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The prize-purse for this year’s 88th hosting of the Masters continues to grow with this year’s champion set to pocket $3.6m of the record-setting $20m purse. That’s up $360,000 on the $3.24m handed to Spaniard Jon Rahm in winning a year ago at Augusta National. As well, the top-3 finishes this week will each earn over $1m while the top-10 will earn in excess of $500,000 and with the player finishing 50th taking away $50,400 that should well and truly cover his Augusta expenses. RECORD-SETTING ...

So, what did you do ahead of your Masters ‘moving day’ tee time? I am sure it was very different to Canadian golfer Adam Hadwin whose wife, Jessica snapped a shot of her husband out-stretched in the kitchen of their Augusta National rented house with his head stuck under the sink no doubt looking to fix a water pipe. Hadwin, 36, is contesting only his fourth Masters and a first since 2020 and having qualified on this occasion by being among the top-50 in the World Ranking. The 2017 Valspar ...

Never underestimate a champion! Just as this website wrote ahead of the 88th Masters you cannot question anything that five-time Masters champion Tiger Woods might say. Woods may not be in a position to capture a sixth Masters but nevertheless he’s just set a new Masters record after brilliantly assuring his place in the final two rounds of the 88th hosting of the Masters. Woods posted scores of 72 and 73 for an impressive one-over par tally that ensures he will play all four days on the ...

The weather-affected opening round of the 88th hosting of the Masters ended just after 10am local Augusta time Friday with two major champions lying one-and-two atop of the leaderboard. LIV’s Bryson DeChambeau heads the field thanks to an impressive seven-under-par in 65 he shot in Thursday’s bright but very testy windy conditions and, in the process, easily recording his lowest Masters score in 25 rounds of the host Georgia golfing gem. Hot on DeChambeau’s tail is World No. 1 Scottie ...

Bryson DeChambeau could not asked for a better start to an eighth Masters appearance when he emerged from a two-and-a-half hour rain delay to the start of play to birdie his opening three holes. DeChambeau, 30, did bogey his ninth hole but it would be his only blemish in the very testing bright but extremely windy conditions, birdieing 12, 13, 15, 16 and 17 for a superb seven-under 65. The former US Open champ headed to the clubhouse leading by three shots and it was not till 6.25pm local time when ...

Legendary Jack Nicklaus singled out Rory McIlroy’s lack of concentration as the Northern Irishman yet again attempts to win the one major championship to allude him. It’s been near on a decade since McIlroy won a third leg of golf’s grand slam with victory at the 2014 Open Championship and at now age 34, the present World No. 2 again finds himself 72 holes shy of victory at Augusta National. And no sooner had Nicklaus joined fellow golfing legends Gary Player and Tom Watson in hitting ...

One aspect more noticeable on day one of the 88th hosting of The Masters is the LIV Golfers in the field are proudly wearing their LIV team attire. Leading the show of strength among at least all but one the 13 LIV players competing this week is reigning Augusta National champion Jon Rahm and wearing the LIV Golf logo on his shirt sleeve and his Legion X111 team logo on the front of his shirt. It’s the same with his countryman and fellow Masters champ Sergio Garcia, captain of the Fireballs ...