Letter from Augusta: Tense and tetchy on the Champions Dinner menu?

The build-up to the season's first major has a been very unmannerly in a place that values proper manners so robustly

SPANISH POINT: Compatriots Jon Rahm and Sergio Garcia on the practice area at Augusta National Golf Club.

Welcome to the 87th Masters week – the most awkward installment yet of the season’s first major championship.

Augusta National Golf Club founder Bobby Jones couldn’t have imagined the annual gentlemanly gathering of golfing greats he launched in 1934 would turn into a brat party nearly 90 years later. The decorum long associated with the Masters Tournament has been largely absent in the buildup to 2023.