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Photo by Zach Boyden-Holmes/Staff Charl Schwartzel after sinking...

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:17:00 -0400

Photo by Zach Boyden-Holmes/Staff

Charl Schwartzel after sinking a birdie putt on 18 to win the Masters during Sunday’s final round of the Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta National, Sunday, April 10, 2011, in Augusta, Ga.

Schwartzel wins the 2011 Masters

McIlroy: “I’ll get over it” Rory McIlroy...

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:15:48 -0400

McIlroy: “I’ll get over it”

Rory McIlroy entered the final round of the Masters Tournament with a four-stroke lead and came away with the day’s worst round.

Photo by Rainier Ehrhardt/Staff Oak tree behind...

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:59:26 -0400

Photo by Rainier Ehrhardt/Staff
Oak tree behind the clubhouse before Sunday’s final round of the Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta National, Sunday, April 10, 2011, in Augusta, Ga.

Gorgeous shot of the oak by the Augusta National Golf Club’s clubhouse before the final round of the Masters. More photos

Photo by Rainier Ehrhardt/Staff Masters...

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:57:00 -0400

Photo by Rainier Ehrhardt/Staff

Masters scoreboard in the morning fog before Sunday’s final round of the Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta National, Sunday, April 10, 2011, in Augusta, Ga.

More final round photos

Luke Donald’s pink and green at the Masters His outfit for...

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:20:52 -0400

Luke Donald’s pink and green at the Masters

His outfit for the day got a lot of buzz on Twitter. Fashion win or miss?

Tiger under pressure Photo by Rainier...

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:41:40 -0400

Tiger under pressure

Photo by Rainier Ehrhardt/Staff

Tiger Woods lines up a putt on No. 18 during Friday’s Second round of the Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta National, Friday, April 8, 2011, in Augusta, Ga.

See who was there: More than 1,000 photos of Masters patrons.

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:18:40 -0400

See who was there:

More than 1,000 photos of Masters patrons.

McIlroy learned “American football” on eve of...

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:55:33 -0400

McIlroy learned “American football” on eve of Masters

The current Masters leader Rory McIlroy spent last night throwing the football around:

Not everyone is a football fan, and McIlroy found that out the hard way. He’s staying in a local neighborhood and one resident didn’t like the idea of some random young men playing in her street at night.

“I was actually told off by the lady living across the street,” he said. “We were making a bit too much noise, so we had to cut it short.”

Photo by Corey Perrine/Staff Honorary starter...

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:10:38 -0400

Photo by Corey Perrine/Staff

Honorary starter Arnold Palmer tees off on No. 1 during Thursday’s first round of the Masters Tournament at Augusta National, Thursday, April 7, 2011, in Augusta, Ga.

See a photos of the ups and the downs of round one play

A deer runs across the No. 2 fairway on Wednesday morning....

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:21:14 -0400

A deer runs across the No. 2 fairway on Wednesday morning. (Jackie Ricciardi/Staff)

Strange sight in four-legged Masters crasher

An uneventful practice round at Augusta National Golf Club took a strange twist Wednesday morning when Masters Tournament champions Phil Mickelson and Fred Couples encountered a deer on the eighth fairway.

The foundation for Mamie’s Cabin being laid at Augusta...

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:24:00 -0400

The foundation for Mamie’s Cabin being laid at Augusta National in 1953. Copy photographed Friday afternoon February 11, 2011. Photo Courtesy of Lowrey Stulb.

Lowrey Stulb is another behind-the-scenes influence on Augusta National.

If you look closely around the grounds of Augusta National this week, you’ll see several pieces of Stulb’s architecture. Along with the Eisenhower Cabin (also known as “Ike’s Cabin”), Stulb designed the pro shop. He also designed one of the course’s most famous landmarks, Sarazen Bridge.

Pimento cheese sandwiches, a green-wrapped concessions staple of...

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:02:59 -0400

Pimento cheese sandwiches, a green-wrapped concessions staple of the Masters, were sparse after a power outage affected the production center.

Big storm at the Masters last night meant big clean-up on the...

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:24:19 -0400

Big storm at the Masters last night meant big clean-up on the course today.

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"Still, I have decided to play. I have decided to play because so many people have pushed me; the..."

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:22:00 -0400

““Still, I have decided to play. I have decided to play because so many people have pushed me; the people at my university who have suffered, and my teammates and my parents, who made me start to play the sport of golf. Everyone has been supportive. I have decided to play at the Masters, not only for myself, but for the people who have made who I am. The Masters, which has been my dream, is their dream as well. Doing my best here is my obligation for them.””

- quote from Hideki Matsuyama.

The Masters Tournament set to start right outside the door might as well have been a million miles away. Instead of Georgia, the devastation of their homeland from last month’s earthquake and tsunami weigh heavy on the minds of Ryo Ishikawa and Hideki Matsuyama.

Read the story

Photo by Zachary Boyden-Holmes/Staff Bubba...

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:17:39 -0400

Photo by Zachary Boyden-Holmes/Staff
Bubba Watson walks down No. 6 during Monday’s practice round for the Masters Golf Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club, Monday, April 4, 2011, in Augusta, Ga.

Nothing like the azaleas at the Masters. See a gallery of the scenery

Retreat for members only

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:39:12 -0400

Retreat for members only:

It’s so hidden away that many patrons didn’t even see the new building for Augusta National Golf Club members on the course during Monday’s Masters Tournament practice round.
Known by the club as the Member Retreat, it is located in the heart of Amen Corner, set off in a grove of trees.

Inside the Masters blogs about things you might not see or know about the Masters

Masters makes the New Yorker cover

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:36:49 -0400

Masters makes the New Yorker cover

This is huge: 2012 daily Masters Tournament tickets available to...

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:05:09 -0400

This is huge:

2012 daily Masters Tournament tickets available to public

Practice round tickets had been available to the public through a random lottery, but the application process for tournament badges has been closed since 1971. A waiting list to be considered for a tournament badge application was closed in 1978, briefly opened in 2000 and has been closed for more than a decade.

Photo by Rainier Ehrhardt/Staff Workers replace...

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:44:00 -0400

Photo by Rainier Ehrhardt/Staff
Workers replace the soil around the pansies on Founder’s Circle at the Augusta National today.

More photos from today around the Augusta National

Photo by Sarah Day Owen/Staff Ali, left, and...

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:57:07 -0400

Photo by Sarah Day Owen/Staff
Ali, left, and Andie Findlay, of Atlanta, expressed their style in scarves and capris. Ali wore J.Crew capris with a Juicy Couture jacket, and Andie found her capris at Gap and wore a North Face jacket. They worked their scarves into their outfits after learning about the cold weather. “We knew that would be the only thing seen,” Andie said.

You don’t think of the Masters as being cold, but in 2009, Masters fashion consisted of jackets, not sundresses. See how Masters patrons looked stylish in the cold.