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2022 Masters Tournament – April 4-10- Augusta National GC, Georgia Par 72 • 7,510 yards Purse TBA Winner TBA + 600 FedExCup pts. 91 players • 72-hole stroke play Defending champion Hideki Matsuyama by Fatiha Betscher   TOURNAMENT STORYLINES Game-time decision: 82-time PGA TOUR winner and five-time Masters Tournament champion Tiger Woods announced that he will make a “game-time decision” on whether he can return to competition this week. Woods suffered significant injuries ...

Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre has returned to Augusta National twelve months on from the magic of a maiden Masters, happy with the ‘subtle’ changes he’s observed after a first official 2022 practice round. MacIntyre jetted into Augusta from San Antonio after finishing just inside the top-40 in Sunday’s concluding Valero Texas Open. After the short 330-yard drive up famed Magnolia Lane, the first stop for MacIntyre was to officially register, from where he found his way to ...

…. Fatiha Betscher  Despite losing his World No. 1 crown Jon Rahm is favourite to win the 2022 Masters. British bookmakers William Hill have the reigning US Open winning Rahm at 11/1 to become the fourth Spaniard in the history of the Masters to be fitted the famed Augusta National member’s green jacket. Rahm, 27, will be contesting his hopeful lucky seventh Masters and he does so with an already impressive Masters showing of 4th in 2018, 9th in 2019, 7th in 2020, and 9th a year ago. Five-time ...

Five-time Masters winning Tiger Woods delivered the strongest hint yet he could tee up in this week’s Masters. Woods posted a Tweet late Sunday morning (US local time) stating:  “I will be heading up to Augusta today to continue my preparation and practice,” wrote Woods. “It will be a game-time decision on whether I compete.” This is not to say Woods is confirming he will tee up also on the 25th anniversary of his maiden Masters win in 1997, but it also has not ruled out any Augusta ...

Augusta Weather Forecast For 2022 Masters Week Those heading to the 2022 Masters on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday better take an umbrella as rain in predicted for all three days. Here’s the overall forecast for the week of the 86th hosting of the Masters thanks to local Augusta Chronicle Monday: Partly Cloudy. High 79. Low 55. Wind E at 5 mph. Chance of rain 1%. Tuesday: Thunderstorms expected, up to 1 inch of rain. High 72. Low 66. Wind SSE at 15 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Wednesday: Scattered ...

2022 MASTERS – 18 KNOWN & NOT SO KNOWN STATS  by Fatiha Betscher Masters Winners by Country USA – 62 South Africa – 5 Spain – 5 England – 4 Germany – 2 Argentina – 1 Australia – 1 Canada – 1 Fiji – 1 Japan- 1 Scotland – 1 Wales – 1 Most Wins 6 – Jack Nicklaus 5 – Tiger Woods 4 – Arnold Palmer 3 – Jimmy Demaret, Gary Player, Sam Snead, Nick Faldo & Phil Mickelson 2 – Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Tom Watson, Seve Ballesteros, Bernhard ...

There is now real concern if Hideki Matsuyama will be fully fit to tee up in the defence of his Masters title. Matsuyama’s withdrawal after nine holes of the second round of the Valero Texas Open due to an ongoing neck and shoulder injury must place into doubt if he will be fit to tee up at Augusta National. The first Asian-born player to win the Masters informed media at the recent Arnold Palmer Invitational he was around 80% towards fully recovering from a neck and shoulder injury he suffered ...