Author: Gloria Irabor

Tony Finau earned his third top-10 in four Masters appearances with a tie for 10th place last year in what was a stellar season for the 32-year-old. He added a top-10 at the PGA Championship and qualified for the season-ending playoffs. Then, five years and nine runner-up finishes since his last PGA Tour victory, Finau…

Erik van Rooyen is making his second Masters appearance, having won his first PGA Tour title last season at the Barracuda Championship. The South African also qualified for the Tour Championship for the first time after posting five top-10 finishes, three of which came over the final five events of the year. Van Rooyen joined…

Making his third Masters appearance, Jason Kokrak has won twice on the PGA Tour since his last visit to Augusta National in 2021. The 36-year-old enjoyed the Tour’s Texas events, winning in Fort Worth and Houston in the last 11 months. His best Masters finish came last year when he finished 49th, his first made…

The 2022 Masters Tournament is scheduled to be played from April 7–10, 2022, at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Participation in the Masters Tournament is by invitation only, and the tournament has the smallest field of the major championships. There are a number of criteria by which invites were awarded, including all…

Eleven days after being drafted, Burlsworth was killed in a car accident near Alpena, Arkansas, on April 28, 1999, on his way back to his hometown of Harrison after a workout in Fayetteville. Brandon passed away on April 28, 1999, at age 22. Burlsworth’s vehicle clipped an oncoming 18-wheeler, swerved back into his lane, and…

Shane Lowry, a 2019 Open champion, is making his seventh Masters appearance, following a strong showing in 2021. The Irishman posted a career-best T-21 at Augusta National last year as well as personal-best finishes at the PGA Championship (T-4), The Memorial (T-6), and The Players (eighth). The 35-year-old had six worldwide top-10s in 2021, plus…

At the 2019 Masters, Francesco Molinari played 49 holes without a bogey (from the 12th hole in the first round through the sixth hole in final round), one off the record set by Stuart Appleby in 2001. Molinari led the tournament after 54 holes before finishing T5 behind champion Tiger Woods, with whom he was…

Two-time Masters champion José María Olazábal made his first cut at Augusta National in seven years last April despite not having played competitively since the previous November. Olazábal, 56, has eight top-10s at the Masters and five top-5s, including his victories in 1994 and 1999. He was awarded the 2000 Ben Hogan Award for overcoming…

Hideki Matsuyama achieved many firsts with his one-stroke victory in the 2021 Masters: the first Japanese male golfer to win a major, the first player of Asian descent to win the Masters, and the first former Asia-Pacific Amateur champion to earn a Green Jacket. Matsuyama fired a sensational third-round 65 last year that gave him…

Louis Oosthuizen enters his 14th Masters after a 2021 season in which he factored prominently in the majors. After a T26 finish at Augusta National, the South African finished runner-up at both the PGA Championship and the U.S. Open and then came third in the Open Championship at Royal St. George’s. Oosthuizen, 39, has six…