2017 Masters leaderboard and scores: Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose lead after 3rd round

The 54-hole lead at the Masters belongs to Justin Rose and Sergio Garcia. The Englishman and the Spaniard mounted Saturday charges and passed up Charley Hoffman for the lead down the stretch. Rose has one major championship to his name, a U.S. Open, while Garcia is still striving for his first one.

Hoffman led the tournament by four strokes after the first round and was tied for the lead after the second. He emerged alone again for much of Saturday’s round, but Hoffman declined on the back nine and lost his leading position for Sunday. Hoffman nonetheless remains in solid contention, as do many others.

Garcia and Rose, of course, will be the last group off the first tee on Sunday. After them will be Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler, two of the greatest young players in the world. The tee sheet on Sunday sets up beautifully.

High winds made Augusta National a challenging course on Thursday and Friday. Saturday was a gorgeous day, and the field scoring average was by far the lowest of the three days. (Augusta’s always hard, but it was less so on Saturday.) Weather’s expected to again be good on Sunday. Even for the players at the highest heights of the leaderboard, it’ll require several birdies to win this tournament. Just making par after par almost certainly won’t be enough in a low scoring environment.

Sunday at the Masters is going to be great, because it’s Sunday at the Masters. I’m not throwing advanced golf knowledge at you by making that point. But this leaderboard is especially awesome. It’s got a handful of the longtime best players in the world (Spieth, Fowler, Scott, Rose, and the like), some rising young stars (Thomas Pieters, Jon Rahm), major Cinderellas (William McGirt), and the veteran star who’s never won the big one but has another chance to do it this year (Garcia). The storylines will rule.

Players will go off from the first tee not long after 10 a.m. ET, and CBS will begin live television coverage of the final round at 2 p.m. ET. (That’s an hour before the normal TV start time at the Masters, golf’s notoriously hard-to-watch major.) Players should come to the finish around 7 p.m. ET, with the green jacket ceremony afterward.

Here’s the leaderboard through three rounds. During the tournament, the board at the official Masters website updates automatically throughout each round.