Tiger Woods faces an endurance test of 23 holes at the Masters on Friday with his first round halted at the 13th on one-under par – but the five-time winner impresses on day one

Tiger Woods ended day certainly one of the Masters on one-under par on the thirteenth gap, with  unhealthy climate forcing a two-and-a-half hour delay at Augusta on Thursday.

Woods will likely be again out at 8am native time Friday morning to wrap up the ultimate 5 holes earlier than embarking on his second spherical.

Woods opened his twenty sixth Masters with a birdie, igniting large cheers at Augusta and general, confirmed lots to recommend he can compete this week.

However the climate delay is way from supreme for the 48-year-old and his creaking physique, as he now faces enjoying 23 holes on Friday because the match schedule strikes to remain on observe. 

Woods bogeyed the par-3 fourth after crusing his tee shot over the inexperienced, however he received the stroke again on the par-5 eighth with a two-putt birdie.

Tiger Woods ended day one of many Masters on one-under par on the thirteenth gap at Augusta

Woods must play 23 holes on Friday at The Masters in hopes of constructing the lower 

After 13 holes, Woods is one-under par and is near the lower line for the main match

It’s Woods’ first look since withdrawing from the Genesis Invitational in February with flu-like signs, and his first main in a 12 months. 

Woods made the lower finally 12 months’s Masters however withdrew earlier than the top of the rain-interrupted third spherical, citing plantar fasciitis.

He underwent left ankle surgical procedure later that month and has performed little or no aggressive golf since.

The five-time Masters champion would break a document held by Gary Participant and Fred {Couples} if he makes his twenty fourth straight lower at Augusta this week. 

The highest 50 gamers and ties after 36 holes, plus anybody inside 10 pictures of the chief, will play the weekend. 

LIV Golf’s Bryson DeChambeau held the clubhouse lead on Thursday evening on seven-under, a shot forward of Scottie Scheffler. Danny Willett, the 2016 champion, was a shock identify tied fourth alongside Homa on four-under. 

DeChambeau had his lowest begin ever in a significant, a medical efficiency of energy and placing, at all times recipe at Augusta Nationwide.

‘Making an attempt to be the most effective golfer I might be,’ DeChambeau mentioned. ‘I am simply in a spot the place I am repeating a movement, making an attempt to do the identical factor time and again.’

Scottie Scheffler is second after day No 1 at this 12 months’s Masters match at six-under par

Bryson DeChambeau is the clubhouse chief after the primary day at The Masters, at seven-under

He ran off 5 birdies in a six-hole stretch on the again 9, together with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 fifteenth when his dangerous shot below a pine tree cleared the water fronting the inexperienced and left him 40 toes away.

‘It clipped the tree. I hit 4 pine needles moderately than 5, and it labored out completely,’ mentioned DeChambeau, not solely rid of his exact calculations.

Scheffler, in the meantime, carded a bogey-free 66 – his first ever at Augusta – and seemed in usually spectacular contact.

‘Any time you will get round this golf course bogey-free, you are going to have a reasonably good day on the market,’ he mentioned.