AUGUSTA, Ga. — No player has won the Par 3 Contest and Masters Tournament in the same year.

Nicolas Echavarria beat J.J. Spaun Wednesday in a playoff to earn a chance to break the 65-year-old curse.

Echavarria, the 30-year-old from Colombia, is making his Masters debut. He tees off in Thursday’s first round at 8:24 a.m.

The afternoon was ...Read more

AUGUSTA — Davis Riley will feel the pressure Thursday morning.

Riley will be playing in his first Masters. That’s enough to elevate your blood pressure, but the 28-year-old University of Alabama grad will be hitting the very first official shot to start the tournament.

Riley earned his place by winning the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge at ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — How fitting that the jacket is green.

Who wouldn't envy what Scottie Scheffler has done?

Not only has he been the world's No. 1 golfer for 99 weeks, but also at age 28 he has two Masters victories and a chance to become the first back-to-back winner of the storied tournament since Tiger Woods in 2002.

Scheffler's stay at the ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The yips — the sudden inability to make even short putts — have ended careers of professional golfers.

For Bernhard Langer, they brought him to his knees.

"Those were the hardest times in my life, in my golfing life, I should say," said Langer, 67, who this week will play in his 41st and final Masters. "I've had the yips ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — I hereby render a heretical opinion that could earn me eternal banishment from Augusta National Golf Club, but my conscience compels honesty.

The pimento cheese sandwich at the Masters is awful.

I do not like it.

I would rather eat from a sand trap. (A real sandwich — ha ha ha.)

I do feel some regret. When I tried my first...Read more

It doesn’t take more than a quick walk around the property to see that Augusta National has a different look. But it is highly unlikely that the trees felled and vistas cleared by Hurricane Helene will have an impact on how the course is played and affect this week’s Masters.

The club has not said how many trees were lost when Helene ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — It was wet weather at Augusta National on Monday, but the forecast calls for sunny days once the Masters starts on Thursday.

Here are five players most likely to swap their raincoats for a green jacket, along with a dark horse possibility:

Scottie Scheffler

Scheffler, who has held his No. 1 ranking for 133 consecutive weeks, ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Dreams came true Monday. And, as is the case often with dreams, they were ended by an irritating alarm.

Shortly before 11:30 a.m., a siren blasted across the manicured grounds of Augusta National Golf Club. It was followed by an announcement that, for all of the good folks making their pilgrimage to the Masters, their stay in ...Read more

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Two new projects announced Monday will further strengthen the bond between Tiger Woods and the Augusta National Golf Club.

Woods and TGR Designs has agreed to build a nine-hole par-3 short course at the Augusta Municipal Golf Course that is being rebranded as “The Patch,” the name it long has been called by locals. The new ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — From John McDermott's fragile psyche to the sustained excellence of Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods — or Woods and Nicklaus; no spoiler here on who's No. 1 — this countdown of the top golfers is less a list than an index of insightful, lively profiles rife with anecdotes centered on their most joyous and miserable moments.

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NEW YORK — Barack and Michelle Obama are reportedly in talks to produce Amazon’s upcoming biopic about Tiger Woods.

“King Richard” director Reinaldo Marcus Green is set to direct the film, based on former Golf Magazine editor-in-chief Kevin Cook’s book, “The Tiger Slam: The Inside Story of the Greatest Golf Ever Played,” which hit...Read more

Tiger Woods underwent surgery on Tuesday for a ruptured left Achilles and while the procedure “went smoothly,” his return to golf is unclear.

“As I began to ramp up my own training and practice at home, I felt a sharp pain in my left Achilles, which was deemed to be ruptured,” the golfer said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.

The 15-...Read more

ORLANDO — Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy make a good team, with McIlroy usually taking the leading role.

On Friday at Bay Hill Club and Lodge, Lowry seized center stage from one of the PGA Tour’s biggest stars, overshadowed his fellow Emerald Isle star and moved atop the leaderboard at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Paired with McIlroy, a ...Read more

President Donald Trump has put himself in the middle of two feuding factions who have been at war now for three years.

It’s a global conflict that started in 2022, forcing longtime allies to turn against one another. Loyalties have been tested, betrayals have been exposed, and once-friendly relationships have crumbled under the weight of this...Read more

LA JOLLA, Calif. – Early in the week, the sight of Genesis Invitational signage with the Pacific Ocean as a backdrop just looked weird. By Sunday afternoon, though, with a crowd at the top of the leaderboard, the season’s second PGA Tour event at Torrey Pines seemed like business as usual.

Inside the ropes, anyway.

These last several weeks...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg turned to caddie Joe Skovron late in Sunday’s final round of the Genesis Invitational and mentioned how much more enjoyable it was this time at Torrey Pines than when they were here three weeks ago for the Farmers Insurance Open.

Aberg suffered with sickness the final two rounds of the Farmers. He was ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A lone member of the swelling Torrey Pines gallery hunted for the perfect spot to maximize his lungs and catch the attention of a legend.

The fan yelled at soon-to-be-crowned Genesis Invitational winner Ludvig Aberg, well within range of the 25-year-old Swede and iconic tournament host Tiger Woods.

“You’re lucky! Tiger’s ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Patrick Rodgers is leading the Genesis Invitational after three rounds at Torrey Pines.

And, after shooting 4-under 68 on Saturday for a one-stroke lead at 8 under overall in the $20 million signature event, Rodgers knows what the headline will be: “Journeyman eyes first PGA Tour win.”

“It’s the thing that whenever my ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — That knock on the door sounds familiar. Someone who has been in that spot at Torrey Pines Golf Course before has circled back again.

As the Genesis Invitational roadshow comes to within a round of its Sunday conclusion, the ear markings beyond the tournament’s name delivered the expected.

There’s the Goodyear blip, the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Two of golf’s greats are lurking on the leaderboard, but Davis Thompson has a “What, me worry?” attitude two rounds into the Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines.

“We’re halfway through, still a lot of golf left,” said Thompson, who endured a “roller coaster” back nine Friday for a 6-under 66 that equaled the low ...Read more