Philip Reid: Wide open Masters as many eye Major prize at Augusta Move back to traditional springtime slot ensures the famous course will play firm and fast about 8 hours ago Listen now 7:48 Bryson DeChambeau hits out of the sand on the 12th green during a practice round at the Masters at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, USA. Photograph: Erik Lesser/EPA Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly.
Perhaps, with this 85th edition of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club even allowing for the limited return of patrons, having been played behind-closed doors last November; while the move back to a springtime setting has ensured that the azaleas et al are blooming and, perhaps most pertinently of all, that the course will likely play firm and fast.