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The Masters has the smallest field of the major championships, and officially remains an invitation event, but there is now a qualification process. In theory, the club could simply decline to invite a qualified player. This is the list of all 96 players who qualified to play in the 2009 Masters Tournament. [2] 1. Past Masters Champions
Nicklaus is also the oldest winner of the Masters: he was 46 years 82 days old when he won in 1986. [6] Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, and Tiger Woods co-hold the record for most consecutive victories with two. Woods was the youngest winner of the Masters, 21 years 104 days old when he won in 1997. [6]
The 2009 Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 11 and 18 January 2009 at the Wembley Arena in London, England. Ronnie O'Sullivan won his 4th Masters title by beating defending champion Mark Selby 10–8 in the final.
The AP story: “Sammy Snead, the golfer who supposedly couldn’t putt and couldn’t win the big tournaments, did both superbly to capture the 13th Masters Championship with a 72-hole total of 282.
Angel Cabrera, the 2007 U.S. Open and 2009 Masters champion, has been sentenced to two years in prison in his native Argentina. He was convicted of assaulting an ex-girlfriend back in 2016.
Participation in the Masters Tournament is by invitation only, [4] and the tournament has the smallest field of the major championships. [5] There were a number of criteria by which invites were awarded, including all past winners, recent major champions, leading finishers in the previous years' majors, leading players on the PGA Tour in the previous season, winners of full-point tournaments ...
World Championship sponsor Betfred sponsored the Masters in 2021, [42] and the 2022 tournament was sponsored by Cazoo for the first time. [43] Ronnie O'Sullivan won his seventh Masters title in 2017, overtaking Stephen Hendry's previous record of six. [44] This was O'Sullivan's third Masters title in four years, having also won in 2014 and 2016.
He finished third at the 2009 Players Championship and the FBR Open, fifth at the Sony Open in Hawaii, Mayakoba Golf Classic and Reno-Tahoe Open. With nine top-10 finishes and 14 top-25 finishes, he ranked in 19th place on the money list, securing his entry to the Masters Tournament and the U.S. Open in 2010 for the first time.