See if you know your Masters history

While The Masters tees off Thursday, see if you know the history of the tournament with our puzzle.

ACROSS

1 Spurred (on)

6 Abundant

11 Smidgen

14 The __ Championship (LPGA Tour event) 19 Davies who won the 1987 U.S. Women’s Open 20 Jutanugarn who won the 2018 U.S. Women’s Open 21 Slice a golf ball, e.g. 22 Golfer Wessberg or

Singer Ronstadt 23 Masters winner’s

wearable prize 25 Like a driving club with greater-thanstandard height on its striking part 27 Photo badges, e.g. 28 Terre Haute sch. whose women’s golf team is the Sycamores

29 Big name in

handbags 30 Florida State athlete,

for short 31 After-taxes salary 34 Winner of the Masters in 1985 and ‘93

39 Aoki who’s in the World Golf Hall of Fame

41 1971 Masters

winner Charles 42 Bleating female 43 Winner of a record 18 golf majors, including six Masters 47 Jekyll’s alter ego 49 Golfer Hinkle or

actor Chaney 52 “__ ed Euridice”

(Gluck opera) 53 Striking parts of golf

clubs

54 “To __ not to ...” 55 Player who won the Masters in 1961, ’74 and ’78 56 Year, in Portugal 57 __ Blanc (Alps

peak)

58 1920s golf star who co-founded the Masters Tournament in 1934

60 __ Classic (PGA Tour event now called

The American Express) 63 Johnny who won the

1976 British Open 65 Score of two under

par

66 Golf club where the Masters is always played

71 Dinah __ (common name for a longtime LPGA Tour championship)

74 Golf shots that land far to the right of the target (for righties)

75 __ -to-out (certain

golf swing path) 79 Winner of 15 golf majors, including the 2019 Masters 81 Rescue crew VIPs 84 Clear (of)

85 Yank who wore #13 86 Brand for Fido 87 Root beer brand 89 Golfer’s wear to

help grip the club 91 “The Simpsons” character Flanders who was featured in the episode “Dead Putting Society”

92 “Der __” (Konrad Adenauer’s nickname)

93 Kind of tournament

that the Masters is 95 Blasting

stuff

96 “__ vincit amor” (“Love conquers all”) 97 Knitting stuff 98 Name of the third hole at 66-Across (fitting since it’s in Georgia) 104 Scores of one over par

108 Swiss river

109 “All __ Dream of You” (standard song)

110 Feel unwell

112 “... __ thousand times ...” 113 Royal __ Golf Club (site of the 2014 British Open)

115 Masters award for getting a hole in one or a double 65-Across 120 Lateral __ (shift of the hips during a golf swing) 121 Actress Tyler 122 Puts in the microwave, say 123 Month when the Masters is played 124 Breezy course 125 Surreptitious 126 Lorena who won the 2007 Women’s British Open 127 Old- __ (quaint)

DOWN

1 Basketball Hall of Famer Baylor 2 Avant- __ 3 Spare bedroom user 4 Prior to, to poets

5 Pohl who was the runner-up of the 1982 Masters 6 Some small

batteries 7 Nickname of baseball’s Ernie Banks 8 Water __ (dental product company)

9 Harsh cleanser

10 Scarf down

11 Winner of the 1912 British Open and 1920 U.S. Open 12 Toward the back 13 “Judge __” (1995

Stallone film) 14 Pixieish sort 15 Main role in “Chocolat,” played by Juliette Binoche

16 Wearing a disguise,

for short 17 “Someone Like

You” singer 18 Consumer advocate Ralph

24 Shin who won the Women’s British Open in 2008 and ’12 26 Light-colored and medium-sweet, as ginger ale 29 Degs. for profs 32 Toll highway

33 “It comes __

surprise ...” 35 Brilliant success 36 __ Hole (notoriously hard No. 17 at the Old Course at St. Andrews) 37 Entre __ (between

us)

38 Feeling upon witnessing an amazing hole in one 40 Eight, to Julio 43 Tom of “The Grapes

of Wrath” 44 Duncan who was Obama’s education secretary 45 Corp. money

managers 46 Venturi who won the 1964

U.S. Open 47 Northern Chinese province with the capital Shijiazhuang 48 “Hey, dude!” 49 Brittany who won the 2016 U.S. Women’s Open 50 Pitcher Hershiser

51 Cousin of NASDAQ 54 Olympic sprinter

Usain 55 Objectives 57 Dept. get-together 58 “Gil __” (Lesage

novel)

59 Van de Velde who tied for second in the 1999 British Open 61 Having hearing

organs

62 One who has regrets 63 Apple computers 64 Calligraphy fluid 67 Letter-shaped

fastening bar 68 Rating of a golf course’s difficulty level 69 Commotion

70 Sue Grafton’s

“__ for Noose” 71 PGA Tour player

Leonard or Utley 72 Give a job to 73 Prayer starter 76 See 90-Down 77 Prima donna 78 Pulitzer-winning

biographer Leon 80 Race car driver

Darrell 81 Pioneering ’40s

computer 82 Summer hrs. in

Colorado

83 Bob who won the 1986 PGA Championship 87 Van Dam who played in the 2019 Women’s PGA Championship 88 Running shoe brand 89 Copter’s forerunner 90 With 76-Down, golf

club for driving 92 Suffix with prop93 Bratty kids 94 Small hand drum of

India

95 Like some professors’ suits

96 Geoff who won the

2006 U.S. Open

98 Counterfeit

99 Boxer Ali

100 Retailer specializing in sporting goods 101 Pop heroes

102 Dieter’s salad

request, maybe 103 Can’t help but 105 Vast, in verse 106 “Ouch!”

107 Little who won the 1980 LPGA Championship 111 “__ dog’s life” 114 Actor Stephen 115 Comedian

Margaret

116 __ room

117 Slangy “OK” 118 Back muscle, in

brief

119 Meas. of electronic

storage density