Tommy Fleetwood and Shane Lowry both run off the back of the dance floor at the fourth.

One club too many perhaps?

But the Irishman is able to navigate back in two as Fleetwood gives up his first shot of the day.

Now then. Rory McIlroy has 22 feet for an eagle on the third.

It's a slick left-to-righter. Ohhh, it just runs out of speed, but that's a tap-in birdie and he moves back to level for the round.

Sam Burns needed two tries to get up the hill and faces a slippery putt for par. But he walks it in. Smooth. He remains two-under for the day.

An exquisite wedge shot gives Cameron Young a very good look at birdie on the seventh.

If that had skipped on a foot we might have been talking about an eagle and tie for third, instead he has to make do with a three.

"Miss it!"

Rory McIlroy is concerned about another tee shot. But he doesn't need to be this time.

He lashes one towards the green on the driveable par-four third. It misses a few branches, meanders its way on to the right edge of the green and trickles a few feet closer.

An eagle putt. Making that would really spark him into life after a sluggish start.

Sam Burns is short and left and will have a pitch back up the hill.

Scottie Scheffler is up early on his birdie putt.

It's drifting left all the way. Just a par for the American who will be hoping to pick up at least a couple more shots now he's out of Amen Corner.

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Wow! What a start from Patrick Reed as he reels off his third birdie in a row and now he's just two behind Rory McIlroy.

It's a crunching drive from Reed just short of the green on what is a driveable par four today for some of the longer hitters, and he's got such great hands with a wedge he was always going to knock it close enough to stroke home the putt for a three.

A mini fist pump from Justin Rose as he rolls in a lovely birdie putt to pick up his first shot of the day.

Trish Johnson
Former Europe Solheim Cup player on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

Hopefully [Rory McIlroy] can hit a good drive down the third and give himself a birdie chance, because those two holes have been a little bit ragged.

Good lag from McIlroy and he tidies up for par, but that's a five-five start for the leader and he walks off the green with a grimace.

Now, can Burns follow up his birdie on the first? Yes he can!

Like Patrick Reed, Burns has halved the deficit and strides to the third tee.

Tommy Fleetwood burns the edge of the cup with a birdie putt on the third, while Shane Lowry putts up to six inches from off the left fringe.

Both are playing some delightful stuff.

Rory McIlroy gets lucky and has a full backswing on the second, but he produces a bit of a wild swipe and his ball goes flying towards the gallery to the left of the green.

He has plenty of green to work with but must come over a bunker. And that's not his best effort either. It's too long and he's facing a tricky two-putt for par.

Sam Burns was forced to lay-up after finding sand off the tee but he clips a beautiful wedge straight over the top of the pin. Birdie putt coming up.

Li Haotong joins the party with his third birdie of the day coming at the fifth - that only yielded five birdies all day yesterday.

The Chinese challenge is up into a tie for third now and just four shots off the lead.

Scottie Scheffler hoicks his second into the greenside bunker on the 13th. He will not have a lot of room to work with down there.

But given he started the day 12 shots behind the leader and is currently only five, he will not be too flummoxed by that. He seems more annoyed when his third catches the front edge and sticks rather than trickling down towards its intended target.

Well, well, well, what have we here? Patrick Reed plays a beautiful bunker shot on the second and then rolls in the putt for a second birdie in his opening two holes.

And quick as a flash that six-shot lead Rory McIlroy started with has been cut in half - and he's in a spot of bother on the second as well.

Things just got interesting....

Make that 0/9 fairways hit for McIlroy on par-fives this week.

His drive at the second carries the bunker down the right but takes a wicked kick to the right and scampers down through the pinestraw and seemingly nestles close to a little tree.

It doesn't look like he'll have much of a backswing from there.

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Recent Masters champions have usually done the bulk of their scoring on the par fives, with in fact only Danny Willett of the last 10 winners scoring better on the threes and fours than the longer holes.

And so far Rory McIlroy is following that formula, as he's made a birdie on seven of the eight par fives he's played so far.

And while he started today seven under on the fives, he was three under on the par threes and two under on the par fours. He could win the Masters from here just taking care of the par fives and playing it safe on the rest.

It's all smiles on the second green for Shane Lowry and Tommy Fleetwood as they snaffle early birdies.

Lowry holes out from around 10 feet and his playing partner does the same after showing great touch with his irons around the green to zip into a foot with a bump and run from the right edge.

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Rory McIlroy is forced to go low under some branches from 89 yards on the first. He knows immediately that it's coming in a little hot and his ball does indeed scuttle through the green.

He takes the putter but it's slow through the fringe and he'll have a wee knee-knocker for par.

And it slides past on the left! That's not what he was after but that was a poorly played hole.

Sam Burns stuck one in close from 165 yards and makes the putt! McIlroy's six-shot lead is history. Burns and Reed are just four back.

We shouldn't expect anything less than a birdie start for Patrick Reed, as he currently holds the longest streak of consecutive rounds under par at Augusta National, with six scores in a row below 72 at the Masters.

Amazingly, he's had four consecutive rounds of 69, including two already this week, showing just how well he can play this iconic course.

He'll need something lower today to challenge Rory McIlroy though.

The course record at Augusta National is a nine-under 63, set by Nick Price in 1986 and equalled by Greg Norman in 1996.

Scottie Scheffler is three strokes off that at present as he powers his way back into Masters contention.

And he is now lining an 18-foot birdie putt down the slope on the 12th. It a right-to-left putt but he undercooks it slightly and it turns away from the cup and leaves a tap in.