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First-round leader

Charley Hoffman stormed to the first-round lead in the 2017 Masters and it could pay to follow a similar formula one year on, with Russell Henley taken to produce the sub-70 round needed to hit the frame.

The formula with Hoffman was so very simple, despite his price of 100/1. A habitual fast starter who was inside the top 20 on the PGA Tour for first-round scoring at the end of the previous season, he'd pinged the lids at Bay Hill on his penultimate start prior to Augusta, where he'd also hit the frame in this market on one of three previous visits.

Henley was fourth after round one in last year's Masters, ended last season ranked eighth in first-round scoring average and boasts a similarly solid Augusta record to Hoffman. He also warmed up with a solid title defence in Houston last week, gaining momentum on Sunday with a closing 65, and as well as sitting fourth after Thursday's play in 2017, he was sixth after the first round of his previous visit having carded a round of 68 - a figure which almost always guarantees a return.

A Georgia native whose form figures here are progressive, Henley's hot hand with the putter is taken to carry him towards the top of the leaderboard at a course where six of his last eight rounds have been par or better. Available at 80/1 generally, he looks the pick of the each-way value.

Marc Leishman is another to consider, having led after the first round here in 2013 and sat fifth in 2015, and his first-round scoring stats have been encouraging for some time. In fact, when he was at the top of his game towards the end of last year and the start of this, the Australian enjoyed a seven-tournament stretch where he led twice and went close on three further occasions.

It's not uncommon for players to produce these bursts of fast starts. In fact, if we look back at leaders of the Masters, so many of them had been marking our cards for a while. This applies not only to the big names who've led here of late - Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Sergio Garcia - but the likes of Bill Haas, who had led after round one in Houston just seven days prior to doing it at Augusta.

With that in mind, Bryson DeChambeau and Jimmy Walker both make some appeal with the latter favoured at the prices.

DeChambeau was fourth at the first round at Bay Hill last time, his final start prior to Augusta, before leading at halfway. That's almost identical to the preparation Hoffman enjoyed a year ago, while we don't have to rewind much further to get to DeChambeau's second after the opening round in Phoenix.

However, preference is for Walker, who has never missed a cut at Augusta and, while unable it seems to piece four rounds together anywhere at the moment, has been inside the top five after the opening round on each of his last two starts.

Walker's last three first-round leads have come in elite company at the WGC-Mexico last year, the 2017 Tournament of Champions and the 2016 PGA Championship, the major he went on to win, and while yet to break 70 at Augusta he was fifth here after the opening round in 2014 having shot 70, while a Thursday 71 in 2016 saw him finish just outside the places.

It's likely that Walker will need to produce his best Augusta round to land us a 100/1 winner, but that's exactly what Hoffman did last year and the 39-year-old is taken to get off to a fast start for the third event in succession.