Over on the 17th, Rory McIlroy's tee shot strayed off to the right but he's only in the first cut and takes a nine iron that flies through the green.

That was at least a club long and he'll have a job on to just get up and down.

Both Ludvig Aberg and Akshay Bhatia will have realistic birdie chances coming up. This is a strong finish from the Swede in particular.

Bryson DeChambeau is cooking on full gas at present. He plays a stunning iron into the 16th and will have pretty much have a tap in for birdie.

That was so good. No wonder he's got a smile on his face as wide as the pond he is just about to walk around.

Like so many before him today, Tommy Fleetwood finds himself in the middle of the 15th fairway and taking on the pond that guards the front of the green. Fairway wood in hand he hits a towering effort and his ball thuds into the green 10 feet from the pin and hops forward a few more.He'll have a 25-footer for eagle. But it's a treacherous putt. If he goes a couple of feet long, his ball will disappear into the water.

At least he's going to have his putter in hand.

Neither Ludvig Aberg or Rory McIlroy are able to convert difficult sliding putts across the 16th for birdies but both comfortably come away with threes.

Akshay Bhatia, who is playing in the Masters for the second time will have the honour down 17, after tapping in a putt even your average recreational golfer would be hard pressed to miss.

How quick is that 15th green? As Rory McIlroy would testify to, it is pretty rapid but it does not catch Bryson DeChambeau out, who tickles an eagle putt from the back right down to three feet.

In goes the birdie putt and all of a sudden Bryson is in the mix in a tie for fourth.

Ludvig Aberg's round has very much been a slow burn but he lands his tee shot on the 16th right in the heart of the green and watches it trickle down closer to the pin to leave a birdie putt from 20 feet or so..

Akshay Bhatia goes one better with a glorious shot that rolls off the hump in the green and funnels down towards the cup. He'd expect to make a two from there.

Now what can Rory do? That isn't bad but it's only just maybe a fraction inside his Ryder Cup team-mates ball.

Rory McIlroy plays a decent chip that settles around three feet from the pin. He has a putt for a double bogey.

Ludvig Aberg leapfrogs the Northern Irishman, making a birdie with two strokes from just off the back right.

Rory McIlroy could really have done with watching what Patrick Cantlay did from the back of the 15th earlier. He pitches on with way too much gas and his ball rolls straight through the green, down the slope into the pond.

From playing his third from off the back of the green, he opts to go to the drop zone for his fifth and his chip goes right and ends up on the apron.

There could be more trouble to come here.

Here's Tommy Fleetwood lining up his birdie putt on 14. Pulled it a fraction. Big chance to get back to level par goes begging.

Following his birdie on the par-five 13th, Tommy Fleetwood goes flag hunting on the 14th with his second shot and his ball pulls up a dozen feet short of the hole.

He needs that to get back to level par.

What a strike that is. Rory McIlroy has an iron out as he tries to travel the 232-yards to carry the pond on the 15th with his second.

He manages it easily, with his ball skipping off the back of the dance floor into the sort of area that Patrick Cantlay had so much trouble just a little earlier.

Ludvig Aberg is also over and just off the back fringe as Akshay Bhatia finds the drink coming round the trees from the left.

Shane Lowry crouches in expectation as his knees buckle slightly and then sharply rises as his birdie attempt just stays left on the 14th. He's had a few from 15 feet range and it's maybe not quite been his day on the greens

Once the disappointment of that final bogey drifts away, Justin Rose will reflect on a stunning opening round of golf, and one that could give him a Masters record all by himself.

As Rose currently shares the record number of first round leads with the great Jack Nicklaus - with both men having previously had at least a share of the first round lead at four different Masters.

Should Rose still lead by the close of play that will make it five first round leads for him and the outright record. Of course, he'd swap them all to be leading at the close of play Sunday, but it's a great start in any case.

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Delicious from Tommy Fleetwood as he gets his approach game into gear at the par-five 13th. Three feet for a first birdie of the round and he tucks it in.

He's back to one over par.

Jon Rahm has thundered onto the putting surface in two and eyeing up a long-distance eagle. It doesn't drop but he claims a birdie too.

Unfortunately for Wyndham Clark, he's gone backwards there and a bogey slips him to two over.

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Justin Rose can't quite save his par, so annoyingly for him his one and only bogey of the day comes at the final hole, and it's written all over his face just how disappointed he is in that.

Still, it's a 65 for the Englishman, which ties his lowest ever Masters round, and more importantly it's a three-shot lead he's currently sitting on as he makes his way back into the clubhouse.

The smart choice from Justin Rose to just chip the ball out back to the fairway, and from there he hits the green with a solid iron but with still 15 feet or so to try and save his par.

Rory McIlroy looks disappointed. He's strolling off the 14th with a par scribbled on his card but after a very good looking second shot, he fancied himself for a birdie there from around eight feet.

That was a delicate one and he just misses on the right side.

Akshay Bhatia, has a slightly more cheery look after back-to-back birdies.

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Bryson DeChambeau has endured none of the labours of his playing partners to get to the 13th and now drains a 15-foot putt for birdie.

Uh oh - Justin Rose has sprayed another tee shot wide right on the 18th and he's in among the big trees looking for a gap to squeeze through to get back onto the fairway.

Just depends how willing he is to take his medicine or how much risk he wants to take on...

Oh you've got to feel for Hideki Matsuyama there.

The 2021 champion lays up on the 13th and looks to have done everything right with his pitch on until it hits the flagstick and rebounds back into a tributary to Rae's Creek winds in front of the raised green.

That's an absolute shocker and will almost certainly cost him one, but more likely two shots.

Meanwhile, Shane Lowry takes the scenic route into the green, almost finding the flower bed to the left of the green, with his approach and will need to hit a couple of decent shots from there to regain any ground.