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Masters tickets 2024: How to buy, cheapest price, total cost for Augusta National golf tournament | Sporting News
“Hello, friends.”
Two of the most iconic words in sports broadcasting are now within earshot as Jim Nantz finishes up his football duties on the call for Super Bowl 58 and turns towards the rest of 2024. With the longtime CBS broadcaster stepping down from his college basketball duties following last year’s NCAA tournament, the next marquee event for Nantz is the Masters from April 11-14.
Augusta National is unlike any venue in golf. Located in Augusta, GA — approximately 150 miles east of Atlanta — Augusta National is perhaps the most prestigious and exclusive golf course in the world. It’s also one of golf’s hottest — and hard to find — tickets thanks to a limited capacity and lottery system. Known for its impeccable grounds (you won’t find nary an astray pine needle) and cheap concessions (most famously the best pimento cheese sandwich you’ll ever taste).
If you’re a golf fan, there’s no more sacred pilgrimage than to make the trek to Augusta National to catch a few rounds. Here’s how to do it.
BUY NOW: Cheapest ticket prices for Masters 2024
Masters tickets 2024
One of the trickiest parts of scoring tickets for the Masters is navigating the lottery system and lucking out. Registration for this year’s tournament was open from June 1-20 with notifications for tickets going out in mid-July for both practice rounds, the Par 3 contest and each of the four tournament rounds.
With the lottery process long gone, your only hope is the secondary market. Though in high demand, tickets are still available to buy on StubHub.
You can purchase tickets for practice rounds and individual tournament rounds with both 2-Day and 4-Day passes for sale.
Cheapest tickets for each of the three practice rounds are going for just over $1,000 with individual day tournament passes starting between $2,000 and $2,500.
The 4-Day pass gets you access to all four of the tournament rounds on Thursday through Sunday with tickets ranging from $6,000 to $10,000. Of course, you don’t need to splurge to that degree to enjoy walking the majestic grounds.
Here are the different ticket options available on StubHub:
- Monday practice round
- Tuesday practice round
- Wednesday practice round
- Thursday tournament round
- Friday tournament round
- 2-Day Pass (Thursday-Friday)
- Saturday tournament round
- Sunday tournament round
- 2-Day Pass (Saturday-Sunday)
- 4-Day Pass
When is the Masters 2024? Full schedule and dates
Masters week officially begins on Monday, April 8. Practices are on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday with all three days open to the public (with a ticket, of course!).
The first round begins Thursday, April 11 and runs through Sunday, April 14.
The Par-3 contest — a relaxed family-friendly event with family members often serving as caddies — will be held on Wednesday, April 10. Famously, no winner of the Par 3 contest has ever gone on to win the Masters in the same year.
Masters 2024 field and full list of players
There are several ways to qualify for the Masters and the field will not be officially set until the week leading up to the event.
Here is an updated list of every player to quality so far.
Here are the different ways to qualify:
- Masters Tournament champions (Lifetime)
- Last 5 U.S. Open champions (2019-2023)
- Last 5 British Open champions (2019-2023)
- Last 5 PGA champions (2019-2023)
- Last 3 winners of the Players Championship 2022-2024)
- Current Olympic Gold Medalist (One year)
- 2023 U.S. Amateur champion (7-A) (Honorary, non-competing after one year) and the runner-up (7-B) to the 2023 U.S. Amateur champion
- 2023 British Amateur champion
- 2023 Asia-Pacific Amateur champion
- 2024 Latin America Amateur champion
- 2023 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion
- The first 12 players, including ties, in the 2023 Masters Tournament
- The first 4 players, including ties, in the 2023 U.S. Open Championship
- The first 4 players, including ties, in the 2023 British Open Championship
- The first 4 players, including ties, in the 2023 PGA Championship
- Individual winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, from the 2023 Masters to the 2024 Masters (including fall 2023)
- Those qualifying for the 2023 Tour Championship
- The 50 leaders on the final Official World Golf Ranking for the previous calendar year
- The 50 leaders on the Official World Golf Ranking published during the week prior to the current Masters Tournament
Masters past winners
Jon Rahm is the defending champion after shooting 12-under to win by four strokes last year.
Dustin Johnson holds the scoring record for the Masters. He shot 20-under par during the 2020 tournament and won by five strokes over the rest of the field. Previously, Woods and Jordan Spieth’s marks of 18-under in 1997 and 2015, respectively, had been the best in tournament history.
Below is a full look at the history of the Masters, from the most recent winner, Jon Rahm, to the first champion, Horton Smith in 1934.
| Year | Winner | Score |
| 2023 | Jon Rahm | -12 |
| 2022 | Scottie Scheffler | -10 |
| 2021 | Hideki Matsuyama | -10 |
| 2020 | Dustin Johnson | -20 |
| 2019 | Tiger Woods | -13 |
| 2018 | Patrick Reed | -15 |
| 2017 | Sergio Garcia | -9 |
| 2016 | Danny Willett | -5 |
| 2015 | Jordan Spieth | -18 |
| 2014 | Bubba Watson | -8 |
| 2013 | Adam Scott | -9 |
| 2012 | Bubba Watson | -10 |
| 2011 | Charl Schwartzel | -14 |
| 2010 | Phil Mickelson | -16 |
| 2009 | Angel Cabrera | -12 |
| 2008 | Trevor Immelman | -8 |
| 2007 | Zach Johnson | +1 |
| 2006 | Phil Mickelson | -7 |
| 2005 | Tiger Woods | -12 |
| 2004 | Phil Mickelson | -9 |
| 2003 | Mike Weir | -7 |
| 2002 | Tiger Woods | -12 |
| 2001 | Tiger Woods | -16 |
| 2000 | Vijay Singh | -10 |
| 1999 | José María Olazábal | -8 |
| 1998 | Mark O’Meara | -9 |
| 1997 | Tiger Woods | -18 |
| 1996 | Nick Faldo | -12 |
| 1995 | Ben Crenshaw | -14 |
| 1994 | José María Olazábal | -9 |
| 1993 | Bernhard Langer | -11 |
| 1992 | Fred Couples | -13 |
| 1991 | Ian Woosnam | -11 |
| 1990 | Nick Faldo | -10 |
| 1989 | Nick Faldo | -5 |
| 1988 | Sandy Lyle | -7 |
| 1987 | Larry Mize | -3 |
| 1986 | Jack Nicklaus | -9 |
| 1985 | Bernhard Langer | -6 |
| 1984 | Ben Crenshaw | -11 |
| 1983 | Seve Ballesteros | -8 |
| 1982 | Craig Stadler | -4 |
| 1981 | Tom Watson | -8 |
| 1980 | Seve Ballesteros | -13 |
| 1979 | Fuzzy Zoeller | -8 |
| 1978 | Gary Player | -11 |
| 1977 | Tom Watson | -12 |
| 1976 | Raymond Floyd | -17 |
| 1975 | Jack Nicklaus | -12 |
| 1974 | Gary Player | -10 |
| 1973 | Tommy Aaron | -5 |
| 1972 | Jack Nicklaus | -2 |
| 1971 | Charles Coody | -9 |
| 1970 | Billy Casper | -9 |
| 1969 | George Archer | -7 |
| 1968 | Bob Goalby | -11 |
| 1967 | Gay Brewer | -8 |
| 1966 | Jack Nicklaus | E |
| 1965 | Jack Nicklaus | -17 |
| 1964 | Arnold Palmer | -12 |
| 1963 | Jack Nicklaus | -2 |
| 1962 | Arnold Palmer | -8 |
| 1961 | Gary Player | -8 |
| 1960 | Arnold Palmer | -6 |
| 1959 | Art Wall Jr. | -4 |
| 1958 | Arnold Palmer | -4 |
| 1957 | Doug Ford | -5 |
| 1956 | Jack Burke Jr. | +1 |
| 1955 | Cary Middlecoff | -9 |
| 1954 | Sam Snead | +1 |
| 1953 | Ben Hogan | -14 |
| 1952 | Sam Snead | -2 |
| 1951 | Ben Hogan | -8 |
| 1950 | Jimmy Demaret | -5 |
| 1949 | Sam Snead | -6 |
| 1948 | Claude Harmon | -9 |
| 1947 | Jimmy Demaret | -7 |
| 1946 | Herman Keiser | -6 |
| 1942 | Byron Nelson | -8 |
| 1941 | Craig Wood | -8 |
| 1940 | Jimmy Demaret | -8 |
| 1939 | Ralph Guldahl | -9 |
| 1938 | Henry Picard | -3 |
| 1937 | Byron Nelson | -5 |
| 1936 | Horton Smith | -3 |
| 1935 | Gene Sarazen | -6 |
| 1934 | Horton Smith | -4 |
* Note: The Masters was canceled from 1943-1945 as a result of World War II.
Augusta, GA
Augusta Stars hosts Christmas bowling event with Fort Gordon soldiers
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The Augusta Stars Special Olympics team hosted their annual Bowl with Soldiers Christmas party.
The goal was to bring together local athletes and military personnel from Fort Gordon for an evening of bowling at Bowlero.
The Augusta Stars is a Special Olympics team that offers bowling and basketball programs. The team is currently preparing for the Winter Special Olympics, which begin Jan. 30 in Marietta.
“I like the bowls because it’s fun and I like to get to play,” said Victoria Valootton, an Augusta Stars athlete.
The annual event allows soldiers to join the Special Olympics athletes for bowling and community connection.
“Personally, it’s important because Jeff Keating is one of our teammates and we want to support them,” said Sapriya McLendon, U.S. Army. “Secondly, just for the community in general, just coming out here and being part of the team that cares about us and supports us, and we’re here to serve you today.”
The Winter Special Olympics will be held in Marietta, Georgia, starting Jan. 30.

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Augusta, GA
Through pain, acid victim still smiling as she recovers in Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A Savannah woman faces a long road to recovery after a stranger attacked her with acid that ate through her clothes and covered 50% of her body with burns.
Ashley Wasielewski is trying to recover after receiving a first round of emergency surgery at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center at Doctors Hospital in Augusta.
The attack happened last Wednesday at Savannah’s iconic Forsyth Park when a man stepped out of the shadows and poured acid all over Wasielewski.
The recovery has been extremely difficult, according to her friend Kristen Oddi, of Marietta.
Most of the burns have been diagnosed as third-degree, covering over 50% of her body, Oddi wrote on a GoFundMe page.
She said it’s unlikely one burned area of Wasielewski’s scalp will ever grow hair again.

She added that the most crucial next step is to see if Ashley’s body will accept the cadaver skin from a recent surgery.
If that happens, skin graft surgeries will proceed, Oddi said.
Plastic surgery is ahead for her, but there’s no timetable yet.
Beyond that, Wasielewski faces rehabilitation, occupational therapy, wound management, long-term support and follow-up.
For now, she’s stable, according to Oddi.
And despite the hardship she’s been through and that lies ahead, she’s smiling in a photo from her hospital bed, with little other than her eyes and mouth visible through openings in gauze that covers her face.
“She will come back so much stronger,” Oddi said. “That, I don’t have a single doubt about.”
The investigation continues
Police are looking for the suspect and have spoken with two witnesses.
They’re hoping to speak with a third person whose photo they posted and to find the driver of a vehicle that was spotted nearby.
Meanwhile, the FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for tips.
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Augusta, GA
AU’s Healthy Grandparents program holds Christmas party
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Augusta University’s Healthy Grandparents program had its Christmas party Sunday.
Santa is continuing his trip across the csra and was at the party to give presents to the kids.
The program was started in 1999 to support grandparents raising their children.
They help with necessary services like food assistance and transportation.
We spoke with one of the grandparents about the program.
“My grandchildren love it. They do a lot of things going on the year, like summer camp and all that stuff, book bag, getaways,” said Carolyn Thompson.
The program has helped more than 660 families, 900 grandparents, and 1,300 grandchildren.
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