{"id":71256,"date":"2026-04-09T08:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/the-masters-2026-day-one-golf-updates-from-augusta-national-live\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:55:32","slug":"the-masters-2026-day-one-golf-updates-from-augusta-national-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/the-masters-2026-day-one-golf-updates-from-augusta-national-live\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masters 2026: day one golf updates from Augusta National \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufe0f Latest news from the first round at Augusta National<br \/>\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masters.com\/en_US\/scores\/index.html\">Official leaderboard<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/sport.theguardian.com\">Follow us on Bluesky<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:scott.murray@theguardian.com\">Mail Scott<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>While we\u2019re on the subject of blowouts, spare a thought for poor Carlos Ortiz.<\/strong> The 34-year-old Mexican is making just his second start at the Masters, and his first since 2021. A tie for fourth at last year\u2019s US Open at Oakmont shows the man has proper major-championship game, but Augusta National is capable of besting any man, and Ortiz has suffered a nightmare start. A drive into the creek down the left of 2. A fluffed splash out of a fairway bunker at 5. He\u2019s started 5-7-5-4-6, a run of three bogeys and two doubles. At +7 through 5, he\u2019ll already be wishing he was back in the clubhouse, and a par at 6 to snap that disastrous run won\u2019t do much to help his mood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s also the 30th anniversary of this.<\/strong> Oh Greg.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/apr\/09\/the-masters-2026-day-one-golf-updates-from-augusta-national-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufe0f Latest news from the first round at Augusta National\ufe0f Official leaderboard | Follow us on Bluesky | Mail Scott While we\u2019re on the subject of blowouts, spare a thought for poor Carlos Ortiz. The 34-year-old Mexican is making just his second start at the Masters, and his first since 2021. A tie for fourth &#8230; <a title=\"The Masters 2026: day one golf updates from Augusta National \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/the-masters-2026-day-one-golf-updates-from-augusta-national-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Masters 2026: day one golf updates from Augusta National \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-71256","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\/71256","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=71256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}