Who Is Ready for the Masters?

Because the Masters is the best time of the year for golf, FanHouse has strung together a list of some interesting facts about the Masters and some of the players teeing it up this week. Dive in, enjoy, and add any extra tidbits you have in the comments.

-- As a professional, Tiger Woods has played in 12 Masters and has never broken 70 in the first round. The thing is that if he does hit 70 exactly in round one, it spells doom for the rest of the field. He is 3-for-3 in Green Jackets when he fires 2-under on Thursday.

-- Speaking of traditions from Mr. Woods, watch out for a Friday 66. In his four wins, Tiger has shot six-under in the second round three times.

-- Gene Sarazen is embedded in Augusta National history for his "Shot Heard 'Round the World" in 1935, when he holed a 4-wood from 235 yards in the fourth round for a double-eagle on 15. What some don't know is that at the time, Sarazen was three shots back of Craig Wood, who Sarazen would eventually beat in a playoff for the title. The winning check was $1,500 at the time, and they had already made the check out to Wood.

-- Speaking of double-eagles, Bruce Devlin made a two on the par-5 8th in 1967 and Jeff Maggert joined the group with an albatross on the 13th hole in 1994.

-- One of the more famous traditions to the Masters is the green jacket awarded to the winner. While you see guys like Zach Johnson and Phil Mickelson sporting the coat on David Letterman, only the winners are allowed to take the coat off the grounds, but eventually have to bring it back to Augusta National. Well, everyone but Gary Player, who never brought his back after the '61 victory.

-- Yes, Tiger has the scoring record at 18-under, which, with all of the course changes, will probably never be matched, but who else has broken double-digits under par to win the Masters (besides Woods, who has done it four times)? The answer(s): Vijay Singh, Nick Faldo (2), Ben Crenshaw (2), Bernhard Langer, Fred Couples, Ian Woosnam, Seve Ballesteros, Gary Player (2), Tom Watson, Raymond Floyd, Jack Nicklaus (2), Bob Goalby, Arnold Palmer and Ben Hogan.

-- With two eagle-friendly par-5s on the back, surely someone has shot a 10-under round at the Masters, right? Nope. The course record is 63, fired by Nick Price in 1986 and Greg Norman in 1996.

-- Trevor Immelman became famous last year by taking the green jacket, but it wasn't his first actual trophy snagged at the Masters. Immelman made a hole-in-one in 2005, which gets you a large crystal bowl. If you make an eagle during the week, you get a crystal goblet, and if you are the low score of the day, you get to take home a crystal vase.

-- Jack Nicklaus has the most eagles at the Masters, making 24 over his illustrious career (three on par 4s, 21 on par 5s).