Australian junior Jesse Linden’s journey to Augusta National, for the annual Drive, Chip and Putt competition, is a success story 30 years in the making. It’s also a story about the sacrifices parents make for their children.
Ludvig Aberg has turned plenty of heads since turning pro less than a year ago. During the third round of the Valero Texas Open, though, he managed to do something that turned his own.
Securing a tee time at Augusta National is the dream of most every golfer around the world. For 88 fortunate folks (with one more potentially on the way from the Valero Texas Open), they’ve done just that by earning a place in the field at the 2024 Masters. For 19 players, this will be their Read more…
For the three-time Masters champion, it’s been a gradual, circuitous and finally sudden journey, as big a reversal in public image as golf has ever seen.
The seventh hole is called “Pampas” after a grassy bush indigenous to South America, setting it apart from the course’s hole names that are generally tree and shrub-oriented and more associated with Georgia. It’s an apt departure—the seventh has always been the black sheep of Augusta National, a hole that never quite fit in with Read more…
Jimmy Walker could have suffered the embarrassment in relative anonymity. But no, Golf Channel happened to catch him on the eighth hole on Friday in the Valero Texas Open doing something rarely witnessed on the PGA Tour. With Rory McIlroy doing on-air commentary, no less. Walker, the 2016 PGA Championship winner, had a seven-foot putt Read more…
Perhaps more than any other sporting event, the Masters is marked by anniversaries. That’s why this week golf fans will undoubtedly be peppered with reminders that it’s been five years since Tiger Woods won his fifth green jacket and 20(!) years since Phil Mickelson captured his first. Heck, CBS is airing an entire special about Read more…
Plenty of tchotchke shops advertise gifts as one of a kind, but if giving something unique is really important, it’s tough to beat a portrait of Jack Nicklaus painted by Andy Warhol. You’ll get your chance to make an amazing impression but be prepared to bring a fully-loaded checkbook. Warhol’s 1977 work—one of a series Read more…
In the final round of the 38th Masters at Augusta National in 1974, a diminutive, short-hitting, pipe-smoking, avid ornithologist played one of golf’s most iconic venues as well as anyone ever had to that point.
There’s nothing more terrifying than a teen. Growing up with an iPhone from Day One, today’s youths are ruthlessly passive-aggressive and accidentally harsh in a way that would send even the strongest of adults running for the hills. As John Mulaney said, “They will get to the thing that you don’t like about you. They Read more…
Augusta National’s par-5 13th is routinely considered one of the greatest holes in golf, and who can argue? The tee has been moved back in recent years and the rear of the green and quartet of bunkers have seen upgrades, but the hole is largely as MacKenzie and Jones found and designed it in 1931. Read more…
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