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Bill Plaschke: Reed and McIlroy will go head to head with a green jacket on the line

AUGUSTA, Ga. - It was a gloomy, soggy Saturday afternoon at the Masters, rain splattering giant umbrellas, splashing rows of beer cups, soaking thousands of pairs of colorful shorts.

It was nasty. It was ugly. It was absolutely perfect for the mud-slinging showdown it created.

Playing out of the third-round muck and into Sunday's final pairing were two rivals whose fight over the green jacket is likely to tear it to shreds.

It will be Patrick Reed against Rory McIlroy in a rematch of 2016 Ryder Cup chaos.

Four days of the Masters have been whittled down to two men shouldering a chip

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