Relive the most memorable Sunday back-nine moments at the Masters

Spieth followed Friday’s 69 with a 68 to pull into a tie with Hoffman and Ryan Moore at minus-4.

With 2013 US Open champion Rose and two of the best players in golf not to have won a major yet in Garcia and Fowler, as well as Spieth, whose first three Masters finishes have been second, first, second, there is plenty of quality at the top of the leaderboard and bubbling under.

Both players lie on a score of six-under par for the tournament, with American Rickie Fowler breathing down their necks a shot further back.

The two Americans, Spain’s Sergio Garcia and Belgian Thomas Pieters were locked together on four under par after two rounds played in swirling winds.

Spieth is looking to win his second Green Jacket in just four attempts, while fan favourite Fowler wants to land his first Major title.

Rose did all of his work on the back nine, birdieing five of the last seven holes for an inward 31 and a 5-under 67, the best round of the day.

“New experience for me, coming from behind on Sunday at the Masters, which is kind of fun to say”.

“I think that at the end of the day, that’s really the only thing you can do”.

“I had some chances on the back nine that I could have converted”, he said. I had my head down and kn ew I was creeping up on the leaders. “It leads me to understand everybody’s mindset behind me, so it means I have to stay positive tomorrow and continue to play good, aggressive golf”. “I kept fighting with all I had”. He plans to keep playing like the go-for-broke Arnie, too, and that figures to make the final round a pretty good show for golf fans.

There are so many good choices that it’s sort of overwhelming to pick one.

If Spieth wins after an opening 75 that had him trailing by 10 shots, it would be the best 54-hole victory fightback in Masters history. Three-times Masters victor Phil Mickelson (73) had two late bogeys and was a further shot back along with former champions Jordan Spieth and Australian Adam Scott, who both shot 69.

“This is Jordan Spieth’s fourth Masters. My lowest round here, I’m not sure it’s going to be low enough”.

“After contending on Sunday for a few years in a row you normally don’t need as low as you think”. “It was a very solid round, and then obviously finishing birdie-birdie put a cherry on top”. He three-putted from 5 feet for a double bogey and finished with a 75, putting him five shots back.

His peak at the Masters came in a run from 2000 through 2004 with five consecutive finishes in the top six, including runner-up finishes to Vijay Singh in 2000 and Phil Mickelson in 2004.

After making all pars on the first nine, he found his groove on the back with birdies at Nos.

“Should be a great match-up in the last group”, Garcia said. He said when he hit crisp, high arcing shots often they landed a yard or two into the rough, making it hard to navigate the subsequent approach. Open champion as he is in prime position to grab his second major title.

” I feel the time off was more of a blessing”, he added. He is tied with Sergio Garcia, who birdied two holes on the second nine for 70.

“It’s not going to be easy”. Nothing about what happened a year ago on Sunday has shaken that belief, and what happened in the past two rounds seems to have only strengthened it.