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Former world number one Luke Donald is showing signs of returning to form but has not featured at Augusta since 2015 and has decided to offer a daily Instagram post this week outlining why he misses the magical event.

Tuesday's post read: "Some of the player badges I have collected over the years. Every pro golfer aspires to have one of these during the first week of April, and I’ve got to be honest, I always have serious FOMO when I’m not part of the Masters field.

"The number you are given is all to do with the order in which you register. Some players like a specific number and I always remember Jerry Kelly waiting around registration until 11 people had registered so he could get the number 13 player badge.

"Yes that math doesn’t add up I know because the best player badge number to have is of course #1, external- always kept and given to the defending champion.

"I’ll try and post a picture everyday with a little story behind it this week because....well it’s Masters week - 99% of golfers favourite week of the year!"

If you're trying to remember what happened in 2018...

Patrick Reed survived late pressure from rivals Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler to win by one shot.

Captain America is donning his cape and marching down the first as we speak.

Peter Scrivener
BBC Sport at Augusta National

I've just been out on the balcony outside the media centre, which overlooks the driving range. I can just about make out Rory McIlroy in a blue t-shirt with thin white hoops.Blue cap, white trousers and shoes. He's a decent drive and a sand wedge away.

Tiger Woods is also on the range, going through his clubs He is out in the group before Rory at 16:04 BST. White, cap, plain navy blue t-shirt and silvery-white trousers, in case you were wondering.

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This time last week the ever-entertaining Eddie Pepperell predicted he would be shifting more sand than a cement mixer on completion day.

It has been a better start than that for the Englishman.

He is one under after picking up a birdie on the second.

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This will be the first Masters in which no player in the top 10 of the official world rankings has previously won the tournament. The highest-ranked player who can boast a green jacket is Tiger Woods - 12th in the world.

And if you're looking for an outsider as your pick, keep in mind the last champion ranked outside the top-25 was Charl Schwartzel in 2011 (29th).

Iain Carter
BBC Sport golf correspondent at Augusta National

Normally I'd be using a list of the world's top ranked players as my gauge for finding a winner come Sunday, but there's a slight glitch in doing that at the Augusta National as Iain Carter points out.

Heading into the 83rd edition of golf's most glamorous tournament, none of the world's top 11 players have won here.

The highest-ranked Masters champion is 43-year-old Tiger Woods. Currently the world's 12th-ranked golfer and the most recent of his four Augusta titles came 14 years ago!

Bubba Watson and defending champion Patrick Reed are the only other men in the top 20 who own a Green Jacket.

Alister MacKenzie's masterpiece is a course that can confound when identifying Masters winners.

You can read more about that here.

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So with the likes of Adam Scott (15:09 BST), defending champion Patrick Reed (15:31 BST) and Tommy Fleetwood (15:53 BST) limbering up, let's have your shouts for Master glory.

The best pick of the leading contenders and a leftfield curveball to barrel their way into the Butler Cabin.

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We ask the same question every year it seems. Is this the year in which Rory McIlroy gets it done around Augusta.

He seems patient when asked about the whole thing. Just click play and see for yourself.

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A check on the earliest of starters...

American Kevin Tway, South African Justin Harding and Japan's Takumi Kanaya have made the best openings. Former champion Danny Willett picked up a birdie on the second.

-2 Tway (US), Harding (SA), Kanaya (Jpn)

-1 Willett (Eng), Snecker, Couples, Holmes (all US)

Ian Woosnam is two over through five.

Peter Scrivener
BBC Sport at Augusta National

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While many hundreds of those patrons first through the gates this morning were keen to watch Jack and Gary hit the ceremonial tee shots, many more were heading off to different parts of the golf course.

Armed with their Masters-approved chairs, fans were streaming straight down across the first and ninth fairways, presumably heading for Amen Corner, or a fantastic stand overlooking the 15th green and 16th tees.

The pace of the place has quickened noticeably this morning. No running allowed remember, so speed walking is the order of the day.

Chairs have already been placed round the 18th green, the owners knowing they can enjoy a day of wandering before returning to their empty chair to see the players coming up the last.

Great American road-trip duos. Go!

Davis and Sarandon in Thelma and Louise.

Cruise and Hoffman in Rain Man.

Er, Mulkerrins and Carter in Morning Drive?

The BBC Radio 5 Live team are chewing the Masters fat every morning on their commute to Augusta National. Today their chat centred around the great shots that have been seen at the course.

Have your say over here...

Making predictions is a dangerous game, you either lose money to the bookies or lose the respect of a continent's hero.

BBC Sport's Andrew Cotter got burned yesterday...

How times flies....well not really.

It's 30 years since England's Nick Faldo won the first of his three Masters titles by beating Scott Hoch in a play-off in 1989.

It is of course tradition here for the the champion of the previous year to present the Green Jacket to the winner - hence Scotland's Sandy Lyle (winner in 1988) doing his best impression of a tailor.

That jumper is something else though isn't it.

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We could be in for a dramatic final day on the weather front, never mind on the scoreboard.

BBC Weather's Simon King has been tracking the weather around Augusta National.

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For six of the field, this year's Masters will be particularly special.

Magnificently-named American Devon Bling, compatriot Kevin O'Connell, Norway's Victor Hovland, Japan's Takumi Kanaya, Mexico's Alvaro Ortiz and South Africa's Jovan Rebula are the amateurs in the field.

They have the right to stay in the Crow's Nest. The old-school open-plan bunkhouse over the Augusta National clubhouse.

In the build-up to this year's tournament, Tiger Woods was telling a brilliant story about his first Masters, playing as a 19-year-old amateur in 1995.

"I was up in a crow's nest, and we get in late night, well I'm starving now," he said.

"So, I try and make my way down from the crow's nest and try and find the front-desk.

"Well, I make a wrong turn and I end up in a champions locker room.And I'm like oh my god, this is...I've never been in here.

"Should I go in here? Yeah absolutely. And so, I'm looking at all the names and seeing all the champions and history. These are all the guys that I idolised, I looked up to, and I watched, and heard stories about."

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Danny Willett has opened up about rediscovering some form as he returns to the scene of his greatest triumph.

The 2016 champion says he felt out of place at the Champions Dinner over the last two years as his world ranking dropped as low as 450.

But Willett, 31, won for the first time since his Masters victory at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai in November and is up to 78 in the world.

"Everything's better," he said. "The mind's a lot calmer and quieter because we've been able to do the work because the body's been better.

"It's allowed us to do more of what we need to do, rather than chasing your tail doing bits here, there and everywhere.

"That enables you to enjoy nights like the Champions Dinner, enjoy sitting round with the guys. You're sat there the last couple of years when I've played pretty poor and you look around and you're across the table from Mr Watson, Mr Nicklaus and Mr Player, Tiger (Woods) and Phil (Mickelson). "And I'm sat there thinking 'I'm playing rubbish, I'm 300 in the world.'"

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How often have you gone to the footy or a sporting event and been left feeling like you've had a punch in the stomach when you offer up a small fortune for a burger or some kind of rancid food item.

By contrast, prices at Augusta National seem fairly timid. A turkey and cheese butty will see you get change from five dollars.

Spain's Sergio Garcia may have won at the Augusta National in 2017 but he won't need any reminding of this 13-shot ordeal.

The par five 15th is famously reachable in two.....ahem!

If the curse is weighing heavy on Matt Wallace's swing, he is not letting it show...