Temperatures dipped below 10 degrees celsius, but Brooks Koepka played bogey-free in the breezy warmth on Friday
No one had an easier time Saturday morning at the Masters than Brooks Koepka. He didn’t have to play, and he still had the lead going into a cold, soggy and brutally difficult weekend at Augusta National.
Rahm played the entire back nine in severe conditions and finished off a 3-under 69 to get within two shots of Koepka, who was among the fortunate to get his second round out of the way on Friday before the bad weather moved in and changed everything. This was all about survival, and no one paid a price quite like Justin Thomas. He was at 2 under for the tournament when he returned Saturday morning on the 10th hole. And then he got plenty of attention for all the wrong reasons.
Thomas narrowly missed an 8-foot par putt on the 17th hole, and that did the trick for Woods. On the 18th hole, Thomas hit a fairway metal left toward the gallery, and missed his par putt from 10 feet. He shot 78 and missed the cut at 4-over 148. “I hit a 3-iron into 18, and I only had 186 to the front, and it didn’t even pitch to the front,” Adam Scott said. “So it’s playing long. Normally that club flies 240.”
The color at Augusta came from all the umbrellas — most of the blooms began to fade earlier in the week — and the predominant sound was raindrops, not roars.
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