We have a new leader! Corey Conners was the last man in the Masters, now he is first man on the leaderboard.

The 27-year-old Canadian, who played in the Masters as an amateur four years ago, won the Texas Open to earn his place in the locker room this week - after surviving a six-man play-off just to get into the field and then making 10 birdies in the final round.

Now he's just eagled the 15th - after birdies on 13 and 14 - to take the lead.

If cheap Danish lagers did weeks on the PGA Tour...

If you're wondering what has changed in the 14 years since Tiger Woods last won here....well he has gone from Red to Blue.

Quite a tweak to the wardrobe!

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On to the short sixth, playing 184 yards today. Patrons sat on a bank underneath the elevated tee.

Jon Rahm is long and right. Woods is right. Right on the money. About five feet from the flag to whoops and hollers as the American strides purposefully towards the green.

An early chance to get that shot back.

What of Rory McIlroy? I can hear you. The Northern Irishman is still level pegging, but has another birdie chance on the par-four fifth. A sweet swish down the middle from the tee is followed by a sat-nav accurate approach into the heart of the green.

Tiger Woods was shuffling along nicely at one under after four but he found a fairway bunker on the newly-extended fifth and could only hack out down the fairway. A chip on and two putts and it's a first bogey of the day and back to level par.

Spain's Jon Rahm, who had that memorable victory over Woods in the Ryder Cup, is among his playing partners. Rahm fails to get up and down from off the back of the fifth green and he swishes his putter in frustration as he too ships a shot to drop to one under.

Rose, as I'm sure you're wondering, goes off at 18:49 BST. The world number one is part of an all-star trilogy featuring Phil Mickelson and Justin Thomas. Certainly worth taking your attention away from The One Show and Eastenders...

Here's a reminder of the full tee-times

Peter Scrivener
BBC Sport at Augusta National

I bump into a character around the second green called Paul, who I met earlier today while we were waiting for the ceremonial tee off.

"Hey, you're the dude from the BBC," he says as our paths cross again. "How's it going?"

He offers me a slurp of his beer as we exchange pleasantries and I ask him who he's backing this week. He's an Atlanta native but he's backing Justin Rose.

"I love that guy. Ever since he hit that chip as a kid at the British Open." I let slide the British Open thing. Everyone over here calls it that. Even the Masters officials.

I ask how he'll celebrate a Rose victory. "I'll be doing the onion dance," he says, somewhat cryptically before giving me a detailed explanation I wish I'd not asked for.

"Have a nice day," he says as we part. I'm not sure I can any more.

Is this finally going to be the year which Rickie 'The Best Player To Have Never Won A Major' Fowler lands his first? He's inherited that nickname after Sergio Garcia slid his hands and arms into the Green Jacket two years ago.

Not the ideal start for the American... he's already one over after four.

While Woosie staggers around Augusta, another British veteran is enjoying himself. Sandy Lyle, who won the Masters before many in the field were even born, drops in a birdie on the second.

The Scot is one-under alongside enough others to make up a matchday squad for a Premier League football side.

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Is this finally going to be the year when Rory McIlroy joins a select band of golf's elite?

For the past four years the Northern Irishman has gone to Augusta bidding to become only the fifth man - after Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods - to win all four majors.

McIlroy, who has had top-10 finishes in each of his past seven tournaments, won the Players Championship at Sawgrass last month and says that victory gives him the belief he can go all the way at Augusta.

"I've started the second phase of my career. I've learned a lot in the last 10-11 years and feel I can make the next 10-11 years even better," he said.

"It was a massive win on a course on which I've had mixed results. I had to show a lot of character out there.

"If I go to Augusta with a similar game and attitude then I think I've got a great chance."

Augusta 1 McIlroy 1. Rory sticks one on the nose of his opponent, one of the duckers and divers, with a birdie on the 350-yard third.

-2 J Harding (SA), H Li (Chn), A Wise (US), P Kizzire (US), J Rahm (Spa)

-1 B Grace (SA), J.B. Holmes (US), T Kanaya (Jpn), L Bjerregaard (Den), H Stenson (Swe), L Oosthuizen (SA), X Schauffele (US), T Fleetwood (Eng), T Woods (US), M Kim (US), C Conners (Can), S Lyle (Sco)

Selected others:

E A Scott (Aus) E Pepperell (Eng), S Garcia (Spa), T Woods (US), R McIlroy (NI)

+1 D Willett (Eng), P Reed (US)

+8 I Woosnam (Wal)

Nothing like a snowman from a pro to make us club cloggers feel a little better...

Peter Scrivener
BBC Sport at Augusta National

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It already looks like Wales' sole representative this week will not be playing at the weekend.

Ian Woosnam, Masters champion in 1991, is currently eight over par after 12 holes. He was three over at the turn and dropped another on the par-four 10th.

The 61-year-old, who is making his 31st Masters appearance, then pulled his second shot into the pond guarding the left side of the 11th green.

A chip on and four putts later, that's a quadruple eight.

Another ball lost in water on the 12th costs another stroke and it's a Woosie start.

He's not the only former champion struggling though. Argentina's 2009 champion Angel Cabrera, the first South American to win the Masters, has bogeyed seven of his first 10 holes.

And here's another hint. Woosie is not one of them. Speaking of whom...

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If golf is hard, this quiz is harder.

Some 17 men have won the Masters more than once. Can you name them?

Click here to have a go.

Jose Maria Olazabal has just teed off. Hint, hint.

Augusta is all about getting from tee to green as smooth as possible. Rory McIlroy has been like a bit of freshly-sanded wooden furniture in that sense on Tour this year. And he's knocked on to within seven feet on the third green now...

Peter Scrivener
BBC Sport at Augusta National

It's a busy corner of the course up round the first green. A short pitch to the left is the ninth tee and barely a putt beyond that is the tee for the long par-five second. And the eighth green is nestled between them.

The patrons were five deep around the first green when I got there. England's Tommy Fleetwood was knocking in a decent two-putt for par but dozens of heads were looking back down the fairway.

The Tiger was on his way. Hundreds of ants were leaving the first tee and swarming towards us. Numbers quickly swelled to 10 deep around the green.

"Three pars, no blood," said a man in front of me as Woods, Jon Rahm and Haotong Li all two-putted and the ants snaked off to the second tee.

The mock turtle. Can he dig it? Yes he can. (That's a nod to 1990s Madchester scene...)

Anyway... Tiger goes through the back on three from 53 yards, but saves par with a dink and sink.

Tiger's clobber... what are we saying?

Slick? Or dubious?