Watch the Masters today: Start time, pairings and third round broadcast schedule
A posse of golf’s heavyweights moved into position for a battle royal over the weekend for the title in the 89th Masters.
Justin Rose and Bryson Dechambeau are in the lead group that tees off at 2:40 p.m. Saturday at Augusta National, with Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler starting their play just ahead of them.
Masters leaders, scores
Through Friday’s second round; all scores here
- Justin Rose (-8)
- Bryson Dechambeau (-7)
- Rory McIlroy (-6)
- Corey Connors (-6)
- Matt McCarty (-5)
- Shane Lowry (-5)
- Scottie Scheffler (-5)
Tyrrell Hatton (-5)
Watch the Masters today
Other stream options available all weekend at Masters.com
- Saturday: Round three, noon to 2 p.m., Paramount Plus; 2-7 p.m., CBS
- Sunday: Round four, noon to 2 p.m., Paramount Plus; 2-7 p.m., CBS
Saturday pairings, featured groups, tee times
Featured groups in bold
- 9:50 AM Tom Kim
- 10:00 AM Joaquin Niemann, Jordan Spieth
- 10:10 AM Stephan Jaeger, Max Greyserman
- 10:20 AM Danny Willett, J.T. Poston
- 10:30 AM Jon Rahm, Zach Johnson
- 10:40 AM Patrick Cantlay, Akshay Bhatia
- 10:50 AM Denny McCarthy, J.J. Spaun
- 11:10 AM Maverick McNealy, Charl Schwartzel
- 11:20 AM Brian Campbell, Byeong Hun An
- 11:30 AM Aaron Rai, Justin Thomas
- 11:40 AM Sahith Theegala, Davis Thompson
- 11:50 AM Matt Fitzpatrick, Wyndham Clark
- 12:00 PM Nick Taylor, Daniel Berger
- 12:10 PM Tom Hoge, Max Homa
- 12:30 PM Harris English, Min Woo Lee
- 12:40 PM Sam Burns, Nicolas Echavarria
- 12:50 PM Brian Harman, Bubba Watson
- 1:00 PM Davis Riley, Michael Kim
- 1:10 PM Xander Schauffele, Tommy Fleetwood
- 1:20 PM Patrick Reed, Collin Morikawa
- 1:30 PM Ludvig Aberg, Hideki Matsuyama
- 1:50 PM Jason Day, Sungjae Im
- 2:00 PM Rasmus Hojgaard, Viktor Hovland
- 2:10 PM Scottie Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton
- 2:20 PM Matt McCarty, Shane Lowry
- 2:30 PM Rory McIlroy, Corey Conners
- 2:40 PM Justin Rose, Bryson DeChambeau
Who missed the cut?
Those missing the cut Friday include tournament record holder Dustin Johnson.
Johnson, who dominated in winning the 2020 Masters, finished his second round with a bogey and a double-bogey to drop to three-over-par 147, one stroke over the cut line.
The top 50 and ties advance to play the final 36 holes. In all, 53 players made the 36-hole cut.
Other victims of the 2-over-par cut line include five-time major champion Brooks Koepka and former Masters winners Phil Mickelson, Sergio Garcia and Adam Scott.
Russell Henley, third in the FedEx Cup standings and seventh in the world rankings, also fell short. So did former Open champion Cameron Smith, who had finished in the top 10 in five of the past seven Masters tournaments, at 149. Sepp Straka, second in the FedEx standings and 14th in the world, joined those with the weekend off after rounds of 78-71—148. Keegan Bradley, 15th in the world, also missed the cut.
Jon Rahm, who won the 2023 Masters, posted a 1-under-71 and made the cut on the number (2-over 146). Patrick Cantlay also finished at 146 after an even-par round Friday
“I’m playing better than I scored, for sure,” said Johnson, a Columbia native who starred at Dutch Fork High and Coastal Carolina. “I played pretty solid today until the last two holes.”
He opened Thursday with a 2-over 74. He stood at even par for the tournament until wayward drives of the final two holes plus a three-putt at the 18th ended his opportunity to play the weekend.
“It’s a pretty tough finish,” he said. “If you drive it in the fairway, it’s not tough. You miss the fairway, it’s difficult.
“You just got to keep at it. Golf is a funny game. You play the same round and shoot 4- or 5-under, or as I did today, shoot 1-over. Just couple putts here and there drop and gives you a little momentum, a little confidence, it’s a different day.”
Johnson, who now plays on the LIV Golf tour, looks forward to the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow and then the U.S. Open at Oakmont, where he won the first of his two major titles.
“I’ve just got to clean up the mistakes a little bit,” he said. “The game is in good form. I’ve to limit the mistakes.”
Henley just short
Henley, who won the Arnold Palmer Invitational among his four top-10 finishes this year, rebounded from an opening 79 with a 4-under 68 only to fall one stroke short of the cut line.
“I hit it a lot better,” he said. “I just felt like I was thinking a little bit less and just playing golf and hitting shots a little bit more.”
Last time for Langer
Bernhard Langer, playing in his final Masters at age 67, fell a stroke short of becoming the oldest player to make the cut at the Masters.
After an opening 74, he stood at two-under for the day and even for the tournament before his third shot on the par-5 15th spun back into the water, leading to double-bogey. He then bogeyed the final hole to finish at 74-73—147.
Masters chairman Fred Ridley gave Langer a handshake and a hug as he came off the final green to a loud ovation.
Langer won the championship in 1985 and again in 1993.
Jon Rahm has a ‘mountain to climb’
Rahm opened with a 3-over 75 and came back with a one-under 71 Friday, a round that included 17 pars and a birdie at No. 7.
The state of his game: “Not good,” he said.
In assessing his performance, he said, “I grinded and got a lot of good up-and-downs to be able to break par and hopefully make the cut. But (I made) a lot of bad swings and then a lot of mistakes when I was in a good position.
“Yesterday and today, there was quite a few iron swings that I thought were good that just — whether we got the wind wrong or just other things that happen at Augusta — that didn’t end up either on the green or close enough for it to be a birdie chance. After that, I just feel like I hit a lot of good putts and nothing went in. ... I have a pretty big mountain to climb to have a chance (Saturday) or to have a chance come Sunday.”
This story was originally published April 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM.