AUGUSTA, Ga. — The second round of the Masters began with tumult and sloppy play. 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. 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.

Woods ended up shooting a 3-over-par 75 and barely qualified to play the rest of the tournament. Woods is now 4-over for the tournament, and Mickelson, one shot behind him, made the cut by only a stroke.

But after all the early hardship, a host of other golfers later in the day played with a poised efficiency that sent them surging into contention. In the end, the Masters’ halfway point brought a leaderboard stacked with past major champions, including Spieth, who rebounded from his poor start.

“You have to know that you can fight back on this course,” Spieth said.

Patrick Reed, who shot a sparkling 66, was the second-round leader at 9-under par, and Marc Leishman, who shot a 67, was two strokes back for the tournament. Neither Reed nor Leishman has won a major championship, and lurking behind them were eight major winners within seven strokes.

That group included Henrik Stenson, who was in third at 5-under, plus Spieth and Rory McIlroy, who were one stroke behind Stenson. Dustin Johnson, the 2016 U.S. Open winner, shot a 68 Friday to reaffirm his candidacy for a green jacket. Tied with Johnson was Justin Thomas, last year’s PGA champion. Justin Rose and Louis Oosthuizen, also major winners, were another stroke back, as was Bubba Watson, the two-time Masters champ.

Tony Finau, who came back from a serious ankle injury to tie for second place in the first round, slumped a bit with a 74 on Friday. But he was still tied for eighth place at 2-under.

Defending champion Sergio Garcia, who shot 81 in the first round, was only marginally better Friday. His 78 left him 15 strokes over par for his two rounds.