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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Augusta National Golf Club was warm and sticky on Thursday. It might be the best run of acceptable weather at the Masters Tournament for a while.

Friday is looking gloomy enough that tournament officials moved tee times 30 minutes earlier. And Saturday’s forecast calls for up to two inches of rain, with winds possibly gusting to 25 miles per hour. Rain showers could stretch into Sunday, Augusta National’s official forecast said, “before drier conditions finally return Sunday afternoon with a few peeks of sunshine.”

The Masters has not finished on a Monday since 1983, so most of the 88-player field is in new territory. But there was a consensus around the course on Thursday that anyone with a low score from the first round was in a far more advantageous position than he might ordinarily have been.

“Any week, you want to get off to a good start,” said Adam Scott, the 2013 Masters winner. “But we just don’t know what’s going to happen and how the weather might affect the rest of the week. So if you’re hanging around right from the start on a week like this, it’s probably helpful.”

Scott sure hopes so: He shot a four-under-par 68, good for a tie for sixth.

Mike Weir’s latest Masters riddle: How to play alone.

Ask any Masters champion about Augusta National, and he will tell you the course and the tournament are always poised to throw in a new twist. For Mike Weir, the 2003 winner, the new challenge came when his playing partner, Kevin Na, withdrew at the turn on Thursday, leaving Weir to play the back nine by himself.

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And since Na and Weir were the first players to head out Thursday morning, it fell to Weir to set the pace and, he acknowledged afterward, slow himself down.

“I told my caddie I didn’t want to overthink and be too slow,” Weir said. “You kind of get in a routine, and you don’t want to take too much time and overthink things.”

Thanks to a few frustrating putts, he shot a 37 on the back nine, bringing his Thursday score to a par 72 to finish tied for 37th. Part of the challenge, he said afterward, was that he had found himself without a valuable source of intelligence: the other guy’s play.

“You do pick up on speed of greens,” he said of a typical round with another player. “You see how the ball’s flying through the air. When you’re trying to figure out the wind, you pay attention to ball flight and things like that — not so much on tee shots, but approach shots into the greens and around the greens, you see how the green’s reacting and things like that when you’re playing with somebody else.”

Weir, 52, is hardly accustomed to playing alone in competition: Thirty-one years after he turned professional, he could not remember the last time he had played as a single.

“The biggest thing is just getting the pace right of your walk and not kind of getting too caught up in my own game and just kind of having a laugh with my caddie and just kind of enjoying it,” he said. “That’s the approach I took: Let’s just enjoy this back nine. It’s beautiful out here. Let’s just have a good time, and then when we get ready to hit, let’s get dialed in.”

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A run of bad luck goes on for Will Zalatoris.

Two years ago, Will Zalatoris made his Masters debut and nearly won: At the tournament’s end, he trailed the victor, Hideki Matsuyama, by a lone stroke. But his quest to actually win a major tournament — he has been a runner-up three times — is on hold until at least next month’s P.G.A. Championship after his withdrawal from the Masters before his tee time on Thursday because of an injury.

The illness-and-injury scourge has hit Zalatoris harder than most lately. In August, he withdrew from the BMW Championship during the third round after hurting his back, an injury that also kept him from the Tour Championship and, quite likely, the Presidents Cup. Then a stomach bug chased him from the World Golf Championships match play event in Texas last month.

“I’ve never had anything like that,” Zalatoris, who is eighth in the Official World Golf Ranking, recounted this week. “I lost about seven pounds in a week — feel great now. Kind of reset the system.”

His best finish this year came in February, when he placed fourth at the Genesis Invitational.

A three-time Masters winner gets subdued support.

Phil Mickelson approached the first tee to begin his opening round at the Masters on Thursday just as Tiger Woods was making the turn from the front nine to the back nine about 40 feet away. Almost all eyes were on Woods, but once he had walked onto the 10th tee, several hundred fans diverted their attention to Mickelson.

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When he was introduced, Mickelson received muted applause, the kind produced by no more than 20 sets of hands. It was nothing like the enthusiastic ovations and zealous cheers Mickelson would have heard two years ago, when he last appeared at the Masters. In 2022, ahead of joining the LIV Golf tour, Mickelson took a leave of absence from competitive golf, including the Masters, which he has won three times.

Thursday, after Mickelson hit his opening shot toward the first fairway, there was again very faint clapping. Mickelson, like most if not all of the LIV-affiliated golfers at this year’s Masters, was largely being given something akin to the silent treatment. As he walked off the tee toward his ball, three young men called out in unison, “Let’s go, Phil.” No one else in the gallery joined in, and Mickelson walked through a corridor of fans who stared at him but hardly made a sound.

All around Augusta National this week, LIV golfers have not been shunned, and if there has been heckling, it has been rare or muffled. Augusta National galleries are nothing if not polite. But in a quiet way, it has also been a crowd that has seemed eager not to endorse those who defected to LIV.

— Bill Pennington

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