The 90th Masters begins Thursday at Augusta National, marking the unofficial start of spring for many and, for golf’s best players, the first of four opportunities at immortality in 2026.
A green jacket awaits the winner of the season’s first major. Rory McIlroy, of course, won a year ago, completing the career Grand Slam and becoming the sixth man to join golf’s most exclusive club. He will host the Masters Champions Dinner on Tuesday—the menu looks delicious—then will get down to the business of trying to become the first back-to-back winner since Tiger Woods in 2001–02.
