Charl Schwartzel

Schwartzel's impressive round included just two bogeys and five bogeys. The 2011 Masters champion has missed his last six cuts in a row coming into the ...

Louis Oosthuizen, meanwhile, opened with a four-over 76 but withdrew before the start of the second round with an undisclosed injury. “Well, I think that was one of the challenges. Schwartzel’s impressive round included just two bogeys and five bogeys.

The 2011 Masters champion finds himself with a share of the clubhouse lead with Sungjae Im (74) at 3-under 141 after a second-round 69.

Get the hands a little more passive. These two rounds are one of the two best ball-striking rounds I’ve had in a very long time.” Schwartzel has spent too much time of late, he said, thinking about what can go wrong inside the ropes. His triumph came exactly 50 years after fellow South African Gary Player became the first international player to win at Augusta. The 2011 Masters champion now finds himself with a share of the clubhouse lead with overnight leader Sungjae Im (74) at 3-under 141 after a second-round 69. Schwartzel, 37, made tournament history 11 years ago when he became the first player to win the Masters by closing his round on Sunday with four consecutive birdies.

AUGUSTA, Ga. – There have been 209 players on the PGA Tour this season that have recorded enough rounds to qualify for the strokes gained: total statistic, ...

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RATHER like Deadly Nightshade, Augusta National can be lovely to look at but fatal.

“Every time you get into a major, you want to make the cut and then try and compete. “You never want to miss a cut in a major,” he added. “Last year I had no fears, I had no memories, so I could be aggressive, “ he said of that eye-opening debut. It was a fine shift too for Oban’s Robert MacIntyre, who made a mighty impression last year by finishing in a share of 12th on his Augusta debut and was looking to preserve a splendid record which read seven majors played, seven cuts made. It had been a good day at the office. It was a robust statement of intent.