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1:51 PM ET ESPN News Services Billy Horschel has gone into the water, and onto his backside, at the Masters. Horschel had all sorts of fun at the par-5 13th hole at Augusta National on Saturday. He sent his tee shot into the pine straw off the right of the fairway, then played his second

AUGUSTA, Ga. — As the old saying goes, “The Masters doesn’t really start until the back nine on Sunday.” This year, however, Mother Nature produced a head start. A storm rolled in on Saturday afternoon, causing a weather delay during the third round. It lasted a little more than an hour, but it’s likely that

8:01 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — The storms that stopped play for a little more than hour Saturday at the Masters were expected. The masterpiece delivered by Hideki Matsuyama after the break was not. Matsuyama played the final eight holes in 6-under par, turning a two-shot deficit into a four-shot lead. With four

A half-dozen years into the career of Xander Schauffele, many people still can’t get his name right. Soufflé, Shovel, Shoefull, Scoffol, Xavier. He’s heard them all. Never mind that he has already made a name for himself by collecting four titles on the PGA Tour, climbing as high as No. 4 in the World Ranking

AUGUSTA, Ga.—So you’ve just won the Masters. Now what? After a tearful hug with loved ones behind the final green, and a quick trip to the scoring area to avoid any De Vincenzoesque shenanigans, you are whisked to Butler Cabin for the always awkward green jacket ceremony. The cabin is much bigger than it appears

2:48 PM ET ESPN News Services Opinions about the controversial new Georgia voting law could be found across the state Saturday, as a small group of protesters spoke out about the measure near Augusta National, while the governor continued to lambaste Major League Baseball for its decision to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta.

The spoils of winning the Masters are numerous and overwhelming. There’s the green jacket, of course, and the Masters trophy, plus the chance to tee it up every April at Augusta National for the rest of your life. You have a seat reserved at the Champions Dinner each year and a space in the Champions

It should be an electric Saturday and Sunday at Augusta National with big names lurking. Of course, Jordan Spieth sits just two back of Justin Rose’s lead. Spieth is the favorite according to the oddsmakers, with 4-to-1 odds of winning a second Masters title. Right behind him is Justin Thomas (5-1, three back); Justin Rose

7:47 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — Dustin Johnson is scheduled to be in Butler Cabin on Sunday evening, draping the green jacket over the shoulders of the Masters champion. That’ll be his only official appearance at Augusta National this weekend. Johnson – the world No. 1 player and reigning Masters champion – bogeyed

AUGUSTA, Ga.—Before the campus grew to the size of Disneyland, the Masters was an intimate affair. There’s a reason Bobby Jones originally named his tournament the Augusta National Invitation Tournament; it was a small gathering of his friends and the game’s masters, and it was only the grandiose vision of his co-founder Cliff Roberts that

1:18 PM ET Tiger Woods didn’t remember anything about his car wreck on Feb. 23 and believed he was in the state of Florida when a sheriff’s deputy interviewed him at a Los Angeles-area hospital after the crash. Those were among the new details included in 22 pages of a traffic collision report and supplemental

Rory McIlroy is coming out on the business end of Augusta National in Round 1. So is his pops. Despite needing this event to complete the career Grand Slam, McIlroy entered this Masters without his usual fanfare, his game a bit of a mess after his pursuit of increased swing speed went awry. Speaking to

5:39 PM ET AUGUSTA, Georgia — As Rory McIlroy stood under the tall pines down the left side of the No. 7 fairway at Augusta National Golf Club on Thursday, he lasered in on a safe spot to land his second shot. McIlroy found what he thought was the perfect target — an older man

Through seven holes he was just trying to survive. It has been that way for the last seven months, to tell the truth. But over the next three hours, Justin Rose unleashed a cry that could be heard throughout the loblolly pines, and loudly: Azaleas aren’t the only ones blooming at Augusta National. Rose made

For 108 years, wait ’til next year was a familiar refrain for the Chicago Cubs until the lovable losers did the unimaginable and won the World Series in 2016. Such a sardonic mantra has never been appropriate for the considerably more talented and accomplished Rory McIlroy, a four-time major champion, generational superstar and at one

10:34 AM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — As the sun peeked over the tall Georgia pines on Thursday morning, Lee Elder joined Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player as honorary starters on the first tee at Augusta National Golf Club for the 85th edition of the Masters. Elder, 86, was driven to the No. 1 tee in

Some days require extra gratitude. Masters Thursday in 2021 is one of those days. It’s one of the most special times on the calendar for every golf fan. And if last year taught us anything, it’s to not take things for granted—and being 726 days without a Masters in its traditional April time slot, we

1:38 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Saying no one should be disadvantaged in their ability to vote, Augusta National and Masters chairman Fred Ridley would not go as far as to condemn the controversial Georgia voting law that led Major League Baseball to pull the All-Star Game from Atlanta and other corporations to criticize the

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods loomed large in his absence around Augusta National on Tuesday. One by one, players came into the press room and told cute stories about their interactions with the wounded champ, growing wistful over Woods missing this Masters as he continues to heal from injuries sustained in his single-car accident on

Cameron Champ was walking across the driving range at the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields outside Chicago last August, a black shoe on his right foot, a white one on his left and the names of Breonna Taylor and Jacob Blake scrawled in magic marker on the sides of the latter. “I got asked by

1:08 PM ET ESPN News Services Tiger Woods‘ February crash was caused by excessive speed, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. Woods’ SUV was traveling from 84 to 87 mph on a downhill stretch of road outside Los Angeles that had a speed limit of 45 mph and was going 75 mph when

He’s the only golfer who also answers to Bob in the field this week (Streb goes solely by Robert). And he’s the highest-ranked of just five southpaws, the out-numbered slice of the professional golf pie-chart that has recently played above itself in the Masters. Six times a left-hander has finished first in the last 18

7:08 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — On Tuesday of Masters week, every former winner who wants to attend comes to Augusta National for the Champions Dinner. It is one sports’ most exclusive dinner parties. This year, defending champion Dustin Johnson is the host. This is his menu. His brother, Austin, who is Johnson’s caddie and

AUGUSTA — Someone very wise once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result.” The Google machine tells me this person was Albert Einstein, who certainly fits the bill intelligence-wise. Watching Rory McIlroy’s golf rounds over the last 10 months has brought Dr. Einstein’s

The Masters is Christmas for golf bettors, and this year we’re getting two Christmases in a span of six months. You could say we’ve been spoiled rotten. It only makes sense, then, to spoil our readers with more gambling content. We’ve given you our best bets and our favorite DFS plays already, so now it’s

2:18 PM ET AUGUSTA, Georgia — In each of the previous four years, Justin Thomas played practice rounds at Augusta National Golf Club with two former Masters champions — Fred Couples and Tiger Woods. Thomas said Couples, the 1992 Masters winner, blew him off Tuesday morning. “He didn’t feel like getting up in the early

Golf Digest’s betting panel consists of three of the most respected data scientists in the industry: Pat Mayo of Mayo Media Network/DraftKings, Brandon Gdula of numberFire/FanDuel and Rick Gehman of RickRunGood.com. We’re fortunate to have an anonymous tour caddie giving his picks every week on tour—and our caddie got bold this week. He saw Jordan

3:26 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jordan Spieth got to drive down Magnolia Lane late Monday morning with a sense of relief. For the first time in nearly four years, he was a winner again Sunday on the PGA Tour, the constant scrutiny and questions concerning his troubling play now changing to talk of him

It’s officially Masters Week, which means that everyone—your mom, your dad, your little cousin, Nancy in accounting, etc.—is going to have a “dark horse” pick to win at Augusta National. By the time Wednesday evening rolls around, there will be no dark horses left. One guy who has slipped through the cracks so far, though,

The Masters overflows with traditions, from the Champions Dinner to the Par 3 Contest (though not this year again, because COVID-19) to the Crow’s Nest to the ceremonial opening tee shots that gets the tournament under way. Binding them all is how they each manage to connect old and young, generations past and present brought