Three of golf’s largest superstars are on prime of the leaderboard because the Masters enters the weekend. As Rory McIlroy, Bryson DeChambeau and Scottie Scheffler chase chief Justin Rose, there may be loads of golf forward in what ought to be a memorable main championship weekend.
McIlroy is the present favourite regardless of being two strokes again of Rose. Attempting to finish the profession grand slam whereas successful his first main since 2014, McIlroy faces extraordinary stress to win his first inexperienced jacket.
DeChambeau is making an attempt to say his third main after two U.S. Open titles. For Scheffler, a win would make it back-to-back Masters wins and three inexperienced jackets in 4 years — the quickest in historical past to get to 3.
With two days of the Masters left, listed below are the up to date Masters odds to take house the inexperienced jacket — supplied by FanDuel Sportsbook. Masters bettors can benefit from FanDuel Sportsbook’s Each day Revenue Enhance Token promotion every day that can be utilized on any Masters wager.
Can Rory lastly shut it out at Augusta? Or will a gifted leaderboard stuffed with superstars and former main winners declare golf’s most coveted title?
Total favourite
Rory McIlroy (+330)
All eyes will likely be on McIlroy this weekend when he makes an attempt to make historical past.
Shaky down the stretch to finish the primary spherical, confidence was down on McIlroy when he made two double bogies on 15 and 17 to complete the day at even. After practically reaching -5, solely to fall outdoors of the highest 10, McIlroy seemed probably defeated.
However Rory got here to life on the second 9 at Augusta through the second spherical. Firing a five-under 31 to shut out the spherical, together with a memorable eagle on 13 after a ridiculous method off the pine straw, McIlroy is in his finest spot getting into the weekend in seven years.
With regards to being in competition on the Masters after 36 holes, McIlroy was T4 after the second spherical in 2018 (T5) and second place after 36 holes in 2016 (T10). Though McIlroy put a scare into eventual champion Patrick Reed with a powerful third spherical in 2018, McIlroy faltered throughout each weekends and fell out of competition.
Though McIlroy owns two prime fives within the Masters this decade, each of these finishes got here from poor begins and powerful finishes — notably Rory’s Sunday 64 to safe a solo second end in 2022.
If McIlroy can keep his confidence and enhance some errant drives (61 p.c fairways hit in comparison with 73 p.c for the sphere) he ought to generate sufficient birdie appears to be like to remain within the combine.
Jack Nicklaus and Gary Participant each mentioned they imagine that is the yr Rory lastly wins the Masters. Will McIlroy lastly get it completed?
Longshot
Hideki Matsuyama (+4000)
For those who’re on the lookout for longer odds getting into the weekend then the 2021 Masters champions presents an attention-grabbing case. Sitting 5 pictures off the lead at -3, Matsuyama put collectively a really stable second spherical -4 after a sluggish opening day.
Hitting 86 p.c of fairways and 82 p.c of greens by two rounds, Matsuyama is thrashing the sphere by a wholesome margin in each classes up to now throughout a stable ball-striking begin. The putter lets down Matsuyama at occasions, nevertheless, with constant greens in regulation recurrently ending in pars. Matsuyama solely has six birdies and an eagle this week, with extra scoring wanted to make a weekend comeback.
Matsuyama can warmth up shortly with flurries of birdies, which led to wins within the Sentry Event of Champions, FedEx St. Jude and the Genesis Invitational. A 3rd-round 65 through the 2021 Masters gave Matsuyama a cushty four-shot cushion on the way in which to his solely main championship.
Though Matsuyama is taking part in from behind on this state of affairs, a scorching second spherical, robust ball-striking and a current win at Augusta makes Matsuyama a participant value watching.
