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Masters tickets 2024: How to buy, cheapest price, total cost for Augusta National golf tournament | Sporting News

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February 11, 2024

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.

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Georgia mental health hospital expansion draws hundreds of millions in funding

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March 11, 2026

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Georgia mental health hospital expansion draws hundreds of millions in funding

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -Hundreds of millions of dollars have been allocated to expand mental health care in Georgia through the construction of a new state hospital, and Augusta is among the locations under consideration.

Mental health advocates in Augusta say local facilities currently offer only short-term treatment, and patients with more severe needs are often required to travel to Atlanta for care. Even there, a lack of inpatient beds and a backlog for state hospital placement leaves many patients without the care they need.

NAMI Augusta weighs in

Peter Menk, a board member for the National Alliance on Mental Illness Augusta chapter, said the new facility would serve a significant number of people in the region.

“MCG had shut down. The VA uptown is more military oriented. Even going back in the day into Gracewood, a huge facility that helped a lot of people,” Menk said. “This funding will really go a long way in the state of Georgia to really become kind of a centerpiece for health care in general.”

Augusta’s role in the conversation

Talks have indicated Atlanta may be the site of the new state hospital, though other locations — including Augusta — are still being considered. State Sen. Blake Tillery said Augusta remains part of the discussion.

“The good news is if it doesn’t go to Augusta in the first round, we need to build three of these,” Tillery said. “So we’re going to have to build another one in order to have the bed space necessary to make sure that our jails aren’t being used as our state’s mental health hospitals. So do know that yes, Augusta is going to be pivotal to this conversation.”

Local provider moves forward with its own facility

Serenity Behavioral Health Crisis Center has also begun work on its own facility in the Augusta area, with a planned opening in May. The center said it hopes the facility will provide more beds and resources, and ease the burden on law enforcement and hospitals in the region.

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Augusta biotech firm to unveil its sweet new production facilities

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March 11, 2026

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Augusta biotech firm to unveil its sweet new production facilities

A federal commission studying national security will tour an Augusta factory poised to help reduce U.S. dependence on foreign biotechnology.

The Manus factory on Lovers Lane uses and improves eco-friendly manufacturing methods to produce Reb M, a sweetener derived from the stevia plant but missing the bitter aftertaste in other stevia extracts.

On March 11, Manus will unveil and explain the major expansion of its domestic biomanufacturing capacity to members of the U.S. National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, created in 2022 under the National Defense Authorization Act.

Manus touts itself as a biotech success story. Four years after the 2014 closure of Augusta’s NutraSweet artificial sweetener factory, Manus reintroduced an upskilled workforce to make the factory one of the world’s largest fermentation facilities. There, microbes are engineered to allow reliable mass production of Reb M.

Biomanufacturing often struggles with scalability. Extracting a particular molecule from a plant might succeed in a lab, but teasing out those molecules on an industrial level traditionally has been unsustainable.Reb M, which is about 200 times sweeter than sugar, exists in such small quantities in stevia plants that extracting it using more mainstream methods often was financially impractical, until Manus developed its proprietary production method.

Manus’ Augusta plant produces Reb M for the brand-name sweetener Yume, from the Japanese word for “dream.”

“Biomanufacturing is not a future promise – it’s here now, in rural Georgia,” says Ajikumar Parayil, Manus’ founder and CEO. “The Augusta BioFacility stands as proof that we can reshore production, create high-quality American jobs, and deliver resilient innovation at scale. We are honored to showcase this capability to the NSCEB and contribute to shaping a strong, coordinated national strategy.”

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EARLY RESULTS: Special election underway for Ga. House District 130 seat

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March 10, 2026

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EARLY RESULTS: Special election underway for Ga. House District 130 seat

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Voters in Georgia House District 130 headed to the polls Tuesday to fill the seat held by Rep. Lynn Heffner, who resigned.

The Augusta Democrat resigned because she was unable to meet the residency requirement for House District 130 due to damage to her home by Hurricane Helene.

Six candidates are on the ballot — four Democrats and two Republicans.