by Garry Smits | Tournament Guide
BOBBY JONES was a visionary in founding the Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters Tournament. And in crafting the course design with Alister MacKenzie, Jones, the club’s president in perpetuity, hit on the formula that has defined strategy since the first Masters...
by Garry Smits | Tournament Guide
The more Bubba Watson wins—especially at the Augusta National Golf Club—the more his quirky personality plays out in the public light. It’s not that he’s much different than in the past. Friends and fellow players who go back with Watson to the Web.com Tour,...
by By Stephen Delaney Hale | Tournament Guide
The Masters is played over the first full week of April, and April in the South often means dramatic changes in the weather. It’s usually beautiful. Most of the time, Masters visitors return home with permanently etched memories of brilliant azaleas, hundreds of snowy...
by By Stephen Delaney Hale | Ones to Watch/Dark Horses, Tournament Guide
The Masters Tournament is serious business at Augusta Magazine, but the tournament itself is about enjoying the week and admiring the world’s greatest golfers. To help our readers size up the field we offer our best estimates of which golfers from around the world are...
by Lee Ann Caldwell | Parting Shot
When the reverent David Floyd died on October 9, 1900, the newspaper wrote that it was “one of the largest funerals of a colored person every witnessed.” In spite of a downpour that continued through the afternoon, there was not a vacant seat in Trinity Christian...
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