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.
I know, I know. The Masters is NOT about ME. But since it's still early in the week, and since I'm reminiscing, I ask your indulgence as I drop a couple of names. In my defense, I will say only that one of the pleasures of being at the Masters is that you might, at any moment, find yourself standing next to a monster ...
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Reading the Break by Andres Davidsson, PGA teaching professional.
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Forget Phil or Tiger. The green jacket this year will most likely be worn by a European, says The Golf Stream’s playing analyst Andres Davidsson, a teaching professional and swing coach who believes Luke Donald will get his first major victory, and add a Masters title to a win that he has already captured this year ...
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I wrote a story last week titled ‘Who Will Win His First Masters’. The entire thrust of the story was that those previous winners that are still playing regularly on the PGA Tour were not in proper form to threaten at this year’s Masters. After the Shell Houston Open this weekend, it seems appropriate to fall back on the noted economist John Maynard Keynes, who ...
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I am often asked to name my favorite day covering The Masters Tournament; and if I’d ever managed to play Augusta National Golf Club?
While the grounds down Magnolia lane inside the famed Augusta National Golf Club are pristine, the club’s surroundings on Washington Road are not as idyllic; unless you consider the landscaping at Hooters and Krispy Kreme equal to the idyllic azaleas, dogwoods and ...
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Alas, I won't be at the Masters this year, so I'm going to have to try to get into the mood with some memories of Masters past. I'll be posting daily. Here's hoping these recollections help put you in a Masters frame of mind.
I'd always been an admirer of Herbert Warren Wind, and when I covered the Masters, I tried to keep an eye on ...
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I first posted this a year ago when this blog was just getting started. It all still holds true.
The first Masters I covered was in 1980 when Seve Ballesteros won the first of two green jackets. It’s hard to believe it was 30 years ago.
What’s really strange is that, in terms of years, the 1980 Masters bears the same relation to 2010 as the ...
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Like many golfers who revere Nicklaus as the greatest champion of all, and by that I mean more than the mere accumulation of titles and trophies, I still remember sitting in my drafty New York City apartment 25 years ago with a few friends while we watched Jack peel back the years on Augusta’s back nine. I remember the birdies and the roars that rattled ...
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The prize money for the tournament remained constant from the beginning until the tournament was suspended for the beginning of World War II. The total purse was $5,000 and it was paid to the twelve leading professionals. Clifford Roberts would annually pass the hat among the membership to raise this amount, but the Club continued to lose money each year on the tournament and also ...
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The Sad Legacy of the Augusta National Golf Club
There was a time in American golf before aerial golf when golf when the ball was played along the ground with the contours adding so much variation and spice to strategy and shot making. Then in the 1960s along came a a new strain of golf disease called “Augusta-itis.” As telecasts annually conveyed the special preparation afforded ...
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When I interviewed Ken Venturi for a forthcoming feature in Virginia Golfer magazine, we talked first about his victory at the 1964 U. S. Open at Congressional, the signature performance of his playing career, but Venturi is a natural, irrepressible storyteller, and the interview strayed into his memories of the Masters. Venturi played some of his his best golf at the Masters, and forged some ...
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