• Follow all the first round action from Augusta• Official live Masters leader board• Ewan Murray: McIlroy’s mentality could end in a Masters high-five• Email Scott with all your thoughts on the day one action 2.55pm BST Takumi Kanaya keeps on keepin’ on! The 20-year-old amateur from Hiroshima, who guaranteed his participation here by winning the Asia-Pacific Amateur last October, has a fine CV already: he won the Japan Amateur in 2015, then finished runner-up at the 2017 Japan Open, a single shot shy of winner Yuta Ikeda. At the Sony Open in January, he bested Bubba Watson by a stroke and only missed the cut by three. He’s currently ranked the seventh best amateur in the world. Now he’s got a share of the lead at the Masters, having added to that opening-hole birdie with another at 2! Already he’ll be dreaming of winning the low amateur prize here, just like his compatriot and mentor Hideki Matsuyama did in 2011. It’s only fair to mark this occasion with the first leader board of this year’s blog.-2: Tway (4), Harding (2), Kanaya -a- (2)-1: Willett (2), Snedeker (2), Holmes (1) 2.45pm BST There are six amateurs competing this year: Kevin O’Connell and Devon Bling of the USA, Takumi Kanaya of Japan, Viktor Hovland of Norway, Alvaro Ortiz of Mexico and Jovan Rebula of South Africa. A couple of them have already made their mark. The 19-year-old UCLA student Bling made a hole-in-one at the 7th in the par-three yesterday, pitching into the heart of the green and sending his ball spinning back into the cup in the most satisfying style. He high-fived anyone and everyone in delight. A member had told him to hit his sand wedge 120 yards, aiming for the middle of the building in the distance, so he did exactly that. “I told him later: ‘That was a great number!’” Bling finished in a tie for third with Bubba Watson and Martin Kaymer, not bad company to be keeping. And now Kanaya has birdied the opening hole of the 2019 Masters, to join the bunch of early leaders at -1, alongside the aforementioned Tway, Brandt Snedeker, Justin Harding and JB Holmes! Continue reading…
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