The women’s Masters is once again tinged with blue. From 29 March to 1 April in Georgia (USA), in the fourth edition of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, Carolina Melgrati will also be among the best amateurs in the world.
The 20-year-old from Monza, making her second consecutive appearance in the event, will have the opportunity to show off in the appointment that precedes The Masters (April 6-9), the first male Major.
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Member of the Milan Golf Club, the young Lombard will challenge, among others, talents of the caliber of Rose Zhang, number 1 in the world amateur golf ranking, Anna Davis (queen in 2022) and Tsubasa Kajitani (winner in 2021).
The competition will be played over a distance of 54 holes, 18 per day. The first two rounds, scheduled for 29 and 30 March respectively, will be played at Champions Retreat Golf Club in Evans. Then, after a field trial day, the final lap (the best 30 classified out of a total of 70 competitors will pass the cut) will be staged on the historic Augusta National route.
The tournament began in 1934 as the Augusta National Invitation Tournament on the initiative of Bobby Jones, who was also the designer of the course with Alister Mackenzie, and Clifford Roberts, a New York investor. In 1939 the tournament changed its name to the current one and since 1940 it has been held every year in the first full week of April.
The best professionals from all over the world participate, as well as amateurs who hold the title of champions of the United States and Great Britain. The selection criteria are very strict, even more than other majors. This means that the number of participants is around 100, against the approximately 160 of the other major tournaments.
In fact, in addition to the past winners of the Masters, the winners of the last five editions of the other majors, of the last three editions of the Players Championship, the first four classified of each major of the previous year (but the first 12 of the last Masters) are admitted.
, the top 50 of the previous year’s Official World Golf Ranking and the top 50 of the current year (as of the week preceding the tournament), the qualifiers of the Tour Championship of the previous year and the champions of the Amateur tournaments.
Among the multiple winners of this tournament are Jack Nicklaus, who won it 6 times (the last time in 1986, at the age of 46), and Tiger Woods, who won it 5 times (the first time in 1997 , at 21 years and 3 months, thus becoming the first black player and the youngest to win in the history of the tournament).
In 2017 Sergio García manages, after having participated in 73 majors without a victory, to win the Masters by beating the English Justin Rose in the playoffs.
