Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy highlight first practice round at The Masters

One of many cool issues about The Masters is the protection the PGA nails every yr. And that begins on Day 1 when the gamers kickoff their apply periods.

The most important names to obtain the most important consideration on the opening day of the apply rounds have been Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. The 2 have been joined by Tom Kim and legendary golfer Fred {Couples} and the 4 determined to maintain custom alive at Augusta.

Skipping a ball throughout the water at at 16.

Whereas the group was receiving a number of cheers as they walked by followers, they’d some competitors for the loudest roar of the day (sorry, Tiger).

The loudest roar belonged to Sepp Straka who aced the twelfth gap on Monday.

I do know, I do know. Somebody as soon as mentioned, “We’re talkin’ about apply…” so there could also be a number of of you that will assume that clip isn’t an enormous deal. However golf is golf and that was a shot.

Additionally highlighting Monday’s practices in Augusta have been LIV golfers making their look. There wasn’t something to write down residence about. The truth is, it seemed to be enterprise as typical, form of.

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A number of golfers wore their LIV group shirts, together with former Masters champion Dustin Johnson who wore his 4Aces group shirt with Carolina blue colours and spoke to the media following Monday’s apply spherical.

“For me it’s the identical. All my buddies are nonetheless my buddies, and we play, and it’s nonetheless golf. So it doesn’t matter the place you play at,” mentioned Johnson about how he felt taking part in for LIV and dealing with his former PGA friends. “I nonetheless play golf for a dwelling. I’m right here on the Masters and having fun with this week. This week’s all about Augusta.”

We’ll simply have to attend and see if something evolves because the week progresses.