No one gives up at the Masters

The azaleas around the green are truly breathless, in April in Georgia they all bloom together, it’s a wave that turns from white to pink, like a recently painted scene. This is how Bobby Jones imagined them, he began work in the spring of 1930 to create an unparalleled, beautiful and treacherous golf course, designed to put the best in difficulty, ideal for selecting the Masters Champion of the Year every year. The perfect course for the contest that everyone is waiting for especially after the exodus of some players towards Liv Golf, the new 54-hole Saudi circuit, fabulous budgets, more television rules, but rather little media success. Money isn’t everything and at the Masters, some champions just couldn’t be missing. A puzzle that Fred Ridley, the general manager of the club, solved the best. The results of the last 5 years count, the past winners are invited for life, such as the top fifty of the world ranking and the top twelve of the last tournament, plus a series of other categories. In the end, no sensational names were left out and some special invitations make the contest more intriguing. Kazuki Higa, new winner of the Japanese tour in the footsteps of Hideki Matsuyama and Gordon Sargent, nineteen year old Ncaa champion and best international amateur. At the Masters every surprise is possible but the favorites are always the first in the standingsYankee Scottie Sheffler, defending champion and new world number one after his triumph at the Players, looking for the rare double, Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy seven times in the top ten, on his fourteenth attempt to win the tournament and Spanish John Rahm looking for his first green jacket to bring closer, if ever possible, the myth of Severiano Ballesteros, a player who became a legend right in Augusta.