The Masters 2025 LIVE: Leaderboard and tee times for Round 1 as Rory McIlroy begins quest for green jacket at Augusta

Listed below are a few of the fascinating tee occasions to keep watch over over the following couple of hours. Some massive names shall be getting their 2025 Masters marketing campaign underway

1335: Bernhard Langer, Will Zalatoris, Noah Kent (a)

1352: Cameron Smith, J.T. Poston, Aaron Rai

1425: Patrick Reed, Max Greyserman, Byeong Hun An

1436: Robert MacIntyre, Billy Horschel, Nick Dunlap

1447: Collin Morikawa, Joaquin Niemann, Min Woo Lee

1458: Phil Mickelson, Jason Day, Keegan Bradley

The primary group are out on the course and it’s the two-ball of Davis Riley and Patton Kizzire.

The American pair have accomplished the primary gap and whereas Riley makes a gradual par, Kizzire will get an early style of Augusta’s perils. He leaks his tee shot manner proper, has to chip from the pine straw again to the green and makes bogey. First of many bogeys at this yr’s Masters.

And so they’re off on the 2025 Masters! We begin with the standard ceremonial tee-off as golf legends hit a tee shot to open up proceedings.

Jack Nicklaus, Gary Participant and Tom Watson doing the honours this yr and also you don’t get far more legendary than that

Listed below are the pin positions for Spherical 1, the climate seems to be prefer it’ll be variety to the gamers, there are birdies on the market and the Masters is infamous for not permitting sluggish starters again into the match.

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On Thursday and Friday, protection of featured teams begins from 2pm BST, with full protection getting underway from 7:30pm.

On the weekend, full protection begins at 5pm till shut of play – with the Masters champion topped on Sunday night.

Full timings are as follows

Spherical One, Thursday 10 April: featured teams from 2pm, full protection from 7.30pm

Spherical Two, Friday 11 April: featured teams from 2pm, full protection from 7.30pm

Spherical Three, Saturday 12 April: build-up from 3pm, full protection from 7.30pm

Spherical 4, Sunday 13 April: build-up from 3pm, full protection from 5:00pm

“The factor about Augusta is as a result of the slopes are so massive and so many funnels, so many photographs find yourself in the identical spots,” Michael Kim said on X after a apply spherical with Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson.

“That’s why you hear the saying you don’t learn putts, you bear in mind putts at Augusta. You could have very comparable putts yr after yr to pins when you play it sufficient.

“Phil had numerous notes for most of the putts in his yardage e book. This one is sluggish, this one breaks left right here however then breaks again this fashion. I attempted to write down down all of them on my e book. DJ additionally was actually cool at giving data as effectively.”

The Masters has no plans to create an exemption for LIV Golf gamers, based on match chair Fred Ridley.

The US Open and Open Championship introduced in February that the main participant, not already exempt, on the Saudi-funded breakaway’s standings would earn a spot within the area at Oakmont and Royal Portrush respectively.

Nevertheless, talking in his annual pre-tournament press convention at Augusta Nationwide, Ridley indicated that the Masters would proceed to depend on its standing as an invitational occasion.

“Because it pertains to the USGA and the R&A, they definitely act independently,” Ridley mentioned. “We respect their choices.

“We’re an invitational match. We have now traditionally thought of particular instances for invites for worldwide gamers, which is how Joaquin Niemann was invited the final couple of years.

“We really feel we are able to take care of that concern, whether or not it is a LIV participant or a participant on another tour which may not in any other case be eligible for an invite, that we are able to deal with that with a particular invitation.”

A Masters golf coach endured a problematic begin to the match after being escorted off Augusta for breaking a shock golden rule.

Arizona State College coach Matt Thurmond is at this yr’s Masters alongside rising Spanish beginner star Josele Ballester, however was left red-faced after a vogue blunder pressured him to separate from his participant throughout a last-minute apply session forward of the key.

Amidst all the thrill in Georgia, Thurmond let Augusta’s fierce pointers slip his reminiscence and turned as much as the course carrying shorts – a sin of seismic proportion.

Even on apply days, shorts are strictly forbidden at Augusta, one thing Thurmond evidently forgot, along with his eyes solely centered on pre-major preparations.

Dangerous information for Scottie Scheffler’s rivals this week. The dominant world No 1 says he feels totally ready for a match for the primary time this season.

Scheffler missed the beginning of the season as a result of surgical procedure on a freak hand damage suffered whereas getting ready Christmas dinner however is now totally match and completed second on the Houston Open a few weeks in the past.

“I might say that I really feel very ready for this golf match,” mentioned Scheffler. “That is positively probably the most ready that I’ve felt all yr.

“I talked rather a lot about my preparation and stepping up on the tee at Pebble [Beach] feeling like I wasn’t precisely the place I used to be once I ended the yr simply because I had taken a lot break day.

“This yr coming off an damage was positively a distinct feeling than I’ve had in the previous few years. However so far as preparedness goes, that is positively as ready as I’ve felt going into any occasion this yr and I’m excited to get the match going.”

Rory McIlroy’s four-year-old daughter confirmed her father the way it was achieved by delighting the Augusta Nationwide crowd with a monster putt on the eve of the Masters.

The Northern Irishman, who must win the Masters to finish the profession grand slam, helped Poppy sink an extended birdie putt on the ultimate gap.

“Yeah, very cool,” McIlroy mentioned when requested about that second. “It’s simply such a enjoyable afternoon. Being on the market with Shane (Lowry) and Tommy (Fleetwood) and their households, we’re all very, very shut, so to have the children on the market and them having enjoyable is a very powerful factor.

“It’s a very nice technique to form of finish the preparation going into what’s the critical a part of the week. So it’s good to have the ability to get out right here and do that.”