AUGUSTA, Ga. — This sports entity shows up every spring with a record of consistent success, contends for the championship but falters in the final stages — but it’s not the Braves.

This entity also is haunted by its staggering collapse on its sport’s biggest stage — but it’s not the Falcons.

This entity perpetually searches for ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Cellphones are banned at the Masters. Food and drink prices are happily stuck in the 1970s — $1.50 for a pimento cheese sandwich — a charming holdover from yesteryear. And painted leaderboards are updated by hand.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, it’s Jones (Bobby) meets Jetson (George). Drones whir over tee boxes. Fans all ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Justin Rose has been in this position as the first-round leader of the Masters. But can he handle the situation better than he did the last time?

Rose opened the 2021 Masters with a career-best 65 to take the solo lead. He held the lead at the midway point after shooting 72, slipped into a tie for second place after a third-...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The natural beauty of Augusta National is breathtaking.

And sometimes, nature calls.

That was the case Thursday for Jose Luis Ballester, who couldn’t find a bathroom near the 13th tee at the Masters so he unzipped his fly and urinated in Rae’s Creek.

“I completely forgot that we had those restrooms to the left of the ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — On Thursday, it was all back to how it used to be for Ángel Cabrera.

The 55-year-old Argentine teed off as part of the 10:59 a.m. threesome for the opening round of the Masters. Before the throngs at pristine Augusta National Golf Club, he parred the first hole of his first competitive round here since 2019.

The reason for ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Meet Nicolai and Rasmus Hojgaard, an identical pair that's singularly focused.

The 24-year-old Danish brothers are the first set of twins to play in the same Masters, and they will be pulling for each other Thursday when the storied tournament gets underway.

OK … that's a bit of a buried lie.

"Probably be very frustrating,"...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — No player has won the Par 3 Contest and Masters Tournament in the same year.

Nicolas Echavarria beat J.J. Spaun Wednesday in a playoff to earn a chance to break the 65-year-old curse.

Echavarria, the 30-year-old from Colombia, is making his Masters debut. He tees off in Thursday’s first round at 8:24 a.m.

The afternoon was ...Read more

AUGUSTA — Davis Riley will feel the pressure Thursday morning.

Riley will be playing in his first Masters. That’s enough to elevate your blood pressure, but the 28-year-old University of Alabama grad will be hitting the very first official shot to start the tournament.

Riley earned his place by winning the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge at ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — How fitting that the jacket is green.

Who wouldn't envy what Scottie Scheffler has done?

Not only has he been the world's No. 1 golfer for 99 weeks, but also at age 28 he has two Masters victories and a chance to become the first back-to-back winner of the storied tournament since Tiger Woods in 2002.

Scheffler's stay at the ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The yips — the sudden inability to make even short putts — have ended careers of professional golfers.

For Bernhard Langer, they brought him to his knees.

"Those were the hardest times in my life, in my golfing life, I should say," said Langer, 67, who this week will play in his 41st and final Masters. "I've had the yips ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — I hereby render a heretical opinion that could earn me eternal banishment from Augusta National Golf Club, but my conscience compels honesty.

The pimento cheese sandwich at the Masters is awful.

I do not like it.

I would rather eat from a sand trap. (A real sandwich — ha ha ha.)

I do feel some regret. When I tried my first...Read more

It doesn’t take more than a quick walk around the property to see that Augusta National has a different look. But it is highly unlikely that the trees felled and vistas cleared by Hurricane Helene will have an impact on how the course is played and affect this week’s Masters.

The club has not said how many trees were lost when Helene ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — It was wet weather at Augusta National on Monday, but the forecast calls for sunny days once the Masters starts on Thursday.

Here are five players most likely to swap their raincoats for a green jacket, along with a dark horse possibility:

Scottie Scheffler

Scheffler, who has held his No. 1 ranking for 133 consecutive weeks, ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Dreams came true Monday. And, as is the case often with dreams, they were ended by an irritating alarm.

Shortly before 11:30 a.m., a siren blasted across the manicured grounds of Augusta National Golf Club. It was followed by an announcement that, for all of the good folks making their pilgrimage to the Masters, their stay in ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Two new projects announced Monday will further strengthen the bond between Tiger Woods and the Augusta National Golf Club.

Woods and TGR Designs has agreed to build a nine-hole par-3 short course at the Augusta Municipal Golf Course that is being rebranded as “The Patch,” the name it long has been called by locals. The new ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — From John McDermott's fragile psyche to the sustained excellence of Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods — or Woods and Nicklaus; no spoiler here on who's No. 1 — this countdown of the top golfers is less a list than an index of insightful, lively profiles rife with anecdotes centered on their most joyous and miserable moments.

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NEW YORK — Barack and Michelle Obama are reportedly in talks to produce Amazon’s upcoming biopic about Tiger Woods.

“King Richard” director Reinaldo Marcus Green is set to direct the film, based on former Golf Magazine editor-in-chief Kevin Cook’s book, “The Tiger Slam: The Inside Story of the Greatest Golf Ever Played,” which hit...Read more

Tiger Woods underwent surgery on Tuesday for a ruptured left Achilles and while the procedure “went smoothly,” his return to golf is unclear.

“As I began to ramp up my own training and practice at home, I felt a sharp pain in my left Achilles, which was deemed to be ruptured,” the golfer said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.

The 15-...Read more