Overview
- Langer, in an interview published Wednesday, said he left a “small back door” for a Masters return and joked about pulling a Tom Brady.
- He stressed the course now plays about 7,600 yards, far longer than the roughly 7,100 yards he faces on the over-50 Champions Tour where he still competes.
- He gave up his lifetime exemption last year and is at Augusta this week as an honored guest with his wife, four children and four grandchildren.
- Defending champion Rory McIlroy hosted Tuesday’s private Champions Dinner and, per 1973 winner Tommy Aaron, told fellow greats, “We miss Tiger.”
- Tiger Woods is absent after a late-March crash and an arrest on drug-related suspicion in Florida, and he has stepped away indefinitely to focus on his health as legal steps continue.