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Augusta, GA … As Russell Knox walked from the ninth green earlier today he asked myself and colleague Martin Dempster, and as we stood alongside the rope way leading to the 10th tee whether we knew if Sandy Lyle had said what he was doing. We each responded:  “Sandy said he’s playing 18 holes.”  Knox replied smiling:  “That’s funny as Sandy’s advice to me was to just play nine holes each day.” However there was a positive side to Knox continuing ...

Gavin Moynihan and Mathieu Decottignies-Lafon battled through wet and windy conditions to put themselves atop the leaderboard in the first round of the inaugural Sotogrande Masters on the MENA Golf Tour at La Reserva Golf Club on Monday. Ireland’s flame-haired Moynihan made three birdies and a bogey in his opening two-under 70 while Decottignies-Lafon of France kept it clean on the back nine as he picked up four shots after making the turn at two-over. In their first season on the tour, the ...

Shane Lowry reckons his blues in missing the halfway cut in the Shell Houston Open could end with an Augusta green lining. Lowry had been looking to celebrate his 29th birthday in Texas but instead spent the weekend in Georgia and playing his first Augusta National practice rounds since the agony of missing the cut in last year’s maiden Masters. And after the awe of twelve months ago when Lowry’s eyes were a big as watermelons walking about the course and grounds, there seems a real calmness ...

Augusta, GA … The Masters has long been revered not for the remarkable post-card setting that is Augusta National but the wonderful traditions that is part of Masters week. This year’s Masters is the 80th staging of the season’s first Major and we look first to 1936 when Horton Smith captured the third Master, and then every 10 years to 2006 when Phil Mickelson won a second straight Major. 1936 – American Horton Smith wrote his name into Masters folklore winning the first ...

Augusta, GA …It has been announced at Augusta National that as an extra incentive, the winner of the men’s and women’s Olympic golfing gold medal will be exempt into the following year’s Majors. Representatives of Augusta National, United States Golf Association, the R&A, and PGA of America said that the men’s winner will receive an invitation into each of their championships, starting in 2017: the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and the PGA Championship. “We ...

Augusta, GA … Rory McIlroy has brilliantly kick-started his 2016 Masters campaign with an ace at the par three, 16th hole at Augusta National. McIlroy was playing Englishman Chris Wood for ‘dinner’ and 2up on Wood when he holed his 7-iron from 170 yards out. “That roar was large considering it was a practice round and I don’t think I’ve ever heard a roar that large in a practice round,” he said. “So it was good as at the time I was 2up on Chris with ...

Augusta, GA … No matter what size, Rory McIlroy insists he will ensure the Augusta National green jacket fits should he win the Masters. www.golfbytourmiss.com sat down with the four-time Major winner and asked McIlroy seven questions on all things Augusta National and the Masters. He was asked to provide just a sentence or two and his response to the Green Jacket was pure McIlroy. Magnolia Lane  – “The most famous roadway in all of golf.  I grew up watching the Masters on TV and you ...