That rounds out our live coverage for Saturday, thanks for tuning in. Here are the timestamps and commentary from the day's play.

9:00am: DeChambeau rolls in a massive birdie putt after finding the fairway bunker on 18, he will join McIlroy in the final group tomorrow two shots back. The Englishman, Rose rounds out his day with a bogey to card a disappointing 75 and sit in a tie for sixth.

8:42am: DeChambeau makes 4 on 17, keeping him at nine-under. McIlroy routinely collects his par at 18 for back-to-back 66s and finishes at 12-under-par. Conners makes a brilliant up and down for par and completes a solid day, the Canadian signing for 70. 

8:30am: Scheffler makes par on the last to shoot an even-par 72. McIlroy misses his tricky, fast birdie putt. Leaving himself some work coming back, and rolls it in. He leads DeChambeau by 3 as he makes his way to the 18th tee.

8:20am: DeChambeau makes birdie on 15 and hits one close on 16 and so does Rose. Rose misses his putt... and misses the one coming back, Bryson birdies! This is blockbuster viewing. McIlroy hits his second to inside 10-feet on 17, very good look at birdie.

Lacklustre day for the World No.1 at Augusta. PHOTO: Getty Images.

8:05am: Scheffler makes a much-needed birdie on 15 to get back to five-under, his birdie putt on 16 lips out. Justin Rose makes an excellent putt on 14 for birdie, he gets to seven-under for the tournament. STAND AND DELIVER, McIlroy hits a towering six-iron to six-feet on the par-5 15th and rolls the eagle putt in. He has a four shot lead over his playing partner, Conners.

McIlroy makes eagle and a huge statement on 15. PHOTO: Getty Images.

7:40am: 2018 champion, Reed makes birdie at 18 to get in the clubhouse at six-under. Shane Lowry is lurking, the Irishman making a 10-foot putt for birdie at 14 fo move to seven-under and a tie for third.

7:30am: McIlroy makes birdie at 13 to go to 10-under. DeChambeau hits a monster drive down the same hole, he will have a mid-iron at most into the par-5. 

7:20am: Aberg makes his third birdie in a row at the par-3 16th. McIlroy and Conners both get up and down for par on 12. 

Bryson DeChambeau is chasing Rory McIlroy. PHOTO: Getty Images.

7:07am: Sweden's Ludvig Aberg makes back-to-back birdies at 14 and 15 to go to five-under-par for the tournament. Plenty of big names there or there abouts, it really is all happening at Augusta.

7:01am: DeChambeau makes a fantastic up and down on 10, to remain at one-under-par. And the last Aussie chance, Day, has sent the crowd into uproar as he chips in for birdie on 14 to get back to six-under-par. McIlroy has made a crucial par save on 11 to stay one ahead.

RIGHT: Min Woo Lee got penalised during his back nine. PHOTO: Augusta National Coms.

6:50am: A three-putt at 10 sees McIlroy make another bogey as Conners makes birdie. The Northern Irishman leads by just one over DeChambeau and the Canadian. 

6:40am: A tough day comes to a close for Min Woo Lee, who signs for 76 after playing the back nine in four-over-par.

A tough day comes to a close for Min Woo Lee. PHOTO: Getty Images.

6:34am: Rose and DeChambeau trade birdies on the 8th, while McIlroy misses a short birdie try on 9. Up ahead, Scheffler makes a long par save at 10, he remains even-par for the day. Day has a long par save ahead of him on the par-3 12th.

6:20am: A bogey on 8 for for McIlroy, who fails to get up and down from the back of the green. Day makes a great up and down on 11 to remain at six-under. 

6:10am: Viktor Hovland, five back of McIlroy - who's had an interesting start, as per follows - begins the back nine with a hook into the trees. His sideways chop-out to get out does not get out, indeed barely advances ten feet. This could get uglier fast.

 

 

5:55am: Jason Day begins the back nine at six-under, and blocks his tee shot right, behind some trees. Looks like he'll need to fashion something to advance the ball, much less hit the green ... he takes a hybrid and goes hard at it, and low, and moves it into right greenside pot. Not half bad. He's five back of McIlroy.

5:31am: McIlroy is on a heater. A birdie on five takes him three shots clear of DeChambeau and Rose. He is 11-under for the tournament, three birdies and an eagle in five holes today. Smokin'. 

5:25am: DeChambeau unable to save his par at 3. Rose slides his 10-foot birdie past by the left edge. Over on 6, Scheffler has hit his tee shot long and right of the green, leaving a difficult shot to the back flag.

5:20am: McIlroy makes par on the par-3 4th, lagging a putt up from the fringe. He has found the fairway on 5. DeChambeau has a lot of work left for his par on 3.

5:08am: At the 3rd, Conners gets up and down for par. McIlroy makes birdie to take the lead by two. The Northern Irishman is four-under through 3 holes.

 

 

4:53am: DeChambeau makes a monster putt for birdie on 1. Absolute pandemonium on 2 as McIlroy chips in for eagle to take the outright lead! Day makes a neat putt on 5 for birdie, the Queenslander just three back from McIlroy.

4:41am: The final pairing of Justin Rose and Bryson DeChambeau both get underway. Rose finds the fairway bunker on the right. DeChambeau safely in the fairway.

4:39am: 49-year-old Zach Johnson taps in on 18 for a six-under 66, beating playing partner Jon Rahm by four-strokes. Hatton makes par on 2 while Scheffler makes birdie. Conners makes par and McIlroy makes birdie at the 1st.

4:35am: Scheffler lays up on the par-5 2nd hole, clipping a wedge to two-feet. He has that left for birdie. McIlroy hit the longest drive of the day on 1, 371-yards, he hit gap-wedge to eight-feet.

Rory McIlroy was five-under through five holes, including a chip-in eagle on two. PHOTO: Getty Images.

4:23am: Rory McIlroy and Cory Conners make their way to the first tee as Scheffler makes par at 1, Hatton failing to get up and down from the bunker, opening with bogey.

4:18am: Playing with Jason Day, Sungjae Im chips in for eagle on the par-5 2nd. Day taps in for his first birdie of the day

4:11am: Scottie Scheffler and Tyrrell Hatton are on the tee, Scheffler finding the second cut. Hatton misses to the left, just his fourth missed fairway of the week so far.

4:07am: Day cleans up for a routine par to open his Saturday at Augusta.

3:58am: Zach Johnson nearly aces the par-3 16th. He will have a tap in to go to five-under for the tournament and seven-under today.

Zach Johnson caught fire on Saturday. PHOTO: Getty Images.

3:56am: Jason Day finds the opening fairway and gets his second shot safely aboard the green. He will have a lengthy putt to make if he wants to start his day with a birdie.

3:53am: Zach Johnson has caught fire, the 2007 champion is six-under for the day after birdie at 15 and enters the top-10 at four-under-par for the tournament.

3:44am: After only two birdies on 18 yesterday, Tom Kim chips in for birdie.

3:39am: Min Woo Lee slides his birdie putt past the hole and fails to make his par. Taps in for a bogey-five.

3:30am: Min Woo Lee nearly hoops his second at the 5th, rolling out to 25-feet. The West Australian is one-under for his round (two-under total) after making a sliding eight-foot putt down the hill on the 3rd hole.

3:21am: The logjam of players at three-under for the tournament are starting to tee off. Starting with Collin Morikawa and Patrick Reed who both find the fairway on 1.

3:13am: First man on the course, Tom Kim makes birdie on 15.

3:07am: Another former champion, Bubba Watson begins his day with a birdie at the par-4 1st hole.

3:02am: Lee three-putts for par on 2, remaining at one-under-par for the tournament.

2:56am: Min Woo Lee made an up-and-down on the bunker at 1, and has reached the par-5 2nd in two; he has 82-feet for eagle.

2:40am: The bottom half of the leaderboard is well underway at Augusta, the main movers are former champions, Jordan Spieth and Zach Johnson who are both three-under-par early in their back-nines. Perth's Min Woo Lee has just started his round.

2:30am: Former champion Jon Rahm started his day hot, birdieing his opening three holes.