Scottie Scheffler slams home 60-foot birdie putt as he looks to defend his Masters title

Scottie Scheffler has picked up wherever helium near disconnected astatine the Masters. 

Scheffler, 28, won the Masters successful 2022 and 2024 and started his quest to triumph the large tourney for the 2nd consecutive twelvemonth powerfully connected Thursday. 

Scheffler was 1-under par going into the par 3-fourth hole. Scheffler deed his tee changeable successful the halfway of the green, but 60 feet distant from the hole. 

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Scottie Scheffler reacts aft putting connected the 2nd greenish during the archetypal circular of the Masters Tournament connected April 10, 2025. (Michael Madrid-Imagn Images)

The defending champion was unfazed. Scheffler hammered the putt up the elevation and into the backmost of the cupful with immoderate velocity for the birdie. 

The birdie enactment him 2-under par done 4 holes to statesman his archetypal round. 

At the clip of this writing, Scheffler is 3-under par done 12 holes, and is tied for 2nd arsenic helium trails Tyrell Hatton by 1 stroke. 

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Scottie Scheffler watches his tee changeable connected the 4th spread during the archetypal circular astatine the Masters, Thursday, April 10, 2025, successful Augusta, Georgia. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Scheffler seeks to beryllium the 4th golfer ever to triumph the Masters successful consecutive years. Jack Nicklaus won successful 1965-66, Nick Faldo successful 1989-90, and Tiger Woods, the past to bash it, successful 2001-02. 

With his triumph past year, Scheffler joined Horton Smith arsenic the lone 2 golfers to gain his archetypal 2 Masters wins successful 5 oregon less starts. Scheffler has ne'er finished extracurricular the apical 20 successful his 5 Masters starts. 

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Scottie Scheffler and his caddy, Ted Scott, locomotion on connected the archetypal fairway during the archetypal circular of the Masters connected April 10, 2025. (Peter Casey-Imagn Images)

After a historically bully 2024 season, Scheffler has yet to grounds a triumph truthful acold connected the PGA Tour this year. Despite that, helium has 3 apical 10 finishes, 1 of which was a necktie for 2nd successful his astir caller tourney astatine the Texas Children’s Houston Open. 

Scheffler did miss a fewer tournaments to commencement the play owed to a freak manus wounded helium suffered portion preparing Christmas dinner. 

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