When Hurricane Helene stormed through the Augusta, Ga., area last September—more than 300 miles after making landfall in Florida—it caused millions of dollars in destruction throughout the region. Homes were leveled and thousands lost power, many for several days, with the impact still being felt in the community.

IT’S become a pre-Masters tradition that Fox Sports golf analyst and former PGA Tour player Paul Gow and I head to Augusta’s SRP Stadium on Sunday afternoon before things get serious at the years first major, taking in the sounds and sights of the minor league baseball home field of the Augusta GreenJackets.

Sometimes, journalists can relish in some perks. Two years ago, former Banner-Herald sports editor Ryne Dennis got to play Augusta National.

I would flip the 12 th green around and angle the green the other way with the pond. So, short and right, you’re fine, and long and left you’re fine for a righty. It would be a big change but I’d like it.

The 16th hole that Alister MacKenzie designed no longer exists. His original 16th was also a par 3, but it played from tees just off the right edge of the 15th green over a small creek to a shallow green set at the base of the hill below the sixth tee.

One of the world's most famous holes. To quote Arnold Palmer's wider saying on golf in general, the 12th at Augusta is deceptively simple yet endlessly complicated. The swirling winds make club ...

The Masters is universally popular and Augusta National is at the top of most golfers’ bucket lists, but it's not perfect. Here, I rank the holes from best to

The one question put to LIV golfers - and we'll never really know the answer - is whether playing in a limited number of 54-hole events hurts those in the Masters.

Woods was commissioned by Augusta National to design The Loop at The Patch, a nine-hole, par-3 layout at Augusta Municipal Golf Course just 5 miles from the home of the Masters.