Woah. Scheffler carries his drive 324 yards down the ninth.

That doesn't do much for Scott, however, as he manages a 326-yard carry.

Serious power.

Tommy Fleetwood is not a happy camper.

Left off the tee, his angle of approach into the 10th is blocked by a huge tree but he lifts his ball over that and sees it drop on to the back of the green. Problems over?

He aims his putt well out left but it is short of gas to leave himself a five footer for par that he misses. A stamp of his foot is a giveaway for his mood.

Kevin Kisner follows suit via the sand and can't knock in a 10 footer to save his par.

Daniel Berger, is a tad more satisfied. Fairway and green both in regulation. Then a 30-foot to make birdie.

Pink is certainly this season's fashion choice, darlings.

Rory McIlroy, like his swoosh stablemate Tiger Woods, is blooming in his eye-catching garb.

The 32-year-old Northern Irishman is going through the putting drills, then has a play in the sand, before he goes out in the final grouping alongside England's Matt Fitzpatrick and American Brooks Koepka.

MacIntyre can't quite take advantage of another good drive on the fifth, misjudging his approach to leave himself with an awkward pitch from the left edge of the green.

It's a solid try, though, and yields another par.

Scott makes par. He'll be frustrated with that, and while neither Scheffler nor Finau manage to drain their eagle putts, they both make birdie and will have a spring in their step as they make their way to the ninth.

Scheffler's quietly going about his business. He still hasn't dropped a shot.

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Has someone replaced Tiger Woods' wedge without him noticing?

His game from the edge of the green has gone to pot. Luckily the putter is still hot.

Woods saves par with the short stick and goes into the turn level.

While his face does not say it, you would imagine he'll be relatively happy with that.

Can Scheffler respond to Finau? Yes, he can! Of course he can. From 257 yards, he drills a dead-eyed second to 19 feet.

Surely either he or Finau will walk off the eighth green with an eagle.

Scott will do well to save his par, though, after coming up short with his third from 37 yards. Poor.

Excellent stuff from Lee Westwood to card back-to-back birdies thanks to another crisp wedge shot, that has plenty of action on it, and a nice putt that drops in at dead weight.

This is an impressive start from the Englishman as he joins the group on two under just behind the leader.

Sensational! Joaquin Niemann shows why he is one of the most exciting talents on the tour by holing out on the ninth from 105 yards.

The 23-year-old Chilean knows his angles like a physicist and the contours like a geologist, dropping his ball way past the flag and letting it dribble back down to the hole.

Cheers pierce eardrums and palms are slapped between Niemann and his caddie.

That'll take him into the lead!

Finau actually didn't find the bunker with his drive on the eighth.

He just about avoided it, and he takes full advantage of that break as he launches a stunning fairway metal from 260 yards to 12 feet!

What a dig, and he'll have that for an eagle. That could just be the moment to kick-start the American's challenge...

"I've no problem if I draw this one, right?" asks Tiger.

That means he is going for the flag with his second shot from the bark.

It doesn't sound that clean and it doesn't turn out as Woods envisaged.

That's confirmed when the 46-year-old drops a four-letter bomb as he watches his ball go backwards after hitting the slope of the green.

Cameron Smith has a rather unique claim to fame at the Masters after breaking 70 in all four rounds in 2020 - becoming the first player to do so.

But that was only good enough for a share of second and he finished 10th in 2021.

However, the 28-year-old Australian reckons he has the game to win this time around to join Tiger Woods as the only other player to win the prestigious Players Championship and Masters title in the same year.

And would you bet against him? A second straight birdie sees him jointly atop the leaderboard.

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Now then. A big drive is needed at the eighth.

Scheffler obliges as he cuts one down the left side of the fairway, but Finau finds the bunker down the right and Scott loses his left!

I'd say Scheffler's probably the only one who will have a crack at the green, but who knows...

Never a good sign when the hand comes off the driver.

On the ninth, looking to make amends for that bogey on the last, Tiger Woods drags his tee-shot left into the trees.

One patron swivels round like a meerkat when he hears a ball trickling behind him. He didn't expect that in his secluded picnic spot.

Hello Charl Schwartzel! Long time no see at the top of a Masters leaderboard as two birdies in his first four holes put the South African into the joint lead.

Schwartzel, who is decked out in a lovely Augusta green shirt today, famously produced a flying finish with four straight birdies to win the Masters in 2011 - the year of Rory McIlroy's unfortunate final round collapse.

Tommy Fleetwood with a 22-foot putt for birdie. In it drops. It barely registers with the Englishman mind.

Daniel Berger pays for an errant tee shot right with a bogey, with his second rolling back off the green and his third then racing on past the pin.

It's very early stages and everything but here's how it's looking at the top of the leaderboard...

-2: Takumi Kanaya (2)

-1: Danny Willett (10), Cameron Smith (8), Joaquin Niemann (8), Cameron Champ (5), Robert MacIntyre (4), Charl Schwartzel (3), Justin Rose (2), Lee Westwood (2)

Lee Westwood rips in a lovely wedge shot on the second that checks up stone dead so he can roll in a birdie to also join the group on one under.

That second hole has been very generous today with 21 birdies so far on it - the most of any hole on the course.

Up to now, Tiger Woods has played smartly and very nicely. A slight crack has appeared here, though.

A stiff chip dribbles past the hole and gives him a tricky par putt back. Even his caddie is called in for a second opinion.

Missed it. A bogey six from being on the right of the green for two.

His expression turns stonier than if it had been depicted on Mount Rushmore.

MacIntyre's not happy with his approach at the par-three fourth.

It finds the bunker, but the lefty recovers with a sumptuous effort from the sand and it's another par.

He'll be more than happy with his work over the opening four holes.