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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Brooks Koepka has played this perfectly. Not only has he been the clear best player at Augusta National this week, but the luck of the draw has favored the four-time major winner. Koepka is now 30 holes from winning his fifth major after third-round play was suspended Saturday afternoon. As the weather

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Brooks Koepka faces a Masters Sunday unlike any other, one of fateful irony, if you will. To win a green jacket, Koepka will have to complete at least 29 holes, which happens to constitute more than half of a regulation tournament on the tour on which he now competes. One of 18

12:19 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods was the first golfer to arrive at the course on Saturday morning, a half hour before sunrise, and he went alone to a pitch-black driving range. He smiled and he grimaced and he worked. With eight holes left to play of the delayed second round, he stood

The forecast is ominous for the weekend at Augusta National Golf Club—and so seem the prospects for the field trying to run down a resurgent Brooks Koepka over the final 36 holes of the 87th Masters. Winless in majors since 2019, when his victory at the PGA Championship capped an extraordinary run of winning four

AUGUSTA, Ga. — He’s hobbled and miles out of Masters contention. But, weather allowing, we’re still going to watch Tiger Woods return to a major championship on Saturday morning to finish his second round and try to make a 36-hole cut. We will watch for two reasons. One, it’s the Masters. And two, Woods is

3:58 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — WHEN BROOKS KOEPKA finished his round, his name atop the leaderboard headed into the weekend at Augusta National, he walked alone down a sidewalk and stomped his feet to knock off dirt before going inside one of the many white buildings hidden in the shrubs, trees and flowers. The

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Australian amateur and Masters debutant Harrison Crowe has detailed the terrifying moment three trees fell down at Augusta National’s 17th hole near his family and friends in the gallery. Late on Friday afternoon, during a weather-interrupted second round, two trees and parts of a third fell down beside Augusta’s 17th hole with

5:18 PM ET ESPN News Services AUGUSTA, Ga. — Multiple towering pine trees fell near Masters patrons as storms rolled through Augusta National on Friday, though nobody was injured as the second round of the Masters ground to a halt as play stopped for the day. Another tree also fell elsewhere on the property. The

The narrative for the Thursday’s opening round of the 2023 Masters was that you needed to go low to give yourself a cushion with the ominous weather forecast in store for the next few days. And, indeed, several players heeded said advice: Major champions Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka made it look was with their

AUGUSTA, Ga. — There were tears shed at Tuesday’s Champions Dinner—and not just from Scottie Scheffler’s spicy tortilla soup. Augusta native Larry Mize was so choked up about playing in his final Masters that he could barely get through his speech. Sandy Lyle, who is also having a swan song at the event this week,

8:43 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN AUGUSTA, Ga. — Brooks Koepka didn’t want to share the gruesome details of the injury. But after shooting a 7-under 65 to tie for the first-round lead at the Masters with Jon Rahm and Viktor Hovland, he obliged. The now-member of the LIV Golf Tour and four-time major winner explained

The countdown is over. Day 1 of the 2023 Masters is officially, gloriously, upon us, and we’re hoping you’re as excited as we are. There are so many big fat juicy storylines to follow this year—Can Scottie Scheffler defend his title? Is this the year Rory McIlroy finally wins a green jacket and completes the

4:17 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Former Masters champion Sergio Garcia is tired of answering questions about the rift between the PGA Tour and the LIV Golf League. Speaking to reporters after carding a 2-over 74 in the first round of the 87th Masters on Thursday, Garcia became irritated when he was asked how normal

After strong showings in his first two Masters appearances, Will Zalatoris won’t get a chance to keep the string alive. The eighth-ranked player in the world had to withdraw from the tournament on Thursday with an injury, according to an Augusta National press release. Zalaoris was scheduled to tee off in the afternoon in a

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tom Hoge clearly doesn’t care about the curse of the Par 3 Contest. No contestant in Masters history has ever won the Par 3 Contest and the tournament proper in the same week. Hoge still like his chances. Hoge made a hole-in-one at the eighth to win the annual Par-3 Contest Wednesday

5:43 PM ET ESPN News Services AUGUSTA, Georgia — Tom Hoge had one of five holes-in-one made on the day — including two by Ireland’s Seamus Power — en route to winning the Par 3 Contest at Augusta National on Wednesday. Hoge finished at 6-under 21 on the short, nine-hole layout in the casual, fun-filled

The Masters Par-3 Contest has a rhythm all its own, which is what Augusta National co-founder Clifford Roberts envisioned when he helped first organize it in 1960. The hope was that it could become a “distinctive pre-tournament event” where, if only for a few hours, any talk surrounding the main attraction that begins the following

AUGUSTA, Ga. — AS RORY MCILROY started his pre-Masters news conference on Tuesday, he glanced to the side at a video board, which featured a photo of him triumphantly raising his arms after he chipped in from a bunker on the 72nd hole of the 2022 tournament. It was the final shot of McIlroy’s latest

As far as having professional success, artists face roughly the same odds as golfers. So you can’t help but cheer on CR Obetz, whose first Masters in 2022 was a sparsely attended exhibit at the Augusta Museum of History. Charming as downtown Augusta is, it’s a sleepy place during the tournament. However, one of the

AUGUSTA, Ga. — There was a touch of consternation surrounding this year’s Masters Champions Dinner. The presence of LIV golfers will have that effect. That said, it felt like all talk. What was really going to go down inside the Augusta National clubhouse? Hand-to-hand combat? Real Housewives-inspired table-flipping? A staged PGA Tour walk-out? If a

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Sometimes a late night is required. Other times it’s an early morning. But by now, Jeff Hall knows the drill. As the USGA manager overseeing rules who has been working on U.S. Open pairings since 2006, Hall’s task is relatively straightforward: turn a field of 156 players into 52 threesomes. The process

AUGUSTA, Ga. — As much as we’d all like it to be Thursday morning already, Masters week is the rare week where the leadup is just as enjoyable as the tournament itself. Tuesday, normally the forgotten day of every single week we roam this planet, features a CVS-receipt-length press conference list, this year’s schedule including

2:44 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — A balding, introspective Tiger Woods arrived at Augusta National on Tuesday and spoke about joy and gratitude. He wasn’t a cartoon hero, or a cartoon villain, just a middle-aged man with a complicated life, who loves to spend time with his children and to lose himself in the quiet

Securing a tee time at Augusta National is the dream of most every golfer around the world. For 88 fortunate folks, they’ve done just that by earning a place in the field at the 87th Masters. Just who they’re playing with was finally revealed on Tuesday as the club released threesome groups for the first

AUGUSTA, Ga. — It is, at least until the real action starts on Thursday, the talk of ‘toonamint’ week so far. The normally staid Champions Dinner, a traditional Tuesday evening gathering of those who have prevailed at Augusta National, will this year double as the place where Patrick Reed, Charl Schwartzel, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson,

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Hugs and handshakes and smiles. And a sigh of relief. Cameron Smith, the reigning Open champion and the highest-ranked player in the Masters field representing the LIV Golf League, found himself on shaky ground, of sorts, when he stepped on the sprawling practice facility on Monday at Augusta National Golf Club. The

AUGUSTA, Ga. — They do like their rules at the Augusta National Golf Club. Spectators. Media. Support staff. Competitors. No matter who you are, or why you are attending the Masters, you are compelled to live tournament life within the club’s specifically outlined parameters. No doubt you are familiar with many of them: No running,

6:54 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Brooks Koepka became the first multiple winner in LIV Golf when he closed with a 3-under 68, making a 4-foot par putt on the final hole for a one-shot victory over Sebastian Munoz. LIV Golf-Orlando came one week before Koepka and 17 other players in the Saudi-funded

6:47 PM ET Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — Corey Conners won the Valero Texas Open for the second time in five years Sunday for his second PGA Tour title, closing with a 4-under 68 for a one-stroke victory over rookie Sam Stevens. Also the 2019 winner, Conners had a 15-under 273 total on TPC San

8:47 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Injured Stanford golfer Rachel Heck was watching the opening rounds of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur on TV at her parents’ home in Memphis, Tennessee, earlier this week. When Cardinal teammate Rose Zhang grabbed what seemed like a commanding 5-shot lead after 36 holes, Heck knew she had to