After making a bogey on the 14th, Justin Rose bounces back with a birdie on the par-five 15th to move within a shot of the lead again.

A 332-yard tee shot from Rose helps him get on the green in two before he completes the job in two putts.

Aaron Rai has a birdie putt on the 18th but will have to settle for a par.

He has one tied for 27th finish at the Masters to his name but will head to the clubhouse in a tie for 11th after a battling final nine holes.

Scottie Scheffler spins around in disbelief that another potential birdie has slipped through his grasp. The American sees a 12-foot putt come up an inch shot of the hole.

Agonising.

Sergio Garcia talked down his chances prior to the start of play.

However, the 46-year-old Spaniard, has delivered a very solid round today and can take some optimism into Friday that he is more than capable of making only his second cut at Augusta National since winning the Masters in 2017.

American Jacob Bridgeman is currently leading the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup standings.

He has been the PGA Tour’s most consistent player so far, earning his first career victory and finishing inside the top 20 in all eight starts this season.

So, despite being a rookie this week, he's come in with some focus. A chip-in birdie off the back of the 18th green caps a solid opening.

Birdie chances over on the 16th for Ludvig Aberg and Chris Gotterup but neither can take them.

Both with slight misreads and that's the difference between picking up another shot.

Loads of applause but no cigar for Jon Rahm. On another day the 2023 winner's chip for eagle on the 15th finds its way into the hole. But instead his effort is a ball width wide of the mark and also chases on past the hole meaning their isn't even the consolation of a birdie.

Chris Gotterup is able to snaffle a four thanks to a brilliant wedge into five feet.

Scottie Scheffler keeps banking the pars and taps in to pick up another at the 13th after putting from off the green.

The world number one hasn't made a birdie since the third hole but there's been chances and little windows of opportunity.

Robert MacIntyre lets out another bit of bad language after he manages to putt his ball off the green. To be fair, he was in an awful spot, miles from the hole with a huge mound to navigate. He sent his eagle attempt perhaps a couple of feet too far to the right and could only watch as it wandered off the putting surface.

He gets down in two from there to save par though.

A huge cheer on the 18th. It's for Fred Couples, who finishes his round with a terrific par considering where he hit his tee shot.

It has been something of a scruffy finish by the 66-year-old who triumphed here in 1992.

After the nine on 15 and five on 16, he posted another double bogey on 17 to ship eight shots in three holes.

He then tugged his drive deep into the trees off the 18th tee. He chipped out and then knocked a six-iron hybrid to 12 feet and nonchalantly rolled that in for an unlikely four.

What a shot that is from Aaron Rai, who clips out of the greenside bunker at the 17th to give himself a chance of saving his par from eight feet.

With the way the course has been playing the Englishman could do with this but he can't make the return and drops a shot.

Justin Rose bungles a 13-footer and follows Jordan Spieth in the bogey club. Back to three under for the Englishman.

Justin Rose putts from off the green at the 14th but comes up short and sticks his hands in his pockets in frustration.

He still has a chance to save par, though, unlike Jordan Spieth who curls his putt wide and is set to bogey the hole.

There are plenty of players opting to lay-up with their second shot on the par-five 13th, rather than take on the creek that protects the green.

Justin Thomas is the latest to take that option but he then overcooks his third, the ball scudding through the green into a hollow. And he takes three more from there.

A bogey on 13 is not great and JT knows it. He skulks off the green chuntering away to nobody in particular.

Defending champion tells BBC Sport NI's Stephen Watson he "couldn't have asked for a better start" after opening with a five-under 67 to share the clubhouse lead with Sam Burns.

It was McIlroy's lowest Masters opening round since a 65 in 2011.

Ludvig Aberg knocks in only the fifth birdie of the day among this group. The Swede has three of those and recovers a stroke with a sublime approach to gimme range.

Having dropped six shots in his previous five holes that it is extremely welcome.

Jon Rahm is yet to make one birdie today.

The 2018 Masters champion Patrick Reed, speaking after carding a first-round 69: "I mean, kind of just sought some perfect numbers there, some solid golf shots early on. Honestly, the two bogeys I had were actually quality golf shots.

"I got away with two poor golf shots, one on 17 and one on 18 there. Got those up and down. Besides that, I mean, I felt like I played a lot better kind of than the score today. I hit the ball pretty solid, gave myself a lot of good looks, and made a couple of putts.

"Golf is one of those games if you start trying to force things, you actually get worse. Other sports, the harder you push, the harder you go, usually it works out. In our sport the harder you push and the harder you try to make something happen, that's usually when it kind of goes the wrong direction."

On leaving LIV Golf: "I'm just going by the rules. I'm doing my time from what they said on Player Handbook, and I'm excited to come back playing on the PGA Tour.

"I can't wait really to get back and finish my career on the PGA Tour where I started. The guys from day one have always kind of been the same with me. When we're out there grinding, we're grinding. At the same time, there are some of these guys I've never even seen before, I have never met. I've met them for the first time a couple of guys this week and in previous weeks. It's nice to get to know the new guys. But, no, all the old guys and people that were from the PGA Tour from the past whenever I was out there, it's all been friendly and fine, especially when we're inside the ropes playing golf."

Shadows of the trees at Augusta are starting to lengthen across the greens now with the time in Georgia ticking towards half five.

Jordan Spieth blunders with a birdie chance at the 13th but Justin Rose grabs his chance and goes four under.

Rose had set himself up with a fine approach shot on to the green to leave a putt of just three feet after skillfully navigating the sharp dog leg.

Ludvig Aberg cannot believe what he is seeing. He attacks the flag on the par-five 13th with his second and scoots just through the green.

Sadly for the Swede his chip back on does exactly the same and his ball tumbles down into a tributary to Rae's Creek. And from playing his fifth from a drop zone he takes another couple of putts to walk off with a double.

He's in good company mind, with Jon Rahm who found the shrubs behind the green also posting a seven.

After all the curse words, Scottie Scheffler, Robert MacIntyre and Gary Woodland manage to escape Amen Corner with pars across the board.

Oh Freddie Freddie Freddie...

...our 1992 champion was rolling along nicely at two under after 14 holes but the 66-year-old has taken up swimming down the stretch.

He was playing the long par-five 15th in perfect fashion. A fairway splitting tee shot was followed by a little bunt down the hill short of the pond that protects the green. But then the armbands were out. Two balls lost in the water. Nine on the scorecard.

On to 16. Another ball dunked off the tee. Double bogey five. Six shots gone in a flash.