No inflation here: The Masters menu and why is it so cheap? April 12, 2024 Part and parcel of going to live sport is paying through the roof for food and drink before getting trapped in a merchandise shop and pressured into spending millions of dollars on shirts, bucket hats and umbrellas. But at the Masters, which take place across this weekend, that’s not necessarily the case.
Is the Masters still on the BBC? Where can I watch the highlights? April 11, 2024 The BBC used to be the UK home of the Masters and showed all four days of play until 2010.
Masters: Thursday tee times as thunderstorms descend on Augusta April 10, 2024 Play could be delayed at today’s Masters with Augusta National set to be drenched in showers and thunderstorms on day one of golf’s first major. The iconic golf course in Georgia, United States, has seen rain fall in over half of its 88 tournaments to date and the 2024 edition could be no different. A [...]
Ian Woosnam on winning the Masters and Britain’s long-lost dominance of Augusta April 10, 2024 The Welshman takes a trip down memory (and Magnolia) lane.
Sam Torrance: Scottie Scheffler has earned his fairytale – with a little help from the Ryder Cup April 11, 2022 From first PGA Tour win to world No1 and Masters champion in eight weeks; I don’t think anyone has enjoyed a rise quite like Scottie Scheffler’s. It has been a fairytale, but 25-year-old Scheffler has earned it with a series of faultless performances and by staying in control whatever the circumstances. He was already ranked [...]
Masters 2022: Bryson DeChambeau vows to play major against doctors’ advice April 5, 2022 Former US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau says he is risking injury by playing the Masters this week. The big-hitting American injured his hip and hand in a table-tennis accident in February and said he had returned early against the advice of doctors. “This comes around once a year and I got to give it a [...]
Sam Torrance: Jon Rahm is due another major as magical Masters week rolls around April 4, 2022 Masters week is always one of my favourites and I am really looking forward to watching the best players in the world, hopefully including Tiger Woods, grace Augusta National. Five-time winner Woods is set to make a last-minute decision on whether to play in his first 72-hole tournament since almost losing his leg in a [...]
Mastercard faces £10bn class-action lawsuit in UK August 19, 2021 A UK court has approved the UK’s biggest class action lawsuit of over £10bn against global payments processor Mastercard on behalf of 46m consumers, according to reports. The previously rejected lawsuit was formally certified on Wednesday to go to trial by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in London. It will be the first mass claim [...]
Sam Torrance Masters review 2021: Why Matsuyama’s win is the best result for golf, heartache for Schauffele and a brilliant debut from Zalatoris April 13, 2021 You couldn’t pick a better Masters winner for world golf than Hideki Matsuyama. Japan has long had a huge involvement in the sport. They have a fantastic tour and have produced players like Jumbo Ozaki and Tommy Nakajima. They have also had women’s major champions, in Hisako Higuchi and Hinako Shibuno, but not men’s – [...]
Keith Pelley interview: European Tour chief on PGA Tour alliance, why 2021 is even tougher than 2020, and when fans can return to golf April 9, 2021 Since 14 April 2020, Keith Pelley has been getting used to a new way of starting each day. At 7:45am the chief executive of golf’s European Tour dials into a conference call with 14 colleagues to discuss which tournaments are on, which are off and need replacing at short notice, and which hang in the [...]