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After a first round where he shot even par, the 2021 Masters champion shot a 2-under 70 Friday and is T16. That positioning will keep Matsuyama in the mix for a second green jacket as he is far below the cutline.<\/p>\n
Matsuyama has now made the cut in each of the past 12 tournaments going back to 2015. He also has nine top-25 finishes during that span. Last year, Matsuyama finished T21. He looks to be right on schedule with that so far through his 15th Masters appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the second round, Matsuyama recorded six birdies, including consecutive ones on Nos. 2 and 3 and 14 and 15 respectively. He also bogeyed four times in the round.<\/p>\n
With two top-10 finishes over the last two months leading into the Masters at the WM Phoenix Open and AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Matsuyama entered Augusta this week with decent momentum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Hideki Matsuyama is moving on to the next round. After a first round where he shot even par, the 2021 Masters champion shot a 2-under 70 Friday and is T16. That positioning will keep Matsuyama in the mix for a second green jacket as he is far below the cutline. Matsuyama has now made the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hideki-Matsuyama-makes-cut-with-strong-second-round-at-the.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27016,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27014\/revisions\/27016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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