- Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth had been offered with personalised Leeds shirts
- Thomas and Spieth are each minority buyers within the Elland Highway membership
Anticipation is constructing forward of the Masters, that are set to get underway on Thursday.
It’s set to be an intriguing event, with the battle between the PGA and LIV Golf persevering with to rage on.
Mail Sport’s Mike Keegan brings you all the important thing speaking factors from Augusta.
Thomas and Spieth obtain personalised Leeds shirts
Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth might solely maintain a minority investments in Leeds United however the American pair share an enormous curiosity within the goings on on the Yorkshire membership. A lot in order that fellow Whites supporter and caddie for Matt Fitzpatrick – Billy Foster – introduced out personalised jerseys for each.
Thomas’s carries the quantity 34, which is a nod to his hero, the previous Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, whereas Spieth requested the quantity ‘00’. Foster additionally delivered Leeds hats, which featured US flags on the facet.
Thomas and Spieth took their stakes at Elland Highway following the takeover by 49ers Enterprises and, together with Foster, might be maintaining a tally of promotion-chasing Leeds’s conflict with Sunderland on Tuesday.
Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas obtained personalised Leeds shirts forward of the Masters
Augusta patrons given eye safety forward of whole eclipse
Augusta officers had been effectively ready for Monday’s whole eclipse, with patrons handed free eye safety after they arrived on the course. Count on the Masters’-branded glasses, a throwback to the 3D movies of the Nineteen Seventies and 80s, to look on Ebay within the close to future.
Patrons had been handed free eye safety at Augusta on Monday forward of the full eclipse
Sturdy probability of showers and thunderstorms on Thursday
When the event kicks off on Thursday some eyes might once more be on the skies. Final 12 months, amid robust winds, patrons had been despatched scurrying for canopy on the Saturday when three large pine bushes got here crashing to the bottom close to the seventeenth.
Miraculously, whereas play was suspended, no severe accidents had been reported. This 12 months the forecast is far improved for Friday to Sunday – however for opening day there’s an 80 per cent probability of showers and thunderstorms.
No Scots current at Masters for the primary time since 1984
For the primary time since 1984 no Scots might be current within the subject. No person from the game’s birthplace managed to win any of the eligible tournaments or discover themselves on the planet’s prime 50, following the 1988 champ Sandy Lyle’s closing look final 12 months. Europe Ryder Cup star Robert MacIntyre got here the closest, however his eightieth place was not sufficient.
Robert MacIntyre got here closest, however there might be no Scots current on the Masters this 12 months
PGA group look to get the higher hand on LIV
PGA versus LIV seems to be the storyline forward of this 12 months’s Masters with 13 rebels within the subject. These representing the PGA might have grabbed an early higher hand after they arrived at Augusta Nationwide on Sunday to get some early apply in.
A bunch, which included Tiger Woods, headed out to hone their expertise whereas these concerned with LIV had been as an alternative in Florida for his or her Miami event at Trump Nationwide Doral.
Tiger Woods was amongst these representing PGA who seemed to get some early apply in
