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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,

8:23 PM ET ESPN News Services AUGUSTA, Ga. — On his way to the second tee Thursday at the Masters, Jon Rahm thought of the famous quote from his Spanish idol, Seve Ballesteros, who once four-putted at Augusta and said, “I miss, I miss, I miss, I make.” “If you’re going to make a double

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

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

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

10:58 AM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Kevin Na won’t be around for the celebration if a LIV Golf League player claims a green jacket Sunday in the 87th Masters at Augusta National Golf Club. Na, captain of the Iron Heads GC, withdrew from the Masters on Thursday after scoring 4-over 40 on the first nine

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

7:11 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — Larry Mize and Sandy Lyle delivered two of the most memorable shots in Masters history in consecutive years. Mize, the first champion born in Augusta, holed a 140-foot chip from right of the 11th green in the second hole of a playoff to beat Greg Norman in

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. — 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

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. — WHEN SCOTT SCHEFFLER showed up in Dr. Troy Van Biezen’s office in Dallas one day in fall 2014, he was panicked. Scheffler’s son, Scottie, had been one of the best junior golfers in the world, but was struggling to even hit a ball straight as a freshman at the University of Texas.

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,

4:38 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN AUGUSTA, Ga. — Cameron Smith will be the first to tell you he doesn’t think LIV Golf’s fields are as strong or deep as the PGA Tour’s. In fact, that is precisely what Smith, who joined LIV last year, said Tuesday speaking at his news conference in advance of 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,

5:35 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — At the 2020 Masters, Bryson DeChambeau famously said his strategy would be to play Augusta National as a par-67 course because he was hitting the ball so far off the tee. DeChambeau didn’t come close to that number that year, tying for 34th. The next year, he finished over

It’s so true it has become cliché: A Masters ticket is the toughest one to get in sports. Even with a shaky weather forecast this week, you’re still going to spend four figures for a day on the Augusta National grounds. But there are still (relatively) decent deals to be had if you’re willing to

7:30 AM ET Mark Schlabach Close Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Paolo Uggetti The first major of the year is here, and the anticipation for this year’s Masters could not be higher. Between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson

Nine miles from Palos Verdes Golf Course sits the Port of Long Beach, a primary trade point between the United States and Asian countries. Fitting, then, that it served as the backdrop to the latest import of Asian talent to the LPGA Tour. With a one-under 70 on Sunday, Ruoning Yin claimed a one-shot victory

9:29 PM ET Associated Press PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. — Ruoning Yin became the second Chinese winner in LPGA Tour history Sunday, holding off Georgia Hall in the DIO Implant LA Open. The 20-year-old Yin closed with an eventful 1-under 70 for a one-stroke victory over Hall, the English player whose 5-foot birdie try on

There are 14 golfers in PGA Tour history who can claim the bittersweet distinction of having earned $10 million in their careers, but not tour titles. Patrick Rodgers is one of them, and if you had asked him Saturday about that distinction, he would have dearly hoped that the “is” at the start of this

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

The immaculate fairways, the Azaleas, the roars. Year in and year out, the Masters provides unique yet familiar sights and sounds that golf fans of all persuasions—young or old, casual or avid—have come to treasure. This week, the 87th edition of the event promises all those Augusta National comforts and more—even for those unable to

8:31 AM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Masters week is finally here and there will be plenty of storylines in the first major championship of the season, which tees off Thursday at Augusta National Golf Club. World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler will try to become the first back-to-back winner at the Masters in more than