2024 Masters Tournament | Saturday Updates
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – It’s moving day at the Masters.
Traditionally, Saturday has earned that moniker as the remaining players that made the cut seek to put themselves into position to compete for a green jacket on Sunday.
“All I’m trying to do is really enjoy it,” said Ludvig Aberg of Sweden (-2), who enters the weekend four shots off of the lead. “It’s my first time here at Augusta National. It’s a privilege to be here and play this event, and that’s what I’m trying to do for the rest of the week.”
He will be chasing a trio at the top of the leaderboard: 2022 champion Scottie Scheffler, 2020 U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau and Max Homa, who is ranked No. 11 in the Official World Golf Ranking and is seeking his first major championship.
“It will be different (Saturday) than at a (PGA Tour) event,” Homa said. “I don’t know if you guys have seen ‘Hoosiers,’ but the whole same size is 18 of them, and I’m just going to try to do my best.”
“Playing great golf,” DeChambeau said. “Golf swing is in an awesome place. Putting is in a great place. Chipping is in a great place. Just have to be smart around this place and give myself an opportunity come the back nine on Sunday.”
“Definitely feeling pretty good with the results from (Friday) and excited to get some rest and get ready for (Saturday), Scheffler said.
Five-time champion Tiger Woods (+1) enters the weekend seven shots behind the leaders after setting a Masters Tournament record Friday with his 24th consecutive made cut.
“It means I have a chance going into the weekend,” Woods said. “I’m here. I have a chance to win the golf tournament. Lance and I really did some good fighting (Friday), and we’ve got a chance.”
Augusta resident Luke List (+5), who went home Friday thinking he had missed the cut, returned Saturday to shoot a third-round 71.
“I packed up my whole locker,” List said. “I was planning on missing the cut. Obviously the conditions were tough. I thought it was going to stay at 5. For that to happen, it was a bonus. It happens in golf with those conditions, so I was very fortunate.
I had a bunch of friends and family. Your kids don’t care what you shoot, so they were acting normal. It’s tough. It really was.
I feel like I played really well yesterday. I feel like I was really patient with the way I hung in yesterday and just didn’t get anything out of it. To miss like that, I felt it was stinging a little bit.
Then to the full mix of emotions to be able to turn around and be able to play today was very special.”
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