Augusta Masters ends this week with the anxiety of golf fans who have been waiting for the return of the greats since last July when the British Open concluded, the last of the Majors chronologically, with the victory of Collin Morikawa. From Thursday 7 to Sunday 1092 competitors will fight for the green jacket, the most coveted garment in world sport.
Rahm, Olazbal and Sergio, three Spaniards in the green jacket tournament
Three Spaniards participate in the tournament held perennially at Augusta National. José María Olazbal, winner in 1994 and 1999, will be the golfer who tees off in the competition as dictated by the draw. It will do so at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday (Spanish peninsular time), after the opening ceremony in which the legends Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson will perform the kick-off. Olazbal will play the only game with two players together with the American JJ Spaun.
The rest of the matches will be trios. Serge Garcia, winner in 2017, he will start at 7:08 p.m. on Thursday with Belgian Thomas Pieters and American Harold Varner III, while Jon Rahm will start at 7:41 p.m. with fellow local golfers Patrick Cantlay and Will Zalatoris.
Tiger Woods, on air from 6:30 p.m. on Movistar’s 57
Tiger Woods, the man who monopolizes all the spotlights, can be followed in Spain from 6:30 p.m. through channel 57 Golf by Movistar on the Movistar+ platform. The winner of 15 Grand Slams will start at 4:34 p.m., Spanish time, so it will be from hole 8, approximately when his evolution can be followed. Woods with the South African Oosthuizen and the Chilean Niemann.
The following of Tiger will be possible thanks to a special coverage of his match, alternating with what happens in the Amen Corner (green of the 11th and hole 12), as well as in holes 15 and 16. The regular programming will start from 9:00 p.m. until 1:30 a.m. with the international signal. The same broadcast schedules will take place on Friday and at the weekend, coverage will be from 6:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. on Saturday and from 6:00 p.m. .
As an appetizer on Wednesday, channel 57 of Movistar broadcast the quiz of pairs 3.
