For golf fans, the countdown to the 2023 Masters is about to reach an intriguing milestone: Come Tuesday there will be just 100 days until the opening round at Augusta National.
The golf impresario Jimmy Dunne, the ultimate elite-golf clubby insider with the disarmingly candid demeanour of an old-school New York City cab driver, will be joining the PGA Tour policy board in the new year as an independent director.
A couple of things set Lukas Michel apart from the other 119 competitors in this week’s Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, starting with the fact he’s already played the Masters – a prize for the event’s champion.
Through the joint efforts of golf’s two most famous clubs and the Asia Pacific Golf Federation, the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship has done an impressive job spreading the golf word throughout this vast region.
Only four times since 2002 has a player won the Masters while ranking outside the top seven in greens in regulation, and Scheffler continued that trend, ranking T-5 while hitting 68.06 percent of his greens.