AUGUSTA, Ga. – Few people in this year’s Masters field have a greater appreciation for the invite that came in the mail from Augusta National Golf Club than Charles Howell III. As an Augusta native, he knows all too well just how special both this place and week are for top-level pros. He also knows […]
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Images from Monday at the 83rd Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club.
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Justin Rose will have a familiar face back on the bag this week at the Masters. Rose shared that caddie Mark Fulcher will reprise his role for the season’s first major, having missed the first three months of action after undergoing surgery to replace a heart valve in January. Rose had been […]
Click here for the cover, or find out which winner this month is the child of a former professional boxer. Or take time to find out why she (hint) and her countrywomen (OK, it’s Jin Young Ko from South Korea) have dominated the women’s game since 1998. Steve Eubanks writes that it is about their […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Keith Mitchell has played in enough golf tournaments to have moved beyond the type of wide-eyed moments young players experience, but Augusta National is different. As he stepped to the tournament range on Monday, the 27-year-old had to take a moment. “I’ve seen that range from the other side of the ropes […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The first club-enacted course change at Augusta National in more than a decade has gotten the attention of the players ahead of this week’s Masters. The par-4 fifth hole, already the sixth most difficult hole last year, has been lengthened by 40 yards and now sits at a stout 495 yards. While […]
Marilynn Smith was more than a special player. Though she earned induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame with her 21 LPGA victories and two majors, her legacy goes beyond the trophies she won. As one of the 13 women who founded the LPGA in 1950, Smith filled so many roles vital to the […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The storm front that halted play on Monday at Augusta National continued through the night and forecasters estimate that an additional inch of rain could fall on Tuesday. (Update: Play was suspended at 10 a.m. ET because of the threat of thunderstorms.) Rain chances range from 30 to 60 percent throughout the […]
LPGA founder and World Golf Hall of Fame member Marilynn Smith died Tuesday morning. She was 89. The tour and its players, past and present, took to social media to pay their respects to a woman, whom the tour would not exist without. Her hugs were SO full of love, and her words always filled […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. – It’s unlikely that any Masters Club participant will leave Augusta National hungry tonight. As the reigning Masters champion, Patrick Reed gets the honor of setting the menu for Tuesday night’s guest list, an exclusive group that includes all the past tournament champions as well as Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley. No spouses, friends, […]