Woods shouldn’t be on the leaderboard but was in the top 50 at the start of the second round

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) – Tiger Woods is chasing more history at Augusta National, but not the variety he prefers.

Woods could set a Masters record making the twenty fourth consecutive raise, the task became tougher due to the need to play almost the same variety of holes on Friday (23) as all yr (24).

He was amongst 27 players who was unable to complete the weather-delayed first round. In the five holes Woods played, he failed to birdie the par-5 fifteenth and made two bogeys from the fairway. That gives him a 1-for-73, marking the sixth straight round at Augusta National that he has failed to break par. When he entered the second round, he was still in the projected cut.

The top of the leaderboard has not modified.

Bryson DeChambeau, who began the match with a 7-under 65, has a one-shot lead over Scottie Scheffler. No. 1 player in the world and the just one to play and not using a bogey in the first round.

The large gallery following Woods at the least saw some good golf. This was provided by Max Homa, who gave up a one-shot lead when his approach to the seventeenth got here inside inches of creating eagle.

However, his approach to the 18th was leaky enough to find an acceptable bunker, and Homa failed to make an up-and-down par to save par. He finished with a 67 to tie at 5 under with Masters debutant Nicolai Hojgaard of Denmark.

Homa said that after the restart, there wasn’t the same energy as the previous afternoon.

“I don’t think you can get the same vibe, but playing with Tiger helps,” Homa said. “You’re so excited to wake up and go play.”

The first round ended with a result below the norm of 26 competitors. The transition includes the top 50 players and ties, and Woods was amongst that number when he quickly modified his mind and commenced the second round.

DeChambeau and Scheffler played in the afternoon, braving some nasty wind gusts, although not as strong as Thursday’s.

Woods didn’t look as agile, which was probably since it took 12 hours from the time he walked off the thirteenth green after stopping play in the dark until he hit his tee shot and resumed his round. And it was cooler than on Thursday afternoon.

He narrowly missed the 14th green and overshot about 20 feet on the hole leading to bogey. On the par-5 fifteenth, his wedge crossed the green and he had to save par. And then on the 18th, he missed a 12-foot par putt.

It might have been worse – something Jordan Spieth and Dustin Johnson know firsthand.

Spieth’s hopes could have ended with one hole. He still had 2 overs in the round, playing fifteenth, when he crossed the green. Spieth stepped back toward the front pin and watched it go off the green, down the slope and into the water.

He had to circle back across the pond, play the long ball again and find yourself with a quadruple bogey 9. Spieth also missed a 2-foot par putt on the seventeenth hole and shot a 79. Spieth had never shot worse than 76 in his previous 10 appearances.

Johnson was up 1, getting to the shooting portion of the back nine as he headed the other way. He missed a 20-foot birdie putt on the par-5 thirteenth and got stuck in the trees on the left side of the 14th on the way to double bogey. Then on the fifteenth he drove a wedge into the pond and made one other double bogey. This added to 78.

British Open champion Brian Harman found water on the par-3 thirteenth (double bogey) and the par-3 sixteenth (triple bogey) and shot a 47 on the back nine for an 81.

The outlook for the remainder of the week is nice, with the Masters tournament now back on the schedule, with the second round starting on time though players were ending the first round.

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