The Gold Coast Bulletin

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

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Tournament: 82nd Masters.

Dates: April 5-8.

Site: Augusta National

Par: 36-36-72.

Purse: To be determined ($11 million in 2017).

Field: 87 players (81 pros)

Cut: Top 50 and ties, and anyone within 10 of the lead.

Last year: Sergio Garcia won his first major in his 70th attempt as a pro, rallying from a two-shot deficit with six holes to play to beat Justin Rose on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.

Eye on Tiger: Tiger Woods returns after missing the Masters three of the last four years with a back injury.

The odds: Ladbrokes has Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy at $11, with Woods ($15), Jason Day ($19) and Adam Scott ($67) further back.

Key statistic: This is the only major where Tiger Woods has never missed the cut as a pro.

Noteworthy: It has been 20 years since a player in his 40s won the Masters.

Quoteworth­y: “There’s no other course like it in the world and there’s no other golf tournament like it. It is literally a player’s heaven.” - Tiger Woods.

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