The amateurs playing the 2024 Masters look like a formidable basketball team.
A picture emerged of the five amateurs teeing it up at Augusta National this week from Monday night’s Amateur Dinner with Chairman Fred Ridley, and Ridley is the shortest one in the photo. It looks like five basketball players and their coach. Instead, it’s five of the best amateurs in the world getting ready to tee it up at the first men’s major championship of the year.
Christo Lamprecht, Stewart Hagestad, Jasper Stubbs, Neal Shipley and Santiago de la Fuente make up the amateurs teeing it up come Thursday at Augusta National looking to earn the Silver Cup. For Hagestad, it’s his third Masters appearance, while the other four are making their debut.
Here’s what the amateurs are saying about Augusta National ahead of the 2024 Masters: