That Danny Willett cracked his driver at the end of his opening round Friday morning in the 84th Masters, and then shot a second-round six-under 66 later in the day without it, has to deliver some kind of message, doesn’t it?
Australia’s Cameron Smith wrapped up his second round in spectacular fashion – playing the final four holes in 5-under to snare a share of the lead at 9-under.
In 2019 the Augusta National Golf Club launched the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. But it’s not the only time a tournament other than the Masters was played on the hallowed Georgia property.
In the tournament’s hometown of Augusta, Georgia, Stephen Freeman appeared before a US District Court to admit to a charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
For more than three decades, Jim Nantz has called the biggest events in sports for CBS. But he’s already calling Tiger Woods’ 2019 Masters win “the best event I’ve ever covered.”
We compared the clubs Tiger Woods hit into Augusta National’s greens in 1997 in his first Masters win, when the course measured 6,925 yards, versus what he hit into greens on Sunday in winning his fifth green jacket, on a course of 7,475 yards: