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Masters 2024 live updates: Rory McIlroy just hit one of the longest tee shots at Augusta we’ve ever seen
It’s officially the weekend at Augusta National, and Moving Day is bound to be a great one. We have three tremendous co-leaders to start Day 3—Scottie Scheffler, Max Homa and Bryson DeChambeau all share the lead heading into Saturday. (Scroll down for the latest updates from our crew at Augusta National.) RELATED: Masters 2024: Jon Read more…
Masters 2024: Jon Rahm sounds off on Augusta National, says he ‘wasn’t sure why we were out there’ in blustery conditions
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Extremely blustery conditions created a surreal scene on Friday afternoon—with wind gusts getting up to 30-35 miles per hour—causing sand from the bunkers at the 18th hole to blow out of the hazards and onto the green. Players like Tiger Woods had to shield their faces from the sand as it blew Read more…
Masters 2024: Fred Couples mocks LIV golfers for not getting Greg Norman a ticket
Fred Couples caught wind of the LIV CEO having to buy his own tickets to the event on the secondary market and he mocked all the LIV players for not stepping up for their commissioner.
Masters 2024: The 13 most hilarious things we overheard in the gallery on Thursday at Augusta National
AUGUSTA, Ga. — As a colleague earlier this week put it, every time you come to Augusta National you have to approach it like it might be your last. Enjoy yourself and appreciate the experience. That seems to be how patrons approached Thursday at Augusta National. Wet weather in the early morning cleared way for Read more…
Masters picks 2024: The signs point to Rory McIlroy
Whether you are a casual viewer of golf, a diehard fan, a DFS guy or just an outright bettor, there is absolutely no better week than this one—Masters week. Everybody’s in a pool, everybody’s got a sleeper, everybody’s going to get rich off that one prop bet they love. It’s just a great time to Read more…
Masters 2024 tee times: Pairings for the first and second rounds
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…
Our top betting expert’s unscientific ranking of the best players in the world
Just like much of the past two-plus years, a lot of the talk leading into the Masters this year is about golf’s inability to rank its best players. It’s not a new discussion, but the complaints are getting louder. The Official World Golf Rankings is used by majors to determine fields, but when discussing with Read more…
Masters 2024: 27 unimportant but still memorable anniversaries in Masters history
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…
Masters 2024: For defending champion Jon Rahm, one year makes a big difference
Last April at Augusta, the Spaniard was the PGA Tour star who staved off his LIV Golf foes. Now he’s one of them. How Jon Rahm’s LIV stance evolved from then to now.
Tour player makes a hole-in-one while grieving sudden death of his friend
Chan Kim has to believe that the hole-in-one he made on Friday in the second round of the Texas Children’s Open wasn’t happenstance, but a sign from a good friend. On Thursday, Chan, 34, learned that a buddy of his from high school in Chandler, Ariz., died. “We were on the same golf team,” Kim Read more…
Adam Scott among six golfers to withdraw from Olympic consideration
Scott’s withdrawal is not a surprise. The Queenslander has previously stated his apathy towards golf’s inclusion in the Olympics, referring to it as an “exhibition” and that a better idea would be to allow amateurs in the field. He passed on both the 2016 and 2020 games.
Editor’s Letter: The (Real) Match
Why a Presidents Cup-style showdown between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf would get fans excited about men’s pro golf again
Masters 2024: The Final Hurdle
Rory McIlroy has shed the burden of boardrooms on the PGA Tour to focus on playing golf. Can a freed-up McIlroy finally complete the last leg of the career Grand Slam at Augusta?
Max Homa responds to TikTok ‘clown’, jokingly throws wife under bus
Max Homa is by all measures a very good golfer. He’s No. 8 in the OWGR, which may not mean as much as it once did but still suggests that he’s better than almost any golfer you’ll come across. He’s yet to win a major, but he does have six PGA Tour wins and earned Read more…
Chris Kirk and his caddie have an awesome non-golf use for their yardage book
Any lasting relationship, whether romantic, platonic, or that of PGA Tour player and caddie, can be attributed to a few key traits: Trust, open communication and the willingness to try new things. For Chris Kirk and caddie Michael Cromie, who have held down a successful partnership since 2020, that last one is particularly important. “We Read more…
Shane Lowry’s brutally honest answer shows even he’s shocked to be leading at Bay Hill
When handicapping PGA Tour events, there are clearly horses for courses—and then there’s whatever the heck Shane Lowry is when it comes to Bay Hill. To say the Ryder Cupper has played poorly at the Arnold Palmer Invitational would be an understatement. His track record there is bad. No, make that really bad. No, make Read more…
Former hockey player’s ‘NHL Masters’ remains one of the great traditions in all of sports
Having your name on the first page of the Masters leader board is one of the great honors in golf. Doesn’t matter if it’s Thursday morning and there are two groups on the course, or if it’s late Sunday afternoon and you’re in contention. Hell, if any of us were -1 THRU 1 and T-1 Read more…
Age limit lowered for past winners to compete in Open Championship
Golfers who win future Open Championships can no longer count on playing the tournament into their sixties.
News You May Have Missed: March 2024
Aussie of the Month: Lucas Herbert Lucas Herbert. The boy from Bendigo was the subject of intense speculation from mid-December until late January that he was going to join Cam Smith and his Ripper GC team on LIV Golf. The speculation grew so heavily that even News Corp found a leaked photo of Herbert posing Read more…
Why you probably won’t see Sergio Garcia back at next year’s Ryder Cup despite what he says
The LIV Golf star missed an important deadline, according to the DP World Tour.
