Trump shares Masters rooting interest as tournament reaches pivotal weekend

This play astatine Augusta National looks similar it volition beryllium 1 for the ages.

The leaderboard is stacked with golfers who person combined for 10 large championships each wrong 3 shots of each different astatine the top, and the players astatine adjacent par (eight shots back) oregon amended person a combined 24 large wins.

Fifty-four players made the chopped Friday, and the playing has been superb. The chopped enactment was a specified 10 strokes backmost of the lead. It's a agelong changeable for those guys, but they're not retired of it.

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Former President Donald Trump follows his tee changeable connected the 3rd tee during the pro-am anterior to the LIV Golf Invitational - Bedminster astatine Trump National Golf Club Aug. 10, 2023, successful Bedminster, N.J.  (Mike Stobe/Getty Images)

It has the attraction of President Donald Trump, an avid golfer.

Fox News Digital's Paulina Dedaj was connected Air Force One with the president Friday and asked Trump who he'd "like to spot triumph the Masters."

He's seemingly rooting for everybody.

"They're each friends of mine. They person immoderate large ones. Scottie Scheffler's great. Bryson [DeChambeau] is great. Justin Rose, they're each friends of mine," helium said. 

"It's going to beryllium a precise bully Masters. Looks similar it's going to beryllium a precise bully Masters. Some fantastic golfers astatine the top."

Masters chairs astatine the 18th greenish during the last circular of the Masters astatine Augusta National Golf Club April 14, 2024, successful Augusta, Ga. (Ben Jared/PGA Tour via Getty Images)

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He's right. Justin Rose's 8-under leads the pack, portion DeChambeau is simply a changeable back. McIlroy is 2 shots down the person on with Corey Conners.

Scottie Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton, Shane Lowry and Matt McCarty are each sitting astatine 5-under par. Other large names wrong striking region see Viktor Hovland and Jason Day astatine 4-under; Ludvig Aberg, Hideki Matsuyama, Patrick Reed and Collin Morikawa astatine 3-under; and Xander Schauffele, Tommy Fleetwood and Brian Harman six backmost astatine 2-under.

Major champions astatine 1-under oregon adjacent see Bubba Watson, Justin Thomas, Matt Fitzpatrick and Wyndham Clark.

Scottie Scheffler plays his changeable from the 18th tee during the 2nd circular of the Masters astatine Augusta National Golf Club.  (Michael Madrid/Imagn Images)

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A triumph for Scheffler would marque him the archetypal back-to-back victor astatine Augusta since Tiger Woods successful 2001 and 2002. Meanwhile, McIlroy is making his 11th effort to implicit the vocation expansive slam and is inactive eyeing the long-coveted greenish jacket.

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