Augusta, Georgia – there is an old saying about the wedding days that I love – when the couple exchanges their promises amid rain, it is believed that a long and healthy marriage will follow it. This applies to my parents, who have been happy for nearly three decades now. The day of their wedding day was distinguished only by rain, but the rains on the last Saturday in May helped to take care of the seeds of a beautiful and loving family – I am incredibly lucky to be part of it.
In fact, rainy wedding day is a sign of good luck for the newlyweds.
Let’s hope that the same mantra will apply to the Master’s Championship for this week.
It goes without saying that one’s wedding day occurs at the beginning of marriage, just as the training round on Monday in Ugusta National indicates the arrival of new masters.
It is a day for players to adapt to property, practice, and answer questions from the media. It is also a fairly comfortable devices, with enthusiastic sponsors who pass the cycle, all while soaking it in the landmarks that make this place very special. Nothing compares to take the viewer about Amin Rukn, or sit in the place where Tiger Woods had endured the sixteenth hole 20 years ago this week.
Delding in Pimento cheese and enjoyment of mushrooms is not disappointed either.
However, the National Golf National Club had no choice but to suspend play due to the stormy weather on Monday. It was demolished by rain through East Georgia on Monday, making it difficult to see 50 feet before that. Puddles developed through the course, forcing the club to close the property during the afternoon and thwart many of the beneficiaries who made the pilgrimage for the training round on Monday. But the club will respect the two tickets for these unlucky attendees in the future.
“We are disappointed that our sponsors could not enjoy the training round today, but everyone’s safety in Ugusta National is our higher priority and was the decisive factor in the cancellation decision,” Farid Ridley, president of the Ugusta Golf Club, said in a statement on Monday.
“We look forward to welcoming the sponsors of the shepherd next Monday, in addition to the celebration of the Master 89th Master’s Championship in front of us this week.”
The recovered amounts will be offered in May, and those who have training badges in the field of training can buy tickets on Monday for the release of 2026.
Not all hope is lost despite the wet day.
We can only hope that the wet weather will bloom on Monday to something beautiful.
After all, there is something special about all the Masters that took place in the years ending in “5.”
This was the case from the beginning too.
The second edition of the tournament championship was distinguished in 1935, which is “the snapshot that heard around the world”. Jin Sarazin, who became one of five players winning the Grand Salam championship, from 235 yards with 4 stones on the 15th hole to match Craig Wood in 6 below level. After that, the two players ended their complex final tour in 6 years, and Sarrazin Wood was defeated in a 36 -hole match the next day with five strikes.
Twenty years later, in 1955, Cary Middlecoff, one of the greatest players in the PGA tour, won the only master’s title. Middlecoff launched its 7-Ander 65 energy during the second round, which included a 31-year record in the opening ninth. In the end, he won a victory over Ben Hogan, who won a pair of green jackets in 1951 and 1953.
After that, in 1965, Jacques Nickelus won in his second green jacket with nine huge shots, as a player and Arnold Palmer Gary participated in second place. Nickelos also set a record in the 17 -year -old championship, leaving the great Bobby Jones in disbelief. After Nickelus’s victory, Jones said, “He plays a game that you are not used to.” Nickelus relied on his wonderful power and touch around the vegetables to control the National Augusta.
Ten years later, in 1975, Nickelus won again, while many call him the greatest professors ever. Golden bear fought from Johnny Miller and Tom Wescopf, as he was deceived 40 feet to birds at the sixteenth of the green color to eventually win one. Watching these three players – the best in the world at the time – are still fighting each other on the way to this day.
1985 Bernhard Langear witnessed the first green h for his green jacket. Langer, who will say goodbye to playing in the Master, has become competitively this week, only the second European to invade Augusta. He became his long -time friend and the Ryder Cust, Seve Ballesteros, the first European player to win a master’s degree in 1980.
In 1995, Ben Krenchu defeated the longest possibility to win his second green jacket. On the day before his arrival in Ugusta, Krenchu served as a bearer for calm at the funeral of Harvey Benik.
Penick, his teacher and coach Crenshaw for a long time, led him after his death to one victory over Davis Love III. He did the sixteenth and seventeenth holes to become the thirteenth player who wins multiple master’s titles. It is understood that Crenshaw left tears flowing on the eighteenth green color, leaving an unforgettable image that will live forever.
It is difficult to believe that this slide was 20 years ago this week. The first master’s memory.
And now there is this week. I am very excited to cover the Master of Ogusta National for the first time! We hope that the 25th edition will reach this noise.pic.twitter.com/25lfsvuak8
Jack Milko (@jack_Milko) April 7, 2025
Of course, the Masters 2005 championship produced one of the most famous shots in the history of the tournament. A sensitive confrontation A chip from above the sixteenth greenTiger Woods has made one progress, but it seemed that he was scheduled to restore a shot to the field and go down in a tie with Chris Demarko. And then, somehow, to some extent, Woods was hiding in the slide, as the Golf Nike ball fell at the bottom of the cup, which led to the great deduction of Verne Lundquist to say, “In your life! Have you ever seen anything like that!?”
We have never seen anything like him before, and we have not seen anything like him since then. In some way, that shot will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of its founding in the Master of this year, which, in full frankness, is the first memory I have to watch a master with my father.
This shot is also the reason that the sixteenth hole will be my favorite forever, not only because of the forest but also because of Lundquist, one of my favorite broadcasters. Lundquist will be missed this year.
After that, in 2015, Jordan SPIETH won a master’s degree in dominant fashion, and opens with 8 numbers 64. He did not look back. SPIETH ended in the 18 -year -old, which was equivalent to 72 -hole registration record at the time, as SPIETH won the first two main championships that year in Ugusta. Then he continued to win the United States Open in Chambers Bay in June, and a slightly lost a struggle for a watershed in St. Andrews at The Open in July, then ended the runner -up to Jason Day in the PGA championship in Whistling Straits in August. SPIETH had an incredible season, approaching Grand Slam, and everything began in Augusta.
Quickly forward to the present time, the Masters 2025 championship has reached many interesting stories. Can Scottie Scheffler win for the third time in four years? Will Rorre McLeri complete the Grand Slam career? What about Xander Schauffle, who won two of the last three main championships? Will the Lev Golf star win another specialization? Can Phil Mickelson restore the watch and run the leaders, as he did in 2023? What about a young star like Ludvig åberg? The possibilities are endless.
But we can only hope that the rain will flourish on Monday in a huge championship, just like a shower that often leads to a happy marriage.
Jack Milko is a golf team writer to play SB NATA through. Follow it on x @jack_milko.