Of course, every rule needs an exception, and at the home of the Masters this practice makes perfect sense because of its natural sensibility. Each hole has a name, and if you’re a real Augustaphile, you know them all. Flowering this, dogwood that. Golden Bell sounds lovely.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Augusta National Women’s Amateur has the greatest consolation prize in sports. Missing the 36-hole cut is disappointing, but all players in the field this week still had the opportunity to play a practice round at Augusta National on Friday.

The top 30 players and ties qualified for the final round of the Augusta National Women's Amateur at Augusta National Golf Club.

I would flip the 12 th green around and angle the green the other way with the pond. So, short and right, you’re fine, and long and left you’re fine for a righty. It would be a big change but I’d like it.

With the first round of the Masters only six days away, Bryson DeChambeau has Georgia on his mind. Just not the part you’d think. As the reigning U.S. Open champion, and with a career-first top-10 at Augusta National last year,

SportsLine's Mike McClure gives his top Masters Fantasy picks for the 2025 Masters from Augusta National Golf Club, which tees off Thursday, April 10

Augusta National Golf Club prides itself on its pristine image, so there was little doubt that the home of the Masters golf tournament would pull no punches on repairs ahead of the 2025 tournament after September's hurricane.

A little-known honorary starter fact is that Ken Venturi, who twice nearly won the Masters as an amateur and would later win the 1964 U.S. Open, pinch-hit for Nelson in 1983 as Nelson tended to his wife,