Tiger Woods' sight hopes of a sixth green jacket are surely going by the wayside here.

After heading right off the tee, his second drifts left towards more trouble and he duffs one forward from there another 30 yards straight into the left greenside bunker.

Just the two needed once on the green but the four beforehand are very expensive indeed.

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Is anyone realistically betting against the world number one?

Scottie Scheffler may not be the outright leader but his name at the top seems inevitable.

If the 27-year-old were to win, he would be the fourth-youngest in history to claim a second Green Jacket behind Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Seve Ballesteros.

The way he’s playing at the moment belongs with that illustrious trio.

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Nicolai Hojgaard is an unlikely name in the top four but he deserves his place.

Making 67 in round one was the joint lowest first-round score by a European debutant at the Masters, tying David Gilford in 1995.

He is the only player with more strokes gained around the greens so far this week than the man who will be walking alongside him, Scottie Scheffler.

Keep it tight early doors, no silly errors.

Ludvig Aberg, who shot yesterday's low round of 69, lags his monster putt and tidies up the par.

Playing partner Matthieu Pavon chips and putts for his four.

Tick.

The azaleas are still flapping at Augusta, by the way.

Nowhere near the bedsheets-off-the-line strength of yesterday but enough to make this lot think.

On the first, Pavon misses the green from about 150 yards. No such problem for Aberg who finds the heart but has a birdie putt of about 35 feet.

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After that bogey on the first, Danny Willett would have hoped the par-five second might give him the chance to recover.

What he won't have envisaged is taking three shots to extract himself from the pine trees down the left.

Another bogey and the 2016 champ is going backwards.

Playing partner Ryan Fox however is off to a flier. He's birdied both and now is just three off the lead.

Any golfer knows the importance of getting that opening drive away nicely.

Feels great when you hit the fairway on the first, doesn't it?

Ludvig Aberg and Matthieu Pavon are nodding in agreement.

They're both sat pretty on the razor-sharp cut of the first fairway.

The rookies are off the third-round grid.

Oh Tiger. A huge cheer goes up as the 15-time major champion bangs his approach in to the par-three sixth in the region of the pin which is back left today but that's not going to stick.

He decides it's definitely a putt from there but comes up a good five feet shy of the cup and then watches as his effort for par curves off right just as he's expecting it to drop.

A topsy-turvy round so far for the 48-year-old.

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Burying a coin is usually a gesture of respect to the dead.

But Beatrice Pavon digging into the Augusta National soil in 2009, dropping in a Euro, was designed to lead to the birth of her 16-year-old son's professional golf career.

The seed was sown for young Matthieu Pavon. Now he has grown into a Masters player, just as la mere hoped.

Pavon, who plays bold and brave, earned the biggest win of his career by landing the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines to earn the invite to Augusta.

After opening rounds of 70 and 73, the Masters rookie made the weekend and is among the contenders.

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When European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald chose Ludvig Aberg as one of his wildcard picks last year, it caused quite the stir.

As did Donald describing Aberg, who had not even played in major, as a "generational talent".

Not that those who had already been paying close attention doubted it.

Now, playing in his first major, 24-year-old Aberg is strutting his stuff on the biggest stage of all.

Yesterday the Swede was the only player to break 70 in the blowy conditions.

Four groups still to go out. That's the eight players at the top of the leaderboard.

Next to file out onto the first tee are a pair of Masters rookies...

Tommy Fleetwood has quietly put together two decent rounds so far at the Masters.

How he'd love his first major to bring him a Green Jacket.

Five shots back but capable of going on a run. He's paired with American Cameron Young - another with a tendency to place well at majors but yet to win.

They're under way.

What a player this fella is and what a roar.

Tiger Woods zips his approach into the fifth green and lands it pin high.

It leaves him with a tricky left-to-right slider from 20 feet which he rolls in with aplomb for a birdie, his first on this hole since 2013 apparently. Who'd have known by the way he played that.

Just a par for Tyrrell Hatton, who seems to have taken a shine to the greenside bunkers today, but on this occasion is able to splash out and make a four.

Not to be the bearer of bad news for fans of English players but Danny Willett's not capitalised on his nice drive down the first fairway.

He left himself 15 feet for par, came up slightly short and has to swallow a bogey.

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For those backing Matt Fitzpatrick to make a charge on moving day, he's off to an inauspicious start.

Three-putting the third brings up a bogey and he's now over par for the tournament.

Thankfully Xander Schauffele is not playing with Scottie Scheffler today as it's a nightmare for live texting - and yet I've just typed the two names together again!

Anyway, Schauffele is in the red for the day and for his tournament thanks to a birdie at the fourth - he's shot 72-72 so far, with each round containing two bogeys and two birdies so at least he's consistent.

Now then, you may have read a little about slow play over Thursday and Friday, with some rounds approaching six hours - Tyrrell Hatton certainly wasn't best pleased yesterday.

However, Rickie Fowler and Hideki Matsuyama, the first pairing on Saturday are in the clubhouse having completed their third rounds in three hours and 52 minutes.

Clearly pairings rather than trios and significantly less wind mean the pace has picked up.

Both players finished at one under today but are both are still five over par for the championship.

What a story Danny Willett has been so far this week.

If not for a triple bogey on the 18th in the wind on Friday, he would be going out with the leaders today.

Before this week, he had not played since September and has made a remarkable recovery from shoulder surgery.

Can he sustain a challenge through the weekend?

He's safely away at the first.

What were we saying (see 18:46 post) about Tiger Woods...?

The five-time champion gets himself on the dance floor off the tee on the par-three fourth but somehow contrives to three putt to cough up an early shot.

Totally unexpected, but a slight misread with his birdie putt from distance costs him dearly.

Meanwhile, a trip into the greenside bunker sees Tyrrell Hatton give back on of the two strokes he's collected early doors, with the Englishman getting nowhere near the pin on his escape from the sand trap.

The early wave of players are just closing in on the 18th now, and so far scoring has not been that low so it's still tough out there.

Chris Kirk and Luke List currently have the best rounds going of the day as they're both three under par in their third rounds.

List also has the only eagle of the day so far, coming on the second, but both men are way out of things still.