He August Masters It started Thursday after a two-and-a-half-hour delay with the wind still whipping through cloudy skies, the first time since July’s British Open that golf’s best players have gathered on the same course for the same tournament .
The six-time champion Jack Nicklaus join the three-time winner Gary Player and the two-time champion Tom Watsonas thousands of fans surrounded the first tee to watch them hit the traditional opening shots.
“It’s not easy to put the ball on the tee today, is it?” Player, 88, said. Erik van Rooyen and Jake Knapp were the first competitors off the 1st tee, while heavyweights from both the PGA Tour and LIV Golf scattered among the notable groups throughout the day.
This is the sixth consecutive year that the season has been delayed by at least one day by the Masters. This first day ends this Friday.
There are 13 players from Saudi-funded LIV Golf in the field this year, including the reigning Masters champion Jon Rahm, who left the PGA Tour at the end of last year. That’s down from 18 a year ago, when no one was sure how the breakaway league and the PGA Tour would play out at Augusta National.
Source: La Verdad
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