The Masters 2019: third round – live!

• Updates from the third day at Augusta National
• You can email Scott here with your thoughts
• Second round report: Woods throws down gauntlet
• Andy Bull: Mickelson scents success again
• The official Masters leaderboard

4.05pm BST

The halfway lead is held jointly by no less than five major champions. And we’ll get onto that subject in due course. But first things first: the Silver Cup for low amateur! Someone’s bound to win it this year, because no less than four of the six amateurs have made the cut. It’s a prestigious trophy all right: winners in the past include Cary Middlecoff, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Crenshaw, Curtis Strange, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia, major champions all. Three years ago, Bryson DeChambeau lifted it, and now look at him go. It’s kind of a big deal. This time it’ll be a four-way scrap between Takumi Kanaya (Japan), Devon Bling (USA), Alvaro Ortiz (Mexico) and Viktor Hovland (Norway), and Kanaya has thrown down the gauntlet early doors. He started out today by making birdies at 2, 3 and 6. A bogey at 7 has checked that momentum a little, but he’s still zoomed up the rankings to +1, and will have started dreaming of matching his compatriot and mentor Hideki Matsuyama, who raised the Silver Cup in 2011. Just for a minute there, the 20-year-old was the hottest player out on the course today. This’ll be a race worth keeping an eye on.

4.00pm BST

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