An unabashed fan of the golf course and the creativity that it both demands and rewards, Smith spent Monday refamiliarising himself with an Augusta National that is significantly firmer than it was five months ago.
It’s not that hitting a draw or a fade is better at Augusta; it’s that hitting your shot, whatever that may be, is always a better play at any golf course.
Augusta National Golf Club chairman Fred Ridley expressed support for the findings of the USGA and R&A’s distance report, which notably called the trend of increasing driving distance “detrimental to the game.”
Leave it to the three-time Masters winner to use the occasion of this year’s tournament to regale the press room with a favourite memory from Adam Scott’s champions dinner in 2014.
Australian travellers and tour companies lost out when the 2020 Masters was postponed then staged without galleries. So what will future Masters trips look like?
While you may not necessarily be betting on Spieth this week at the Masters, you would be dumb to bet against him. Just ask Eddie Pepperell, who fired up the Twitter machine on Monday morning to make the following wager: