The Masters 2020 first round – live!
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12.26pm GMT
The players will be going off from split tees today and tomorrow, to ensure everyone gets round before nightfall. So over on the 10th, the honour of hitting the Tournament’s first drive of the week goes to the 1988 champion Sandy Lyle. One of the bigger hitters back in the day, he belts one 272 yards down the middle. The ball disappears into the mist rolling down the hill. His approach lands just short of the green, though with the pin at the front that’s not a bad leave.
12.18pm GMT
The early tee times were delayed slightly. A storm took its own sweet time to pass. But after a ten-minute wait, the 2009 US Open champion Lucas Glover took the first shot of the 2020 Masters, knocking his opening drive straight down the middle of Tea Olive. Just the 291 yards, 30 or so short of the 2020 US Open champ’s garden-variety carries, but times change, huh. Continue reading...
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