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While Gary Woodland is hacking around the green on the second, Scottie Scheffler has overcooked his approach a touch and left himself a slippery birdie putt which he can't make. Par.

Bob Mac found a greenside bunker with his second and splashed out to four feet but he is tentative with his birdie putt. Pars are not good enough for the Scot.

Back to Woodland... the bogey putt slides by. Double. From nowhere.

We've got to hope the pace of play picks up a little. This trio teed off at 15:19. They walk off the second green at 16:01.

We know it's a tricky course but...

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Gary Woodland can only bunt his third through the trees between him and the back of the third tee as he tries to get his ball near the second green. But he plays a couple of high handicap shots, his third pulling up well short and then lobbing his fourth into a bunker.

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Aaron Rai has slipped back to one under after a bogey on the fifth but steadied the ship with a par, and he's level with Jacon Bridgeman who has reeled off four pars after a bogey-birdie start.

Sergio Garcia had a hat-trick of bogeys on three, four and five but has stopped the rot with a nice birdie on the sixth.

Robert McIntyre's second is powered down the hill towards the green. We don't find out exactly where it's landed because the cameraman is too busy scuttling off to get in place for Scottie Scheffler's second! An ooh and aah from down by the green suggests it's not on the dancefloor.

Scheffler is standing in the pine straw and opts to nudge his ball short of the green.

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Brooks Koepka birdies the short par-four third hole but Justin Rose and Jordan Spieth both make really annoying pars.

Rose is sloppy again with a wedge, thinning it a bit and firing it beyond the flag, with his birdie try from around 15 feet just breaking hard right before the hole.

Spieth plays a superb shot with his short game wizardry, but it's hard to fully express how tentative his short birdie putt is! Yes, it's down a tricky slope but it's only a few feet away and he barely made contact. Hit it man!

Scottie Scheffler crunches his drive on the second miles down the left side of the hole. It's a dog-leg left so he's going to have to hope he's not blocked himself out.

Bob MacIntyre and Gary Woodland both find the centre of the fairway but are a little behind Scheffler in terms of distance.

There's a bit of a wait because the group in front, Ben Griffin, Justin Thomas and Sepp Straka are putting out.

Here's Woodland at last. Wow. That's wild. He's pushed that way way right, it's over the adjacent third and down towards what I believe is the seventh fairway!

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In case you missed it, Robert MacIntyre could face disciplinary action after he directed a middle finger at the 15th green during a quadruple bogey yesterday.

The Scot plunged towards the bottom of the leaderboard after his nine on the par-five hole, offering the gesture after he struck the first of two balls he hit into the water.

MacIntyre also reacted angrily to his second shot on the 17th, slamming his club into the ground, and did not speak to the media after his round of 80.

Starting with a double bogey today will not help his mood...

No, he's not Tiger Woods, but Scottie Scheffler is not far off in terms of his ultra consistent high level of performances in the very toughest golfing contests.

Being 113 under par in the majors since 2020 is incredible, and being 55 strokes better off than the next man up, Xander Schauffele, shows that nobody can touch him in terms of that consistency.

He may not win them all, not even Tiger could do that, but it means that in almost every major he'll be the man to beat.

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Chris Gotterup ends the third hole with the bragging rights after being the only man to birdie the short par-four hole.

A booming drive just short of the green left him a short chip and putt to get into the red.

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Here's the pins again Alex - you're right, there's some decent ones but just looking at some of the early starters, even with it being as soft as it'll be all day those putting surfaces look pretty hard and fast.

When Augusta plays like this it can be like putting on a marble staircase so I'm not sure if any pin is friendly. As always it's all about where you can and can't miss, but yes, they could be worse...

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Chance missed for Justin Rose, who is just short of the second green in two but is a bit clumsy with his chip and sends it long, leaving a twisty, turning, little fiddler down the slope and it just wanders away across the hole.

It's a par, but a par at the second is basically a half shot dropped going on the scoring, which thanks to my handy chart below shows how easy that hole was playing yesterday.

Jordan Spieth also misses a great chance for a birdie as he decides to look at the hole again and not his ball from about five feet - not sure about that one.

Not the start Scotland's finest wanted. Bob MacIntyre, from the sand, and he leaves his first effort in there. He wastes no time in smashing out his second attempt but his ball races across the green, 30, 40 feet past the hole.

Scottie Scheffler and Gary Woodland show the importance of finding the green, both knocking in two-putt pars.

MacIntyre takes two more and that's an ugly double-bogey start. That won't do his mood any good at all.

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England's Tyrrell Hatton has taken just three holes to repair yesterday's damage, with birdies on the second and third to move to level par.

Remember, as well as the leading pack there's the battle to make the cut to watch during the second round.

Bob MacIntyre, from the ideal spot in the middle of the first fairway, goes flag-hunting with his second shot. He's slightly off line and we all know that can spell trouble. His ball thuds into a bunker.

Scottie Scheffler and Gary Woodland both leave themselves mid-range birdie looks.

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Welcome birdies all round for this group after all three players show a little wizardry with their short games.

Jon Rahm lifted his third shot up and over a bunker, while Chris Gotterup skidded one in low from way right of the green and Ludvig Aberg's, from slightly longer distance, skipped in close enough to make a four on the par-five hole.

The world number one is away first on the first tee. Scottie Scheffler's drive is down the right side of the fairway but safe.

Robert MacIntyre is straight down the middle fairway, while Gary Woodland's ball comes to rest on the left side.

The big talking point in this group from Thursday proved to be Bob MacIntyre's behaviour. Flipping the middle finger at the 15th hole, swearing on numerous others and whacking a lump out of the 17th fairway are not great to see on any course. It remains to be seen if the Augusta National officials will take any further action.

Clearly a frustrating day for Scotland's number one who needs to go low to have any chance of sticking around for the weekend.

Rory McIlroy talked about conquering his Everest last year - Bob has his own mountain to climb today, with just the top 50 and ties making rounds three and four. The cut is predicted to be around five over.

No real surprises to see Scottie Scheffler under par - despite some indifferent opening rounds in other events this year. The world number one knows his way round this course and has two wins, in 2022 and 2024... will he keep the even years trend going?

And brilliant to see Gary Woodland building on his Houston Open win from two weeks ago. He revealed last month that he's been dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder since undergoing brain surgery in 2023, which makes his round all the more remarkable.

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Well that's not the start Justin Rose would have wanted today as he makes a bogey on his opening hole of round two - his third in a row after he closed with bogeys on 17 and 18 last night.

He plays a nice escape from under the trees after a wayward drive, but there's no spin on the ball and it races through to the back of the green - and he's unable to get down in two from there.

Jordan Spieth picks up a birdie to start the day though and he joins Rose on one under.

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport golf reporter

Scottie Scheffler has fallen below his lofty heights in recent weeks, lacking some of his precision from tee-to-green and paying the price for slow opening rounds.

But the two-time champion made a blistering start with an eagle on the second and a birdie on the third.

While the world number one could not add to the tally, he largely demonstrated the consistency for which is he famed to eke out a solid, if unspectacular two-under-par 70.