The Royal Queensland course staff have performed a minor miracle, we have got a long-awaited break in the weather and play has begun on time.

Right where he left off

Solid start from Victorian Matias Sanchez who opens with consecutive pars. It was on the front nine on Thursday in the worst of the conditions where he made his move, playing the front nine in an extraordinary 6-under 30. Sanchez is another of the young brigade making their name on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia, finishing tied for ninth at the WA PGA Championship and fourth at the WA Open.

Perez drops back

After a day of waiting, the 443-metre par-4 10th is the toughest way to resume your championship. In the marquee morning group, Cam Davis recovers from a wayward tee shot to make par but Victor Perez drops a shot after finding the greenside trap with his approach shot and is unable to make par.

The news doesn’t get any better at the par-3 11th. After missing the green right with his tee shot, he played a sound chip to four feet but misses the putt for par. That’s a sour bogey-bogey start to drop to 3-under.

Kiwi Daniel Hillier is the early mover on course, two birdies in his opening three holes and he joins the logjam at 3-under and just three shots off the lead.

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Super Saturday

Kids Day activations, 156 players on course, a BMW up for grabs for a hole-in-one and a Dabble Million Dollar Hole-in-One at the Party Hole to be shared amongst the fans who register… It’s a Super Saturday all right.

The marquee group of Victor Perez, Lucas Herbert and Cam Davis are about to tee off on 10 and, later this morning, Cameron Smith, Jason Day and Min Woo Lee will be back out on course, teeing off at 11:10am local time on the first tee.

It feels like it has been a long time coming but let’s play some golf!

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