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Masters 2024: What it’s like tracking a big bet at Augusta National
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Attending the Masters is rightfully a bucket-list thing. Watching actual golf shots can be challenging—but the people-watching, celebrity-spotting and the mystique and history make it one of the hottest tickets in sports. RELATED: Masters 2024: Max Homa won’t feel great on Monday morning—but not for the reason you think It’s safe to assume—with Read more…
Masters 2024: Every Augusta National record that Tiger Woods holds (all 35 of them!)
When Tiger Woods won the 1997 Masters, he re-wrote a good portion of the tournament’s history by breaking 20 records and tying seven others. In the ensuing 26 years, Woods has continued to match or erase marks at Augusta National with remarkable frequency—it’s what happens when you win the event five times. Although some of Read more…
Masters 2024: Prize money payouts at Augusta National
It says something about what it means to compete in the Masters that players aren’t thinking twice about the fact they have no idea what the prize money payouts will be this week at Augusta National before teeing off in the opening round. Club officials won’t officially announce the 2024 purse until after a cut Read more…
Masters 2024: This Aussie has a broken finger, but there ain’t no way he’s withdrawing
AUGUSTA, Ga. — For just about every golfer, amateur or professional, an invitation to play in even one Masters Tournament is a dream come true. So when it actually happens, it is safe to assume any normal human is going to make every effort to make it to the first tee. Few, though, have ever Read more…
Masters 2024: The three words Jordan Spieth didn’t want to hear heading into Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The left wrist injury that first struck prior to last year’s PGA Championship continues to hamper 2015 Masters champion Jordan Spieth, including flare-ups twice in the last month prior to the Players and again a week ago Monday at the Valero Texas Open. “It’s an ECU [extensor carpi ulnaris] tendon issue that Read more…
Masters 2024: You won’t believe what Fred Couples has been doing to make sure he’s healthy enough to play at Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Fred Couples refuses to go away. The Masters just means too much to him. And the lengths the 1992 champion will go to for another few tours of Augusta National Golf Club, the outright stubbornness, deserves respect. One of the most popular players in the annals of the Masters, Couples is preparing Read more…
‘We’re still talking about it’: Tiger Woods gives update on U.S. Ryder Cup captaincy at Bethpage
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The 2025 Ryder Cup captaincy is a big one for the United States team. Coming off the disappointment of Rome, the U.S. squad is in search of a leader to help secure a victory at Bethpage. It appears the U.S. team might go to the most recognizable figure in the game. Sources Read more…
Masters 2024: Here’s who our astonishingly wrong picker likes at Augusta. Reader discretion advised
Things change. “Streaming services now command a greater share of viewers than cable …” “The Iowa-UConn women’s national semifinal drew 14.2 million viewers … more than any World Series game last year, any NBA Finals game last year, and every Daytona 500 since 2013 …” “Chick-fil-A makes a major change to its beloved chicken …” Read more…
Masters 2024: Will Zalatoris is back at Augusta, healthy and humbled
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Will Zalatoris remembers well the worst shot of his Masters career. It came last year, just moments before he was to tee off for his opening round. It was a 7-iron. The effects lingered for seven months. As Zalatoris was warming up that Thursday, he felt a jarring in his back. “I Read more…
This 15-year-old with the unusual name is proving she has plenty of game
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Asterisk Talley was bound to attract some attention this week at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Having turned 15 in February, the Chowchilla, Calif., native could brag that she was the youngest golfer in this elite 72-player field after getting a special invitation to compete in the fifth edition of the event. Read more…
‘We’ll play it tomorrow’: This writer played Augusta National so much that he … skipped Amen Corner?!
When Augusta National Golf Club calls and makes you an offer, what do you request in return? That is what longtime New Yorker and Golf Digest writer David Owen was faced with in the late-1990s when the club’s chairman, Jack Stephens, asked Owen to write a comprehensive history of the club, the Masters tournament and 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…
A Jack Nicklaus portrait by Andy Warhol headlines this Masters-themed mega-auction by Golden Age
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…
Masters 2024: What really goes on at the Champions Dinner, according to those in the room
On a bright spring day in 2009, Trevor Immelman found himself hitting balls next to Tiger Woods on the practice range at Augusta National Golf Club. It was Tuesday, and Immelman, the Masters defending champion, had a big day ahead of him, but in that moment, he was just trying to loosen up before an Read more…
The bogey golfer’s guide to surviving Augusta National
We are you. Somehow they let us play Augusta National—a couple of jabronis from New Jersey pulling down Magnolia Lane blasting a YouTube video of Jim Nantz Masters calls. One problem: CP was in shorts, and had to change. It was the day’s first bogey, and we hadn’t even hit a shot. After that, though, Read more…
The truth about mud balls
In short and perhaps unsurprisingly, any mud is making the ball flight less consistently.
Leading golf scientist Alastair Cochran, co-author of Search for the Perfect Swing, dies at 94
To explain the importance of Alastair Cochran to the present-day understanding of the science of golf—ball, club, swing, statistics, strategy and all things in between—would be like trying to adequately encapsulate the impact Alfred Hitchcock played on film, or Alan Turing on computer science, or Johan Cruyff on modern soccer. Everything that matters that we Read more…
Players Championship: Finding the worst avid golfer at TPC Sawgrass
The idea for the Search for America’s Worst Avid Golfer originated in the grillroom at Winged Foot in 1984 when a couple of editors were discussing how the average golfer would play the West Course as it had been prepared for that year’s U.S. Open. After a couple of beers, it turned to this question: Read more…
Wyndham Clark’s rough situation had Golf Twitter howling for a penalty
With a mere couple of taps of his club behind a ball in the rough, reigning US Open champion Wyndham Clark caused a stir on the television broadcast of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and, of course, in many golf corners of social media.
Full Swing Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Hangin’ with the Fitzpatricks
Editor’s Note: Golf Digest is recapping and analyzing every episode of the second series of the Netflix golf series Full Swing. Last season’s recaps can be found here. Season 2 Recaps: Ep. 1: The Game Has Changed Part 1 | Ep. 2: The Game Has Changed Part 2 | Ep. 3: Mind Game | Ep. Read more…
