The Masters 2024 Final Round LIVE: Leaderboard and updates as Tiger Woods makes an early start before Scottie Scheffler bids for glory

Scheffler’s reaction to DeChambeau’s hole out on 18 yesterday may have been better than the hole out itself.

Also probably the same reaction he’ll have when he spots 12 missed calls from pregnant wife, Meredith.

Woods misses the green at the par-three sixth, coming up short, and you can feel the shots slipping away from him now.

He looks to have rescued the hole by playing a stunning chip on to within three feet but wastes it by failing to convert the par save, knocking it four feet past the hole.

Another bogey.

Kurt makes the most of the par-five second, splashing out of the bunker and into the sand for Eagle!

Tiger’s trip into the trees has proven very costly indeed.

After heading back to the tee to play his third, Woods can’t limit the damage as he misses a putt with his sixth shot of the hole and ends up carding a triple-bogey.

He drops to 14-over. That’s gotta hurt.

Low amatuer, Masters Sunday with Tiger Woods AND Waffle House?!

Neal Shipley is having himself a WEEK.

While Woods is taking his detour around the fifth, the amateur saves par.

If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise… because Tiger Woods is there.

Woods ends up deep in the trees to the right of the fairway off the fifth tee. It’s found inbounds but he has to call an unplayable. Obviously.

But – and bear with me here – there’s nowhere for him to take the drop within the two club length distance. So, and despite playing a perfectly safe provisional, Woods has to allllll the way back to the tee and take another drive (his third of the hole!).

Still following? I’m sorry but I don’t make the rules. Golf.

Masters Sunday at Augusta National is of course the hottest ticket in town and any golf fan would die happy just having seen a single shot of the tournament.

But there’s no doubt who the most popular grouping out on the course is right now.

I think every patron has their eyes glued to a man called Tiger Woods.

Bryson DeChambeau finished with a bang yesterday, holing out for birdie at the 18th.

It clawed him back into contention after his putting cost him a few bogeys on the back nine.

‘I just figured was easier than putting,’ he joked.

But I can’t help but ask, could he not have waited until after the interview to eat?

Don’t talk with your mouth full, Bryson.

All his great work at the second is swift undone at the third…

Woods hits his tee shot to within 30 yards of the green at the par-four third but walks off with a bogey after a chipping nightmare.

His first chip attempt doesn’t make it to the green and comes trundling all the way back down to his feet. Take Two.

His next attempt scares the hole, leaving him with around ten feet for par, which he leaves short. Bogey.

It’s a bogey for Shipley too after he has to chip on from the back of the green.

Another old master is about to tee off: Two-time champion Jose Maria Olazabal.

At 58 those victories, in 1994 and 1999, may well feel like a long time ago. These days, simply avoiding the cut represents success for a veteran who has played just two professional events since 2022.

While younger men, including 2015 winner Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas and Viktor Hovland have already stepped on their private jets, Olazabal remains here for the weekend, albeit by the barest of margins.

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We’ve already heard more roars around Augusta this morning than all of Saturday’s moving day.

Shipley’s approach at the second comes up short and finds the front bunker but the amateur recovers in sensational fashion. He splashes out and it almost goes straight in for eagle but instead leaves a tap-in birdie.I think even Tiger was willing that one in.

Tiger splits the middle of the second fairway and fires a lovely iron into the green with his second, giving him a 24-foot look at eagle.

It runs out of speed but he holes out for the birdie.

Meanwhile, more cheers echo around the course with Jake Knapp holing out at the third.

This patron isn’t taking any chances.

Getting a front row seat for the greatest show in golf is no easy feat. It takes time and a whole lot of patience.

Running is forbidden at Augusta National, so you can bet that this man walked like he’s never walked before to get that spot.

The Big Cat goes too big with his approach into the first green. The ball finds the dancefloor but keeps rolling and slips of the back left edge.

It comes to rest in a similar spot to the location of Scheffler’s sensational chip-in yesterday. Tiger can’t quite replicate the leader’s magic but he comes close.

He gifts the patrons of Augusta with a beautiful up and down for par.

Shipley isn’t as lucky as he misses a close-range putt for par and walks off with a nervy bogey.

Scottie Scheffler will head into the funal round of The Masters with a slim one-shot lead later this afternoon but will he stick around for a victory?

The American doubled down on his claim that he would drop his club mid-swing if his pregnant wife went into labor.

I’m sticking to my word, you only have your first child once.

Aka, ‘I’ll win plenty of more masters, only having a kid once’. Fair.

The Big Cat gets his 100th round at The Masters underway!

It’s Neal Shipley off first. Teeing off on his first Masters Sunday in front of one of the sport’s legends, bet he’s never been that nervous standing over a golf ball before.

His opening tee shot of the day drifts right and into the fairway bunker.

Up steps Tiger, who stripes it down the middle of the fairway. He’s off!

Tiger has been out on the range with son Charlie watching on…

It’s another former champion, Vijay Singh, out first.

He and Adam Hadwin get the 88th Masters Sunday underway. The pair are both at 14-over for the tournament, so hardly a threat to Scottie Scheffler but they’re out on Augusta National on a beautiful Sunday, there’s nowhere else you’d rather be.

9:15am ET/2:15pm BST- Adam Hadwin, Vijay Singh

9:35am ET/2:35pm BST – Neal Shipley (a), Tiger Woods

11:05am ET/ 4:05pm BST – Corey Conners, Brooks Koepka

11:15am ET/4:15pm BST – Phil Mickelson, Shane Lowry

11:45am ET/4:45pm BST – Jon Rahm, Tony Finau

12:25pm ET/5:25pm BST – Danny Willett, Adam Scott

12:35pm ET/5:35pm BST – Will Zalatoris, Tyrrell Hatton

12:45pm ET/5:45pm BST – Rory McIlroy, Joaquin Niemann

12:55pm ET/5:55pm BST – Matthieu Pavon, Sepp Straka

1:05pm ET/6:05pm BST – Matt Fitzpatrick, Patrick Reed

1:15pm ET/6:15pm BST – Adam Schenk, Chris Kirk

1:25pm ET/6:25pm BST – Patrick Cantlay, Lucas Glover

1:45pm ET/6:45pm BST – Cameron Young, Tommy Fleetwood

1:55pm ET/6:55pm BST – Byeong Hun An, Cameron Smith

2:05pm ET/7:05pm BST – Cameron Davis, Nicolai Hojgaard

2:15pm ET/7:15pm BST – Bryson DeChambeau, Xander Schauffele

2:25pm ET/7:25pm BST – Max Homa, Ludvig Åberg

2:35pm ET/7:35pm BST – Scottie Scheffler, Collin Morikawa

Speaking of Tiger, today marks the legend’s 100TH round at The Masters. There are members of ANGC who probably haven’t played that many…

And he’s playing it alongside Neal Shipley, the only amateur to survive the brutality of Augusta this week and make it to the weekend.

Shipley will walk up the 18th fairway Sunday evening with low amateur honors locked up and he’ll do it alongside one of the greatest to ever win a green jacket.

What a way to play out your Masters debut. Soak it in, Neal.

We’re seeing Tiger Woods in Sun Day Red at The Masters for the first time.

Here’s the script…

And who doesn’t like to see a top section of the leaderboard nice and bunched up on the last day at the Masters?

Scottie Scheffler leads by one at -7 and has looked imperious all tournament. But as we all know, it only takes this course to show its teeth once, and everything changes.

Collin Morikawa is a shot back and Max Homa, who played his first two rounds alongside Tiger, trails by just two.

Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg trails by three at four-under and Bryson DeChambeau, in fifth, is at -3. Only 12 players will start the final round under par.

Have a look at No 13… let’s just say that green jacket will definitely be earned today.

The Masters, Day Four, is here. One of the finest days on the entire sporting calendar.

It’s all quiet out on the Augusta course at present, but the first tee time is a little over 30 minutes away and from there, Mail Sport will cover every dramatic twist and turn.

But before our leader, Scottie Scheffler, duels with Collin Morikawa, Max Homa and the chasing pack, we have Tiger Woods going at 9:35 local time alongside the amateur Neal Shipley.