Few events in sport possess the aura of the Masters, its history of elevating mortals to heavenly heights and cruelly cutting others down to size.

Augusta National Golf Club feels less like a venue and more like a cathedral. Tradition is not just preserved here, it is performed, from the ceremonial tee shot to the ban on mobile phones.

And it is all captured in our brilliant special edition previewing this year's Masters.

Where The Open trades on history and the US Open on difficulty, the Masters deals in theatre. The back nine on Sunday remains the most combustible stretch in golf, where tournaments and reputations turn unpredictably. Just ask Greg Norman.

When Jack Nicklaus surged through the field in 1986, denying Norman on the way, it felt like the gods bent to his will. When Tiger Woods won in 2019, it became something bigger than sport, a moment of redemption that cut across society. This is a tournament framed by the greats and lionised by them too.

Nicklaus and Woods, Palmer and Player, Faldo and Ballesteros, Scheffler and – now – McIlroy. This tournament toyed with them and tormented them but also elevated them and inspired them.

There is no rotating cast of courses, no reinvention for reinvention’s sake. Once again, in 2026, we will find the same manicured fairways, the same cavernous bunkers, the same blooming azaleas, and, menacingly, the same ponds, streams, creeks, and brooks. There are also the same pin positions that bring the same risk-reward calculations. And yet the outcome is never predictable and never the same.

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