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Gotta say that the fourth & final round of The Masters at Augusta National has changed everything in the lead up towards the finish line. Yes, I mean the for the leader in particular when Brooks Koepka, who kept top spot for the majority until this point, didn’t have a great run today with a mix of putting mishaps after he finished joint 2nd alongside the now oldest best Masters finisher of Phil Mickelson (age 51).

That paves the way for Spaniard Jon Rahm the opportunity to capitalise on Koepka’s mistakes & go one better for the top spot. And he too has done more than enough to not only keep it consistent bar the bogey on the Par 4 9th through the end of his final shift (4 birdies & all other pars of 3 under 69), but also secure his 2nd major Championship since the 2021 US Open, as well as his first Masters victory at a total of -12. Congrats to Jon on what has been a stellar Easter Sunday as he now gets to don the green jacket.

While there’s plenty of late movers we can name a few that ended up on a high in the Top 10 leaderboard, we didn’t have much hope in making a late charge into the top-half spots despite some promising progress from the beginning at our Aussies & NZ corner. Kiwi Ryan Fox finished T26 on his first Masters appearance after a great first couple of days, but then began to slip away towards the end. Meanwhile, Cameron Smith topped the charts for Australia in T34 ahead of Adam Scott & Jason Day in T39.

And even though he had a difficult 2nd half run, shoutout to Amateur Sam Bennett who finished in T16, having been around Rahm & Koepka for the lead at one stage earlier on Day 2. Now he’s set to play more golf without a caddie ahead of tomorrow’s 36-hole/two-day Aggie Invitational for his school – Texas A & M. 

What a wild few days it has been where we saw some stop-start play due to wet weather before there’s so much movement alongside an jaw-dropping change of leader on the run home, as we can’t wait for next year’s 88th Masters edition.

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The second last day of this year’s Masters have been hit by wet weather once again at Augusta National where we had to squeeze in some catch up time from Friday’s 2nd Round before players below the Top 50, who missed the cut, had to leave the golf course ahead of the Round 3 start right away. But then there’s more of the same interrupted drama as not only these players will have to get through the leftover Day 3’s play done tomorrow AM, but also the full final round later in the afternoon as well to cap off such an up and down few days of major C’ship golf.

Now the makeup of the final Day 3 leaderboard hasn’t been finished yet but Brooks Koepka is still your leader at -13 ahead of Jon Rahm in 2nd (-9). And amateur Sam Bennett (-6) still hopes to turn things around from 3rd & go after Koepka & Rahm for the top spot despite his poor start of back-to-back bogeys. Then there’s more people coming in and out of the Top 5-10 apart from Koepka & Rahm – maybe Bennett if he can pull off a masterstroke Round 3 spell – with Patrick Cantlay & reigning US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick emerging into the Top 4 as of late at -4 alongside Collin Morikawa & Viktor Hovland.

And we still have three Aussies & one Kiwi in the mix despite little upturn in progress if they want to wrap up on a high even as outside contenders.

Good to see NZ’s Ryan Fox improving up a few spots to Tied 14th (-3), even though he had two bogeys in between the first nine & still has 7 holes left to finish after a great two days out. Jason Day is still holding on the Top 10 places in Tied 8th, but his shift earlier today hasn’t been the same so far with just one birdie on the Par 5 2nd. And so does Adam Scott where he regressed massively from a 1st half Top 10 to now Tied 28th, while there’s not much progress from Cam Smith in Tied 23rd.

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The second last day of this year’s Masters have been hit by wet weather once again at Augusta National where we had to squeeze in some catch up time from Friday’s 2nd Round before players below the Top 50, who missed the cut, had to leave the golf course ahead of the Round 3 start right away. But then there’s more of the same interrupted drama as not only these players will have to get through the leftover Day 3’s play done tomorrow AM, but also the full final round later in the afternoon as well to cap off such an up and down few days of major C’ship golf.

Now the makeup of the final Day 3 leaderboard hasn’t been finished yet but Brooks Koepka is still your leader at -13 ahead of Jon Rahm in 2nd (-9). And amateur Sam Bennett (-6) still hopes to turn things around from 3rd & go after Koepka & Rahm for the top spot despite his poor start of back-to-back bogeys. Then there’s more people coming in and out of the Top 5-10 apart from Koepka & Rahm – maybe Bennett if he can pull off a masterstroke Round 3 spell – with Patrick Cantlay & reigning US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick emerging into the Top 4 as of late at -4 alongside Collin Morikawa & Viktor Hovland.

And we still have three Aussies & one Kiwi in the mix despite little upturn in progress if they want to wrap up on a high even as outside contenders.

Good to see NZ’s Ryan Fox improving up a few spots to Tied 14th (-3), even though he had two bogeys in between the first nine & still has 7 holes left to finish after a great two days out. Jason Day is still holding on the Top 10 places in Tied 8th, but his shift earlier today hasn’t been the same so far with just one birdie on the Par 5 2nd. And so does Adam Scott where he regressed massively from a 1st half Top 10 to now Tied 28th, while there’s not much progress from Cam Smith in Tied 23rd.

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Well, we didn’t get to see much through the rest of Day 2 at Augusta National when rain interrupted ongoing play late this afternoon. There were players and spectators being forced to evacuate by officials, while there was a huge tree collapse over on the 17th tee where no one was fortunately hurt. So we will wait and see how the make up of the current leaderboard look like going into tomorrow before entering the final two rounds in the race for the one & only green jacket prize.

In the meantime, we saw a huge reshuffle of players coming in and out of the Top 10 places so far until this point. The man to watch right now is USA’s Brooks Koepka, who is currently in top spot by himself now after an excellent shift today on 5 under 67 which puts him at a total of-12, with Spaniard Jon Rahm is not far behind even though he has another 9 holes to go from the 10th. So does Last year’s US Amateur champion Sam Bennett where he moves up to 3rd right now (-8) through excellent back-to-back scores of 68, as he looks to become the first amateur player to win the The Masters in its 87-year existence. 

Then we have our Aussies & Kiwis corner with Jason Day (Tied 6th at -5) & Adam Scott (Tied 10th at -4) still in the Top 10 despite some dips in form. Although Scott still has some holes to catch up, so there’s plenty of time left to make a late charge going into this weekend. Meanwhile, nothing much has changed from NZ’s Ryan Fox over in Tied 18th, while Cam Smith can hopefully turn things around going into the back nine & climb a few places on Tied 22nd right now. And sadly, there’s very little chance of both Harrison Crowe (Tied 63rd) & Min Woo Lee (Tied 71st) surviving the Top 50 cut ahead of this weekend where Harrison didn’t improve that much & Min-Woo going from bad to worse with 3 holes still to play.

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The Masters is back for another year at Augusta National in Georgia where we are currently seeing a three-way tie for the lead following the first day’s play all on 7 under 65. These players come from three different countries such as Jon Rahm from Spain, Norwegian Viktor Hovland & USA’s Brooks Koepka. It’s been a long time since Koepka has been hanging round top spot after his win at the 2019 PGA Championship, while Hovland has been excellent from start to finish & Rahm’s first hole double bogey didn’t bother him too much with so much consistency & excellent scores over in the other 17 holes.

Then we have two Aussies of Jason Day & 2013 Masters champion Adam Scott rounding out the Top 10. Day sits at Tied 4th alongside Cameron Young on 5 under 67 with two birdies on the front nine followed by three more at the back nine apart from every other par he scored along the way. Yes, Scott may be a bit unhappy with his bogey on the Par 4 18th as he‘s not far behind on Tied 6th at 4 under 68, but he too didn’t do bad though where he collected three birdies + an eagle on the Par 5 15th. So fingers crossed on these two to keep up that strong start & hopefully bridge their way into the top spots tomorrow ahead of the weekend’s final two rounds.

There’s still time to turn things around & go one better over in Tied 17th from the current British Open champion Cameron Smith on 2 under 70 alongside NZ’s Ryan Fox where his back nine wasn’t bad but needs to improve his back nine despite a good end to his shift. Plus, Min Woo Lee needs to cut down these bogeys if he wants to survive the Top 50 RD2 cut following an inconsistent shift of 3 under 75 in Tied 63rd. And so does Harrison Crowe who is currently in the same spot as Min Woo; he too got away with two birdies despite some inconsistency on the front nine, but sadly didn’t gain anything particularly on the 13th & 14th holes for the rest of his day. Opening Day done, three more to go for the race towards donning the green jacket come Sunday.

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The Australian home Test Cricket summer has now came to a close today for this 2022/23 edition at the Sydney Cricket Ground, with Australia trying to finish up the job ASAP after we missed out the entire Day 3 & first half of Day 4’s play yesterday due to extreme wet weather. 

Although there were some great moments moments along the way – such as when the Aussies bowled the Proteas all out for 255 in this 2nd innings spell that prevented SA from escaping the follow-on by only 21 runs; So does a 4fer from Josh Hazlewood who just returned to the starting XI a few days ago from injury.

However, it proved to be such a tall order other than dismissing Proteas’ skipper & opener Dean Elgar way early for yet another consecutive occasion, as the Aussies eventually ran out of time on the 5th & last day by settling a draw with SA.

We would’ve loved to see Usman Khawaja get his first-ever Test 200, but that will have to wait when heavy rain forced skipper Pat Cummins to move on for the sake of the team. He still has unfinished though in the opening role by looking to make up more records & consistent 50s/100s for another 3-4 years at age 35. 

Plus, hats off to the SA lower-order & even spinning pair from Simon Harmer (47 off 165 balls) & Keshav Maharaj for both staying in there v the challenging Australian bowlers. Harmer would’ve liked a Test 50 but his defending & the way he picks these bad balls has been brilliant all along, while Maharaj is more of a handy batter whenever possible by backing up his half-ton for an 81-ball 53.

Now that this home Test summer is done with Australia ended up undefeated of four wins (two each v West Indies & Proteas) and a draw, bring on the Australian Open Tennis starting on Monday 16th-Sunday 29th January.

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What a day that is for the Aussies on Day 2 with the willow on hand at 475-4 right now going into Day 3 tomorrow. 

They left off from Day 1 yesterday on 147-2 where we saw not only one but two fantastic stars who each scored their Test hundreds in Usman Khawaja & Steve Smith. It was great seeing Smith start the next day by padding up before making a huge impact, having closed his latest Test ton (104) through a caught & bowl effort by Keshav Maharaj for SA, while Khawaja still hung in there with the help of Travis Head on 195* as he’s only five runs away from securing a double ton at Test level.

Plus, we saw another tremendous show from Head where he continues to pile up consistent test quality runs at No.5, before he was caught at the deep backward point by a sub fielder (off Kagiso Rabada’s ball) when trying to clear a huge maximum (six runs) for a quick fire 59-ball 70. 

Now the weather may not be promising with expected showers that is likely to halt play tomorrow, but we’d love to see Khawaja get his first-ever Test double ton before Australia look to declare by bringing their bowlers in. 

And it’s been a tough whole day on the field for the Proteas (SA), as they have a huge batting assignment to catch up at some point in this final Test. Although rain delays may go their way when it comes to preventing a 3-0 Australian series victory – even though a win is extremely unlikely with the possibility of a draw, but they still didn’t do anything good enough to stop Khawaja, Smith & Head early by letting them slip away in their tracks.

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What a day that is for the Aussies on Day 2 with the willow on hand at 475-4 right now going into Day 3 tomorrow. 

They left off from Day 1 yesterday on 147-2 where we saw not only one but two fantastic stars who each scored their Test hundreds in Usman Khawaja & Steve Smith. It was great seeing Smith start the next day by padding up before making a huge impact, having closed his latest Test ton (104) through a caught & bowl effort by Keshav Maharaj for SA, while Khawaja still hung in there with the help of Travis Head on 195* as he’s only five runs away from securing a double ton at Test level.

Plus, we saw another tremendous show from Head where he continues to pile up consistent test quality runs at No.5, before he was caught at the deep backward point by a sub fielder (off Kagiso Rabada’s ball) when trying to clear a huge maximum (six runs) for a quick fire 59-ball 70. 

Now the weather may not be promising with expected showers that is likely to halt play tomorrow, but we’d love to see Khawaja get his first-ever Test double ton before Australia look to declare by bringing their bowlers in. 

And it’s been a tough whole day on the field for the Proteas (SA), as they have a huge batting assignment to catch up at some point in this final Test. Although rain delays may go their way when it comes to preventing a 3-0 Australian series victory – even though a win is extremely unlikely with the possibility of a draw, but they still didn’t do anything good enough to stop Khawaja, Smith & Head early by letting them slip away in their tracks.

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Mother Nature may have stopped play for some time on the opening day of the New Year’s/Pink Test at the SCG in Sydney, but the Aussies are off to a great start with the bat on 147-2 at the moment – thanks to their winning toss beforehand. 

Although it was a shame not to see Dave Warner keep up from his mighty double-ton (1st innings) last week in Melbourne after being caught by Marco Jansen (off Anrich Nortje for 10) at 1st slip, it’s great to see both Usman Khawaja (Other Opener) & Marnus Labuschagne (No.3) form a really good partnership in the middle together that helped the Aussies work their way past the three-figure mark, having both reached their own Test 50s.

In between another rain-delay & early end of Day 1 at stumps, Marnus was lucky to survive the 1st time on 70 runs when Simon Harmer thought he got him out at slip, but then the umpires double checked it on the screen as the ball didn’t carry straight onto his hands that saw the bounce fell so short. However, Marnus didn’t escape this time not long later off the back from another excellent Nortje delivery – where he too was caught behind by Kyle Verreynne for 79 off 151 balls. 

I’ve gotta say that Nortje made the batters play when he not only produced some brilliant speed but he also drew these good areas, so Warner & Marnus gets trapped with the help of his fielders along the way. Really good stuff as the Proteas look to use the overcast/wet weather as their advantage going into the 2nd day’s play & try to wrap it up with the ball ASAP.

Meanwhile, Australia will look to hang in there & go the extra mile with Steve Smith up next to start the day at No.4 alongside Khawaja who is currently on 54*.

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There it is! Australia just have completed a comfortable Test match win by an innings and 182 runs at the MCG, as South Africa are all out for 204. They also won the series 2-0 for the first time on home soil since 2005/06, with one game left to go ahead of the New Year’s/Pink Test at the SCG in Sydney on January 4-8. 

Good to see the fielders overcame a series of dropped catches earlier on after they picked up from 13-1 at the start of Day 4 – which not only gave the seamers a sigh of relief when they bowl at their best for them to be prepared for each catching/run out opportunity, but they also upped their game with 1-2 direct hit wickets as well.

Although, the Aussies couldn’t get around Temba Bavuma for a while with his half-ton (65 runs off 144 balls); So does Kyle Verreynne – who scored another quickfire shift for a 40-ball 33 before he was trapped by Scott Boland with an LBW.

However, Australia eventually get the job done where their main spinner Nathan Lyon got rid of the other Proteas batting half with three wickets, while we saw a wonderful finish to this Test Match from part-time leggie Steve Smith after he clean bowled Lungi Ngidi (19 runs off 21 balls) through the gate.

Now there has been some good players from both teams that put up a really good show here at the MCG. First of all, Anrich Nortje was really fiery as always with the ball for SA – including when he busted Cam Green’s finger off a speedy 145 km delivery. Although Green was brave enough to bat through the pain for the next day with his 50, but then that puts him out of action for a few weeks. 

At the end of the day though, Hats off to Dave Warner & Alex Carey, both of whom were outstanding with the bat that got Australia way ahead by more than a country mile, before they got away easily without Green on the field, as well as seeing Starc bowl with one of his injured fingers also like Green. We might be losing these two stars for a while, but we could showcase some young talent from Perth like Lance Morris & Aaron Hardie to wrap up this Test summer.

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