Will The Masters go into a Monday finish? Here's Augusta National's new plan!

Augusta National has revealed its latest plan in a bid to try and complete The Masters as scheduled before darkness descends on Sunday night. 

LIV Golf's Brooks Koepka currently holds a four-stroke lead over Jon Rahm thru just seven holes of the third round. 

Play was called for Saturday as a result of the course becoming waterlogged. 

Koepka faces an 11-foot par putt on the 7th green when he returns to the course at a scheduled 8.30am local time (1.30pm UK time). 

"That seventh green was soaked," said Koepka, who leads at 13-under par.

"It was very tough. I thought I hit a good bunker shot, and it looked like it just skidded on the water.

"So I'm glad we stopped. I think it [the suspension timing] was spot on.

"Maybe I couldn't have hit that bunker shot on seven, but at the end of the day, it's fine. I'm okay with it."

Rahm, who is playing alongside Koepka, will be licking his chops when he heads to the 7th green as he'll stand over a nine-foot birdie putt in a bid to close the deficit on the four-time major champion. 

Reports suggest up to 1.5 inches of rain is expected following the conclusion of Saturday's play. 

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While no further rain or storms are expected on Sunday, players are going to return to a very wet and sodden Augusta National. 

The plan is for all 54 players who made the cut to return to the course on Sunday morning and complete their third rounds.

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Augusta National sent players out for the third round in a two-tee start off the 1st and 10th tees in a bid to help speed up the process. 

Groupings will be changed after 54 holes. 

There will be a two-tee start in two-balls for the final round. 

Augusta National is planning to start the final round at 12.30pm local time (5.30pm UK time). 

The global broadcast schedule is remaining exactly as planned with live coverage aired from 2pm to 7pm local time (5pm to midnight UK time). 

If there is any further disruption on Sunday, then The Masters is highly likely to go into a Monday finish.

Should this happen, it would be the first Monday finish since Seve Ballesteros slipped on his second Green Jacket in the space of four years with a four-stroke victory on 8-under par in 1983. 

Ballesteros, who would have celebrated his 66th birthday on Sunday, also won his first Masters by four strokes on 13-under par in 1980. 

The late great Spaniard would go on to win five career majors, with a hat-trick of Open Championships adding to his two Masters titles. 

Incredibly two of his five major wins came in a Monday finish. 

Ballesteros etched his name on the famous Claret Jug for the last time in the first-ever Monday finish at The Open in 1988. 

So perhaps the omens are good for Spain's Rahm should The Masters end up going into a fifth day. 

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