Thursday at the Masters...Live scoreboard, Full TEE TIMES

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Weather: Today's forecast 

7am   Mainly clear skies, chilly 45*f  wind NE 5-10mph

9am   Mostly sunny and cool 49*f wind NE 7-14mph

11am Partly cloudy, breezy 59*f wind NE 10-15mph

1pm   Partly cloudy 66*f wind ENE 10-14mph

3pm  Partly cloudy 70*f wind ENE 7-12mph

5pm  Mostly sunny 73*f ENE 7-12mph

Mostly sunny conditions will persist through the rest of the week with temperatures warming further, reaching the mid 80's by Saturday and Sunday

Tiger Woods, right, presents Weir with the green jacket after the Canadian won the 2003 Masters. (Harry How/Getty Images)

There are 3 Canadians in this 91 man field this year. 

9.31 Nick Taylor, Ryan Gerard, Keegan Bradley

11.27  Mike Weir, Wyndham Clark, Mateo Pulcini (a) (Weirsy won 3 tournaments in 12 months in 2003 culminating in his playoff win at the Masters to secure his legendary status in Canada)

12.44  Corey Conners, Harry Hall, Michael Brennan

Honorary Starters

Jack Nicklaus 17th, Gary Player 15th, Tom Watson 5th will open this 90th Masters at 7.25am ET with their ceremonial tee shots.

1st pairing 7.40am Haotong Li, Johnny Keefer will get the field under way

Sunset : 7.54pm

Opinion

It will be tough for Rory to duplicate his Grand Slam win of 2025 however the rest of his career including this week is gravy. As his close friend Shane Lowry said " He's done it all now, the rest will just be history"

From what I've seen of Scott Scheffler is he hasn't had his best stuff yet, His driver has not been trustworthy, all the putts are not falling like they were in 2025, but he has won here twice recently, but he is not a lock this year.

Corey Conners has has 4 top 10's in his last 6 outings at Augusta and played well recently in Florida before taking the two weeks in Teas off to prepare for Augusta this year. He will need to make a few more putts to be in contention Sunday afternoon

Augusta National is bound to play hard and fast with high pressure in place ensuring no bad weather, it will end up being a beautiful dry sunny week in Georgia for the players and patons alike.

There is no Tiger this year as the former champion battles his addiction to prescription drugs at an unknown rehab center in Europe. Phil Mickelson is also absent citing family health issues.

So this year seems wide open to me, I personally would love to see Justin Rose rewarded, he has finished 2nd three times, 2015, 2017 in sudden death to Sergio, and last year he was so gracious in defeat in the playoff to Rory after he posted a 10 birdie 66.

He put on a Master class at Torrey Pines earlier this year winning from wire to wire by a record 7 strokes, finishing -23 265 beating Tiger's record

Mark Calcavecchia who never won but was 2nd to Sandy Lyle in 1988 was escorted off the property yesterday when caught talking on his cell phone, which are banned at Augusta during Masters week. He had no comment except to say " I have nothing bad to say about the Masters at Augusta National"

Bryan Angus

2026 Masters TEE TIMES.

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There are 3 Canadians in this 91 man field this year. 

9.31 Nick Taylor, Ryan Gerard, Keegan Bradley

11.27  Mike Weir, Wyndham Clark, Mateo Pulcini (a)

12.44  Corey Conners, Harry Hall, Michael Brennan

Corey with his elite ball striking has 4 top 10's in his last 6 outings and he missed the Valero this year, where he has won twice to prepare for Augusta. If he could borrow Ben Crenshaw's putter I'd put a bob or two on him to win.

Mike can play until he doesn't want to as a past champion 2003 and he is one of 5  champions who can't win anymore, Jose Maria Olazabal, Fred Couples, Vijay Singh, Angel Cabrera are the others.

There are also 7 amateurs who won't win so take those 11 of the 91 you have an 80 man field with 22 newcomers. The last newcomer to win was Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979.

Rory defending would add to his already glittering legend, what a story.

1031 Rory Mcllroy, Cameron Young, Mason Howell (a)

In form players for your pool sheet:  

Patrick Reed, Tommy Fleetwood, Akshay Bhatia, Matt Fitzpatrick, Xander Schauffele, Jacob Bridgeman, JJ Spaun, Ludvig Aberg, Justin Rose, Marco Penge

Scott Scheffler has not had his A game this year, but has won here twice recently and has the wife a new baby in tow this year. He will get the lions share of American TV coverage until he is not a factor.

Weather

With no precipitation in the forecast, it will be a dry, cool, breezy week until it warms up with very little wind on Sunday. So Augusta will play hard and fast.

TSN has the coverage here in Canada, along with live streaming on Masters.com and TSN+.

Bryan Angus

Words of wisdom from Gentleman Justin Rose, thrice the runner up, on his 21st Masters..

  Justin Rose insists there is no scar tissue from his Masters heartbreaks has he prepares for a 21st attempt to win the Green Jacket at Augusta National. 

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The Englishman already has a career that would be the envy of almost anyone who has ever played the game as a World Number One, Major winner, Olympic champion, number one on both sides of the Atlantic and Ryder Cup great.

But such is the mystique of the year’s first Major, many will also remember him for being a three-time Masters runner-up, with only Tom Weiskopf having finished second more times without winning.

While Jordan Spieth was a convincing wire-to-wire winner in 2015, Rose lost play-offs to Sergio Garcia and Rory McIlroy respectively in 2017 and 2025.

But rather than be despondent about his near-misses, Rose takes confidence from getting so close to glory.

“I hope it only boosts my belief that I can go ahead and do it,” he said. “I feel like I've pretty much done what it takes to win. I just haven't kind of walked over the line. I feel like I've executed well enough to have done the job.

“From that point of view, I don't feel like I have to find something in myself to kind of do something different. I truly believe that.

“No, I don't feel like it owes me anything. I come here with a good sort of attitude. I come here with it's a place that I enjoy being. There's certain places you get to and you take a deep breath and go, ‘right, it's nice to be here’. That still is one of them for me, Augusta still is one of those places for me.

“I'm very aware that I've been close here. I'm very aware that I've had tough, tough losses here. I also am aware that I enjoy this place. I don't want to feel that those three second-place finishes need to create a different sort of feeling for me.

“I can't control the outcome. I think last year in the play-off, I felt like I learned from 2017, and I felt like I played a much better play-off than I did previously.

I think eight players have won this tournament after finishing second the year before, which probably increases my odds if you look at the field. I can look at that and go, ‘OK, that's good. Happy with that’.

“So I kind of adapted and learned. I knew what was coming. I did the right things. I executed. I made two good swings, made a reasonable putt, I thought. So, yeah, I did everything that I could do. So I can kind of live with that in a way.

“I can only turn up on Thursday and execute. That's all I can do. And get here on Monday and enjoy it. Those are the two things that I have control over.”

Rosey as he is known by all his peers, has the ability to take the positives from his near-misses perhaps stems from an inauspicious start to his professional career, when he famously missed his first 21 cuts.

And the 45-year-old – who would become the second oldest Masters champion if he were to win on Sunday – believes he has long-since learned to take the rough with the smooth.

“I kind of realised that even before I won a Major,” he said. “I knew I was going to win some, I knew I was going to lose some. I kind of wanted to not get in my way too early and I kind of realised when the opportunity presents itself to win a Major, don't make it too important in the moment.

“Hopefully with that mindset, keep chipping away, my day might still happen where a little bit of something goes my way.

"Also, I kind of realised that you can't skip through a career without a little bit of heartache and heartbreak, no chance. .If you're going to be willing to win them, you've got to be willing to kind of be on the wrong side of it as well

"The key is showing up. The key is to try to be as free as you can in those moments. You kind of have to hope a little bit along the way that it's your day. It could have been my day in a couple of Major Championships that I wouldn't have had to have done anything different really to be the winner as well.

“Hopefully with that mindset, keep chipping away, my day might still happen where a little bit of something goes my way.

“The point is you've got to put yourself there. That's the hard part. All we can do as players is to focus on our game, focus on our skill set, and make the odds in our favour the best we can. Sometimes the ultimate result is in your control but sometimes there's a lot of other factors and little bits of movement that all have to kind of sync up.

“The better player you are, the more chances you're going to have and the more you're going to win.”

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A maturing past Masters Champion Patrick Reed arrives at Augusta..

  Patrick Reed admits he has legacy on his mind as he comes into the Masters Tournament in fine form and atop the Race to Dubai Rankings Delivered by DP World.

As a winner of this event in 2018 and a talismanic figure for the United States in his Ryder Cup appearances, Reed is a player who would already leave a legacy if he were to retire tomorrow.

But as he drives down Magnolia Lane with two wins, a second and another top ten in his last five starts, inside the top 25 on the Official World Golf Ranking and with four top tens in his last six Masters starts, his chances of winning a second Green Jacket may never have been higher.

Couple that with a busy planned schedule on the DP World Tour that could put him right in the mix for the Harry Vardon Trophy and his place in the game’s history could look very different at the end of 2026 than it did at the start.

“I think we're always thinking about our legacy,” he said. “We always go out there and try to improve, not just on the golf course but as a person and outside the golf course.

Maturing: “I obviously want to be known as a player that's just not a guy that plays at one spot. I've always wanted to be a worldwide player, play around the world, play on all the tours.

“To have that opportunity to come back and spend time with the family, at this point of my career I obviously want to go out and play as many golf tournaments as I can and hopefully still shoot to win all the Majors.

“Really I want to be known more for what I do off the course, for the stuff at home, the father that I am, the husband I am, rather than just the golfer“ Everybody knows I can play golf.”

“To have that opportunity to come back and spend time with the family, at this point of my career I obviously want to go out and play as many golf tournaments as I can and hopefully still shoot to win all the Majors.

While famed for his short game, Reed said after his wins at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic and Qatar Masters that it was getting away from a reliance on that that was key to his recent form.

He reiterated that belief while facing the press at Augusta National and is confident his game is in a good place to contend again.

“I think the biggest thing is it's one of those places where you have to stay patient,” said Reed, who believes up to 12 players could have a chance of winning this week. “It's one of those golf courses where I always try to press and this golf course is exactly what golf is. You have to stay in the present. You have to stay patient and believe in yourself.

“I feel like anytime I get here, I get out of being that robot and just kind of be creative, hit golf shots and play golf and kind of what you see. Because of that, it's one of those places that I love to come every year.

“I always feel really good coming in. It's one of these things that, being the first Major, you always try to come in and obviously be in great form, but it's very easy to kind of put too much pressure on yourself being the first Major.

“The first time I actually kind of decided just to let go and play golf was 2018 and that got the job done.

“That being said, that's what I plan on doing. I try it every time I play Majors, I try to treat it like another event. It definitely is a special place. Driving up Magnolia Lane, you always sit there and you always feel really good driving in, especially as a past champion. But hopefully we can make some more memories. The one jacket is getting a little lonely. Might need one more.”

Reed may be playing on home soil this week but his current status means his opportunities to play competitively in the United States for the rest of 2026 will be limited.

The Texan, however, sees that as an opportunity rather than a burden after recently playing in South Africa – the 20th country in which he has competed on the DP World Tour.

“I think the biggest thing is just appreciating the sport, appreciating the different cultures and different places,” he said.

“I'm the type that, when I travel, everyone kind of gets their creature of habit and wants to eat what they're comfortable and go, but I like checking out all the local places and really experiencing the culture.

“With having the opportunity to be able to play worldwide and be a worldwide player, to really dive in and experience the cultures, experience the different cuisines, different areas, different places, it's something that's true to me and it's a reason I love traveling and playing worldwide."

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DP World Tour: Inside the 2026 Masters..Rory defends his title..

All eyes are on Augusta National this week as the first men's Major Championship of the season takes place. Here are things to know ahead of the 2026 Masters Tournament. 

McIlroy defends

It was 17 years ago that Rory McIlroy made his Masters debut in 2009 as a 19-year-old. 12 months ago, at long last, the Northern Irishman fulfilled a childhood dream by winning the Green Jacket to complete the career Grand Slam. In doing so, he joined Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the sixth player to win all four men's Majors. 

Edging out Ryder Cup team-mate Justin Rose in a play-off at the end of a dramatic final round, he ended a near 11-year wait for his fifth Major Championship title after the 2011 U.S. Open, 2012 and 2014 US PGA Championships and 2014 Open Championship. 

It was part of a truly memorable 2025 that also saw him win the Race to Dubai title and help Europe to an away Ryder Cup triumph at Bethpage. Already this season, he has finished tied third and tied second on both sides of the Atlantic and the 36-year-old will hope to challenge at the scene of his greatest individual triumph in his quest to become the European Number One for a record-equalling eighth time.

Rory McIlroy won the Masters last year - his 11th attempt at the Grand Slam

Major season begins

With 14 events completed and 28 still to come, we are already a third of the way through the 2026 Race to Dubai schedule. This week, the United States becomes the tenth country to host an event as the first of four men's Majors between now and mid-July takes place. 

Next month Scottie Scheffler - a two-time Masters winner - will defend his US PGA Championship title at Aronimink before J.J. Spaun makes his first defence of a Major honour at Shinnecock Hills in the U.S. Open in June. A month later, World Number One Scheffler will again be the man to dethrone when he returns with the Claret Jug to Royal Birkdale for The Open Championship. 

Since the 2021 Masters when Hideki Matsuyama won his first and only Major to date, just four of the subsequent 19 Majors have been won by a player not hailing from the US, with three of those European Ryder Cup stars in McIlroy, Jon Rahm and Matt Fitzpatrick. 

At all four Majors, there are 10,000 Race to Dubai ranking points to be played for, with 1,665 going to the winner assuming they are a DP World Tour member.

A noteworthy anniversary

One of the great perks of winning the Masters is a lifetime exemption to compete in the tournament every year. 

For Danny Willett, it is ten years since his memorable triumph at Augusta National saw him become a Major champion. 

Trailing by five shots on the back nine, defending champion Jordan Spieth suffered a dramatic collapse – twice hitting into Rae’s Creek to make a quadruple-bogey seven on the par three 12th. 

Seizing on the opportunity presented to him, Willett claimed a three-shot victory to become the first English winner since Sir Nick Faldo won the third of his three titles in 1996. An eight-time DP World Tour winner, this week sees the 38-year-old – who reached a career-high ninth in the world a decade ago – make his 12th Masters start.

Masters first-timers

This year, 22 players - six of whom are amateurs - are set to experience the thrill of making their way down Magnolia Lane for the first time. Nine of those looking forward to creating long-lasting memories are DP World Tour members. 

Marco Penge, a three-time winner last season, is making his debut as are Kristoffer Reitan and Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, who like the Englishman secured dual member status on the PGA TOUR for 2026 via their performances on the Race to Dubai last year. 

Casey Jarvis won twice over back-to-back weeks during the International Swing and is now a member of the world's top 50. Joining them are England's Harry Hall, Northern Ireland's Tom McKibbin, American duo Chris Gotterup and Ryan Gerard along with Sami Välimäki, Finland's second-ever representative after Mikko Ilonen. The late Fuzzy Zoeller was the most recent player to win on debut in 1979. Will someone end that 47-year wait this time around?

Inside the field

The Masters has the smallest field of the four men's Majors, with 91 players set to tee it up at this year's edition. 

Players from 23 countries are set to go in pursuit of the Green Jacket, with 16 of those represented by DP World Tour members. 

In total, there are 36 DP World Tour members or affiliate members in the field. There are 33 Major champions in action, with Patrick Reed, champion at Augusta National in 2018, among those as he looks to build on his lead on the Race to Dubai Rankings Delivered by DP World.

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Spaun wins Valero Texas Open, Yellamaraju T13 all Canadian scores.. Final Results

       PGA Tour : Valero Texas Open.. Leaderboard  Results

JJ Spaun birdied the 16th then eagled the 17th to finish at -17 then sat and watched as a Texas wind from the north suddenly freshened making the par 5 18th into it, play almost 700 yards long.

J.J. Spaun waves to fans on the 18th green after the fourth round of the Valero Texas Open golf tournament in San Antonio, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Darren Abate) (Darren Abate/AP)

Player after player, Michael Kim needed to hole a bunker shot, didn't, T2 69 -16, Andrew Putnam needed to hole a bunker shot, didn't T5 -15, it came down to MacIntyre who suffered from the Saturday postponement, lost all his momentum and shot 72 in round 3 after 66 64.

Still a clutch eagle at 17, -16 needing to birdie 18, a great drive into the wind, a terrible 3 wood double cross behind the grandstand into a muddy mire. He got relief  in a muddy lie onto the green 30 feet but the putt wasn't close. T2 -16..

Matt Wallace shot 64 68 on the weekend to also T2 -16

It was JJ Spaun's 3rd PGA Tour win to take with him up and over to Georgia, Augusta, and the Masters. He also won here in 2022 and the biggie the US Open in 2025 when he sunk a 70 foot putt on the 18th to rob Bob MacIntyre, waiting in the clubhouse of the title.

While all this was going on, Canada's best player over the last month Sudarshan Yellamaraju shot 66, 70 today to finish a very creditable T13 -10, 27th in the Fed Ex Cup, currently #8 Anon Next 10, owgr 131.

Canadians 

Sudarshan Yellamaraju T14 69 73 66 70 -10 

Nick Taylor T28 70 72 69 68 -8 

AJ Ewart T30  70 70 69 72 -7

Adam Svensson T39  68 71 70 74 -5 

Mac Hughes T87 73 71 E MC

Now off to the Masters where Rory will host the Champions Dinner and defend his Championship.

There are 3 Canadians, Mike Weir 2003 winner. Corey Conners 4 top 10's in last 6 outings, and Nick Taylor.

Bryan Angus

Sunday.. Play in Rd3 will resume...Live Leaderboard TEE TIMES

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UPDATE :  The 3rd round of this version of the Valero Teas Open was finally  suspended all together until Sunday morning at 6pm Saturday after an initial 12.51ET stoppage due to storm systems in the area around San Antonio.

Electricity was detected in the area and rain hung over the course for the next 6 hours when play was finally called. 

Play is set to resume at 8.45 ET this morning, groups will NOT repair between 3rd and 4th rounds. 

So the officials are hoping to get up to 27 holes played continuously today to decide the winner.

There is a 30% chance of rain.

Robert MacIntyre leads when play resummes at -15 with his Ryder Cup partner Ludvig Aberg 2nd at -13.

Canadians 

Adam Svensson T41  68 71 -5 thru 13

AJ Ewart T41  70 70 -4

Sudarshan Yellamaraju T41  69 73 -5 thru 7

Nick Taylor T60 70 72  -3 thru 8 

Mac Hughes T87 73 71 E MC

Click on my leaderboard link above for all the scores.

OPINION:  Expect a long soggy Sunday, with preferred lies, the course is soaked, soft and playing long, but the greens will be dartboards so scoring should be low.

Long delays like this affect players differently, for example Matt Wallace at -7 thru 14 holes moved up 30 places to T3 at -11 was red hot, sadly his momentum came to a halt, Sunday is a whole new ballgame.

Others who were struggling like 1st round leader with 65, Mark Hubbard shot 77 on Friday and was +3 on Saturday has a chance to regroup for today.

This is the last week for the players who have a chance, to make the Masters next week

Bryan Angus