Justin Rose made a birdie at the first hole, but that should be no surprise considering that he's made a habit of fast starts at Augusta National - holding more first round leads at the Masters than any other golfer in history bar Jack Nicklaus...

Most first round leads at the Masters

• 4 Jack Nicklaus
• 4 Justin Rose
• 3 Jordan Spieth
• 3 Arnold Palmer
• 3 Gary Player

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Sergio Garcia is about to tee off for his 100th major championship, becoming just the 19th man to hit a century of starts in golf's big four events.

The Spaniard beat Justin Rose in a play-off for the 2017 Masters title, but his Augusta National form has been pretty poor since slipping on the Green Jacket.

Garcia has played in the Masters six times since his victory, but missed the cut on five of those occasions, finishing in a tie for 23rd on the other occasion.

He's determined just to enjoy this week, but with the Ryder Cup his big aim for 2025 he could do with a decent finish here.

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Both Collin Morikawa and Min Woo Lee take advantage of the par-five eighth hole as both men dip under par for the first time today.

It's a second birdie of the day for Lee and the first for Morikawa, who has been struggling with his game today and not looked comfortable at all, so considering that he's battled really well to get to one under.

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What a start Aaron Rai has made to his Masters debut.

Wolverhampton-born Rai was one of the most consistent players on the PGA Tour in 2024 and won the Wyndham Championship in August, adding to his victory at the 2020 Scottish Open.

He started his golfing journey as a youngster at the 3 Hammers Golf Complex to the north of the city - a par-three course which, coincidentally, I have played a few times over the past few years.

I bet he hasn't found the greenside water hazard on the second hole there as often as I have. Many a lost ball from a wayward wedge.

Will it be the perfect preparation for the iconic 12th at Augusta?

A dropped shot for Aaron Rai sees him fall out of the lead as he misses his par putt from eight feet on the 11th.

He plays the popular leave right of the green with his second, but that's still a tough spot to get down in two from, as the Englishman finds out when he can't convert the putt.

First bogey of the day is not the best way to prepare for the 12th hole...

You never really know when Scottie Scheffler is flustered, and even finding the sand around the seventh green doesn't really bother him as he gets up and down with the minimum of fuss.

And that just about sums his round up so far which has been relatively stree free - at least from here it's looked that way anyway.

You think Nicolai Hojgaard has gone a bit gun shy after a wild round? Think again as he has a crack at the 15th green from 210 yards away and produces an absolute crackerjack of a shot that ends up only five feet away.

The Dane sticks that in for an eagle! Well, it was the one score missing from his card littlered with pars, birdies, bogeys and a couple of doubles as well.

Crazy, crazy round.

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Those hardcore among you who were with us when we kicked off five hours ago will know that America's Davis Riley got the first birdie of the day.

He's coming down the 18th and has just dropped back to level par after making bogey on the 17th.

His playing partner Patton Kizzire has had a tough day - seven over for his round.

Fair to say Riley will be taking the early clubhouse lead.

Lovely off the tee from Tyrrell Hatton onto the par-three sixth as he conjures his ball to inside 10 feet.

He gives it some with his putter but off it trundles and he'll have six feet coming back just to save par.

First up though, it's playing partner Jordan Spieth who has eight feet to stay clean and he manages it.

Can Tyrrell follow him in? Thankfully yes. An unorthodox three for the Englishman.

Frustration for Phil Mickelson at the seventh after finding the greenside bunker with his second shot.

He gets out but it costs him a bogey and a slip to two over par.

Just as crucial as making birdies this week is keeping bogeys off your card as much as possible, and nobody does that better in general than Scottie Scheffler.

This time it's the putter, which can blow hot and cold for the world number one, that bails him out with a fine two putt from just off the left edge of the sixth green.

Add that to his 62-foot bomb landed earlier for birdie and the flat stick is working nicely so far.

One to watch this week is Will Zalatoris and he's got his round tracking in the right direction.

Beautiful shape on that birdie putt at 11 as it finds the bottom of the cup from 35 feet.

He's up to one under par.

It's what you do after a bad hole that can make the difference and Bob MacIntyre sounds pretty annoyed with himself as he wanders off the tee box on eight.

Fresh off a double on seven he skews his drive well left of the fairway and looks like he's in the pines without any sort of angle into the green on the 570-yard par five.

Jordan Spieth finds himself in the trees that flank the left side of the fifth fairway with a wayward drive off the tee.

He clips out and then needs some magic to get tight for par. Of course he finds it - wedging to inside two feet from the 2015 champion.

Playing partner Tyrrell Hatton has similar distance for par, and he tidies up too.

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BBC Sport senior golf reporter

Australia's Min Woo Lee is the 23rd best men's player in the world, according to the official rankings. But he's not even the most successful golfer in his family.

Older sister Minjee is one of the leading players on the LPGA Tour, a former world number one and a two-time major champion.

Whether Min Woo - a Tik-Tok and Call of Duty lover with a massive social media following - will reach those heights remains to be seen.

Last week the 26-year-old broke the ceiling with his first PGA Tour title last week.

Houston (Open)? Not a problem. But the Masters is a different mission.

Three pretty good pars from this group as they were all out of position and all had to scramble like mad to save their fours.

Let's check in on Bernhard Langer, who has started his back nine still without dropping a shot today and with that one birdie keeping him under par.

The German legend has hit every single fairway today, but perhaps showing how he struggles with distance he's only reached three greens in regulation.

Oh my word.

Bob MacIntyre drops in a double on the seventh to move back to one over.

The Scot was looking good on his first Masters start in three years but dunks his ball into the bunker to the right of the dance floor.

He clips out of the sand nicely but can't knock in a fiddly putt from four feet to save his par and misses the return.

He looks pretty perplexed as he somehow ends up frittering away two strokes.

Bit of a stinky one for Justin Thomas as he drops a shot on the fifth by missing a short putt that caught the left edge but tumbled down the hill away from the hole.

No such problems for Scottie Scheffler who makes a par but Spanish amateur Jose Luis Ballester is finding this a bit of a struggle now, with a triple bogey seven dropping him back to five over.

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As far as front nines go on your Masters debut, Aaron Rai could hardly have hoped for anything better than his four-under 32.

Four birdies, no bogeys, he's hit every fairway and seven greens out of nine. Superb effort.