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Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed Show Off Masters Invitations on Social Media

78 golfers in the 2023 Masters field—including 16 LIV players—will be receiving the coveted invitation to Augusta National in the mail this holiday season.

Gabrielle Herzig

78 golfers will be anxiously checking their mailboxes this holiday season for a very special letter. There’s only one place in the world that could get the best professional golfers in the world to pay attention to their snail mail, and that’s Augusta National. 

The paper invitation is a storied Masters tradition—it’s a milestone moment for these players to receive that famous green envelope. 

“The Board of Governors of the Augusta National Golf Club cordially invites you to participate in the Two Thousand and Twenty Three Masters Tournament to be held at Augusta, Georgia the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth of April,” the letter reads, signed by Augusta National Chairman Fred Ridley. 

The invitations follow a long-anticipated announcement made by Chairman Ridley earlier this month. The Masters will maintain its current qualifying criteria for the 2023 tournament, meaning that members of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league will be permitted to play. There are 16 LIV members who currently meet the criteria and will tee it up come April. 

A few of those LIV players—including Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed, and Kevin Na—did not hesitate to share their coveted invitations on social media when they received them in the mail. 

Other 2023 Masters invitees shared their invitations as well, including the 2022 U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up, Sam Bennett and Ben Carr. A chance to tee it up at Augusta National as an amateur is an honor that these two players will cherish deeply. 

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A few more invitees shared their excitement for April. Tom Kim and Adrian Meronk will make their Masters debuts. 

 

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GABRIELLE HERZIG

Gabrielle Herzig is a Breaking and Trending News writer for Sports Illustrated Golf. Previously, she worked as a Golf Digest Contributing Editor, an NBC Sports Digital Editorial Intern, and a Production Runner for FOX Sports at the site of the 2018 U.S. Open. Gabrielle graduated as a Politics Major from Pomona College in Claremont, California, where she was a four-year member and senior-year captain of the Pomona-Pitzer women’s golf team. In her junior year, Gabrielle studied abroad in Scotland for three months, where she explored the Home of Golf by joining the Edinburgh University Golf Club.

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