Do you think you could shoot four under par on a single hole? Chances are you probably couldn’t. Only five so-called “condors” have ever been recorded. To score a condor, you really have to be creative in cutting corners or confident enough to hit over trees. The most recent of these rare shots was recorded …

Clifford Roberts, investment dealer and co-founder of Augusta National who first thought of the name for what is now one of the most well known tournaments in golf.  “The Masters”, Roberts suggested, would be shorthand for “the masters of golf”. The name would denote the event’s importance as a contest of the world’s top players. …

T-minus 1 week! For number seven in our countdown series of golf fun facts and statistics, we’re looking at the players themselves. The average age of the Masters winners across 85 years is 32. But the players at the top of today’s game are younger than this average. Last week was the Masters’ qualifying week. …

People travel from all over the world to attend or play in the Masters tournament. For one week in the year, the entire golf world comes to Georgia. For number 8 in our countdown series, we’re travelling from Augusta to Europe, where two men hold the record for most rounds of golf played in different …

Only nine days left! We’ve already looked at the worst records in Masters history in this series. Today, as we get closer and closer, let’s look at some of the best.  Augusta National is regarded as a true test of golf for the very best in the world; a test that a rare few have …