.

“But to be right up there and have the ability to remain patient due to the position i am in, that is a pleasant luxury I actually have over future few days.”

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