AUGUSTA, Ga. — A look at some of the anniversaries this year at the Masters:

75 years ago (1951)

Winner: Ben Hogan

Score: 70-72-70-68—280

Margin: 2 shots

Prize: $3,000

Runner-up: Skee Riegel

Key to win: Hogan started the final round one shot behind Riegel and Sam Snead and shot 68 without making a bogey.

Noteworthy: Hogan won his second major after his near-fatal car accident. The following year, he wrote a letter to Augusta National co-founder Cliff Roberts suggesting a dinner for all the Masters champions.

AP story: “Icicle-nerved Ben Hogan added a sensational flourish to one of the great comeback sagas in sports Sunday when he won his first Masters golf championship with a near-record 280. The gristly little man from Texas subdued Augusta National’s treacherous acres with a grim and meticulous last round 68, four under par golf that burned off all opposition. The 38-year-old National Open champion, winner of that crown twice and the PGA as many times, thus completed his slam of major American pro championships.”

50 years ago (1976)

Winner: Raymond Floyd

Score: 65-66-70-70—271

Margin: 8 shots

Prize: $40,000

Runner-up: Ben Crenshaw

Key to the win: Floyd made birdie or eagle on every par 5 through 54 holes in building an eight-shot lead. He tied the 72-hole record held by Jack Nicklaus.

Noteworthy: Floyd joined Craig Wood, Arnold Palmer and Nicklaus as the only wire-to-wire winners of the Masters. There would not be another one until Jordan Spieth in 2015.

AP story: “Ray Floyd — never pressured, never pushed — took a casual little stroll through the Georgia piney woods this sunny Sunday, paused to strike the golf ball 70 times and ambled home with perhaps the easiest Masters victory of all time. Floyd, a 33-year-old one-time playboy turned solid, sober family man, won this 40th renewal of golf’s annual spring rite with a 271 total, 17 under par and matching the tournament record for 72 holes set by Jack Nicklaus in 1965. Only handsome young Ben Crenshaw — who gave a flock of giggling girls a little thrill when he hiked his britches above his knees to wade into the pond on the 16th hole — could generate any challenge at all and that was much too little, much too late.”

25 years ago (2001)

Winner: Tiger Woods

Score: 70-66-68-68—272

Margin: 2 shots

Prize: $1,008,000.

Runner-up: David Duval

Key to the win: Woods was locked in a thriller with his two chief rivals, Duval and Phil Mickelson. They each made bogey on the par-3 16th and never caught up to Woods, who didn’t drop a shot over the last six holes. His second Masters title allowed him to hold all four majors at the same time.

Noteworthy: Woods swept the four majors with a combined score of 65-under par and had at least a share of the lead after 13 of the 16 rounds.

AP story: “Slam or not, Tiger Woods was simply grand. With a heart-stopper at Augusta National punctuated with a birdie at the end, Woods claimed the greatest feat in modern golf Sunday by winning the Masters, giving him a clean sweep of the four professional majors in a span of 294 days. Woods closed with a 68, steady down the haunting back nine of Augusta National as David Duval and Phil Mickelson failed to harness the magic that has carried Woods to five of the last six majors. The only thing left to debate is what to call this remarkable feat. Purists argue that a Grand Slam is accomplished in a calendar year. Woods, emotionally drained after a relentless battle from start to finish, stayed out of the argument. “I won four,” he said.”

20 years ago (2006)

Winner: Phil Mickelson

Score: 70-72-70-69—281

Margin: 2 shots

Prize: $1,260,000

Runner-up: Tim Clark

Key to the win: Mickelson had a one-shot lead and didn’t make a bogey until the final hole. Fred Couples had a 4-foot birdie putt on the 14th to pull within one shot and three-putted.

Noteworthy: After going more than a decade before winning a major, Mickelson won three of the last nine.

AP story: “Phil Mickelson is a Masters champion again, and now he’s making it look easy. Once known as a lovable loser who needed a dozen years to figure out how to win golf’s biggest events, Mickelson captured his second straight major Sunday at Augusta National, and this one was hardly a nail-biter. He closed with a 3-under 69 for a two-shot victory over Tim Clark, and his second green jacket in three years. There were no thrills for Phil, rather calculated shots that forced Fred Couples, Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh to try to catch him. Instead, they stumbled along with three-putts and a litany of other mistakes that allowed Mickelson to stroll up the 18th fairway already knowing how this major would end.”

10 years ago (2016)

Winner: Danny Willett

Score:70-74-72-67—283

Margin: 3 shots

Prize: $1,800,000

Runner-up: Jordan Spieth and Lee Westwood

Key to the win: Willett was five shots behind on the back nine when Spieth made bogeys at Nos. 10 and 11 and twice hit into Rae’s Creek to make a quadruple-bogey 7 on the par-3 12th. Willett shot 33 on the back with birdies on the 13th, 14th and 16th holes.

Noteworthy: Willett became the first Englishman to win the Masters since Nick Faldo in 1996. Willett played the final round with Westwood, who also would play the final round with the U.S. Open champion (Dustin Johnson) two months later.

AP story: “Jordan Spieth couldn’t bear to watch, turning his head before another shot splashed into Rae’s Creek. Moments later, Danny Willett looked up at the large leaderboard at the 15th green and couldn’t believe what he saw. This Masters turned into a shocker Sunday, right down to the green jacket ceremony. Spieth was in Butler Cabin, just like everyone expected when he took a five-shot lead to the back nine at Augusta National. Only he was there to present it to Willett, who seized on Spieth’s collapse with a magnificent round that made him a Masters champion.”

5 years ago (2021)

Winner: Hideki Matsuyama

Score: 69-71-65-73—278

Margin: 1 shot

Prize: $2,070,000

Runner-up: Will Zalatoris

Key to the win: Matsuyama might have won this Saturday with a bogey-free 65 to build a four-shot lead. He led by as many as six shots but effectively sealed it when Xander Schauffele hit into the water on the 16th and made triple bogey. Matsuyama bogeyed three of the last four holes.

Noteworthy: The victory came 10 years after Matsuyama made his debut at Augusta National as the Asia-Pacific Amateur champion. Matsuyama was the first Masters champion since Trevor Immelman in 2008 to be over par in the last round.

AP story: “Hideki Matsuyama delivered golf-mad Japan the grandest and greenest prize of all. Ten years after Matsuyama made a sterling debut as the best amateur at Augusta National, he claimed the ultimate trophy Sunday with a victory in the Masters to become the first Japanese winner of the green jacket. Matsuyama closed with a 1-over 73 and a one-shot victory that was only close at the end, and never seriously in doubt after Xander Schauffele’s late charge ended with a triple bogey on the par-3 16th. Moments before Dustin Johnson helped him into the green jacket, Matsuyama needed no interpreter in Butler Cabin when he said in English, ‘I’m really happy.’”

AUGUSTA, Ga. (KBTX) – AUGUSTA, Ga. (KBTX) – Texas A&M golfer Vanessa Borovilos finished tied for 11th after three rounds at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur.

The sophomore shot even par on the final day of competition, recording five birdies. She finished the event at 5-under 211.

Borovilos is the 24th-ranked amateur in the world and the third Aggie golfer to place in the top 15 at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. She joins Cayetana Fernández García-Poggio and Jennie Park.

Texas A&M women’s golf hosts The “Mo” Morial at Traditions Club April 4-6.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) — Thirty-two women will compete Saturday for the coveted title of Augusta National Women’s Amateur champion, but Friday was a closed practice round where everyone got to play.

The closed practice meant even cameras were not allowed, although Augusta National Golf Club did provide pictures of the day.

For some, Friday was the experience of a lifetime.

But for others, it was all about preparation.

Augusta National is a course that rewards experience. Asterisk Talley, who leads by one heading into Saturday, is hoping the third time’s the charm.

She was the only player to card two bogey-free rounds at Champions Retreat to put her in the top spot.

Her best finish was last year when she was the runner-up.

Friday was all about building on the knowledge she already has.

“I’ve just been hitting the ball pretty well all week. I mean, I’ve hit a lot of fairways and only missed a couple of greens yesterday but was able to get the ball up and down,” Talley said. “My putting has been pretty good. So I think everything is kind of just clicking this week. I think it’s all connecting, and that’s the only reason I shot two bogey-free rounds.”

The 17-year-old from California has committed to Stanford and sits at 11 under.

If she wins, she’ll be the first American since Rose Zhang’s victory in 2023.

On Thursday, she led by one shot Stanford sophomore Meja Örtengren of Sweden, the No. 5 player in women’s amateur golf.

Avery Weed of Mississippi State (70) and Stanford sophomore Andrea Revuelta of Spain (72) were five shots behind in a tie for fourth. Revuelta is the No. 3 player in the women’s amateur ranking.

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Talley is not alone at the top of the leaderboard.

Örtengren of Sweden and Maria Jose Marin of Colombia both sit one shot back at 10 under.

Marin is the reigning NCAA champion, and Örtengren is the fifth-ranked amateur in the world.

“I think we’re very fortunate to have such a big group of great players right now. We are all playing very good golf, but we are also very close off the golf course,” Örtengren said. “So we spend a lot of time with each other really, like, picking each other’s brains, trying to find some piece of advice from every single one of us.”

Marin said representing Colombia and Latin America is a great pride and honor.

“I’ve been doing it since I’m pretty little, since I’ve been, well, 9 years old in different world championships and everything,” Marin said. “It just means, as I said, great pride to put the colors up in the leaderboard and to know that I have their full support.”

Among those who missed the cut were U.S. Women’s Amateur champion Megha Ganne, one of five Stanford players in the field this week. She opened with a 77 and never got on track in the second round with a 74.

Elia Galitsky of Thailand, the 19-year-old who has finished in the top 10 her previous two appearances in the ANWA, birdied three straight holes only to make par on her par-5 closing hole for a 70 to miss the cut by one shot.

Örtengren has reached the final round two of the last four years. She closed with a 76 a year ago at Augusta National to tie for 14th.

“I think I’ve learned that you need to have a lot of patience out there and be disciplined with your approaches,” the Swede said. “It can get away from you quite easily if you hit bad shots into the greens, but also you can get a lot of opportunities if you hit the right spots at Augusta. So I think that will be the most important thing, staying disciplined from the fairway and also knowing where the right and bad spots are.”

Marin, the NCAA champion last year, made birdie on all four par 5s at Champions Retreat to leave her in prime position to add what already has become the most prestigious amateur event in women’s golf.

Marin reached the final round each of her first two years, and was devastated to miss the cut a year ago. Now she’s back to the home of the Masters with a chance to win.

“It means the world to me, just the fact of playing Augusta National,” Marin said. “It’s amazing. It’s incredible, and it’s just an opportunity that we all get thanks to this amazing tournament. Yeah, just going to enjoy it a lot, enjoy the walk with my family, with my friends, and all of the people that are watching me back in Colombia.”

The final round gets started early Saturday. Here are the pairings and start times:

Second round results and statistics

• The players with later tee times Thursday really slowed down on their last nine holes. That is the Nicklaus Bluff part of the course, which is most known as the hardest part of Champions Retreat. Ten out of Thursday’s top 13 bogeyed on the second nine. – half of them multiple times. Holes 12, 15 and 16 were the most troublesome out there Thursday.
• Asterisk Talley has set the championship record for consecutive holes without a bogey (or worse) at 36, eclipsing the mark set by Carla Bernat Escuder last year (33). Her current streak in this championship, dating back to the 2025 edition, is 48 consecutive bogey-free holes.
• Talley is the first player in the history of the championship to record four consecutive rounds in the 60s.
• Talley, Örtengren and Marin join Rose Zhang (2023) as the only four players in championship history to reach double-digits under par through the first two rounds.
• Örtengren (four birdies, one eagle and one bogey) matched Talley and Korea’s Yunseo Yang for the round of the day (67). The 21-year-old from Linköping, Sweden has two top-15 finishes and two missed cuts in four previous appearances in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur.
• Marin, the first-round co-leader, birdied the last to sit one stroke back. The junior at Arkansas has finished T-14, T-30 and MC over the past three years, respectively.
• The top-three players on the leader board are all top 10 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings: Talley (No. 9), Örtengren (No. 5) and Marin (No. 6). The two players tied for fourth are No. 3 (Andrea Revuelta) and No. 39 (Avery Weed).
• The 36-hole cut to the top 30 and ties was made at one-under 143 with 32 players advancing to the final round. Four players made the cut on the number: Macy Pate, Catherine Park, Patience Rhodes and Yurina Hiroyoshi.
• The final round at Augusta National Golf Club will air on Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. ET on NBC.

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