The three South African golfers competing at this year's Masters at Augusta National found the going tough in Thursday's opening round. | Sport24news
was the best-placed South African with a two-over par 74. He sits tied for 54th alongside five-time winner Tiger Woods. It's nine shots off the leading trio of Brooks Koepka, Viktor Hovland and Jon Rahm, who shot seven-under rounds of 65., a runner-up at the Masters in 2012 when he lost a playoff to American Bubba Watson, struggled with a four-over par 76. He sits tied for 73rd., the South African amateur competing at the year's first major, shot a five-over 77 to sit tied for 78th.
71 - Joaquin Niemann , Hideki Matsuyama , Im Sung-jae , Dustin Johnson , Patrick Reed , Fred Couples , Phil Mickelson , Harris English , Patrick Cantlay , Max Homa , Tyrrell Hatton 72 - Tommy Fleetwood , Harold Varner III , Talor Gooch , Kevin Kisner , Francesco Molinari , Abraham Ancer , Mike Weir , Rory McIlroy
73 - Corey Conners , Adrian Meronk , Seamus Power , Kim Si-woo , Billy Horschel , Jason Kokrak , Russell Henley , Taylor Moore , Sahith Theegala , Guillermo Pereira , Sergio Garcia , Thomas Pieters 75 - Vijay Singh , Adam Svensson , Min Woo Lee , Harrison Crowe , Bernhard Langer , Zach Johnson , Ben Carr , Danny Willett , Kurt Kitayama , Keith Mitchell 77 - Jose Maria Olazabal , 78 - Alexander Noren
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