AUGUSTA’S SILENCE IS A GOLDEN RULE

AUGUSTA must be the only event host of any kind where up to 75,000 people can be persuaded to part with their mobile phones for the entire day (I know, millennials, shocking isn’t it?). Three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson says he can see the day where that changes but he might be alone. I once asked that very question of a highly influential green jacket. ‘Not in my lifetime,’ he firmly replied.