Glorious victory: Masters drama throws up Reed as worthy victor

Each year some new marvel of technology is applied to the playing conditions at Augusta to provide players and patrons an experience that is unmatched anywhere in the world

Because you already know the results, let me build some of the atmosphere at Augusta National during the Masters week for you, and then report on the drama at the denouement.

The Augusta National golf course is a pastel painter’s delight ...or nightmare? The colour green abounds but the varying distribution of chlorophyll in the myriad ferns, plants and shrubs, trees, the over seeded rye grass that create the emerald green fairways, and greens form a whole lot of different hues, chroma and values of the basic colour green; sunlight on these effects produces a lot of tints of green and