The Masters 2026 LIVE: Leaderboard, scores and Augusta updates as McIlroy leads with Scheffler and Fleetwood in chasing pack

Scheffler on 13, with his feet below his ball, this one will swing viciously from right to left.

It plummets into the greenside bunker and that’ll pose a fiddly one with little green to work with.

Burns lays up on two, from the bunker, ideal. Maybe 120 yards left.

McIlroy on the pine straw for his second, just a few inches from the tree trunk. It shouldn’t be an issue, 254 yards away… OUCH!

It sprays out to the left and crashes into a pocket of patrons. There’s room to work with, but that’s not ideal, even after just two shots.

It was a tester and it misses, McIlroy with a bogey on one. Tough.

The lead is down to four.

Hatton a little riled by a birdie miss there, but we’re just getting footage of Fleetwood on two, simple enough birdie.

Burns on one… Beautiful birdie, he’s at -7 now too.

Some more movement here, Lowry and Fleetood with birdies… They join the cluster at -6. Six behind McIlroy.

McIlroy with the putter from off the back of one, he’s quite a bit short, a tester to make par.

Scheffler spins one back on 12, a beautiful tee shot to the iconic par three.

Reed drains a birdie and moves to solo second at -7, just five behind McIlroy.

McIlroy with a big fade on one, it bends along the treeline, settling short of the pines.

It nestles in the second cut. That’s fine, but a nervy one as it came down.

Burns with a better one, a high, arching fade, it’s perfect and in the middle of the fairway.

Rose can’t convert on one, a simple par though.

Haotong! The Chinese star is also on the move, he joins the group at -6.

Loud cheers for McIlroy on the first tee…

And Scottie is up to -6, too, what a remarkable round. McIlroy was 12 clear of him this morning, he’s yet to take a shot in this third round and the world No 1 is just six back.

Tyrrell on the second, laying up and then a short iron… But it doesn’t spin enough. A missed opportunity for the Englishman, he’ll likely stay at -4.

Rose, on one, sublime iron to about 12 feet, the perfect start after two shots…

Cam Young chips from off the green on four… It’s in! Stunning, the American moves to -6. What a shot.

Scheffler on 11, tackling Amen Corner, a big, high iron that hops and skips onto the lip of the green.

It fizzes back at a right angle and trickles towards the hole. Exquisite. Birdie try to move to -6 coming up.

Lowry missed a good-looking putt on one, he stays at -5.

Cam Young, -1 today now, and -5 overall.

Scheffler on the 10th… Wonderful, seven feet for birdie, he couldn’t, could he?

Fleetwood out the bunker and he’s got a long-range birdie chance on one.

Lowry is closer, though, lovely wedge from the Irishman and he has that to move up to -6 alongside Reed and Burns.

Tommy Fleetwood is out, as is Shane Lowry.

This is the moment where the six-shot lead could narrow a touch before McIlroy even hits that first tee shot at 7:50pm BST.

Reed (-6) and Rose (-5) out next in seven minutes.