Augusta, Georgia – There was a moment in the second round of the Master of 2024 where Scotti Chefler and Rarah McLeroi stood equal in the literal sense. They were separate worlds in the photography sense. Up to the hill in No. 11 on the surface below, and the two stood while the wind was wandering around Amin in the corner in the middle of a crunchy and crust of the difficult registration.
Chefler escaped his approach to green fat and moved away with an equal foot. You try to try Mcilroy in the high heavens. He could only see that he drowned to a water grave, where his green jacket took place with it. Mcilroy went to sign 77. Sheffler continued to claim a second green jacket in only three years after two days.
Mcilroy stood at the top of this hill on Thursday in the top of the leaders of the same man. Just one year after his disappointing start to Masters Quest, Mcilroy seemed worlds, regardless of that version of himself … until he did not.
While Ugosta is filled with delightful memories for some, and nightmares for others, what is forgotten is sometimes who can transform you to it. What can make you think. What can make you do.
It seems that this version of Mcilroy has been long ago – at least this was proposed by the first three months of the 2025 season.
The Northern Irish opened his 2025 masters with 72 years to sit on seven strikes behind the leader of the first round, Justin Rose. On paper, the result actually improves the average scoring in the first round during his career in Grand Slam Quest and represents the third time since 2018 that has registered a round of equality or best on Thursday.
But this game was not played on paper, especially with regard to Mcilroy in the Master.
The pioneering hero got four times a depth of 4 below and appears as if he could not make any mistake. In 3 years, Amin Rukn moved in an expert manner thanks to a beautiful flying iron from the top of the hill in 11th, and a short, turned around the next Satan.
He allowed his distance to talk about bending over Par-5 13th and expressed his strengthening during this three-hole extension that his game was no longer what it was in the last 10 rounds about Ugosta National. Various physical tools. The training course management is more. Slow starts from the blocks you went with.
Then the chaos followed. Three hours after we remind us of what Ruri McLeroi could do to Ugusta National, we were reminded of what Ugusta National could do with Ruri McLeroi.
The perfect image is the first 14 hole turned into a satisfactory art piece within 30 minutes. The brush strokes are no longer light and free flow, but full of anxiety, violence and ideas in the past. Although the fabric remained virgin, the artist is no longer the same.
Standing in the fifteenth corridor, Mcilroy contract is a company in 4 below. Walking from the eighteenth green color, even slipped.
After hitting his approach in Par-5 15 on green and watching it rolling on the back edge, the mcilroy should be thinking about four. Instead, he was met seven while he reduced the third in the water and failed to climb and fall into a ghost from the other side of the water.
Some damages were definitely blocked, but still standing at 2 below, Mcilroy was out of the frame. He has still had an opportunity – in all fairness – but he certainly felt that his heroism was washed after what happened on the seventeenth.
When finding the first pieces of the starting point, Mcilroy discovered why many suggest that they do not miss Long from this green color. His approach fell on the backplace site and cares below the surface until after. A aggressive slice was hit with a lot of mustard. His attempt to do the same. It was placed 6 feet away. It led to another double and another double ghost.
Establishing equal footing in the last finishing touches on Mcilroy’s disappointing day, which led to a degree of approximately two strokes better than the average field. Most of the tournaments, he will find consolation in it. He used to take good with the bad and knew that there were still 54 slots. The 2025 version of himself can chase anyone from seven behind. This version is from a different Ruror.
But in a master’s degree? At the National Golf Club? With an opportunity to complete the Grand Slam profession?
Perhaps, this is not Which – which Rori.
Rose rolls around the clock
Jack Nickelus, Arnold Palmer, and the player of the winner, collected 13th degrees. None of them led or drove after the first round several times like Rose, which now has the championship record with five such advantages. The English was simply exciting around Ugusta National on Thursday – especially on the vegetables, where he gained more than five strikes on the field, reaching 8 in the first 16 holes before the faults in the end.
Rose did almost everything but do not put this green jacket. The threads are distinguished in the first round, yes, but the qualifiers with Sergio Garcia in 2017 come to the top of the mind. He knows how to make his way around this drug, and knows that his game is still good enough to win a large championship at the age of 44.
Although opportunities may be less, as Rose admitted after his tour, what is the most important thing is that they are still coming. The former USA -Open champion in one championship was not claimed last year, highlighted by the descriptive result to Xander Schauffle in the open championship in Royal Tron.
Does the closure window add more pressure … or does it add more appreciation?
For Rose – the main winner, the former world number 1, who is the owner of the Olympic Gold Medal – says the whole thing is rising from here.
“I think you always feel self -pressure to add more more. I feel I can make a statement about how much I played in the back end in my career,” said Rose. “This is a great opportunity, though, do not press. I think the answer to your question, yes, I see everything as upside down now. I think my CV has been divided well. There are some great flagging.
“Therefore, there are a lot of opportunities to do things that I have not done before, but the main headlines are a kind of applicable to me. So I must use it as a freedom to take these opportunities and use them for a kind of free wheel and use them all in the upward direction.”
The hero is here
Ugusta National loves its former heroes, and it couldn’t be more clear Shifler 68 opening Thursday morning. It is the methodology to choose its locations, and know when it reduces the gas and confidence in a different area of its game, making world number 1 its 4 -year performance looks like the highest possible degree.
The beneficiaries agreed.
To look like a father making a bad joke, it was prominent, and he put it on what a few did before. Scheffler seeks to become the first Golf player since Tiger Woods and the fourth to decline in Ugusta National. He also looks to join Jack Nickelus and becomes the second player to slip on the green jacket three times in a four -year window.
“It is funny because this is a golf course where there are a lot of opportunities,” she said. “There are a lot of opportunities during the weekend. There are a lot of opportunities on Sunday as they put nails.
O boy, here we go again
Ludwig Oberg’s demise may be largely exaggerated. After finishing second place in his first appearance in Angc last year, the Swedish star entered this year’s championship far away in terms of form, but it is clear that he is not in confidence. Fresh off two lost discounts, åberg did not miss a rhythm in the opening of the abstinence.
He played the first 11 holes even on an equal footing, then the fire was buried. Hitting åberg beautiful feelings in both numbers. The bird served in the last good reminder: This child He is various. (He may be described as an unarmed child at this stage.)
“Augusta is a place where the experience plays a big role and a kind of identifying the place of leaving it.” “I’m sure we will see some different winds and pins in the past year, so that will be more in a kind of experience in a bank, if you will.
Haton or Hat?
Tyrrell Hatton, Jordan Spiet and TOM KIM assembly included Par-4 short 3 with varying degrees of stress. Speith was boring (on the course of the session), Kim was wandering after the starting point shot and wore against a committed shoe. Haton looked as if he had just received the worst news in his life as his hat was removed and his head was rubbed.
This news turned into one start.
The English continued to carry his hat on hand between the shots, and continued to work for him. After a year of lamenting about preparation and conditions (equally for the course, such as Spiet), Haton has a great opportunity after opening 69 to overcome its manufactured demons.
“I don’t know if I have worked on my patience. I think this depends only on the side of the bed from which I got out, if I have little or nothing, Haton said.” It is clear that today was a good day – he led the ball well, which has gone through the years it faced. Last year, it was clear that I was my best, and I said that week I felt that I could not pay the ball better than I did.
“It was good to go there today and play a very strong tour. Of course, I am disappointed by making a ghost in 17. I don’t feel that I have made a big mistake there. But I think this is a kind of this place too. You don’t really have to do anything wrong to drop the shots.
Great
The leader of the first round in a season, Praison Deschambo returned again. Although it was not 65 of 2024, its opening 69 puts it closely. He was far from the dowry that is going on one trip as well, which should attract confidence to the Dechambeau camp as he gained throughout the bag and remains in work hard as the last man in the training area on Thursday night.
Whether the rain is heading until Friday morning, it may not be a big thing for some, but it may be noticeable for the main hero twice. He has been significantly fought over the vegetables and around the weekend last year. With the players ’commented, this matter is fixed, fast, and spots, they saw this place on Thursday, that is, moisture in the Greens – although it will be a remote memory late from Saturday to Sunday – plays in the hands of Dechambeau.