{"id":38451,"date":"2025-04-10T16:48:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/the-masters-2025-day-one-at-augusta-live\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T16:48:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:48:45","slug":"the-masters-2025-day-one-at-augusta-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/the-masters-2025-day-one-at-augusta-live\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masters 2025: day one at Augusta \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Follow updates as 2025\u2019s first major gets under way<\/li>\n<li>Get in touch with Scott <a href=\"mailto:scott.murray.casual@guardian.co.uk\">here<\/a> | Live leaderboard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masters.com\/en_US\/scores\/index.html\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Noah Kent qualified for this year\u2019s Tournament by finishing runner-up at the US Amateur.<\/strong> One of five amateurs in this year\u2019s field \u2013 along with US Amateur champion Jose Luis Ballester, NCAA individual title winner Hiroshi Tai, US Mid-Am champ Evan Beck and Latin American Amateur winner Justin Hastings \u2013 he\u2019s made back-to-back birdies at 3 and 4, and like Davis Riley before him, can now always say he once led the Masters. A fast start for Wolverhampton\u2019s Aaron Rai on debut, too, with birdies at 2 and 3. Rai has yet to make a serious impression on any of the majors, but he broke his PGA Tour duck last year at the Wyndham, formerly the Greater Greensboro Open, so knows what it takes to enter the winners circle. Sandy Lyle\u2019s first victory in the USA was at the Greater Greensboro, incidentally, for anyone interested in extremely tenuous omens.<\/p>\n<p><em>-2: Z Johnson (5), Kirk (5), Kent -a- (4), Rai (3)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2025\/apr\/10\/the-masters-day-one-at-augusta-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow updates as 2025\u2019s first major gets under way Get in touch with Scott here | Live leaderboard here Noah Kent qualified for this year\u2019s Tournament by finishing runner-up at the US Amateur. One of five amateurs in this year\u2019s field \u2013 along with US Amateur champion Jose Luis Ballester, NCAA individual title winner Hiroshi &#8230; <a title=\"The Masters 2025: day one at Augusta \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/the-masters-2025-day-one-at-augusta-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Masters 2025: day one at Augusta \u2013 live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}