It's time now for the chipping forecast in association with Peter Millar, brought to you by Andrew Cotter, Eddie Pepperel, and special guest Ian Carter. Well, hello there.

At the end of the first day of the 2026 Masters, it is in the books, as Ian Carter once wisely said,

and I didn't know what he was talking about because I didn't know at that stage the phrase in the books. Not that learned. Actually, do you know what the biggest story of today is Ian? You

do know what the biggest story of today is in golf. Yeah. Yeah. It's Jose Maria O'Litharbo beating

well no, no, we'll come to that. That's the second biggest story of the day in golf. The biggest

story of the day in golf is on countdown, Susie Dent,

mentioning how much she likes golf on the radio. Golf in Five Live, she said, and their

excellent team of Ian Carter, Ali Bruce Ball, etc. So there we are. No, that was lovely. It was

great. I actually got an email from Peter Higgs. Do you remember Peter Higgs?

Yes, absolutely. From the mail on Sunday. And he said, you'll never, he said, sorry to disturb you because I know today is a really busy day. He's retired former correspondent of the mail on Sunday. He said, but you've just been mentioned on countdown by by Susie Dent. So I was very excited. So obviously I message Sarah straight away. And she was having a really busy day at work. Because within 10 minutes, she'd found it and sent me the clip. So I obviously then passed it on to you and Eddie. Yes, you did. You did. You just casually dropped her and told told, oh, so I didn't want you to see that. I've been named

paper supplier of the year 2001. I'll just put that in the bin. Anyway, yes, six-letter word,

Badger. Well done, well done you. Anyway, how is your, how is your how is your day great great what a what a

first day to the masters i mean yeah i always have that feeling when you're stoking the anticipation

which is what you have to do you want to tell people that this is going to be exciting but quite

often first days of major championships can be quite anticlimactic.

And I did fear knowing that it was going to be fast and firm, that sometimes that can make it kind of

anti-climactic. And you have to reassess how you want to gauge how you approach it and work out what is really, really good golf.

But I don't think we had to do that today.

And it was really tough by the end.

But we've got a great leaderboard.

McElroy, I think, has exceeded all expectations with his start.

But it's a great start.

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