Watch: 2022 Masters Preview

Gary Van Sickle joins Frank Bassett to assess Tiger Woods' decision to compete in the 2022 Masters, and what to watch for this week.

Gary Van Sickle | Apr 6, 2022

Live from the Azalea House, a hospitality house just down the road from Augusta National, Gary Van Sickle joins Frank Bassett to assess Tiger Woods' decision to compete in the 2022 Masters, and what to watch for this week as the five-time Masters champion returns to competition for the first time since his car crash in February, 2021.

Published Apr 6, 2022

GARY VAN SICKLE

Van Sickle has covered golf since 1980, following the tours to 125 men’s major championships, 14 Ryder Cups and one sweet roundtrip flight on the late Concorde. He is likely the only active golf writer who covered Tiger Woods during his first pro victory, in Las Vegas in 1996, and his 81st, in Augusta. Van Sickle’s work appeared, in order, in The Milwaukee Journal, Golf World magazine, Sports Illustrated (20 years) and Golf.com. He is a former president of the Golf Writers Association of America. His knees are shot, but he used to be a half-decent player. He competed in two national championships (U.S. Senior Amateur, most recently in 2014); made it to U.S. Open sectional qualifying once and narrowly missed the Open by a scant 17 shots (mostly due to poor officiating); won 10 club championships; and made seven holes-in-one (though none lately). Van Sickle’s golf equipment stories usually are based on personal field-testing, not press-release rewrites. His nickname is Van Cynical. Yeah, he earned it.