These aren’t your grandpa’s Washington Commanders. For starters, your grandpa didn’t call them the “Commanders.” Not only that, but the American capital’s once-proud football franchise is under new ownership and in prime position to select the star quarterback that has eluded them for decades come Thursday’s NFL Draft. Things are finally looking up in Landover Read more…
Maybe you think golf needs another league like a Pro V1 to the head. As the pro-golf schism has pressed into its third year, the furor has turned to fatigue, TV ratings plummeting faster than LIV pros’ OWGR rankings. Meanwhile, TGL remains a 3D rendering on the simulator horizon line as its biggest benefactors struggle Read more…
As you’ve almost certainly heard, Verne Lundquist will complete his 40th and final Masters broadcast on Sunday, closing the book on one of the most iconic careers in sports journalism. Earlier this week, he ranked Jack Nicklaus’ green-jacket charge in 1986 and Tiger Woods electric chip-in in 2005 as the “1 and 1A” of his Read more…
Each year, we wax poetic on the Masters app and the host of free streaming content within. We glorify the multi-screen experience as we wait around for 3 p.m. coverage to start and romanticize attending in person despite the fact you can’t use your phone, aren’t allowed to run, have to wait in line for Read more…
Without context or warning, the ESPN broadcast cut to DeChambeau on the par-5 13th hole carrying an Augusta National sign over his shoulder like a cross.
A few young whipper snappers decided to shoot their shot, calling up Augusta National in the middle of Thursday’s opening round to see if they could score a tee time.
As Bob Frost once wrote, nothing gold can stay, and when it comes to sports broadcasting, Verne Lundquist is the pure, 24K stuff. This year, the 83-year-old will call his 40th and final Masters, gracing golf fans with his iconic croon one last time. With such a long and lasting career, Lundquist has played his Read more…
One week every April, Augusta Regional Airport becomes a bonafide Heathrow, more than doubling its destinations while seeing the passenger totals jump from a mere 5,000 people on a normal week to more than 30,000.
Each year, the Masters Par-3 Contest unofficially heralds the start of the Masters, a resplendent calm-before-the-major-season-storm. But the Par-3 Contest itself doesn’t truly begin until the first ace falls, and this year that honor belonged to Luke List, who reeled in a beauty on the 140-yard 6th hole early Wednesday afternoon. Watch it and weep Read more…
The times they are a-changin’. For starters, the Masters is on TikTok now. Not only that, on Tuesday night they used the Zoomer platform best known for viral dances, surrealist comedy and kids discovering things you’ve known about for three decades to pull back the curtain on one of the most exclusive evenings in all Read more…
The cost of living these days is exorbitant. Rent is brutal and interest rates are worse. Milk might as well be gas and when you crack eggs, you feel like you should find diamonds inside, not yolks. But that’s the real world, and for better and worse (mostly better), Augusta National is not the real Read more…
It’s Masters week and the whales are out, splashing big money in Vegas and beyond. But also the minnows, like you, me and this Canadian bettor who recently plunked down $1 CAD on a 17-leg parlay that has, miraculously, hit 16 of its first 17 legs. Mostly betting moneylines and a handful of spreads at Read more…
The Masters is all about tradition. It’s right there in the slogan: “A tradition unlike any other.” So each April we tune in for the tinkling of the piano, spread our pimento cheese on white bread and celebrate the start of another major season just as we did the year before. But if rules are Read more…
If you’re a sentient life form on the planet known as earth, by now you’re probably aware of two things: 1. The Masters is this week. 2. There’s a total solar eclipse going down on Monday, April 8th. RELATED: Redditor takes divot from Augusta National, deletes account after post goes viral, Both of these subjects Read more…
Kevin Kisner has been a smash hit in the booth of late, earning rave reviews for his work his work with NBC’s broadcast team. Now he’s poised to take over the barroom as well. The four-time PGA Tour winner and whiskey lover has teamed up with Chicken Cock Whiskey for the release of his new Read more…
At his first official US press conference in more than 12 years, Kim peeled back a few more layers as the picture of his lengthy absence continues to crystallise.
It’s hard to believe, but the fifth anniversary of Tiger Woods 2019 Masters triumph is upon us. The world has changed a lot since then. We’ve survived a pandemic and a golf schism. Woods’ nearly lost his life in a car accident. His health problems have shifted from his fused back to his fused foot Read more…
On Sunday, Stephan Jaeger claimed his first PGA Tour victory, outlasting Scottie Scheffler—the hottest golfer on the planet not named Nelly Korda—in his home state. Waiting for Jaeger in the winner’s circle were his wife, 16-month-old son Harrison and good buddy Joel Dahmen, shouting “Jaeger bomb!” at the top of his lungs of course. RELATED: Read more…
There’s a very good chance you’ll go your whole life without ever playing Augusta National. We know, we know. That’s tough to hear, but in recent years the good folks at EA Sports have given us the next best thing with EA Sports PGA Tour: Road to the Masters, which allows golfer/gamers to experience the Read more…
Another day, another massive prehistoric reptile sighting on a Florida golf course. This one comes by way of a local golfer in Rotonda, FL, who made way for the gargantuan gator while playing a recent round. They wisely gave the nearly 10-foot beast a wide berth, but did film encounter, submitting the footage to WINK Read more…
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