The Masters 2025 LIVE: Day two as it happened

The wheels are coming off for Rai with two consecutive bogeys at 11 and 12.

Rai is now back in a logjam tie for second on 2-under par and two shots behind Jaeger. 

Niemann, Scheffler, Hatton, Campbell and McCarty are also on 2-under par.

Rai fails to get up and down for par on the tough 11th and a first bogey of the day goes down on the card for the Englishman. 

The man from Wolverhampton moves back into second place at 3-under par and one shot behind Jaeger, who is now heading down the 11th. 

Angel Cabrera might be making something of a controversial return to The Masters this week, but the 2009 winner is off to a solid start.

After making pars on the first three holes, Cabrera buried a birdie on the tough par-3 4th to move into the red at 1-under par.

Cabrera is just three shots behind. 

Scottie Scheffler is cruising along in the early stages of his title defence.

Scheffler is looking to become the first player to successfully defend The Masters since Tiger Woods in 2002. 

The runaway World No.1 is also looking to win The Masters for a third time in four years.

He's off to a solid start with an opening par followed by a birdie at the par-5 2nd.

Scheffler just narrowly missed a 12-footer for birdie on the par-4 3rd but he's moving along serenely here at Augusta National at 1-under par. 

That's just two shots off the pace currently set by England's Aaron Rai and Germany's Stephan Jaeger.

Joaquin Niemann has continued his red-hot start by birding the par-three 4th hole.

He joins Aaron Rai at the top of the leaderboard, who is 3 under through seven holes.

The Chilean has yet to record a top 10 finish in a major championship.

Niemann recently won LIV Golf Singapore and also won LIV Golf Adelaide in February.

The left-hander is one of a record eight left-handers in the field at the 2025 Masters.

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LIV Golf’s Joaquin Niemann is off to a hot start after he has birdied the difficult 1st hole and the 2nd.

He joins eight other players who sit tied at the top of the leaderboard early on in the first round.

The Chilean won twice on the PGA Tour before switching to the Saudi-backed tour, where he has won four titles.

However, Niemann’s best finish at Augusta was a T16 in 2023.

Can 2025 be the year we see the impressive Chilean make his mark in the major championships?

The reigning Masters champion has gotten underway with a perfect drive on the first.

Justin Thomas will be joining Scheffler in the first round with Max Homa’s former caddie Joe Greiner, who is filling in for Thomas’ regular looper, Matt Minister, who has injured his back.

They are joined by the 2024 U.S. Amateur champion, Jose Luis Ballester, who is making his Masters debut.

Nicolai Hojgaard has joined the top of the leaderboard at 2 under despite his horrific start.

Hojgaard had begun his round with a bogey at the 1st and a double-bogey at the 2nd.

But he recovered to even par after scoring three birdies in a row.

Now, after eight holes, the Dane sits at 2 under and has turned a terrible start into an impressive front nine.

Amateur golfer Noah Kent has joined the lead at 2 under.

Making his Masters debut and first major championship start, Kent has birdied the 3rd and 4th to join Zach Johnson, Chris Kirk, and Aaron Rai at the top of the leaderboard.

Kent finished runner-up in the U.S. Amateur to Jose Luis Ballester, earning him invitations to the Masters and U.S. Open for 2025. 

Bernhard Langer is looking to reclaim the record for the oldest player to make the cut.

Two-time Masters champion, Langer, held the record after he made the cut in 2019, aged 62, but Fred Couples snatched it in 2023 when he made the cut aged 63.

At 67, Langer is playing in his final Masters and has started his round well at 1 under through four holes.

After his bogey on the 1st and double-bogey on the 2nd, Nicolai Hojgaard found himself 3 over and at the bottom of the leaderboard early.

But back-to-back-to-back birdies on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th sees Hojgaard return to even par after five holes. 

Zach Johnson, who won the Masters in 2007, has moved into the lead on 2 under after three holes.

Danny Willett who won the 2016 Masters after Jordan Spieth’s infamous meltdown, has also got off to a good start after he birdied the 2nd to move 1 under.

Fellow champion Mike Weir also sits at 1 under through four holes.

It's a shocking start for Nicolai Hojgaard, who represented Europe at the 2023 Ryder Cup. 

After a sloppy bogey at the 1st, the Dane has just made a right mess of the easy par-5 2nd with a disastrous double-bogey seven.

It sends Hojgaard straight to the bottom of the board at 3-over par. 

Nicolai is making his second Masters appearance this week.

He finished T16 in 2024. 

Nicolai's twin brother Rasmus Hojgaard is making his Masters debut this week.

Rasmus will be hoping for a better start than his brother today when he tees off at 12.33pm alongside Patrick Cantlay and Matt Fitzpatrick. 

Angel Cabrera makes his controversail return to The Masters today.

The 2009 champion tees off at 10.59am.

But should he have been invited back following his recent domestic abuse charges that saw him end up in prison? 

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More bogeys on the 1st hole in the 2nd group of the day with 2023 European Ryder Cupper Nicolai Hojgaard and PGA Tour pro Kevin Yu failing to get up and down for their pars. 

The 1st hole at Augusta National is a notoriously difficult start, one that 2023 champion Jon Rahm four-putted for a double-bogey in the first round.

Ernie Els memorably six-putted on this hole in the first round of the 2016 Masters.

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