{"id":38540,"date":"2025-04-11T19:50:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/the-masters-2025-day-two-updates-from-augusta-live\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T19:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:50:58","slug":"the-masters-2025-day-two-updates-from-augusta-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/the-masters-2025-day-two-updates-from-augusta-live\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masters 2025: day two updates from Augusta \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Our rolling report of the second-round action in Georgia<\/li>\n<li>Get in touch! <a href=\"mailto:mail%20to:matt.cooper.casual@guardian.co.uk\">Email Matt<\/a> with any thoughts<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/10\/masters-golf-augusta-jose-luis-ballester-raes-creek\">Spanish amateur urinates in creek<\/a> |<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masters.com\/leaderboard\">Masters leaderboard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>You can perhaps understand why Craig Wood suffered such a shocker in the first round in 1936, still shaken no doubt by what had happened to him the year before.<\/strong> Allow me to explain \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/blog\/2015\/apr\/08\/a-brief-history-of-the-masters-and-why-it-matters\">plagiarise myself<\/a>. Wood had missed out on the inaugural title in 1934 by one stroke, but looked odds-on to win in 1935, in the clubhouse with a three-shot advantage over his only real challenger. But that challenger was Gene Sarazen, who was still out on the course, in the middle of the par-five 15th having clattered a 250-yard drive down the 485-yard hole. He was playing with Walter Hagen, who upon hearing the news of Wood\u2019s clubhouse mark, cried: \u201cWell, that\u2019s that!\u201d Sarazen shrugged and replied: \u201cThey might go in from anywhere.\u201d Whereupon he drew his 4-wood back and landed his second on the front of the green, the ball rolling to the far-right corner and into the cup for an albatross (or a double eagle, as the locals would have it). Now level with Wood, he parred his way in, then breezed the 36-hole play-off. His albatross became known as The Shot Heard Round The World, and one which put the Augusta National Invitation Tournament on the map.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poor old Nick Dunlap had a bit of a shocker yesterday.<\/strong> An 18-over round of 90 that featured four double bogeys and a triple. Seven bogeys, just six pars. \u201cHe\u2019s a very talented chap,\u201d begins Simon Thomas, \u201cGolf is hard. He\u2019s got a bit of ground to make up; by my reckoning he needs to find at least 16 shots today if he\u2019s to make the weekend. A 56 today then.\u201d Well, let\u2019s see now. Craig Wood shot a first round of 88 in 1936, bouncing back with a 67 the next day. He finished in a tie for 20th, and went on to win the event in 1941. So there\u2019s always hope I guess. Admittedly that still stands as the biggest contrasting start in Masters history, 89 years on, and Dunlap would have to better Jim Furyk\u2019s all-time low PGA Tour score of 58 by two strokes to beat the cut. But let\u2019s rule nothing out until it\u2019s mathematically impossible.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/apr\/11\/the-masters-2025-day-two-updates-from-augusta-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our rolling report of the second-round action in Georgia Get in touch! 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