Smith closes inside three of Scheffler’s Masters

Scheffler at 9 underneath and three earlier than Smith entered the ultimate day; Rory McIlroy tied for ninth as Tiger Woods slides down the leaderboard with third spherical 78 – watch dwell protection from the final spherical of The Masters dwell on Sky Sports activities Golf

World primary Scottie Scheffler stays in pole place to say his first main win regardless of seeing him advance to a few strokes heading into the ultimate spherical of the Masters Event.

Scheffler, who was chasing a fourth win in six video games, entered the weekend by 5 pictures and moved six ahead throughout a cool, breezy Saturday at Augusta Nationwide, solely to stumble alongside the closing stretch and signal one underneath one. 71.

The 25-year-old heads into the ultimate day at -9 and is nicely forward of Cameron Smith, who shot 68 rounds on the day and may bounce Scheffler to the World No. 1 with a win, with Sungjae Im a. Two extra hits for third.

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Scotty Scheffler drove it into the bushes on the final gap of the day however managed to flee with a ghost to move into the ultimate spherical with a three-shot lead over Cameron Smith

Solely seven gamers remained within the purple after a tricky day in Georgia, with Eire’s Shane Lowry sharing fourth with Charles Schwarzl and Justin Thomas becoming a member of Canadian Corey Conners in a single underneath.

Scheffler went up and down from vast of the opening inexperienced to maintain par, then adopted a close-range birdie within the second by rolling off eight toes within the third, taking him briefly six toes, solely to overlook from 5 toes and a bogey three by 4.

Lowry—enjoying within the group forward of him—minimize the hole to 4 as she breached 15 toes to the sixth jumper, with Scheffler turning from an analogous distance on the identical gap and tapping the five-eighth quad to get well six hits. Pillow.

Smith got here into the weekend with a backsix however minimize the distinction by three birds on 5 holes from the sixth, whereas Lowry misplaced floor with a bogey within the ninth and Schwartzzel jumped into second on his personal with a hole-punch eagle within the high fourteen.

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Charles Schwarzl hunted for an eagle from 136 yards again to inside 5 pictures of Commander Schaeffler.

Scheffler was unable to transform a birdie’s likelihood on the eleventh and didn’t climb up and down the subsequent inexperienced to avoid wasting the equaliser, as Smith tapped every of the 5 gamers behind the 9 to briefly shut inside three of the lead.

The Gamers Champion missed six toes to avoid wasting on a par in sixteenth and slipped again to a six-under, with Schaeffler taking a shot in fifteenth however then skipping the subsequent to slide again into the 10-under.

Scheffler responded to a bogey from three throws within the fifteenth minute by making a close-range jumper on the penultimate gap, solely to search out bushes from the final tee and must drop a penalty en path to the closing bogey.

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Schaeffler bought a curler coaster on the third day however managed to carry his lead by three pictures

2016 champion Danny Willett completed eighth on a par, whereas the Underneath-71 participant was sufficient to maneuver Rory McIlroy to ninth alongside the likes of Colin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood and 2020 winner Dustin Johnson.

Defending champion Hideki Matsuyama was knocked out with a rating of 5 over 77, whereas Tiger Woods recorded the worst spherical of his profession, hitting 4 throws and 4 three-kicks within the third spherical of 78.

What’s the closing spherical of the 86th Masters Event dwell solely on Sky Sports activities. Dwell protection of the ultimate spherical begins on Sunday from 3pm on Sky Sports activities Golf, with extra feeds and extra motion throughout all 4 rounds obtainable by way of the purple button.