2015 Masters: Live scores, leaderboard updates and more from Friday’s second round at Augusta

The 2015 Masters had it all. Jordan Spieth, the coming-of-age talent shattering records at just 21 years old and matching Tiger Woods’ overall 18-under scoring record. There was Tiger’s return to the game. We didn’t even know if the four-time Masters winner could chip a golf ball and play competitively anymore, but he surged into the top 10 and looked nothing like the embarrassing wreck from earlier in the week.

Tiger ignited the crowd on Saturday and was firing darts in a way we had not seen in several years. It led to a juicy Tiger-Rory McIlroy Sunday tee time at Augusta. And they weren’t the only big names playing late in the day and chasing Spieth. There was three-time winner Phil Mickelson finding his form after missing the Masters cut last year for the first time since 1997. Mickelson and the Augusta crowds have a longstanding love affair, and he made an array of bomb putts, hole-outs, and wild approaches to charge at Spieth throughout the weekend.

Tiger Woods made the cut at the Masters on Friday, after which he took his campaign for faster greens to another level.

“It’s up to what the committee does overnight,” Woods said after posting a second-round 3-under 69 in his second competitive round since February. “Whether or not they’re going to make the golf course like this where we can go get it or if they’re going to make it hard and firm, where it’s going to be tough to make birdies.”

It’s moving day at the Masters and the afternoon half of the tee sheet is absolutely loaded with stars of the game. Of course, all of them are a mile off the lead thanks to Jordan Spieth’s record opening 36 holes. But very few of the top names missed the cut this year, and there will be no shortage of world-class talents trying to pull off the chasedown on moving day.

While Spieth lords over everything in that anchor tee time at 2:55 p.m. ET, the juiciest tee time on the sheet is at 1:15 p.m. That’s when the friendly duo of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia will go off the 1st tee. The 14-time major winner and the precocious Spaniard have a bit of a history, most of it common knowledge for even the most casual golf fan. There have been relatively few opportunities for the two to play together since that blowup at the 2013 Players Championship, and there’s been no real incidents since that weeks-long contretemps.

After following up a first round 64 with a 6-under 66 on Friday, Jordan Spieth is well ahead of the field heading into the weekend at the 2015 Masters. His five-stroke lead has inspired oddsmakers to install him as a 4/9 favorite heading into the third round, according to Bovada.

Spieth was nearly flawless through 36 holes, carding 15 birdies and just a single bogey. He was among the betting favorites coming in, starting the tournament with 9/1 odds, but he’s only risen since. He was a 7/4 favorite after a sizzling first round and the strong follow up has him a dominant favorite to win and for good reason. According to Justin Ray of Golf Channel, only three players held at least a five-stroke lead through 36 holes at Augusta. All three went on to win the green jacket.

The first two rounds of the 2015 Masters were full of great shots, tremendous putts and some of the biggest names in golf in the spotlight. Jordan Spieth overshadowed all of it -- the 21-year-old dominated Augusta National during the first 36 holes with rounds of 64 and 66. At 14-under, he set the Masters 36-hole record and opened a five-stroke lead on the field. He’ll remain in the spotlight on Saturday when he tees off in the final round.

Despite making only his second Masters appearance, Spieth made his way around the famed Augusta track like a seasoned veteran. He made 15 birdies in his first 36 holes, including six on Friday. His only dropped shot thus far came with a bogey at No. 15 on Thursday. Sitting at 14-under heading into the third round, Spieth is seven strokes better than where Bubba Watson sat last year as the 36-hole leader.

For the second straight day, Jordan Spieth posted the best score of the field at the 2015 Masters. Spieth’s 6-under 66 backed up his 8-under 64 to set a new 36-hole scoring record at the Masters. Raymond Floyd’s record 13-under 131 from 1976 was toast as soon as Spieth hit Amen Corner. The 21-year-old is the best player on the planet right now, and his entire game is overwhelming Augusta.

Spieth is obviously in command at 14-under. The new targets will be that overall scoring record set by Tiger Woods in 1997 -- 18-under 270 -- and perhaps Phil Mickelson’s birdie record of 25 -- Spieth already has 15. While Spieth is lighting it up in a way no one can approach, there’s a world-class group still posting mid-60s rounds that could make it interesting over the final 36 holes.

The second round of the 2015 Masters is in the books, which means the field has been trimmed heading into the weekend. The cutline settled at 2-over with 55 of the 97-player field making the cut. The top 50 plus ties made it to the weekend. While the majority of top players played well enough to stick around, a few notable names will be headed home early, including Jim Furyk and Luke Donald.

Furyk followed a 2-over round of 74 on Thursday with a 1-over round of 73 on Friday. At one point he was sitting 6-over for the tournament, but made a strong surge down the backstretch to make a run at the cut line. He birdied three of his final six holes, but it wasn’t quite enough to secure a spot in the third round. A similar birdie run would have sent Donald to the weekend, but he parred his final six holes to finish at 3-over and just one shot too high. Billy Horschel got off to a solid start with an opening round 70, but struggled mightily on Friday. He didn’t record a single birdie and played the final five holes at 4-over to finish at 4-over for the tournament. A double bogey on No. 18 moved Horschel to the wrong side of the cutline.

Ben Crenshaw took one final spin as a competitor amid the azaleas and dogwoods at Augusta National on Friday.

Playing in his 44th Masters, Crenshaw teed off his emotional week as a fill-in for the injured Arnold Palmer in the Par-3 Contest, playing with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player. The winner of two green jackets, in 1984 and 1995, Crenshaw joked that he was not worthy of stepping into the shoes of The King, but the response from the patrons during his 36 holes indicated otherwise.

Dustin Johnson is known as one of the longest hitters on the PGA Tour and he took advantage of his length on the par-5s at Augusta on Friday. Johnson carded three eagles during his round, the first player to ever do that in Masters history.

The best of the eagles was probably his first as he made a brilliant read on his eagle putt at No. 2 to correctly play about seven feet of break on the putt.

Reverent Masters announcers and tinkling piano music are the absolute best presentation for the GOLF HAWK who showed up Friday afternoon:

What a gorgeous bird indeed.

This may be one of those rare years where making the cut, currently projected at 2-over, might not matter at the Masters. This is the one major championship where everyone in the field, who makes the weekend still thinks they have a chance to win. Augusta yields that kind of leaderboard movement and the ability to go low and make a huge run in just a 36-hole span.

But with Jordan Spieth setting a new Masters record at the 36-hole mark, most of the players sweating out the cut line are playing for a paycheck and two more rounds at the top golf course in the United States.

After shooting a 1-over round of 73 to open the 2015 Masters on Thursday, Tiger Woods entered Friday right on the edge of the cut line. He made sure to put no doubt about his status for the weekend, firing off a 3-under round of 69. That was good enough to shoot him up the leaderboard and into a tie for 13th place.

Woods’ round wasn’t only a good round for someone coming off a two-month break from competitive golf, it was also one of his best rounds at Augusta National in years. Woods’ 69 was the first time he has broken 70 in the Masters since he shot a 67 in the final round in 2011.

Jordan Spieth set a new 36-hole Masters scoring record Friday, when he added a second-round 6-under 66 to his opening 64 and cruised to a comfortable lead over his nearest competitor.

Spieth coasted past Raymond Floyd, who set the previous two-round mark of 13-under 131 in 1976. A birdie putt on the 18th green burned the edge, but his prior work was enough cushion to get to 14-under for the tournament. His two-day 130 matches the all time major championship record.

Henrik Stenson upheld his own personal tradition of angrily snapping clubs on Friday. After a punch shot at the 15th hole went directly into a tree trunk, Stenson hit a second attempt in the water at the 15th and decided he had enough with this particular club.

This is not exactly new territory for Stenson, who broke a club over his knee at last year’s British Open, snapped the head off his driver at the BMW Championship a couple years before destroying the locker room after the round and got chastised by Jim Nantz at a prior Masters for angrily pulling up some turf with his club.

1. Miguel Angel Jimenez. THE GAWD. I don’t even know what he shot while I was following him because he transcends numbers. Jimenez has on spat-patterned golf spikes and is a 51-year-old man with a curly blonde ponytail who started his round with a cigar. He put it in the water and stretched out his hands in a casual plea with Mother Earth like, damn girl how could you do that to me like that, but I still love you and later we’re all going in the hot tub with a bottle of Cava. He has a group of bros who follow him around and, without coordination or knowledge of the other’s thoughts, all say this exact dialogue out loud.

BRO A: Dude.

Tiger Woods got off to a bit of a slow start at the Masters on Thursday, but he’s improved as the tournament has gone on. That trend has continued during the start of his round on Friday, where he opened with a 2-under 34 on the first nine and is currently 2-under for the tournament, tied for 12th.

Woods’ opening nine on Thursday was very up-and-down, with solid shots being bookended by costly mistakes. He’s done well to eliminate many of those mistakes in the second round and carded just a single bogey on the front nine. That’s down from three bogeys on his opening nine during the first round. The better day started from the beginning when Woods followed an excellent tee shot with a better approach. He made the opening birdie putt to get back to even overall. It was a stark contrast from Thursday when he missed the fairway off the tee then three-putted for a bogey.

Golf fans (or, more specifically, golf bandwaggoners) were disappointed to learn that they wouldn’t be able to watch Tiger Woods’ round at the Masters Friday. Fortunately, golf personality Shane Bacon is recreating Tiger’s round on Twitter with a ballpoint pen and three Sharpies to fill everyone in on what they’re missing. Today is Follow Friday, so #FF Shane immediately for more updates.

TIGER TEES OFF AT TWELVE FORTY EEEEEEIGHT:

Bless you, Memphis radio host Chris Vernon. Bless your heart. This may actually be Summer Jam 2015.

It’s only lunchtime on Friday at Augusta National, but Jordan Spieth is coming for all the Masters scoring records. Backing up his opening round 8-under 64, Spieth is carving up Augusta again on Friday. He made five birdies through his first 10 holes on Thursday, and he’s added four more in that stretch in the second round.

Spieth was the hottest player in the world coming into the Masters, but the way he’s running away from everyone right now could be historic. Spieth picked up his first red number at the easier par-5 second, then got to double digits under-par at the 5th -- just 23 holes into the tournament. While the putter has been his best club during this stretch, he’s also hitting several shots where he doesn’t even need to worry about that club. This is the kind of approach, at the 8th hole, that has to be deflating for the rest of the field.

Jim Furyk and his legendary caddie, Fluff, had a nice long talk about what club to hit at the famous par-3 12th at Augusta. The club and yardage they settled on were perfect, but because this is golf and an extremely silly pursuit, it was too perfect. Furyk’s ball was dialed-in to the cup and looked to be heading for a slam-dunk hole-in-one. Unfortunately, the flagstick got in the way of the on-the-fly ace and promptly sent the ball caroming towards the water.

I guess Furyk can take solace in the fact that the ball did find part of the bank that was completely shaved down, or else it definitely would have dribbled into Rae’s Creek. He got up-and-down for a par that, on the scorecard, doesn’t tell the whole story. Tiger Woods can commiserate with him later.

The the hype and anticipation around the 2015 Masters centered largely around the return of Tiger Woods to golf. This is the biggest golf tournament of the year and it can sell itself, but Tiger’s involvement, especially with so much mystery around his game, amplified everything to a new level.

You would expect that, given the demand for Tiger Woods and every shot he makes, the biggest tournament of the year would actually let you watch him play? Nope.

Before the Farmers Insurance Open in February, Phil Mickelson came to the defense of longtime frienemy Tiger Woods when asked about the 14-time major winner’s failing short game. Woods returned to competition after withdrawing from San Diego’s PGA TOUR stop when he fired a 1-over 73 on Thursday in Round 1 of the Masters.

During the eventful opening round, Woods showed incredible focus and touch around the greens while struggling off the tee and with his irons. As wild as Woods was at times, it was his short game that salvaged his round and kept him in the hunt for his 15th major.

Jim Nantz was pretty much spitting into the wind when he remarked recently that Tiger Woods gets too much attention at the expense of Rory McIlroy.

“Guess how many questions I got asked about Rory in that hour?” the voice of the Masters asked Ed Sherman about a series of radio interviews he granted ahead of last year’s PGA Championship. “Zero. His name never came up. It was all about Tiger. As a journalist, how do you justify that?”

Padraig Harrington is a notorious tinkerer and (over)thinker when it comes to his golf swing. He won three major championships in two years and then decided to overhaul that championship swing. Not much good has happened since.

He tries all manner of swing techniques, swing thoughts, mental approaches, and training aids. But this might be taking it to an entirely different level. He’s about to play a competitive round at the most important tournament of the year and he’s on the Augusta National driving range with a rubber band around his legs taking running Happy Gilmore swings.