12:02 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Consistently hitting tee shots 40 yards past five-time Masters champion Tiger Woods in a practice round at Augusta National Golf Club apparently isn’t long enough for Bryson DeChambeau. A day after DeChambeau said he would leave a 48-inch driver in his trunk for this week’s Masters, he reversed course
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2:05 PM ET AUGUSTA, GA. — Jon Rahm might be using up all his good shots before the Masters even starts. First, there was this on Monday at the par-3 fourth hole at Augusta National. Impressive, right? Not until you see what went down Tuesday, which just so happened to be Rahm’s 26th birthday. It
12:40 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods will begin defense of his Masters title on Thursday at 7:55 a.m. off the 10th tee with Shane Lowry and Andy Ogletree. Due to reduced daylight in November, the Masters is using a two-tee start on Thursday and Friday, with players alternating each day between morning and
6:40 AM ET AUGUSTA, GA. — How different will Augusta National Golf Club be in November, compared to its traditional Masters date in April? It will be a Masters tournament unlike any other. 2 Related With the coronavirus pandemic pushing the Masters back nearly seven months, the course figures to be longer, softer and less
8:30 AM ET Tommy Bennett did not want to caddie for Tiger Woods at the 1995 Masters. “I didn’t want no damn amateur,” he recalls. “I wanted that green jacket.” He wanted to carry for Dicky Pride, a promising young pro who had won a PGA Tour event the previous summer in Memphis, Tennessee. But
4:51 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — In Monday’s practice round at Augusta National Golf Club, Bryson DeChambeau consistently hit his tee shots 20 yards past Justin Thomas, 40 yards by five-time Masters champion Tiger Woods and, well, even farther past 1992 champ Fred Couples. The scary part? DeChambeau said he can hit it even farther
2:44 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Lee Elder, the first Black golfer to compete in the Masters, will be an honorary starter along with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player at the 2021 tournament in April. Elder, 86, who received death threats in 1975 when he was the first Black player invited to the Masters, qualified
12:48 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — The place is pure, that we know. It is just more so than we are used to seeing. Augusta National opened Monday to the small group of people who are permitted on the grounds this week for the edition of the Masters in November. The tournament was postponed from
11:55 AM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Kevin Sutherland made a 4-foot birdie putt on the ninth playoff hole to beat Paul Broadhurst on Monday in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship. Sutherland and Broadhurst were forced to return to Phoenix Country Club to finish the final PGA Tour Champions event of the year after playing
11:15 AM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Sergio Garcia tested positive for COVID-19, and the 2017 Masters champion has withdrawn from the tournament, becoming the second player who will miss the major championship because of the coronavirus. Garcia, 40, who missed the cut last week at the Houston Open, won the Sanderson Farms Championship last month.