Augusta, Ga. – There is an old proverb about the wedding days I like – When a pair of torrential rainfall changes their oaths, it is believed that a long and healthy marriage will follow. This applies to my own parents, who have been happy for almost thirty years. Wedding days were nothing but rain, but on the last Saturday of May, rainfall helped feed the seeds of a beautiful, loving family – I am incredibly lucky to be a part of it.
Indeed, a rainy wedding day is a sign of good luck for newlyweds.
I hope the same mantra applies to this week’s Masters Tournament.
Just as the training tour at Augustal of Monday pointed out the arrival of a new master, there is no need to say that the wedding day of a person took place at the beginning of a marriage.
One day for players from the media to practice and answer. In addition, it is a comfortable environment when dipping this place so special, while the exciting bosses pass the course. Nothing can be compared to taking scenes around Amen Corner or sitting at the point where Tiger Woods went out of the 16th hole in the 16th.
Pimento cheese is not disappointed to pamper on the sandwiches and to enjoy a crow’s nest Lager.
Nevertheless, the Augusta National Golf Club had no choice but to suspend the game due to the harsh weather on Monday. On Monday, he rained downpour in Eastern Georgia and made it difficult to see 50 feet before you. Puddles developed throughout the course, forced the club to close the property for the rest in the afternoon, and disappointed many users who had pilgrimage for the training tour on Monday. However, the club will honor the tickets on Monday for unlucky participants in the future.
Augusta National Golf Club President Fred Ridley said on Monday, “We disappointed that our bosses could not enjoy today’s application tour, but everyone in Augusta is our highest priority and the decisive factor in the decision to cancel the security.”
“We look forward to meeting our bosses next Monday and celebrate the Masters tournament in front of us this week.”
Repayments will be submitted in May and those with Monday Bads can buy Monday tickets for 2026 editions.
Despite the wet days, all hope does not disappear.
And we can only hope that the wet air on Monday has turned into something beautiful.
As a result, there is something special about each Masters Tournament in the years that ended with ‘5’.
This has happened since the beginning.
The second edition of the tournament, 1935 Masters, took part ‘Shot Heard to Trough’. Sarazen, one of the five players to win career Grand Slam, is 6-15 from 235 meters. 6-15 with 4 wood for matches with Craig Wood in the hole. He entered the hole. The two players then finished their final rounds under 6 years of age, and Sarazen defeated Wood in a 36 -hole playoff with five strokes the next day.
Twenty years later, Cary Middlecoff, one of the biggest players of PGA Tour in 1955, won the title of Masters alone. Middlecoff hit 65 below 7 in the second round, which contains a record 31 on the nine of the opening. Ultimately, in 1951 and 1953, a pair of green jackets won a seven shots against Ben Hogan.
Later, in 1965, Jack Nicklaus won his second green jacket with nine shots, Gary Player and Arnold Palmer ranked second. Nicklaus also set the tournament score record below 17 and left the Great Bobby Jones with unable to believe. After winning Nicklaus, Jones said in a famous way, “he’s playing a game I’m not familiar,” he said. Nicklaus skillfully touched his elegant power and the greenery to rule Augusta National.
Ten years later, in 1975, Nicklaus regained what many of them call the greatest master of all time. The Golden Bear fought Johnny Miller and Tom Weiscopf and gathered a 40 -meter for Birdie in 16th Green. Watching these three players – the best in the world at the time – fighting each other, so far talking.
1985 saw Bernhard Langer won his first green jacket. Langer, who will say goodbye to the masters in a competitive way this week, was only the second European to conquer Augusta. For a long time, his friend and Ryder Cup’s secret, Ballesteros, became the first European player to win his masters in 1980.
In 1995, Ben Crenshaw has been over the longest possibility of winning the second green jacket. The day before he came to Augusta, Crenshaw served as a palette carrier at Harvey Penick’s funeral.
Penick, Crenshaw’s long -term mentor and coach, has directed him to a single shot against Davis Love III after his death. To be the 13th player who won the title of more than one master, he besieged the 16th and 17th holes. Concluded, Crenshaw left an indelible image that would live forever, allowing tears to flow on 18.
It’s hard to believe that this chip was 20 years ago this week. The first masters are my memory.
And now I will be there this week. For the first time, I am excited to cover the masters of Augusta National! I hope the ’25 edition is swallowing.pic.twitter.com/25lfsvuak8
– Jack Milko (@jack_milko) April 7, 2025
Of course, the 2005 Masters Tournament produced one of the most famous shots in the history of the tournament. A sensitive 16. More than green chip beatTiger Woods made a single -shot leader, but he seemed to go back to the field to enter a tie with Chris Dimarco. And then, somehow, somehow, Woods aligned the chip, Nike Golf fell to the bottom of the glass, the Great Verne Lundquist said, “In your life! Have you ever seen such a thing!” To say.
We haven’t seen anything like this before or we’ve seen anything like that since then. Somehow, this shot will celebrate its 20th anniversary in this year’s Masters tournament, which is obviously the first moment I have to watch the masters with my father.
This shot will also be my favorite not only because of Woods, but also because of Lundquist, one of my favorite publishers. Lundquist will be missed this year.
And then, in 2015, Jordan Spieth won the Masters opening with 8 below 8 as a fashion. He never looked back. Spieth finished with money below 18, which was at the time of the 72 -hole score record, because Spieth won the first of the two major championships in Augusta that year. Later, he continued to win the US Open in Chambers Bay in June. He missed a playoffu in Andrews in a narrow way, and then finished the Jason Day at the PGA Championship in Whistling Straits in August. Spieth had an incredible season, approached to win a career Grand Slam, and they all started in Augusta.
Progress quickly to the present time and the 2025 Masters tournament came with many interesting stories. Can Scottie Scheffler win the third time in four years? Will Rory McILOY Grand Slam complete his career? Who won two of the last three major championships Xander Schauffele? Will a Liv golf star earn another main branch? Can Phil Mickelson return the clock and run the leadership table as in 2023? How about a young star like Ludvig åberg? Possibilities are endless.
However, we can hope that the rain on Monday has turned into an enormous tournament, just like a happy marriage.
Jack Milko is a golf staff writer played by SB Nation. Follow him on x @jack_milko.
