8:55 am: Young makes a 15-footer to share third. Rory taps in for a second Green Jacket, not quite as emotional as 2025, but lets out a tremendous roar and heads up to share the moment with his family. The first back-to-back winner in 24 years and a sixth major championship. 

He joins Lee Trevino, Nick Faldo and Phil Mickelson with six.

8:50 am: McIlroy hits it into the greenside bunker and is semi-plugged. He clips it to 12 feet. Two putts for back-to-back Green Jackets.

8:45 am: McIlroy misses way right off the 18th tee. So wide he will be able to play down the 10th hole. He doesn't like doing it the easy way; the Northern Irishman is doubling as a traffic warden, having to direct the patrons out of his line.

8:40 am: Par for Rose at the last, he finishes at 10 under. McIlroy misses the green to the right on 17, but produces a great chip under pressure. The short game has been phenomenal all week; he taps in for par, and he heads to the 18th tee with a two-shot lead over Scheffler. Bogey will be enough here.

8:35 am: A tracer bullet off the tee from McIlroy on 17. He is three swings away from going back-to-back. 

It hasn't been Jason Day's day. He is three over for his final round as he makes his way out of the fairway bunker on 18. Lowry has also endured a frustrating day; he is currently seven over for his Sunday.

8:30 am: Brilliant touch from McIlroy, a masterstroke from long of the green. He aims about 45 feet left of the hole and uses all the contours to filter his ball down to a kick-in. World-class. He leads by two.

 

 

A brutal lip out for Young on the same hole. They trade pars once again.

8:20 am: Scheffler makes par at 17 and finds the false front with his approach into 18. He has a chip to get to 12 while Rory is in a touch of trouble at 16, missing the green long.

8:10 am: McIlroy forced to lay up on 15, has a wedge into the green from the downslope. He's very lucky that it had no spin; he leaves it well short of the flag, and if it had come out spinny, he'd have almost certainly been wet. Good break for the Green Jacket holder.

8:00 am: Rose joins Scheffler at 11 under, converting his birdie at 15. Young smashes his birdie putt through the break at 14, makes the testing par save coming back to trade pars with McIlroy

7:55 am: Back-to-back birdies for the World No.1, he converts a brilliant iron shot at the par-3 16th. Scheffler, second on his own and two back from McIlroy.

 

 

7:50 am: Birdie for the defending champion at 13, he has a three-shot lead! And rips his drive right up the middle on 14. No signs of the nerves we saw in 2025.

 

 

7:45 am: Here comes the World No.1! He makes a BOMB at 15 to get to 10 under. 

McIlroy opts for the putter, while Young prefers the wedge. 

Both have 15 feet for a birdie. 

7:30 am: McIlroy's driver is clicking at the right time. He is in a great position on the par-5 13th with a two-shot lead; he could slam the door shut here. Young takes on the green and rolls off the green to the right, a good spot. 

McIlroy ends up in the exact same spot, and both stay dry, though.

7:25 am: McIlroy is coming. He rolls his birdie in with authority at 12. Rose rolls his eagle putt about 10 feet by, and can't convert the birdie. A huge missed opportunity.

7:20 am: McIlroy and Young both hit gorgeous shots into 12, great looks for birdies. Rose waits for the green to clear on 13 and hits an impeccable iron shot! Wow, flirts with the right side of the green, it pitches just feet from the flag. The Englishman has a look for an eagle.

 

 

7:15 am: Henley is looking very threatening here, has a great look at 15 to get to -11. 

Both Young and McIlroy clean up for par on 11.

McIlroy doesn't make the same mistake at 11, finds the fat of the green with his iron shot. Leaves himself some work for his par though.

7:05 am: Bogey for Rose at 12. McIlroy now has the lead on his own. Who would've thought that through seven holes? 

7:00 am: Georgian native Henley birdies 13 to get to 10 under. Rose misses 12 green long; this chip requires a lot of touch. The green slopes away from him towards the water.

McIlroy looks to have found the driver; he is in position A on 11.

6:50 am: Rose has a 14-footer to save par, which painfully slides by. He shares the lead with McIlroy... Deja Vu, anyone?

6:45 am: A missed opportunity for McIlroy, another putt missed low of the hole for the World No.2. Young saves bogey, Young goes back to -10. Rory is in solo second.

Rose misses the green well right on 11, a very complicated up-and-down incoming.

6:40 am: Tyrrell Hatton is making a move; he birdies 16 to get to 10 under. Scheffler is struggling to get anything to drop, but it is ominous for the field to have the world No.1.

Young has found trouble off the tee, and can barely get a stance or swing for his second in the pinestraw. He does well to punch it out, but it rolls into a divot. All this is happening while Rory stiffs a wedge to eight feet. Lots of golf left to play.

6:30 am: A great week comes to a close for Max Homa, who has struggled with form over the last couple of years. He finishes at eight under for the week, currently in a tie for seventh.

 

 

McIlroy finds the fairway and then the green at the par-5 8th, his eagle putt slides by, but he taps in for birdie. The defending champion is just a shot back, joined by Young, who also makes four. It is all happening at Augusta.

6:20 am: Three in a row for Rose! He has a two-shot lead. 

6:10 am: Young fails to make his up and down, back-to-back bogeys as Rory pours in his birdie putt. Rose has the lead on his own at 11 under.

6:05 am: McIlroy hits a lovely sand wedge into the 7th. Has a fantastic look for birdie while Young hits one in the green side bunker, not a great miss.

5:55 am: McIlroy just can't get it going; he drops another shot on the par-3 6th. Burns and Lowry are also starting to fade away.

Young makes a rare bogey too; he leads by one from Rose and Henley.

Leaderboard

1: Young (-12)
T2: Rose, Henley (-10)
4: Scheffler, McIlroy (-9)
T6: Burns, Hatton (-8)
7: Homa (-7)
T9: Li, Lowry, Cantlay (-6)
 

5:50 am: More trouble for McIlroy on 6, his 8-iron into the par-3 skips long into the patrons. Young has a monster birdie look; three is certainly no guarantee from there. 

5:45 am: A tricky par save drops for Young; he has putted the lights out this week. McIlroy also makes four.

5:40 am: Russell Henley is making a big move up ahead. He joins McIlroy at 10 under after a birdie on 8.

 

 

Justin Rose, take a bow. After missing his drive right, pinestraw beneath his feet, tree trouble all around, Rose hits an unbelievable cutting iron shot which caught the slope on the green and fed to about a foot. He has the putt get to -10.

5:30 am: McIlroy makes a mess of the par-3 4th, misses the green left and three-putts, has to pencil in a double-bogey. Young leads by two at Augusta.

The luck of the Irish isn't there on this front side. Lowry makes a double on 5 after having two shots in the fairway bunker.

5:20 am: A nice bunker shot from a friendly lie for McIlroy, and he rolls his putt in. First birdie of the day for the defending champion. Young saves par, 12 under leads.

 

 

5:10 am: A great break for Young, a wayward tee shot kicks out of the trees and just short of the green. McIlroy finds the greenside bunker with his drive. 

5:00 am: McIlroy's putt slides by. The final group heads to the drivable par-4 3rd. Young has the lead on his own at -12.

5:00 am: A beautiful wedge from McIlroy after laying up on 2, he spins one off the slope and has a makeable birdie putt back up the hill. Young narrowly evades sand trouble and has a slightly longer chance, which he makes.

Burns in strife again at 3. Not advancing his greenside bunker shot out of the trap.

4:50 am: Double for Burns. Lowry makes birdie to steal back the shot he lost at the 1st.

4:50 am: Trouble for Burns at 2, finding trouble off the tee. He has hit his 4th long of the par 5 and is staring down the barrel of bogey or worse.

4:45 am:  After a great shot into 1, McIlroy doesn't give his putt a chance, settling for par. Trading fours at 1 for the final group.

Day and Rose can't capitalise on birdies at the 2nd either.

Up ahead, Scheffler plays a delicate bunker shot at the short par-4 3rd, setting himself up for another birdie. Just two back now.

4:40 am:  Don't forget about Burns! He makes a birdie at the 1st to join the lead of 11 under. There are three at the top!

 

 

4:30 am: After missing the green to the right on 1, Rose chips in on the first! It was going nowhere but the bottom of the jar. What a start for the multi-time nearly man. He is just two shots back at nine under. The drama begins.

 

 

Rory McIlroy and Cam Young start their final rounds. 

Both taking less than the driver, Young cuts one a little much and finds the fairway bunker, while McIlroy makes a confident swing and finds the fairway.  

4:15 am: Jason Day gets his Sunday surge underway by finding the fairway bunker on 1. Justin Rose finds the fairway with an excellent drive.

The penultimate group of Shane Lowry and Sam Burns are on the tee.

4:10 am: Birdies are flowing from those out on the course, most notably Viktor Hovland, who was seven under through 14 holes. Scottie Scheffler has started his charge with a birdie at the 1st; the world No.1 is just three back and no doubt making his peers a bit nervous. 

Jordan Spieth holes out from the bunker on 13, the first eagle of the day on the par-5.