The Masters 2023: Koepka leads Rahm heading into final round – live
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**Rahm is faced with a treacherous bunker shot.** He’s got to aim 40 feet
left of the pin, and land softly, hoping the slope doesn’t take his ball away
towards the fairway. He executes it almost perfectly. The ball lands like a
feather, turns 90 degrees right, and then, thanks to the camber on the other
side of the green acting as a backstop, rolls back into the heart of the
green, stopping 12 feet from the flag. The best he could do. On Sky, Ewen
Murray points out that Seve would have been 66 today, and he’d have doffed his
cap to that one. Rahm rolls in the putt, one of the great up and downs on this
famous hole. That’s a staunch save, because Koepka chips and putts with
minimal fuss. The pair walk off with their pars, Rahm the happier having made
three big putts in a row. Koepka must be wondering what he has to do to shake
this guy off.
**Brooks doesn’t take care of business on 9.** He’s in the middle of the
fairway, having watched Rahm send his tee shot onto pine needles down the
right, then hit a mud ball into the bunker to the left of the green. But
though he lands his approach on the green pin high, there’s too much backspin
on his ball, which tumbles back down the false front and onto the fairway. An
up-and-down contest coming up.
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