He Masters at Augusta National is shaping up to be smaller than usual for 2024. Including the addition of 11 players graduating this year among the Top 50 in the world ranking, Only 77 players They will soon tee off in April at Augusta. There are 10 less than the 2023 editionthat won Jon Rahm.
The Masters is the smallest tournament in terms of players of the four majors. The last time more than 100 players competed for the green jacket was in 1966, with 103. The 11 expected to crack the top 50 are: Ryan Fox, Min Woo Lee, Denny McCarthy, Will Zalatoris, Justin Rose, Harris English, Eric Cole, JT Poston, Adrian Meronk, Adam Hadwin and Nicolai Hojgaard.
Four players earned invitations by winning PGA Tour events this fall: Luke List, Erik Van Rooyen, Camilo Villegas and Ludvig Aberg.
The 2024 edition could be one of the smallest in years depending on the first three months of the PGA Tour season. With no major tournaments for the rest of the year, it looks like 11 players who finish in the top 50 will be added to the field. Among them are three players who will make their Masters debut without winning on the PGA Tour or the European circuit: Adam Schenk, Eric Cole and Denny McCarthy. Schenk qualified by reaching the Tour Championship for the first time. An additional player will win the Latin American Amateur Championship in January. For others, driving along exclusive Magnolia Lane (the main entrance avenue to the club on Washington Road in Augusta, Georgia), in April depends on success in a complete PGA Tour event – there are 14 before the Masters – or even in top 50 on April 7, a week before the Masters. There may also be a special invitation for international players who are not regulars on the PGA Tour.
Augusta National prefers that the number of participants not exceed 100, a number last reached in 1966, when there were 103 players in the field. Among the near misses were Chris Kirk (No. 52) and Matt Kuchar (No. 54), the latter is used to foam. “I think I was pretty close last year, too,” said Kuchar, whose hopes ended when he lost in the fourth round of the World Match Play. Last year, he was runner-up at the Texas Open, when only a victory would get him back to Augusta. Kuchar at least helped himself in the fall by qualifying for a pair of $20 million purse events at Pebble Beach and Riviera in January and February. So you know what you should do. But he wasn’t too worried. “I didn’t think, ‘I have to play well this week because I’m 53rd in the world.’ If you don’t tell me where I am in the world ranking, I can’t tell you,” Kuchar said. “I always think that your best chance to play good golf is to go out and do it, and not because you have to,” the American added.
Source: La Verdad
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