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Question! What does Tiger Woods have in common with Bernie McGuire? Absolutely nothing I hear you laughingly shout. Well, you’re wrong! This year marks the 27th anniversary that Tiger and myself made our Masters debut. Tiger was the then U.S. Amateur champion, having won the first of what would be three straight championship titles. Your Aussie-born author was then, and still is, a struggling 15-handicapper at Crail in Scotland, arriving at Augusta National having been accredited by the ...

  10.34 am – Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods edges closer to confirmation he will contest this week’s Masters declaring, and with a day-and-a-half to tee-off in the 86th Masters that ‘I feel I am going to play’. Ever since the sight of Woods’ private jet arriving at Augusta Regional Airport late last week, the sports world has been eagerly digesting the news that Woods may take his place in the staging of the 86th Masters. We then saw the sight of Woods out on Augusta National on Sunday, and then followed ...

Defending Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama says he’s hoping to be back to 100% fitness in teeing off Thursday at Augusta National The Japanese-born, and first Asian golfer to win the Masters has been dogged in recent weeks by injury on the left side of his neck and also a shoulder concern, as evident in withdrawing after nine holes in the second round of the Valero Texas Open. Matsuyama was first troubled by the injury during the Arnold Palmer Invitational and though he completed four rounds, ...

Tiger looks phenomenal” declared good friend and fellow Masters champ, Fred Couples, and so did probably around 20,000 Augusta patrons. Woods, Couples, and Justin Thomas had just played a casual nine-hole Monday afternoon practice round at Augusta National though you could have been mistaken, given the huge number of patrons that also walked the nine holes, that it was Sunday afternoon at the 86th Masters. The out-pouring of patrons’ support is something that has not been seen on a Monday ...

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 ...