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Sergio Garcia and his wife, Angela, welcomed a second child into the world this past week. But this time, the couple stayed clear of any Masters-themed names. RANKING: The 50 most defining moments in Masters history The 2017 Masters champ announced the birth of Enzo Akins Garcia on Friday, or what would have been the

One could argue Michael Thompson—and not Hideki Matsuyama—was the golfer hurt most by the Players Championship being canceled after one round due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Thompson trailed the Day 1 leader by five shots, but a bogey-free opening 68 at TPC Sawgrass had been the PGA Tour veteran’s best round during a difficult

7:21 PM ET There was no final round of the Masters on Sunday, but there was a replay on CBS of Tiger Woods‘ comeback victory a year ago at Augusta National. And as it played out, CBS’ Jim Nantz interviewed Woods at various points before, during and after the round, with the five-time Masters winner

Doug Sanders, one of the more colorful personalities in the PGA Tour’s tapestry, died in Houston on Sunday. Sanders was a 20-time winner on Tour, which included a victory at the 1956 Canadian Open as an amateur, the first amateur win in Tour history. But he was just as well known for finishing second 20

5:51 PM ET Associated Press Doug Sanders brought a flamboyance to golf fashion ahead of his time, a colorful character known as much for the 20 times he won on the PGA Tour as the majors that got away. Sanders died Sunday morning in Houston, the PGA Tour confirmed through a text from Sanders’ ex-wife,

If there’s one tournament in golf where how much the winner makes in prize money is truly ancillary to everything else that comes with claiming the title, it’s the Masters. The legacy of being one of the select golfers to own a green jacket, along with having a space in the Champions locker room, a

This past Wednesday afternoon, at about the time that the Par-3 Contest would have been taking place at Augusta National, a group of 19 people gathered—not literally, but in a Zoom meeting that somehow worked, despite the fact that most involved were techno-challenged. They came together to celebrate, to mourn and to remember their friend

8:00 AM ET The text arrived about 10 p.m. It was Thursday, March 12, and Justin Thomas was getting ready to go to bed at the house he was sharing with Rickie Fowler at The Players Championship near Jacksonville. Thomas looked at his phone. Normally, the PGA Tour’s mass texting service sends automated messages to

For golfers, April is a trigger. It conjures visions of pink blooming azaleas, white dogwood blossoms, blue-mirrored water and wild sculptures of slick green grass. April, in other words, is Augusta National. If this is the vision of Augusta National we share now, it’s important to note it wasn’t always quite this way. The course,

7:52 AM ET Jim Nantz had a decision to make as the final, dramatic moments of the 2019 Masters played out before him at Augusta National. Does he stay in the broadcast tower behind the 18th green to watch what he believed would be the finishing touches on Tiger Woods’ victory? Or does he head

The USGA is king when it comes to overseeing national championships and governing rules. The foot soldiers of the entire American golf system, however, are the state and regional associations. The work is enormously valuable, the USGA recognizes that, and its making a considerable investment to give the associations a boost in the troubled times

The absence of a Masters this April leaves the type of void no silly Internet ranking can fill. We should probably get that part out of the way first. But even then, if you agree the Masters stands apart in the way it oozes history, then you can also agree there’s enough material from the

5:53 PM ET The PGA Tour on Friday sent a memo to players in which it outlined its efforts to reconfigure the schedule and that events initially could be played without spectators. The Tour confirmed that Tyler Dennis, chief of operations for the PGA Tour, sent a memo to the membership as he has been

In many ways, it seems Rory McIlroy might have been the golfer most negatively impacted from a competitive perspective when the PGA Tour shut down after one round at the Players Championship in March because of the COVID-19 outbreak. He was on a tear before the stoppage. Since winning the Tour Championship and seizing his

7:31 AM ET This is an entirely fictitious account of what might have been had Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus met at the Masters near the end of their primes. Close your eyes, open your mind and imagine the unimaginable. Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus standing on the first tee at Augusta National, in the