Tony Finau could very well be dreaming of Augusta National tonight. <\/p>\n
With the final spot for the 2026 Masters Tournament<\/a> at stake this weekend, Finau put himself into contention with a walk-off, 34-foot eagle putt on the par-5 18th hole at TPC San Antonio on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n Converting the eagle opportunity moved Finau into a tie for third place on a crowded leaderboard, five shots off Robert MacIntyre who set a record earlier in the day with his 14-under through 36 holes.<\/p>\n \u201cI hit a really good drive, pushed my second shot a little, got lucky, covered the water and was able to roll that one in,\u201d Finau told reporters after the round. \u201cSometimes those are the small little breaks that you need to be towards the top of the leaderboard.\u201d<\/p>\n Finau got a break alright. Lightning in the area caused a stoppage in play<\/a> so he had 45 extra minutes to consider the putt.<\/p>\n The bonus time to prepare was nice but he still said the shot was a challenge to make regardless of the circumstances with the weather.<\/p>\n \u201cI had a lot of time to think about it. I read it before when I knew there was going to be a delay and then had another seven, eight minutes of taking a look at it,\u201d Finau described the moment. \u201cDouble breaker went left, then kind of flat right at the hole. Not an easy putt actually but nice of it to roll in.\u201d<\/p>\n How does a professional pass the time off the course waiting for play to resume? <\/p>\n Finau, like many of people, said he prefers to play Sudoku.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t say I was really thinking about the putt. More so just how long we\u2019re going to be waiting for it,\u201d he said. \u201cI played a little Sudoku on my phone so that was nice to pass the time.\u201d<\/p>\n Note: Tee times for Saturday\u2019s third round<\/a> have not been announced. Luke Clanton will return Saturday morning to complete Round 2<\/a>. The Tour did announced the third round would be played earlier than previously expected with thunderstorms forecasted Saturday afternoon and evening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Finau could very well be dreaming of Augusta National tonight. With the final spot for the 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-511776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}