Scottie Scheffler

Scottie Scheffler affirmed his status as the World No.. 1 with a Friday 67 that gives him a five-shot lead heading into the weekend of the Masters.

“It's nice to build up a little bit of a lead, but I'm not really going to be thinking about it tonight or anything,” he said. Scheffler began with bogeys on two of his first three holes, but he played his final 12 holes in six under par to pull away from the field. But he came out of the battle with hardly a scratch on him. Scheffler is running like a thoroughbred of late, winning three of his last five starts, including the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play two weeks ago that propelled him to World No. 1 in lightning speed. The nearly invulnerable effort, tied for low round of the day with Justin Thomas, enabled Scheffler to build a five-stroke lead at eight-under 136—matching the largest two-round lead in Masters history. We are only 36 holes into the 86th Masters, but Scottie Scheffler established his bona fides as the No. 1 player in the world on Friday with an exhibition of power and patience we should expect from the game’s top-ranked golfer.

Scheffler is out to prove his world No. 1 ranking is no fluke at Augusta National.

A 63-year-old Larry Mize who averaged 230 yards off the tee this week beat a 28-year-old Bryson DeChambeau who averaged 310 yards off the tee at a golf course he once said played as a par 67 for him. He's missed his last six cuts worldwide and doesn't have a top 10 anywhere since last July. Danny Willett (the 2016 champion) shot 74 but still sits in the top 10. He matched Scheffler's 67 late in the day, birdied Nos. 14-16 and completely covered up his 76 from Thursday. He's legitimately in the mix, and after he gained 5.6 strokes on approach shots in Round 2, there's a path to contention on Sunday for him that does not seem inconceivable. After going out in 39, he churned his way to a 35 on the second nine and easily made the weekend. 6. Toughest test: The scoring average on Friday pushed to 74.6 mostly because of nightmarish gusting winds that were as lively as they were inconsistent. AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Perhaps it should not be surprising that the No. 1 golfer in the world, who has also won three of his last five tournaments, shot a 67 on Friday at the 2022 Masters and holds a five-stroke at the first major of the year. Watch live on CBSSports.com, the CBS Sports App and Paramount+. 3. Dustin Johnson is lurking: The grind was on for D.J. on Friday after two bogeys caused by horrific drives on Nos. 7 and 9 on the first nine. One of the storylines coming into the week was whether Scheffler was a true No. 1. D.J. knows the weekend is long, and he's simply trying to play his way into Sunday afternoon. Scheffler has quietly been a beast at majors over the last few years. The 25-year-old Scheffler's accelerated ride this week mimics his journey over the last two months.

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1st 1st 5th 5th Scheffler's best finish at the Masters came in 2021 when he finished in a tie for 18th place. Scheffler had logged a top-10 finish in three of the PGA Tour's four majors entering the 2022 season.

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Cink and his son Reagan, his caddie for the round, were walking off the tee as the ball went in. He birdied the 16th, but then bogeyed the next to need a par at the last. Scheffler showed brilliant touch around the course to hold the equal record margin at halfway in Masters history. Woods is nine shots off the lead at halfway. Away from the top of the leaderboard, Stewart Cink had a second round to remember with a hole-in-one at the 16th. He hit his second shot on 18 into the bunker and then had to spray out and run the ball down the slope to get close to the hole.

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“The guy seems to play good every year. “I learned a lot just by watching those guys manage their way around the golf course,” Scheffler said. The total prize fund on that occasion was 5,000 US dollars (£3,800) with Horton Smith claiming the winner’s share of USD1,500 (£1,100), a stark contrast to this year’s figures of USD15million (£11.5million) and USD2.7million (£2.07million).

New world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is off to a strong start at The Masters and has a faith-driven relationship with his caddie, Ted Scott.

Scheffler is among the favorites in just his third Masters appearance and is in position to keep his streak of top-20 finishes alive. “But having the God of the universe, the Creator, on your side just makes things a lot easier to deal with. I respect him a lot as a person, and I respect his work ethic as a caddie. Scheffler arrived at Augusta playing as well as anyone in the world with victories in three of the last six events he started. I think the environment out here on tour is pretty cool when it comes to that kind of stuff.” Scheffler and Scott first met through a Bible study about a year before they teamed up.

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He earmarked $50,000 to the Triumph Over Kid Cancer Foundation. His donations have not stopped, and he has partnered with Mecklin to create a program that brings kids battling cancer into golf. And now Scheffler’s ascension coincides with Masters week, the week Mecklin and James held sacred. Now 30, Mecklin—who was inspired by James to dedicate her life to pediatric care—is amazed that Scheffler has remained true to who he is in spite of the new heights he’s reached. “I think Scottie respected how James was trying to live his life, to have fun and get good at a sport he enjoyed while trying to deal with cancer and trying to help others with cancer. I like to think as touched as James was by the support, people liked being around him because he was a constant inspiration. "He would come down on Friday and be right back in Austin the next day, but he wanted to do what he could to keep the memory of James going.” And through his education and golf and treatments James continued to spread the word on his mission, annually holding a golf scramble that doubled as a toga party to raise funds to battle the disease, an event Scottie never missed. Shortly after he was told the end was near. In college we would fire up our computers and stream it in the back of class,” Mecklin says. “He spent most of his time at the local golf course.” “I’ve never seen them so happy,” Mecklin says. The surgery replaced 40 percent of his femur and 20 percent of his tibia with metal.