The BBC will reportedly not provide TV coverage of The Masters this year, having aired the tournament in some form or another for the past 56 years.
With the first of golf's four major championships just two months away, the Telegraph report that BBC chiefs have privately admitted they have given up hope of striking a new deal to broadcast the Masters as they make cost-cutting efforts.
The BBC first broadcasted the major in 1967 before briefly losing the rights to Channel 4. However, it has aired every Masters since 1986, but their coverage has been reduced over the years. In 2011, Sky obtained the rights to broadcast all four days, while the BBC aired live footage from the weekend.
