AUGUSTA, Ga. — The second round of the Masters began with tumult and sloppy play.
The first-round leader Jordan Spieth started Friday with a double bogey on his first hole. Then he bogeyed the next hole.
A little while later, Phil Mickelson, who began Friday just four strokes off the lead, found himself in the woods, where he tried a recovery shot that ricocheted off a tree trunk and disappeared in a bush. There may have been symbolism in that result since Mickelson soon disappeared from the leaderboard.
Not long after Mickelson’s misadventure, Tiger Woods clubbed his ball from the pine straw alongside a fairway and sent it rocketing into the darkest reaches of a grove behind a green.