The 84th Masters hasn’t disappointed as the tournament heads into the weekend. After a marathon two days at Augusta National, a packed leader board heading into Saturday’s third round included for the first time in major championship history the No. 1, 2 and 3 ranked players in the world tied for first place. How Dustin
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5:36 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — The stories are legendary, and not all that flattering. Dustin Johnson and his brother, Austin, look like an excellent team now, a Masters green jacket and a ridiculously good 2020 golf year amid a pandemic all the proof you need. But when Dustin decided to hire his brother full
AUGUSTA, Ga. — For a game so slow, golfing legacies change awfully fast. Four days in Augusta is all it takes. Just ask Jack Nicklaus, or Tiger Woods, or Phil Mickelson, or even Sergio Garcia. Winning the Masters doesn’t just come with the green jacket and the lifetime dinner invite—it’s a stamp of approval on
This is it, this is Masters Sunday. Months of anticipation for this fall 2020 Masters has culminated in this day, as Dustin Johnson carries a four-stroke lead into Sunday, looking for his first green jacket. He brings that history of his major collapses with him—being the only player in major history to be 0-for-4 in
5:51 PM ET The attention when this first-ever fall Masters began fell on Tiger Woods, who was trying to defend a title won 19 months ago at Augusta National. It also found its way to Bryson DeChambeau, who came in the year’s final major with a plan to try to overpower the place. And, of
Dustin Johnson looked in complete control on Saturday afternoon as he fired a 65 to take a four-shot lead through 54 holes at the 2020 Masters. And if you’re kicking yourself for not betting on the hottest player on the planet who also happens to be the World No. 1, the good news is you
7:17 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Self-isolating for 11 days in a Las Vegas hotel room just a few weeks ago, Dustin Johnson is now on the verge of lifelong access to an exclusive, far different room: the Champions Locker Room at Augusta National. From COVID-19 positive and doubts about his ability to compete in
The Masters not only is steeped in history, but by being played at the same venue each year, it lends itself to a wealth of facts, figures and history that can be deciphered, compared and contrasted each year. With that in mind, here are five stats from Saturday at the 2020 Masters that caught our
AUGUSTA, Ga. — He has completed 36 holes, and thanks to a second-nine charge, there will be 36 more for Bryson DeChambeau, making the cut on the number. However, the Masters favorite is anything but heading into Saturday afternoon, his tournament thus far a tale of two holes—and two 7s. “It just seems like there’s
9:04 PM ET Associated Press Former world No. 1 and two-time major winner Ariya Jutanugarn and her sister Moriya have tested positive for COVID-19 and have withdrawn from next week’s LPGA Tour event in Florida, the Pelican Women’s Championship. “Although we have been very cautious, unfortunately Mo and I have tested positive for COVID-19. We
Our “Be Right” experts give their best bets below, and make sure to listen to their post-round podcast, in which they offer full analysis on all the action from Augusta National. Christopher Powers, Golf Digest assistant editor: Brooks Koepka to win (22-1, DraftKings) — In the weeks leading up to the Masters, the best number
7:17 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — A Masters in November promised to be much different, and that was before a ball was ever launched into the air. No ropes, no bleachers, no fans, no roars. No azaleas, although there are camellias. Instead of a first cut, there is true rough. And those two-tee starts. “I
That Danny Willett cracked his driver at the end of his opening round Friday morning in the 84th Masters, and then shot a second-round six-under 66 later in the day without it, has to deliver some kind of message, doesn’t it? Actually, it delivers two. The first being where you hit it is clearly more
After waiting 19 long months for the Masters to return on Thursday, Mother Nature made us wait a few hours more. Our patience was rewarded with an electric first round of play, even without the patrons on hand to add to the buzz. But the opening round isn’t complete just yet. A number of players
7:17 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Sure, there was a lot that felt and looked different about the first round of the first Masters ever played in November. There were only a few hundred patrons at Augusta National Golf Club on Thursday, and most of them were presumably members, including NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, MLB
Expecting a Masters unlike any other didn’t necessarily prepare our Golf Digest photographers, J.D. Cuban and Ben Walton, for the images they’d capture at this year’s tournament. Sure, they knew they’d come across angles and shots never possible without thousand of patrons following golfers and lining every hole. But each day has brought new windows
6:26 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods longs for peace. For most of his professional life, he has sought refuge from the masses, on his yacht, appropriately named Privacy, or at his gated enclave in South Florida. Such calm is nearly impossible to find in Woods’ golf world, and yet there it was on
Tiger Woods did something on Thursday that he had never done before, opening with a bogey-free round at the Masters. More importantly, his four-under 68 leaves him just three strokes off the lead at Augusta National. But there are other reasons to feel good about Woods’ position as he tries to defend his title and