The 2025 Masters is in full swing Friday with plenty of drama, and questions.
Will overnight rain make the course play easier, or harder? (Easier, so far)
Will the wind that follows wreck the hopes of afternoon players? (Not yet, but it’s picking up)
As for drama, can Rory McIlroy wipe away the disastrous finish from Thursday? (Most certainly yes)
Will Scottie Scheffler remain inevitable? (Yes)
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Will Justin Rose come back to the field? (No, but they stepped up their game)
We’ve got the latest on Masters weather, live odds to win the tournament and Masters cut line projections (plus an explanation of cut line rules if you need it).
Follow along with the Augusta Chronicle all day Friday for answers to these questions and plenty of other happenings at Augusta National Golf Club.
Masters Friday live leaderboard
USA TODAY’s sports data hub has all the live scores as they happen from Augusta National. You can follow along live with the scoreboard here.
Justin Rose opened the day with a three-shot lead on defending champion Scottie Scheffler, 2024 runner-up Ludvig Aberg and Canada’s Corey Conners.
Here’s where they stand at 2:35 p.m.:
- 1. Justin Rose -8 thru 18
- 2. Bryson DeChambeau -7 thru 14
- T-3. Viktor Hovland -6 thru 16
- T-3. Rory McIlroy -6 thru 16
- T-5. Matt McCarty -5 thru 18
- T-5. Ludvig Aberg -5 thru 16
- T-5. Shane Lowry -5 thru 14
- T-5. Sungjae Im -5 thru 15
- T-5. Corey Conners -5 thru 7
- T-5. Scottie Scheffler -5 thru 4
Masters TV Coverage Today for Round 2
TV coverage of the second round of the Masters will be on ESPN and ESPN+. Live action begins at 3 p.m.
Fubo is currently offering free trials.
Masters projected cut line
After Friday’s second round, the field will be cut from 95 players to the top 50 and ties.
You can follow along with the cut line as it moves and who’s on the good and bad sides with our live tracker here.
With such good weather to start the day, the cut is now at 2 over, which is where it began the day. It had dropped to 1 over for a time this morning.
What holes are Amen Corner?
Amen Corner is the most famous part of the course at Augusta National Golf Club, where tournaments often have been won or lost throughout history.
The treacherous stretch takes golfers from the par-4 11th and follows Rae’s Creek to the short-but-difficult par-3 12th and into the par-5 13th.
How’d Amen Corner get its name. Here’s an explanation from the Palm Beach Post.
Has Justin Rose won the Masters?
Justin Rose has never won the Masters. Making his 20th appearance in the tournament, Rose’s best finish came in 2017 when he finished solo second behind Sergio Garcia. Rose also finished T-2 in 2015 behind Jordan Spieth.
Has Justin Rose won a major?
Rose’s only major win came at the 2013 U.S. Open when he outdueled Phil Mickelson at the East Course of Merion Golf Club in Pennsylvania. Rose finished 1 over for the tournament to capture the victory.
He also won golf’s return to the Olympic Games, bringing home the gold medal from Rio in 2016.
Has Bryson DeChambeau won the Masters?
Bryson, the most popular player on the LIV Golf Tour, has not yet won the Masters. He’s participated in the tournament since 2017, when he was low amateur while a student at SMU. His best finish at Augusta National was a tie for sixth in 2024.
Scottie Scheffler scorecard today
Defending champion Scottie Scheffler is off to a steady start to Friday’s round. He hit the first four greens in regulation, then scrambled for a par on No. 5 and is 1 under going into No. 6.
You can follow along his hole-by-hole action here.
Rory McIlroy scorecard today
Rory McIlroy, seeking the career grand slam with a Masters win, has swept through Amen Corner with vengeance.
He entered the critical stretch of holes with a birdie on No. 10, then made birdie on 11 and par on 12.
From the pine straw, he attacked the pin on the par-5 13th, narrowly clearing tributary of Rae’s Creek. His eagle putt rolled into the side of the hole, making him 5 under on the day, and for the tournament, despite collapsing late Thursday to card even par in the first round.
Masters Schedule Today
While rain occurred overnight, play has started on time Friday.
The action gets started with the first grouping goes off the No. 1 tee at 7:40 a.m., and tee times run through 1:45 p.m., giving patrons nearly 12 hours of golf on Friday.
To watch coverage online, you can stream a host of channels at Augusta National Golf Club through Masters.com.
- 8:30-10:30 a.m. – On The Range
- 8:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m. – Holes 4, 5 & 6
- 9:15 a.m.-7:30 p.m. – Featured Groups
- 10:45 a.m.-6 p.m. – Amen Corner
- 11:45 a.m.-7 p.m. – Holes 15 & 16
Masters payout, purse 2025
The payout and total prize money for the 2025 Masters has not yet been announced.
In 2024, the total payout was $20 million, with winner Scottie Scheffler taking home $3.6 million.
Masters odds 2025
The live odds for the 2025 Masters Tournament as Friday’s Round 2 are underway can be found here.
At BetMGM, here were the top 13 after Thursday’s round.
- Scottie Scheffler +225
- Ludvig Aberg +600
- Bryson DeChambeau +700
- Justin Rose +750
- Rory McIlroy +1200
- Corey Conners +1800
- Tyrrell Hatton +2500
- Akshay Bhatia, Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland, Shane Lowry +4000
- Jason Day, Joaquin Niemann +5000
LIV Golfers in Masters
There are a dozen LIV Golf players in the 2025 Masters, seven of them as former champions. They are, in alphabetical order along with their first-round scores:
Bryson DeChambeau (69), Sergio Garcia (72), Tyrrell Hatton (69), Dustin Johnson (74), Brooks Koepka (74), Phil Mickelson (75), Joaquin Niemann (72), Jon Rahm (75), Patrick Reed (71), Charl Schwartzel (74), Cameron Smith (71) and Bubba Watson (71).
