Golf Compendium

The 2029 Masters Tournament will be the 92nd time this major championship is played. The Masters dates to 1934 and is one of the four majors of men's professional golf. The format is four rounds, 72 holes of stroke play.

What is the biggest lead any golfer has held after three rounds in The Masters tournament? That largest 54-hole lead is nine strokes, a record that was set by Tiger Woods in 1997.

What is the largest lead any golfer has held following two rounds of The Masters? The answer is six strokes. A 6-shot lead is the biggest 36-hole lead in Masters history.

Every Masters Tournament includes a handful of amateur golfers, and sometimes those amateur golfers make a splash. But what are the best scores posted by amateurs in The Masters? Below you'll find the tournament records for amateurs for nine holes, 18 holes, 36 holes and 72 holes.

Winning a Green Jacket is one of the biggest achievements in golf, but we can imagine it feeling even sweeter to a golfer who has played the tournament many times — waiting many years — to get his (first) Masters Tournament victory. That's what we are looking at here: Those golfers who won The Masters but only after playing it many years.

What is the largest lead any golfer has taken into the final round of The Masters without converting it into a victory? Six strokes, and that golfer's collapse is one of the most-infamous in our sport's history.

There was an ace in the very first Masters Tournament played, and they've been scoring holes-in-one in The Masters ever since. Just not a ton of them — it's still true that the majority of Masters played pass without any aces made. But below we show you all the aces that have been scored at Augusta National during the tournament, first arranged by hole, and then listed year-by-year.

The record for largest come-from-behind victory in The Masters Tournament is nine strokes. That is the margin by which Jack Burke Jr. trailed at one point in the final round of the 1956 Masters before coming back to win. In this article, we'll list the largest final-round comeback victories in The Masters, plus a few other Masters tournament records for come-from-behind wins.

The 2028 Masters Tournament will be the 92nd time this major championship is played. First staged in 1934, The Masters is one of the four majors of men's professional golf. The format is four rounds, 72 holes of stroke play.

Did you know that the most-famous tournament in golf, the Masters Tournament, was not always called "The Masters"? It had a different name altogether when the tournament debuted in 1934, and it took several years of convincing before a famous co-founder of the tournament was ready to change the name.

The Masters Tournament dates to 1934, and most of the best golfers in the game's history since then have won this major championship. But not all of them! In fact, some big names are missing from the list of Masters champions . Who are the biggest-name golfers who never won The Masters? Let's count them down, from No. 10 to No. 1.

The record for the most birdies made by a golfer during one Masters Tournament is 28. And the golfer who holds that record is the only one so far to make more than 25 birdies in a single Masters.

Which golfers have finished below par for 72 holes in The Masters most frequently? One can answer that question by saying, "the usual suspects." And, yes, this is another Masters tournament record held by Jack Nicklaus.

Most of our accounts of Masters Tournament records are focused on good achievements — the bests. But sometimes you have to acknowledge the worsts , too. Such as the worst 72-hole scores ever seen in Masters Tournament history.

What are the highest scores for one round of golf yet recorded in The Masters Tournament? The all-time worst 18-hole score in The Masters is 95.

Imagine having Magnolia Lane on one side of you and the Augusta National Golf Club clubhouse on the other. If you are lucky enough to attend The Masters Tournament (or otherwise find yourself on the Augusta National grounds), you don't have to imagine: You'll be in that spot when you visit Founders Circle.

What is the worst score on a single hole in the history of The Masters Tournament? The tournament record for single-hole high score is 13, a tally recorded by three golfers so far.

No, an amateur golfer has never won The Masters Tournament. A few have come close, including three who finished runner-up. But it has been a very long time since any amateur even finished in the Top 5 at this major championship.

Every year since 1952, former Masters Tournament winners who are in attendance at Augusta National Golf Club gather for the "Champions Dinner." It takes place on the Tuesday evening of tournament week, and the defending champion decides what the menu will be.

Which golfers have posted the lowest scores for the first two rounds (36 holes) of The Masters? And who holds the record? The record-holder is Jordan Spieth. And the fact is that only a handful of golfers in Masters Tournament history have posted scores lower than 135 following the second round of play.