{"id":71459,"date":"2026-04-11T12:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/the-masters-2026-day-three-golf-updates-from-augusta-national-live\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:55:01","slug":"the-masters-2026-day-three-golf-updates-from-augusta-national-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/the-masters-2026-day-three-golf-updates-from-augusta-national-live\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masters 2026: day three golf updates from Augusta National \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufe0f Latest updates from Moving Day 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>Brian Harman hasn\u2019t been in great form of late.<\/strong> Even so, he was mentioned in dispatches before the Tournament began as a dark horse, with the fiery conditions negating his length disadvantage, and his short game so sweet. However, form trumped hipster punditry as he opened with a dismal 79. However the 2023 Open champion bounced back spectacularly with a 69 yesterday, and he\u2019s in even better nick this afternoon, with birdies at 2, 4, 6, 8 and 14. Just the one dropped shot at 7, and he\u2019s level par overall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Noren was out in the first group this morning.<\/strong> The veteran Swede has absolutely no history at Augusta National to speak of \u2013 a tie for 62nd in 2019 is his best return \u2013 but he\u2019s looking to amend that record this year. A round of 69 today to follow yesterday\u2019s 71; how he\u2019ll be ruing his opening 77. But as things stand he\u2019s in the top 40 at +1 overall and very much trending in the right direction. Ladies and gentlemen, your <em>very<\/em> early clubhouse leader.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/apr\/11\/the-masters-2026-day-three-golf-updates-from-augusta-national-rory-mcilroy-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufe0f Latest updates from Moving Day at Augusta National\ufe0f Official leaderboard | Follow us on Bluesky | Mail Scott Brian Harman hasn\u2019t been in great form of late. Even so, he was mentioned in dispatches before the Tournament began as a dark horse, with the fiery conditions negating his length disadvantage, and his short game &#8230; <a title=\"The Masters 2026: day three golf updates from Augusta National \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/the-masters-2026-day-three-golf-updates-from-augusta-national-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Masters 2026: day three 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-71459","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\/71459","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=71459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}