In the world of golf writing, all roads eventually lead to Augusta, Georgia and The Masters. And they always
deliver you there on the second week of April. Here at TheAPosition.com, our media-busload of
writers includes many who have worked inside and outside the ropes at Augusta National during
Masters Week, in recent years and in the not-so-recent, as well.
Gathered in this special web archive under the APosition banner is enough well-honed writing
on the tournament and its special venue to fill a not-so-slim bound volume.
Charles Howell III and the Masters were a storybook tale waiting to happen. We’re still waiting. In fact, it has turned into a sad story the last couple of years.
This is the third year in a row Howell has come to late March desperately trying to qualify for the major tournament that means the most to him, the one played in Augusta, Georgia, where ...
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Some people – and golf courses – just seem to hold up better than others. When Gary Player won the Masters 50 years ago, Augusta National played hundreds of yards shorter than today. It’s undergone more procedures than Joan Rivers --redesign, renovation, “modernized” numerous times -- while The Black Knight has remained steadfast and remarkably unchanged. Cosmetics aside, he exudes the same earnest energy he ...
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Springtime, the first major championship, the blooming azaleas, the palpable excitement—golf’s annual return to Augusta National is when the juices start flowing again. Even for diehard golf fans, the season really doesn’t begin until The Masters.
This year, however, my year started a few weeks early: I was writing a TV show that previews the Masters, as well as this year’s other major championships, and also ...
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Remember when Sergio Garcia was actually a threat to challenge Tiger Woods for Number One in the world? Remember when he was sprinting up the fairway at Medinah Country Club in the 1999 PGA Championship? It sure seems like a long time ago now. In Sergio’s case, the chase for Number One in the world may have done more harm than good. Why? Because he ...
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Call it a major coincidence—the 1986 Masters, which many consider the most dramatic of all time, was also the first one captured in a highlight video available to the public. Augusta National G.C. had been producing a Masters highlight film annually since 1961, but its first 25 shows lacked any commercial outlet. They were shot with movie cameras and distributed as bulky 16mm films stored ...
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If CBS is already running promos for the Masters, it’s time to line up some beers for the majors. So we’ve neatly set aside 20 days here, separated into five groups of four days when the pros go at it hammer and tongs, with nerves of steel or spaghetti, while we in the audience munch on a steady diet of fingernails. Who couldn’t use a ...
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Three years ago, when he heard that the Masters had announced it would start inviting PGA Tour winners again, Mark Wilson briefly thought he had earned a trip to Augusta. The announcement came during the 2007 Masters, a month after Wilson scored the first victory of his PGA Tour career at the Honda Classic. Wilson figured that winners in the calendar year of 2007 would ...
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For anyone who’s ever stood over a three foot putt with a round of drinks on the line, the pressure of facing such a putt when there’s $1.2 million at stake – and there are ten or twenty million people watching you on television, some of whom are secretly hoping you choke – is almost inconceivable. If that wasn’t enough weight on the pro golfer’s ...
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A couple weeks ago I went to try a new local deli. I ordered the Grand Italian Hero, expecting a mouth-watering concoction of meats and cheeses and bread to delight the senses. Instead I got over-ripe salami, air-dried provolone, pasty mustard and limp lettuce on a roll so stale it hurt my teeth. We are talking about serious disappointment here.
Last week the PGA of America served ...
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What are the most special places on the most historic courses in America? Here are three that I challenge anyone to top. If your blood isn’t pumping here, you’re not alive…and you haven’t gone to heaven.
Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia...Magnolia Drive and Amen Corner (holes 11, 12, 13). The Masters is gold standard of tournaments held at the same location. As such, there is ...
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