{"id":35540,"date":"2018-04-05T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/05\/the-masters-2018-first-round-live\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:56:13","slug":"the-masters-2018-first-round-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=35540","title":{"rendered":"The Masters 2018: first round \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Live updates on the first day\u2019s action at Augusta NationalEmail scott.murray@theguardian.com with any thoughtsFinau may miss debut after hole-in-one celebration injuryEwan Murray: Tiger-mania leaves field with \u2018intimidation factor\u2019 2.56pm BST We need a splash of red on that famous Augusta leaderboard. So right on cue, here comes Vijay Singh, the man who breezed to victory in 2000. An opening-hole birdie, and Fiji\u2019s finest leads the Masters once more, even if it\u2019s just for a while on Thursday morn. Not such a happy start for the two amateurs out there early doors: another bogey for Matt Parziale, this time at 3, and a double-bogey start for the 2017 British Amateur champion Harry Ellis. A three-putt did most of the damage for the 22-year-old from Southampton there. 2.49pm BST Well there\u2019s how quickly things can go wrong at Augusta. Ryan Moore had flown out of the blocks, reaching -2 in short order, but now he\u2019s crashed back to +1, following bogey at 3 with double at 4. He found the bunker guarding the front right of the par-three with his tee shot, then went over the back of the green with his splash out. A chip and a missed six-footer, and that\u2019s how easy it is to make double bogey. There are 18 players out there right now, and nobody\u2019s under par. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2018\/apr\/05\/the-masters-2018-first-round-live\" target=\"_blank\">The Masters 2018: first round \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live updates on the first day\u2019s action at Augusta NationalEmail scott.murray@theguardian.com with any thoughtsFinau may miss debut after hole-in-one celebration injuryEwan Murray: Tiger-mania leaves field with \u2018intimidation factor\u2019 2.56pm BST We need a splash of red on that famous Augusta leaderboard. So right on cue, here comes Vijay Singh, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}