Fox missed a birdie chance at three before three dropped shots at five, six and seven saw him five-over through nine.<\/p>\n
First, he three-putted the par four fifth hole when his uphill birdie putt was left well short, before a crafty chip with his second shot at the par three sixth was wasted when he couldn\u2019t sink the 3m putt for par. That was followed by another three-putt bogey at the par four seventh, including a miss for par from close range.<\/p>\n
Another bogey at the par four 10th after finding the pinestraw with his drive pushed him back to six-over before he shook off the rust at Amen Corner.<\/p>\n
He had birdie looks at the 11th, 12th and 13th, but none of them dropped, which could have easily turned his day around.<\/p>\n
Eventually, his first birdie of the day came at the par four 17th after his approach from 146m out landed within 3.5m.<\/p>\n
Fox sits in a share of 76th with the top 50 and ties making the cut, which currently sits at one-over. He tees off at 3.39am NZT (11.39 EDT) tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Burns was the early clubhouse leader including an eagle at the second hole. McIlroy cemented his charge with consecutive birdies at 13, 14 and 15.<\/p>\n
Two-time champion Scottie Scheffler is also in the mix after an early eagle at the second.<\/p>\n
Masters leaderboard<\/p>\n
-5 Sam Burns (F), Rory McIlroy (F).<\/p>\n
-3 Kurt Kitayama (F), Jason Day (F), Patrick Reed (F), Justin Rose (9), Scottie Scheffler (7).<\/p>\n
-2 Shane Lowry (F), Xander Schauffele (F), Aaron Rai (11), Justin Thomas (8), Gary Woodland (7), Jordan Speith (9).<\/p>\n
Other scores: Brooks Koepka Even (9), Cameron Young +1 (F), JJ Spaun +1 (10), Robert MacIntyre +1 (8), Colin Morikawa +2 (F), Bryson DeChambeau +4 (F), Jon Rahm +4 (9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox missed a birdie chance at three before three dropped shots at five, six and seven saw him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2246,74,1975,121016,6028,32294,45609,2245,1888,4131,1362,58253,38594,111,139,69,6662,15148,29848,22309,35138,18833,5128,544,213,4497,8147,61,1865,6123,4576],"class_list":{"0":"post-371788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-2246","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-at","11":"tag-augusta","12":"tag-champion","13":"tag-charge","14":"tag-defending","15":"tag-early","16":"tag-first","17":"tag-fox","18":"tag-made","19":"tag-masters","20":"tag-mcilroy","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-off","25":"tag-pace","26":"tag-poor","27":"tag-retain","28":"tag-rory","29":"tag-round","30":"tag-ryan","31":"tag-some","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-start","34":"tag-streak","35":"tag-to","36":"tag-today","37":"tag-while","38":"tag-work"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}