Angel Yin looked at the bright side when she suffered an injury in the off-season – at the least, it was the off-season and not the middle of tournament play. She’d have some time to recover without missing too many tournaments. What she didn’t expect was to come back to the LPGA Tour hitting it Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga.— Somewhere last season, Viktor Hovland encountered a problem with his golf swing. A good problem, yes, but a problem nonetheless. Hovland’s results looked good by any measure. Pull the books in any number of ways and you’ll like what you find: He was the joint-best player in relation to par in each of Read more…
Most golfers will never get to experience the numerous traditions that make the Masters so special, like the Champions Dinner, the Par-3 Contestoor, heck, Tiger Woods and Fred Couples playing a practice round together (like they did again on Tuesday at the 2024 Masters). One that they can try to replicate, however, is the practice-round Read more…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — There were two players on the practice putting green for a brief window on Monday morning. 2016 Masters champion, who was stationed over a comfortable five footer, training aids in tow, drilling putt after putt into the hole. On the other end of the green was Adam Hadwin, making his fourth Masters Read more…
The prevailing narrative of Bobby Jones is that following his historic 1930 Grand Slam, winning all four of golf’s then-major championships, he retired from competitive golf and preserved his status as a lifelong amateur. However, that is a myth, says David Owen, Augusta National’s leading historian, who notes that not only did Bobby Jones compete Read more…
AUGUSTA Ga. — Perhaps the most influential tournament in my golf-watching childhood was seeing Phil Mickelson birdie five of his last seven holes to slip on his first green jacket in 2004. He was presented with the green jacket that year by Mike Weir, who became the first left-hander ever to win the Masters a Read more…
If you think the current generation of golfers is powerful, just wait until you see what’s coming up next. Ariel Collins provided a taste of it at the 2024 Drive, Chip and Putt National Final at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday. Competing in the Girls 14-15 age group, the Locust Grove, Ga., native smashed Read more…
If you’re looking to upgrade your Masters-watching experience, or just perhaps impress your friends during your Masters Monday breakfasts, these are a smattering of nerdy nuggets to remember.
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…
By nearly every measure, the Masters has the greatest spectator experience of any sporting event. Affordable concessions, a sprawling merchandise building and Green Jackets abound to help guide you around the property. The Augusta National-mandated term “patrons” is not purely semantics—it reflects co-founder Clifford Roberts’ belief that the spectators are helping the club by attending Read more…
Take a moment and visualize Augusta National Golf Club. How many holes come clearly into view? A lot, right? Aside from your home track and a handful of other famed layouts, there might be no course that you are more familiar with than Augusta—and chances are you’ve never even played it! That familiarity comes from Read more…
The fascinating history of Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters is also a story of what could have been given the ambitious initial plans for the club. In fact, considering its tumultuous early struggle to survive through the Great Depression and World War II, it’s a wonder the club exists at all today. That Read more…
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