The Masters 2019: final round – live!
- Augusta updates with early start due to weather forecast
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The 83rd Masters Tournament has been one hell of a ride already. The laser-guided denouement to Bryson DeChambeau’s opening round of 66 set the tone: inches from eagle, centimetres from hole-in-one, chip in for birdie, flagstick hit flush and millimetres from eagle. Brooks Koepka also shot a 66. Since then, there’s been a 65 for Xander Schauffele and 64s for Patrick Cantlay, Webb Simpson and Tony Finau. Yesterday the field shot its lowest cumulative score in Masters history. Current leader Francesco Molinari (70-67-66) has bogeyed just one of the first 54 holes, while Tiger Woods is chasing his first major for 11 years despite driving like a blindfolded Severiano Ballesteros. Fiction has nothing on golf.
It’s been sensational … and to think, the Masters historically doesn’t really get going until the back nine today! Shame about the thunder and lightning heading for Augusta this afternoon, forcing us all into this early start, the players going out in threes on split tees, hoping to get the job done and dusted before the climate closes in. It’s sunny all next week too; typical, huh. But hey, you can’t have everything. Because look what the golfing gods have served up! This promises to be one of the most memorable Masters Sundays in history. Here’s to the weather holding off, and the final round delivering in style. Don’t go anywhere else: it’s on!
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