Many experts have decided this is Rickie Folwer's week to become a major champion. After the first hole, many of those same people might have been rethinking their pick. It was a disastrous start for Fowler who, while wearing high tops and joggers, hit his tee shot on No. 1 into the pine trees to the right of the fairway. Things got worse from there as Fowler clipped a tree in an attempt to recover and his ball settled near the trees on the opposite side of the fairway.

When it was all said and done, Fowler walked away from the first green with a double bogey. The Golf Channel was quick to point out, no player has ever won the Masters after double bogeying the first hole.

How NOT to play the first hole, by Rickie Fowler. Doubled it. pic.twitter.com/lkecph7uhW — Steve Elling (@EllingYelling) April 7, 2016

But Fowler, never one to do things the way they've always been done, bounced back and then some. Rickie was able to get aboard in two shots on the par-5 second hole and two putt for a birdie. At the third, Fowler put it in the fairway again and stuck his second shot to about 13 feet. He made the putt for birdie and quickly erased his opening hole blunder to get back to even. After a par at the fourth, Fowler fired an absolute laser on his second shot into No. 5 green, leaving four feet for birdie.

Fowler was just screwing around on the first hole. pic.twitter.com/8h9HmrCQWx — Michael Shamburger (@mshamburger1) April 7, 2016

He made the putt and put himself near the leaders in the very early going.

So far after about three hours of play, Bernd Wiesberger, Zach Johnson, and defending champion Jordan Spieth are setting the pace at 2-under. Spieth, was unable to birdie the par-5 second like Fowler, which is always a missed opportunity here.

But Spieth did hit a great appraoach on No. 3 for his first red number of the day. At the par-3 sixth hole, Spieth joined the lead by pouring in a birdie putt from 13 feet. This is the distance from which Spieth was so deadly last year -- saving pars and making birdies you're not always supposed to. Spieth stands in the early co-lead at 2-under as he attempts to become only the fourth player to repeat as Masters champion.

Here is an early update of the leaderboard as we get close to noon in Augusta.

Place Player Score Thru T1 Bernd Wiesberger -2 9 T1 Zach Johnson -2 7 T1 Jordan Spieth -2 6 T4 Victor Dubuisson -1 10 T4 Thongchai Jaidee -1 9 T4 Lee Westwood -1 8 T4 Louis Oosthuizen -1 6 T4 Paul Casey -1 6 T4 Bryson DeChambeau -1 6 T4 Harris English -1 3 T4 Justin Rose -1 1 T12 Kevin Streelman E 10 T12 Chris Wood E 8 T12 Tom Watson E 8 T12 Charley Hoffman E 8 T12 Rickie Fowler E 7 T12 Emiliano Grillo E 5 T12 Hideki Matsuyama E 3 T12 Henrik Stenson E 2 T12 Jamie Donaldson E 1 T12 Daniel Berger E 1 T12 Mike Weir E 1 T23 Jim Herman 1 13 T23 Trevor Immelman 1 10 T23 Larry Mize 1 10 T23 Vaughn Taylor 1 9 T23 Dustin Johnson 1 5 T23 Justin Thomas 1 5 T23 Chris Kirk 1 4 T23 Vijay Singh 1 4 T23 Kevin Na 1 3 T23 Andy Sullivan 1 3 T23 Phil Mickelson 1 2 T23 Marc Leishman 1 2 T23 Kevin Kisner 1 1 T23 Adam Scott 1 1 T23 Brooks Koepka 1 1 T23 Sammy Schmitz 1 1 T39 Derek Bard 2 10 T39 Cheng JIN 2 7 T41 Sandy Lyle 3 9 T41 Webb Simpson 3 8 T41 Jason Dufner 3 6 T41 Patrick Reed 3 6 45 Robert Streb 4 10 46 Steven Bowditch 6 13

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