The Masters 2025 LIVE: Leaderboard and tee times for Round 1 as Rory McIlroy begins quest for green jacket at Augusta

Here are some of the interesting tee times to keep an eye on over the next couple of hours. Some big names will be getting their 2025 Masters campaign underway

1335: Bernhard Langer, Will Zalatoris, Noah Kent (a)

1352: Cameron Smith, J.T. Poston, Aaron Rai

1425: Patrick Reed, Max Greyserman, Byeong Hun An

1436: Robert MacIntyre, Billy Horschel, Nick Dunlap

1447: Collin Morikawa, Joaquin Niemann, Min Woo Lee

1458: Phil Mickelson, Jason Day, Keegan Bradley

The first group are out on the course and it’s the two-ball of Davis Riley and Patton Kizzire.

The American pair have completed the first hole and while Riley makes a steady par, Kizzire gets an early taste of Augusta’s perils. He leaks his tee shot way right, has to chip from the pine straw back to the fairway and makes bogey. First of many bogeys at this year’s Masters.

And they’re off at the 2025 Masters! We start with the traditional ceremonial tee-off as golf legends hit a tee shot to open up proceedings.

Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson doing the honours this year and you don’t get much more legendary than that

Here are the pin positions for Round 1, the weather looks like it’ll be kind to the players, there are birdies out there and the Masters is notorious for not allowing slow starters back into the tournament.

Sky Sports has the rights for the Masters in the UK and will be broadcasting all four rounds from Augusta on Sky Sports Golf or Sky Sports Main Event. If you’re not a Sky customer, you can grab a NOWTV Day Pass here to watch without a subscription.

On Thursday and Friday, coverage of featured groups begins from 2pm BST, with full coverage getting underway from 7:30pm.

On the weekend, full coverage starts at 5pm until close of play – with the Masters champion crowned on Sunday evening.

Full timings are as follows

Round One, Thursday 10 April: featured groups from 2pm, full coverage from 7.30pm

Round Two, Friday 11 April: featured groups from 2pm, full coverage from 7.30pm

Round Three, Saturday 12 April: build-up from 3pm, full coverage from 7.30pm

Round Four, Sunday 13 April: build-up from 3pm, full coverage from 5:00pm

“The thing about Augusta is because the slopes are so big and so many funnels, so many shots end up in the same spots,” Michael Kim said on X after a practice round with Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson.

“That’s why you hear the saying you don’t read putts, you remember putts at Augusta. You have very similar putts year after year to pins if you play it enough.

“Phil had lots of notes for many of the putts in his yardage book. This one is slow, this one breaks left here but then breaks back this way. I tried to write down all of them on my book. DJ also was really cool at giving info as well.”

The Masters has no plans to create an exemption for LIV Golf players, according to tournament chair Fred Ridley.

The US Open and Open Championship announced in February that the leading player, not already exempt, on the Saudi-funded breakaway’s standings would earn a place in the field at Oakmont and Royal Portrush respectively.

However, speaking in his annual pre-tournament press conference at Augusta National, Ridley indicated that the Masters would continue to rely on its status as an invitational event.

“As it relates to the USGA and the R&A, they certainly act independently,” Ridley said. “We respect their decisions.

“We are an invitational tournament. We have historically considered special cases for invitations for international players, which is how Joaquin Niemann was invited the last couple of years.

“We feel we can deal with that issue, whether it’s a LIV player or a player on some other tour that might not otherwise be eligible for an invitation, that we can handle that with a special invitation.”

A Masters golf coach endured a problematic start to the tournament after being escorted off Augusta for breaking a surprise golden rule.

Arizona State University coach Matt Thurmond is at this year’s Masters alongside rising Spanish amateur star Josele Ballester, but was left red-faced after a fashion blunder forced him to separate from his player during a last-minute practice session ahead of the major.

Amidst all the excitement in Georgia, Thurmond let Augusta’s fierce guidelines slip his memory and turned up to the course wearing shorts – a sin of seismic proportion.

Even on practice days, shorts are strictly forbidden at Augusta, something Thurmond evidently forgot, with his eyes solely focused on pre-major preparations.

Bad news for Scottie Scheffler’s rivals this week. The dominant world No 1 says he feels fully prepared for a tournament for the first time this season.

Scheffler missed the start of the season due to surgery on a freak hand injury suffered while preparing Christmas dinner but is now fully fit and finished second at the Houston Open a couple of weeks ago.

“I would say that I feel very prepared for this golf tournament,” said Scheffler. “This is definitely the most prepared that I’ve felt all year.

“I talked a lot about my preparation and stepping up on the tee at Pebble [Beach] feeling like I wasn’t exactly where I was when I ended the year just because I had taken so much time off.

“This year coming off an injury was definitely a different feeling than I’ve had in the last few years. But as far as preparedness goes, this is definitely as prepared as I’ve felt going into any event this year and I’m excited to get the tournament going.”

Rory McIlroy’s four-year-old daughter showed her father how it was done by delighting the Augusta National crowd with a monster putt on the eve of the Masters.

The Northern Irishman, who needs to win the Masters to complete the career grand slam, helped Poppy sink a long birdie putt on the final hole.

“Yeah, very cool,” McIlroy said when asked about that moment. “It’s just such a fun afternoon. Being out there with Shane (Lowry) and Tommy (Fleetwood) and their families, we’re all very, very close, so to have the kids out there and them having fun is the most important thing.

“It’s a really nice way to sort of end the preparation going into what is the serious part of the week. So it’s nice to be able to get out here and do this.”