Scheffler’s Seven Birdies In A Superb Masters ‘Moving Day’ Showing
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler produced an impressive ’Moving Day’ display, posting a bogey-free seven-under 65 to remind all that the double Masters champion is still very much in frame for a third green jacket at Augusta National.
Scheffler headed to the scorer’s hut with the clubhouse lead as 36-hole leader Rory McIlroy was nearing the turn in his own third round leading by three at 12-under.
Scheffler earned himself a second set of Masters crystal goblets this week thanks ...
McIlroy To Be Applauded The Manner He Engaged, Encouraged & Even Entertained His Much Younger Playing Partner.
He’s the reigning Masters champion and eyes of the sports world were clearly on Rory McIlroy teeing-up as the reigning Augusta National champion.
Accompanying McIlroy was in-form Cameron Young and 18-year-old Georgia golfer Mason Howell, the reigning US Amateur champion.
Last July, Howell became the third youngest player to capture the US Amateur with victory affording the local Georgia born golfer entry into this year’s Masters, the US Open and also the Open Championship.
It is a Masters ...
Priceless Opening Day Quote From A Double Masters Champion … Was Someone Looking Down On Ollie?
A Masters patron commented that maybe it was Seve looking down from above.
Maybe it was given today – April 9 – is Seve Ballesteros’ birthday as he would have been 69 today when his Spanish compatriot, fellow Masters champion and long-time close friend Jose Maria Olazabal took the lead early on the opening day of the 2026 Masters.
A PRICELESS COMMENT FROM A DOUBLE @TheMasters CHAMP …
After Jose Maria Olazabal takes the lead early on the opening day.
“I look at the leaderboard. ...
A Good Time To Repeat Given McIlroy’s Got The Masters Monkey Off His Back Says Nicklaus
It’s obvious that if Rory McIlroy is going to become the fourth player to win back-to-back Masters he must achieve that golf this week at Augusta National.
Jack Nicklaus, and one of the trio to achieve this feat, reckons McIlroy can to just that in this 90th hosting of the Masters.
“Rory’s got the monkey off his back, and I think he has a very, very good chance to repeat,” said Nicklaus after again joining Gary Player and Tom Watson in the annual Official Former Champions Starters ceremony ...
Thirty Years On & Norman Still No Respect For Faldo & That Will Never Change
THIRTY-YEARS ON AND STILL NO RESPECT FOR FALDO …
On the 30th anniversary of his 1996 @Masters meltdown the Shark @SharkGregNorman rips into Nick ‘it’s all about me’ Faldo.
“Faldo was the one who came up to me, he’s the one who hugged me. He’s the one who said, ‘Don’t let the bastards get to you”, said the Aussie great speaking this week to the Telegraph,
“But it didn’t really mean much to me, because I knew he’d soon go back to being ...
Double Seve Celebration – This 90th Hosting Of The Masters.
This week’s 90th hosting of the Masters is a special double Seve Ballesteros celebration.
Firstly, it was on April 9th, 1957 in Pedrena, Spain one of golf’s more charismatic golfers was born, so on the opening day of this year’s Masters Seve would have been aged 69 though sadly passing 15 years ago in 2011, aged just 54.
Seve became one of the sport’s leading figures from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. A member of a gifted golfing family, he won 90 international tournaments ...
McIlroy Reveals How It’s More Important What He Wishes To Say At Tonight’s Champions Dinner Rather Than His Chosen Menu.
Grand Slam winning Rory McIlroy has expressed how important it is as host of the Champions Dinner what he says to all other Masters champion in attendance tonight at Augusta National.
Of course, it’s a first for the golfer from Hollywood, Northern Ireland to sit in the chair of the dinner host and while much has been written on the dollars McIlroy has outlayed in choosing what he intends of serve, he’s spoken just hours ahead of the dinner why it’s important to him to deliver an ...
