It should be an electric Saturday and Sunday at Augusta National with big names lurking. Of course, Jordan Spieth sits just two back of Justin Rose’s lead. Spieth is the favorite according to the oddsmakers, with 4-to-1 odds of winning a second Masters title. Right behind him is Justin Thomas (5-1, three back); Justin Rose
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7:08 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — The process is far from complete, with plenty of work to be done. The prolonged slump might be a thing of the past, but getting his game to the level of those bygone days is still the goal for Jordan Spieth. He’s on another leaderboard, this time at the
Amen? More like hallelujah for Justin Thomas. Birdies across the most famous three-hole stretch in golf Friday at the Masters will go down as the highlight of the 27-year-old’s second round—particularly the 9-iron that he cut toward the flag in the center 12th green, the ball stopping pin-high and eight feet left of the hole.
Augusta National proved to be a head-scratching, shoulder-slumping, mutter-under-your breath kind of golf course on Thursday, with the field posting a collective 74.5 stroke average on Day 1 of the Masters (compared to 71.41 last November). The high number is thanks largely to dry weather over the previous several days allowing fairways and greens to
Abraham Ancer was hit with a two-stroke penalty following the opening round of the Masters on Thursday after it was determined that he unknowingly touched the sand with his club before he hit his shot from the greenside bunker on the par-5 15th hole. The tournament announced the decision after the rules committee reviewed video
When stories from non-golf sources have headlines like “Golf is facing an existential crisis”—see this week’s opus from Wired UK—all of us around these parts get defensive or worried or at least intrigued. And usually, very quickly, frustrated, disappointed, and very much wishing someone had at least given us a call. We’re not here to
Through seven holes he was just trying to survive. It has been that way for the last seven months, to tell the truth. But over the next three hours, Justin Rose unleashed a cry that could be heard throughout the loblolly pines, and loudly: Azaleas aren’t the only ones blooming at Augusta National. Rose made
AUGUSTA, Ga.—He had five months to figure it out. Nearly half a year to chew on the egg he laid last November, fine-tune his plan of attack and solve the Augusta National riddle. Bryson DeChambeau knows he should play this course well, whatever that means. He said so himself on Tuesday. Length is a massive
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Justin Rose fired a brilliant 65 to grab a four-shot lead after Day 1 of the 2021 Masters. So all the patrons here should gobble up the remaining sandwich tee-shirts from the merchandise shop and head home because this thing is over, right? Not so fast. Of course, if you’re a golf
Unless Mother Nature makes an appearance Friday afternoon at Augusta National and delays the finish of the second round, at day’s end, tournament officials will make the 36-hole cut at this year’s Masters. Between now and then, exactly where the cut line will fall will become an increasingly talked about storyline, with several top-ranked players
In a tournament packed with traditions, the Honorary Starters Ceremony at the Masters is arguably its most cherished. This celebration was especially poignant Thursday, as Lee Elder, who broke the tournament’s color barrier in 1975, was recognized for his courage and efforts as a trail blazer, joining Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player for the event’s
When Bobby Jones saw a young Jack Nicklaus for the first time nearly a lifetime ago, he famously uttered the phrase, “He plays a game with which I am not familiar.” His words resonate every time we see a kind of golf being played that seems world-shifting. But at the Masters each year, likely more
10:34 AM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — As the sun peeked over the tall Georgia pines on Thursday morning, Lee Elder joined Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player as honorary starters on the first tee at Augusta National Golf Club for the 85th edition of the Masters. Elder, 86, was driven to the No. 1 tee in
4:01 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Masters Tournament chairman Fred Ridley said Wednesday he is keenly interested in the results from an ongoing study on distance by golf’s governing bodies, as it relates to keeping Augusta National viable as a major championship venue. “As I have stated in the past each year, we look at
12:20 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — The 85th Masters begins Thursday morning at Augusta National Golf Club. Here are the full tee times for the opening two rounds. * All times ET * (a) denotes amateur First round 8 a.m. — Michael Thompson, Hudson Swafford 8:12 a.m. — Sandy Lyle, Matt Jones, Dylan Frittelli 8:24
8:51 PM ET AUGUSTA, Georgia — Justin Rose entered the 85th Masters this week ranked No. 41 in the Official World Golf Ranking, his lowest ranking entering a tournament in a decade. Rose, 40, hasn’t won on the PGA Tour in more than two years, and he has just one top-30 finish in five worldwide
8:13 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — This is the Augusta National that leaves you breathing fire rather than soaking in its beauty, spewing expletives rather than hosannas, walking off bewildered. Other than Justin Rose, who somehow shot 7-under-par 65 after not playing for more than a month, most of those who traversed the hallowed ground
8:35 PM ET Abraham Ancer unknowingly touched the sand with his club before making his third stroke on the 15th hole from a greenside bunker on Thursday and was assessed a 2-stroke penalty following the first round of the Masters. Ancer had originally signed for a 73 and exited the scoring area. But video was
7:48 PM ET Associated Press Only a dozen players managed to break par in the opening round of the Masters. No one was close to Justin Rose. The 40-year-old Englishman has a commanding four-stroke lead after a blistering 7-under 65. He began his surge with an eagle at No. 8 and played the final 11
5:39 PM ET AUGUSTA, Georgia — As Rory McIlroy stood under the tall pines down the left side of the No. 7 fairway at Augusta National Golf Club on Thursday, he lasered in on a safe spot to land his second shot. McIlroy found what he thought was the perfect target — an older man
6:33 PM ET ESPN News Services AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tommy Fleetwood had no birdies in the opening round of the Masters. A hole-in-one made him smile anyway. Fleetwood made an ace on the 170-yard 16th hole Thursday, raising his arms in triumph when the ball bounced a couple of times and rolled straight into the
5:39 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Here’s the great thing about winning the Masters: while you might have to give back the green jacket when you leave Augusta National, they never truly take it away from you. Dustin Johnson knows he has the one he earned in November, one that will always be in his
6:23 PM ET ESPN News Services AUSTIN, Texas — Sergio Garcia advanced in a sudden-death playoff with a hole-in-one on the fourth extra hole of the Dell Technologies Match Play on Friday. Garcia hit a 9-iron that landed just beyond the hole and rolled back a few inches. That gave him a victory over Lee
Kaitlyn Papp knows what a privilege it was to play in the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur in 2019, and that made it all the more difficult on Friday when she announced on social media that she would not be able to compete in the second edition, scheduled for next week, because of a positive
12:52 PM ET Daniel van Tonder won his first European Tour title with a nail-biting playoff victory over Jazz Janewattananond at the Savannah Classic on Friday as overnight leader Justin Harding failed to clinch his second title in a week in Nairobi. Van Tonder carded 64 in the final round with a monster birdie putt
Michelle Wie West couldn’t help but notice it. Through her first two rounds of this week’s Kia Classic, a first-aid cart with two uniformed medics followed on every single hole. She couldn’t quite figure out why they would be tagging along with three young and healthy women, though Wie West wondered if it had something
The PGA Tour heads to Texas this week for the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. This marks the fifth season the event will be held at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas, but the first since 2019 after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the 2020 edition to be canceled. All but five of the top 64 players
10:01 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — Michelle Wie West struggled through a round of 9-over 81 in her first tournament in nearly two years, and Inbee Park shot a 6-under 66 to take the first-round lead Thursday in the Kia Classic at Aviara. Park had a solid, bogey-free round in rainy, breezy conditions
CARLSBAD, Calif. — She was away from the competitive game for 21 months, but that hardly seemed the reality when Michelle Wie West stepped to the first tee on Thursday to start the LPGA Tour’s Kia Classic. After being introduced as “Mrs. Michelle Wie West” for the first time by an on-course announcer, she fashioned