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In-form Australian Cameron Smith has claimed the clubhouse lead with a four-under-par 68 in his opening round at the Masters at windswept Augusta National.

After a scrambling par on the second, Smith made his first birdie on the fifth, then picked up further shots on six, eight and nine to reach the turn at two under. Alas, Australia's world No.6 finished his round as he started with a six on the par-4 last after slicing his drive into the trees and then three-putting. Cameron Smith has continued his hot form to capture the clubhouse lead with a birdie-filled first round at the Masters.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — For the second straight year the Masters' Honorary Starters ceremony created a discussion beyond simply the opening tee shots.

Player was named an ambassador of Saudi Golf in April 2021. In 2021, Lee Elder was recognized on the first tee for breaking the tournament’s color barrier in 1975. Companies attaching themselves to Honorary Starters is not new; fellow starters Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson were adorned with plenty of advertisers.

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You can stream the CBS coverage on Paramount+ (7-day free trial) (opens in new tab). Commentary provided by three-time Masters champ Sir Nick Faldo. FuboTV (opens in new tab) is another good option for cordcutters. In addition to the The Masters 2022 golf, you'll get access to 30,000 TV shows and 2500 movies including classics like The Godfather. Remember: Aussie nationals can use a VPN to watch the Masters free live stream on 9Now from abroad (opens in new tab). Sign up to ExpressVPN, choose 'Australia' as your location, head over to the 9Now website and away you go. Cordcutters can watch much of the play live on ESPN+ ($6.99 a month). CBS has the rights to Saturday and Sunday, when the winner will be decided. For the golf you may wish to choose 'Australia' for 9Now. Even if you have subscribed to the relevant Masters 2022 holders, you won't be able to access them when outside your own country. You can use it to watch on your mobile, tablet, laptop, TV, games console and more. Aussie viewers can watch every stroke live and free on 9now. The Masters 2022 will feature 90-100 of the world' best golfers, including 18 former champions. The Masters 2022 will be coming to you live from Augusta National from Thursday, 7th April. Tiger Woods is teeing up another comeback, but it's Jon Rahm who enters The Masters 2022 as favourite to win the green jacket.

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“The pain is there, but he’s dealt with that before,” Couples said. “The first practice round I played with him on Monday we had both flown in that day and we were laughing a lot. But one noticed a change in the five-team champion’s demeanor.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — His picture is still on the wall of champions in the press building at Augusta National, sandwiched between Trevor Immelman and Phil ...

“He really wanted to get better and he saw everybody had a coach so he asked me to help him,” Epps said. Abandoned by his parents, he became a caddie at the age of 8 to earn enough money to eat and it wasn’t long before he took up the game himself. Prosecutors are also looking at allegations from two other woman, including the mother of his children, and his lawyer says there’s a chance he could be charged with more crimes. “He never had a sports psychologist or anything like that and he grew up with a chip on his shoulder. He is not scheduled to be released from prison until next January at the earliest, despite his pleas of innocence. A huge crowd greeted him when he flew home after winning the 2007 U.S. Open and there was a parade in his honour.

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2:35 a.m. - Bubba Watson, Tom Hoge, Keita Nakajima (a) 1:18 a.m. - Sandy Lyle, Stewart Hagestad (a) 1:51 a.m. - Charl Schwartzel, Robert MacIntyre, Laird Shepherd (a) 12:45 a.m. - Hideki Matsuyama, Justin Thomas, James Piot (a) 2012: Bubba Watson (USA) 2014: Bubba Watson (USA) I actually want to go there and play well and have a chance to contend. 2015: Jordan Spieth (USA) 2018: Patrick Reed (USA) “I’m not just there to accept my green envelope and say that I’ve played. 2019: Tiger Woods (USA) 2020: Dustin Johnson (USA)

Augusta National has reached a fever pitch ahead of the 2022 Masters as anticipation has grown throughout the world for the year's first major tournament.

77. Guido Migliozzi (first appearance): After grinning his way to a T4 at the U.S. Open at Torrey last year, he's made just one cut in 2022, and it was a T67 at the Ras al Khaimah Championship. He's somehow lost strokes in every statistical category in every tournament except for the three events in which he narrowly gained strokes off the tee. 74. Takumi Kanaya (T58 in 2019): Kanaya is coming off a good showing at the match play in Austin, but broadly speaking, he's not a great iron player, which seems problematic in a week like this one. 67. Charl Schwartzel (Won in 2011): Schwartzel has had a completely bizarre record at Augusta since winning maybe the wildest Masters of all time in 2011. He's been playing solid golf of late, and he gets the lefty advantage at Augusta. I'm in on him to finish in the top 25 or so. 46. Bubba Watson (Won in 2012, 2014): This tournament marks the 10-year anniversary of his famous hooking shot out of the woods on the 10th hole. 45. Kevin Kisner (T21 in 2019): He's been playing such tremendous golf, but this is not a course that necessarily sets up that well for him, and his history here (two straight missed cuts and no top-20 finishes) shows it. 22. Marc Leishman (T4 in 2013): I imagine he's been running Leishman National pretty fast on the stimpmeter for a few weeks now to help him prepare for this year's event. 11. Viktor Hovland (T21 in 2021): He would be in the top five if his short game was in order. 10. Jordan Spieth (Won in 2015): In the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2021 Masters, Spieth beat or tied 447 of 453 competitors (98.7%). He somehow has one green jacket. 6. Scottie Scheffler (T18 in 2021): It feels foolish to have the No. 1 player in the world this low, but Scheffler is not your normal No. 1 player in the world. 8. Dustin Johnson (Won in 2020): Over his last 50 rounds following the WGC-Dell Match Play, D.J.'s strokes gained tee to green numbers were below Adam Hadwin, C.T. Pan and Martin Laird. He played well at Austin Country Club, but a lot of that was due to a putter that's been smoking for a while now. Dumping his tee shot into the water on No. 16 last year as soon as he got within striking distance of Hideki Matsuyama was not encouraging, but it also seems statistically impossible to get into contention as much as he has (eight top-seven finishes in 18 majors) and not eventually win one.

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The 11th and 15th have been changed to offer balance between risk and reward but the 13th remains toothless.

“I hope that he would feel that we continue to carry the tradition and values we thought were so important in the game.” The club have always caught between the old and the new, the desire to do right by the traditions, and to keep improving, too. “So that probably has been a counter to doing anything.” The club’s co-founder Bobby Jones loved that hole, which he said offers players “a tempting and dangerous” decision about whether to bend the tee-shot around the corner so they can reach the green in two. The players hit it so long off the tee they are left with a short iron into the green. They often tinker with the course, but these changes are a little more drastic than usual, the idea, as always, is to make sure it is still a course that offers the right balance between risk and reward.

Tiger Woods is scheduled to tee off for the first round of the Masters on Thursday as he targets a remarkable comeback following a car crash in February ...

I think it's amazing for him to be out here." "Walking is the hard part. Seventy-two holes is a long road. It's going to be a tough challenge and a challenge I'm up for." "With the conditions my leg is in, it gets a little bit more difficult. "I know the leg is hurt but he's hitting it plenty far enough to play this course, and he plays this course as well as he does, he's won here a bunch, he knows what to do."

CBS Sports is offering live coverage of the 2021 Masters from start to finish Thursday with our myriad of Masters Live streaming options. Hit the links below to ...

CBS Sports is offering live coverage of the 2021 Masters from start to finish Thursday with our myriad of Masters Live streaming options. Masters TV coverage does not begin until later in the day, so this is the absolute best place to watch the Masters live on Thursday. - Holes 15 & 16-- 11:45 a.m. to 7 p.m. There is so much to follow this week that it can be overwhelming at times. Do you smell it? Can you feel it?

The Sporting News is tracking live scoring updates and highlights from the 2022 Masters leaderboard. Follow for complete results for Thursday's Round 1 at ...

11:04 a.m. 10:20 a.m. That means Tiger Woods will now tee off at 11:04 a.m. ET. 10:09 a.m. 9:47 a.m. 9:36 a.m. 9:25 a.m. The Masters will air on ESPN for the first two days before shifting to CBS for Rounds 3 and 4. E (5) Austin Greaser (A) Woods will tee off at 10:34 a.m. ET alongside Louis Oosthuizen and Joaquin Niemann. How he competes — he has only missed one weekend cut in his Masters history — will be a topic of great interest. Below are complete results and highlights from Thursday's Round 1 at Augusta National:

The 2022 Masters Tournament begins on Thursday, with Round 1 featuring the return of Tiger Woods to professional golf.All eyes will be on Tiger when he tees ...

None of these options are particularly appealing to me, or would appear in my top-10 list of likely guys to win. We’ve officially made it to Masters eve. •8h ago •8h ago •8h ago •8h ago That’s something that certainly we have considered and will continue to consider.” •8h ago That was 31 years ago. Mickelson, then a junior at Arizona State, finished his first round two shots off the lead, firing a 69 that included a back-nine 32, tying the Masters amateur record. •8h ago The Masters will again be televised on ESPN and CBS this year and available to watch on Masters.com.

The Masters is officially underway at Augusta National. That's our favorite sentence of the year, and we're more excited than ever.

8 a.m.: The ceremonial first-tee shots were pushed back about a half hour to let the remaining wet weather pass through. Last to hit is Tom Watson, joining the first-tee ceremony. 8:39 a.m.: The first group is off—and we have our first birdie. The 86th Masters Tournament is now underway! With all the rain, we suppose the committee knows it needs to challenge competitors on Thursday. We'd still expect low scores if the wind isn't too bad in the afternoon. He was making jokes, doing his signature kick, and hitting one down the fairway. And players like Justin Thomas, Xander Schauffele and Will Zalatoris—who might have a sour taste in their mouths after close calls last year—are among the favorites. The Masters is officially underway at Augusta National. That’s our favorite sentence of the year, and we’re more excited than ever. Gary Player was the first to hit. Jose Maria Olazabal—out there first with J.J. Spaun—holes out on the first green and gets to 1-under. That’s not even mentioning the other favorites like Jon Rahm, Cameron Smith and Dustin Johnson … etc., etc. Rory McIlroy makes his eighth attempt at completing the career Grand Slam (he’s in the 2:33 p.m. pairing with Brooks Koepka and Matt Fitzpatrick). Scottie Scheffler, the new World No. 1, looks to keep up his torrid pace—but six players have a chance to be ranked first in the world after this week.

Longtime honorary starters Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player were joined this year by Tom Watson as they strolled through a gathering of Augusta National members, ...

What matters is after a patron-less Masters in the fall of 2020 and a limited gallery last spring, the first tee was surrounded once again to honor this tradition unlike any other. The men, with 11 Masters wins between them, did their duty—first Player, followed by Nicklaus and then Watson—striking their shots to begin the 2022 tournament in earnest. Other players who have been Honorary Starters include Byron Nelson, Gene Sarazen, Ken Venturi, Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Nicklaus, Player and Lee Elder. Watson is the latest to join these ranks, named as an honorary starter this past January.

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Peruse and select your winner (times BST, USA unless stated, -a- denotes amateurs) ... So make yourself a pimento cheese sandwich, pour a long cool glass of iced tea, pine for the legendary Georgia Peach Ice Cream Sandwich (missing this year due to supply-chain issues) and settle down. The 2020 champ Dustin Johnson is coming back into form. The favourite going into the week is reigning US Open champion Jon Rahm, aiming to become the fourth Spaniard to pull on a jacket in Pantone 342. It’s just the way things have to be. But here we are! Hey, we’re allowed to dream. [Tiger’s] awful accident means he won’t be here this year; here’s to the great man rebuilding his health and completing yet another fairytale comeback. The first shot of this year’s Masters was hit by the 1994 and 1999 winner Jose Maria Olazabal. That was quickly followed by this year’s first birdie: Ollie creamed a fairway wood pin high to 15 feet and rolled in the putt. To the top of the nascent leader board! -1: Harrington (6), Higgo (4), Migliozzi (4) Back he drops into a share of -1.

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11:04 a.m. 10:20 a.m. That means Tiger Woods will now tee off at 11:04 a.m. ET. 10:09 a.m. 9:47 a.m. 9:36 a.m. 9:25 a.m. The Masters will air on ESPN for the first two days before shifting to CBS for Rounds 3 and 4. -1 (9) Austin Greaser (A) Woods will tee off at 10:34 a.m. ET alongside Louis Oosthuizen and Joaquin Niemann. How he competes — he has only missed one weekend cut in his Masters history — will be a topic of great interest. Below are complete results and highlights from Thursday's Round 1 at Augusta National:

Tom Watson never thought eight major championships, including two green jackets, would be enough to join the company of Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus on the ...

Just kind of the culmination of it." "I guess it's a culmination of kind of the process," he said. "That meant a great deal to me." "Oh, I got (Player) by 50 (yards)!" Watson said with a laugh. "I'm very humbled to be a part of it," Watson said. "I look at these old goats right here, I can't carry their shoes," Watson said on Thursday morning, shortly after joining Player and Nicklaus as an honorary starter at the Masters for the first time.

The 2022 Masters officially started Thursday morning, but not before the ceremonial opening tee shots were struck.

Jock Hutchison and Fred McLeod hit the first ceremonial opening tee shots, and other legends of the game such as Gene Sarazen, Byron Nelson, Sam Snead, Ken Venturi, Arnold Palmer and Lee Elder have taken part since. But before the action started, there was one last tradition to observe — the ceremonial opening tee shots. Zephyr Melton is an assistant editor for GOLF.com where he spends his days blogging, producing and editing.

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He birdied the fifth, sixth, eight and ninth holes. Cameron Smith’s opening round at the Masters started with a double bogey and finished with one. In the meantime, he played some scintillating golf to finish a remarkable four-under with a round of 68, good enough for a share of the lead.

Aussie mullet man Cameron Smith recovered from a disastrous double-bogey start to roar into the lead at the Masters.

Cameron Smith's Masters started with a double bogey and ended the same way but still finds himself at the t...

His career was in jeopardy after the car wreck left him confined to a hospital bed for three months. “And a challenge that I’m up for.” And he managed to finish the round on 1-under 71, still in the mix. But Woods bounced back with a tricky downhiller from 8 feet to save par at No. 9. The biggest question is how Woods holds up over 18 holes for four straight days. A tap-in birdie at No. 6 sent the patrons into a frenzy.

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There's a long way to go and a lot of shots to be played." "That's something I'm very lucky to have this opportunity to be able to play, and not only that, to play in the Masters and to have this type of reception," Woods said. They've seen the pictures, and they've come over to the house and they've seen it. "I'm going to be sore, yes," Woods said. "I know where to hit it [on] a lot of these pins, and I miss in the correct spots and give myself good angles. "I am as sore as I expected to feel, but it was amazing," Woods said. In his previous 23 Masters appearances, Woods broke 70 in the first round only twice. "To finish in the red today after as long a layoff as I've had and not being in competitive golf [is good]," Woods said. This golf course is going to change, and it's going to get a lot more difficult." Woods got to 1 under with a 29-foot birdie putt on the par-3 16th hole. It's about the training that we've done to have the stamina to go." But now, after surgeons pieced together his severely damaged right leg, foot and ankle with a rod, plates and screws, there had to be some doubt creeping through the 15-time major champion's mind.

Cameron Smith's fine round of 68 started and finished with double bogeys while Danny Willett opened with 69 and Tiger Woods with 71.

His 69 was matched by Danny Willett, who is looking to end a dismal Augusta run since donning the Green Jacket in 2016. Scheffler also came unstuck at the last but only by way of a bogey. No chance; birdies at the 13th and 16th – he converted from 29ft there – contributed to a day’s work under par. He cut a frustrated figure after a wasteful dropped shot at par five eighth and was again agitated following a pulled drive at the tricky 9th. He played perfectly controlled golf for six holes – at which point he was one under – before a wayward tee shot at the 7th. Cameron Smith, seeking to become the only player other than Woods to claim the Players Championship and Masters in the same year, again proved his Augusta specialism.

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Sure, he could have posted a number for the rest of the field to catch. He planned to work out any lingering angst by spending 30 minutes on a stationary bike back at the house he’s renting. He’ll be in there with a good chance to win.” You need to hit your irons close, and you need to be really good with the putter.” His iron on the par-three sixth landed a foot from the hole. Besides, he has grown comfortable among the Georgia pines, never missing a cut in five starts and putting together a runner-up finish to Dustin Johnson in 2020. A chip-in from off the green on the par-four fifth provided a welcome jolt. He doesn’t have to excel at either thanks to a world-class short game, the kind that lends itself to getting a green jacket draped over your shoulders on Sunday afternoon. Smith is well aware he could have gone even lower save for a pair of wayward approach shots at the first and the last. The 28-year-old Australian’s opening round at the Masters started and ended with double bogeys. Smith’s game is an anachronism of sorts, one brought into stark contrast while playing alongside Bryson DeChambeau, who never met a driver he didn’t like to mash. There was plenty of time to stew if Smith wanted.

The groups will remain the same, with morning and afternoon tee times flipping from their Round 1 slots.

10:56 a.m. – Jose Maria Olazabal, J. J. Spaun 11:51 a.m. – Vijay Singh, Ryan Palmer, Kyoung-Hoon Lee 10:45 a.m. – Matthew Fitzpatrick, Brooks Koepka, Rory McIlroy 10:23 a.m. – Will Zalatoris, Patrick Cantlay, Jon Rahm 10:12 a.m. – Dustin Johnson, Billy Horschel, Collin Morikawa 9:06 a.m. – Patrick Reed, Seamus Power, Lucas Herbert 8:55 a.m. – Lee Westwood, Russell Henley, Corey Conners 8:44 a.m. – Gary Woodland, Justin Rose, Takumi Kanaya Round 2 groupings will remain the same as Thursday's opening round. 8:22 a.m. – Bernhard Langer, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Cameron Davis 8:00 a.m. – Sandy Lyle, Stewart Hagestad 8:11 a.m. – Lucas Glover, Erik van Rooyen, Cameron Champ

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Queenslander Cameron Smith was left to lament double bogeys that book-ended his round in an otherwise breathtaking start to his Masters campaign at Augusta ...

It’s my first time playing the sixth hole in the tournament, and that’s going to happen. “I learned a lot out there today. Got my second shot into a reasonable spot and just misjudged the wind on both wedges. There are 54 holes left out there and plenty of birdie opportunities. I feel like I played some really solid golf today, and to be four-under is a little bit disappointing. “To be honest, those couple of double bogeys really didn’t have too bad a shots in them.

Cameron Smith credits his stunning form to a new-found fitness regime after continuing his sizzling run at the Masters.

His 67 Im’s fourth score in the 60s in seven rounds at Augusta, where he shot a 66 on the opening day in 2020 to eventually share runner-up honours with Smith behind Dustin Johnson. The 2019 PGA Tour rookie of the year made back-to-back bogeys at 10 and 11 before getting both shots back with an eagle at the par-5 13th. "I've made lots of good changes, I think, to my body. "Got my second shot into a reasonable spot and just misjudged the wind on both wedges. "Given the condition of the golf course and the condition with the wind and stuff like that, if you had have given me four-under at the start of the day, I would have taken it." "Given the condition of the golf course and the condition with the wind and stuff like that, if you had have given me four-under at the start of the day, I would have taken it," Smith said.

Tiger Woods has defied the odds to be in contention at the Masters at Augusta National 14 months after his car accident.

All eyes were on Woods to see how he would handle the extreme hills of Augusta National with his injured right leg, which has forced him to switch from Nike to FootJoy shoes for competition and to walk with a noticeable walk. The 46-year-old was rusty. The 46-year-old was rusty. “I’m only three back, Woods said after his round. He saved par on 18 to sit four shots behind leader Sungjae Im from Korea (67), with Australia’s Cam Smith at four under (68). The only par-5 of Augusta’s four that he birdied was the 13th, and he bogeyed the par-5 eighth from 50 yards.

You might have heard that Tiger Woods played on Thursday. But there were stories all over a leaderboard that is just getting started at Augusta.

“It’s one thing to just hold a club and make air swings, it’s another to hit a golf ball into a net,” Higgs said. It’s impossible for the players and impossible for the patrons who walk around every day. “It was a really enjoyable round. He is 23, he’s won twice on the PGA Tour, including a victory this year at Riviera Country Club in the Genesis Invitational, and he’s had a few near-misses, including two playoff losses. A bogey at 18 left him at 69, right in the mix. Niemann had the shot of the day in the Woods-Niemann-Louis Oosthuizen group. He headed to the practice range after the round to work out the kinks in his driver swing for Friday, when the weather forecast calls for cooler temperatures and stronger, gustier winds. Dustin Johnson won that tournament and yes, he was in the mix again, too. “To have the patrons fully out and to have that type of energy out there was awesome to feel. “The place was electric,” Woods said. That came after a fast start when he birdied the first three holes. Honk if you liked the show: Woods shot 1-under 71, starting the day with a clutch 10-foot par-saving putt and ending the round with a five-footer for par.

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Woods played the first round of the Masters on Thursday. He finished at 1-under 71 for the day. He made par on each of his opening five holes before a birdie at ...

He had an eagle putt at the par-5 13th and tapped in for birdie. He made par on each of his opening five holes before a birdie at the par-3 6th. Woods played the first round of the Masters on Thursday. He finished at 1-under 71 for the day.

American Bryson DeChambeau has once again come under the firing line for his slow style of play during toda...

You need to hit your irons close, and you need to be really good with the putter." "I think my short game has definitely got me out of a lot of bad spots around here, but at the end of the day I think you just need to give yourself opportunities. The 28-year-old Australian's opening round at the Masters started and ended with double bogeys.

Tiger Woods hits a solid opening 71 at the Masters as he attempts an incredible comeback from injury, while Sungjae Im has hit form to take a one-shot lead ...

"Got my second shot into a reasonable spot and just misjudged the wind on both wedges. "I fought back and for the day to end up in the red. After a scrambling par on the second, Smith made his first birdie on the fifth, then picked up further shots on six, eight and nine to reach the turn at two-under. But he was left only "a little disappointed" after finding a fairway bunker on the first hole, then missing a short bogey putt, and slicing his tee shot into the trees on the 18th and three-putting to blow a two-stroke lead. The 46-year-old, wearing a pink shirt and black pants, had his game face on as he walked out to the first tee where the entire length of the par-four 445-yard opening hole was lined with thousands of spectators. Woods said he was prepared to play with pain and at times noticeably limped as he made his way around the undulating layout regarded as one of the toughest walks on the PGA Tour.