AUGUSTA, Ga. — To most every player at the Masters Tournament, the 530-yard, water-guarded hole called Firethorn is a back-nine destination for earning back a stroke. To Bernd Wiesberger, that hole, No. 15 at Augusta National Golf Club, can teeter toward the nightmarish.In November, it dealt him a double bogey. …

To anybody who has ever received a speeding ticket, the resolution of the investigation into Tiger Woods’s car crash in February might seem odd.Despite the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s determination that Woods drove well above 80 miles per hour in a 45 m.p.h. zone, he was not given a …

The Masters has returned to its April spot on the calendar with the 85th edition of the tournament now in its second round at Augusta National. The excitement is palpable, and history may well be on the line with a number of top-tier golfers looking for their first green jacket …

Golfers from three northwest Georgia schools teed it up for nine holes at the LaFayette Golf Course on Thursday.In varsity boys’ action, the Heritage Generals fought through breezy conditions to beat LaFayette, 160-169.Samuel Johnson had a 38 for Heritage and Carter Bell carded a 39, while a 40 from Chandler …

AUGUSTA, Ga. — A golf course does not have feelings.Or does it?It would be the easiest way to explain the revenge Augusta National Golf Club exacted on the field in the first round of the Masters tournament on Thursday, after the course was routed by many of the same players …

AUGUSTA, Ga. — With the sun rising over his shoulders, Lee Elder was introduced to a crowd of several hundred on the first tee of the Masters Tournament on Thursday morning. Forty-six years earlier, on roughly the same spot at Augusta National, Elder had teed off as the first Black …