After Years of Near Misses

Sergio Garcia survived plenty of adversity in the final round and won a playoff against close friend Justin Rose. Finally, and fabulously, in his 19th Masters and 74th major appearance, Garcia brushed aside the burden of a professional career waiting to be fulfilled when he won the 81st Masters Tournament

Masters champion Jack Nicklaus pays tribute to fellow champion Arnold Palmer during the honorary starter tradition

Before the Weekend Starts

53 players made the 36-hole cut at the 2017 Masters, and the biggest surprise was that none of them was named Danny Willett. The defending champion missed making it to weekend play by one stroke after posting a two-day, 7-over score of 151.

Jim Furyk also missed the cut by a mere stroke, while just back of him at 8-over was a trio of major champions that included two-time winner Bubba Watson, who bogeyed his first four holes Friday on his way to a second-round 78, last year’s British Open champion Henrik Stenson, who has had an uneven year with a couple of top-10 finishes and a pair of missed cuts, and Webb Simpson, who continues to struggle to regain the form that brought him the 2012 U.S. Open title.

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