Fred Ridley, Chairman of Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership and the Masters Match, introduced Wednesday that Denmark’s Nicolai Højgaard and Chile’s Joaquín Niemann have accepted invites to play within the 2025 Masters.
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“In assist of Augusta Nationwide’s efforts to develop curiosity in golf globally, worldwide gamers of advantage who haven’t in any other case certified have been invited all through the Match’s historical past. The custom continues by welcoming Nicolai and Joaquín again to the Masters, as each gamers have demonstrated their skills competing around the globe,” Riley stated.
Højgaard, 23, is making ready for his second look after his debut in 2024. He was tied for sixteenth and is presently sixtieth within the World Rankings. Nicolai’s twin brother Rasmus will make his Masters debut (April 10-13), marking the primary time that twins have performed collectively in a event.
Niemann, 26, can be competing for the sixth time. He has made the lower at every of the final 4 Masters, and has completed within the high 25 on the final two. He’s ranked 71st on this planet.
As of immediately, 87 golfers have been invited to compete within the 2025 Masters, leaving three paths to qualify for the primary ‘main’ of the 12 months.
The Masters is among the 4 main tournaments, crucial of the lads’s skilled golf season. It’s the solely main that has been performed on the identical course since its first version and is performed yearly on the Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership, in Georgia (USA), in one of the unique golf equipment on this planet.
The event was born in 1934 because the Augusta Nationwide Invitation Match on the initiative of Bobby Jones, who was additionally the designer of the course with Alister Mackenzie, and Clifford Roberts, an investor from New York. In 1939 the event modified its title to the present one and since 1940 it has been performed yearly within the first full week of April. The most effective professionals from everywhere in the world take part in it and likewise the amateurs who maintain the title of champion of the US and Nice Britain.
The choice standards are very strict, much more than the opposite majors. Which means that the variety of members is round 100, in comparison with about 160 within the different main tournaments. In truth, along with previous winners of the Masters, the winners of the final 5 editions of the opposite majors, the final three editions of the Gamers Championship, the highest 4 labeled in every main of the earlier 12 months (however the high 12 of the final Masters), the highest 50 labeled within the Official World Golf Rating of the earlier 12 months and the highest 50 of the present 12 months (within the week earlier than the event), the qualifiers for the Tour Championship of the earlier 12 months and the champions of the Novice tournaments are admitted.
Among the many a number of winners of this event are Jack Nicklaus, who has received it 6 occasions (the final in 1986, on the age of 46), and Tiger Woods, who has received it 5 occasions (the primary in 1997, at 21 years and three months, thus changing into the primary black participant and the youngest to win within the historical past of the event). In 2017, after having participated in 73 majors with no victory, Sergio García managed to win the Masters by beating the Englishman Justin Rose within the playoff.
