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Inside every issue of Pitch magazine you will find stories, long and short, covering at least 30 different sports. There’s football, cricket, rugby – both types – golf, MMA, boxing, athletics and F1. And loads of others. Because ultimately we are sports fanatics.

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PULL YOUR SOCKS UP, AUGUSTA

In 60 Seconds… with Andy ‘Roo’ Burge. • ONLY THE POETS’ BASSIST, AND SERIOUS GOLFER, SITS DOWN FOR A SPORTING MINUTE IN THE 19TH WITH PITCH.

SCHEMATICA Qiddiya Speed Park Track

Rated. • Cycling gear and gadgets for two-wheeled weekends. Rain or shine.

…Kick a Field Goal. • For when putting your laces through it matters most.

Jumbo Ozaki

Basic, Better, Best… • THROUGH HISTORY

Arm Wrestling

Backyards-No.12 Stig Blomqvist in Sweden

Edinburgh • A hole lotta history [sic]

No.6 - Nine-darter • Perfection in sport carries extra weight. In golf, there’s the hole-in-one, snooker the 147, ten-pin bowling even has its own modus operandi with the 300. Darts’ fabled perfect leg exists as the kingpin of them all.

In 10 Characters, or Less… • It’s all downhill from here, you crazy boys and girls…

Alt. Icons. SPORTING TATTOOS

Must Reads. Mostly. • Jade Craddock tees up sport’s latest and greatest books, in print.

A Masters Masterpiece 1 to 19 GOLF’S POWER IN NUMBERS. A NUMERICAL ‘A-Z’ OF THE MASTERS. • Augusta National has hosted golf’s most exclusive - and elusive - major for nine decades. For all the pressure that gathers beneath the Georgia pines, the patrons have witnessed the good, the bad, and the ugly that this extraordinary sport has to offer. Pitch’s on- and off-course coverage of the Masters begins here - with an alternative analysis of ‘19 holes’ at The Masters.

The Masters, The South African, & What Came Next • Andy Afford rattles off Augusta’s difficult history with its own past through the global lens of one country’s participation.

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TWO SAFFAS TO KEEP AN EYE ON

A Good Walk Spoiled • For every green jacket slipped onto a champion’s shoulders, there are 49 others left to wrestle with what might have been. Weighing up the should-haves, would-haves and could-haves, Paul Simpson revisits the horrors of those who were all but measured for Augusta’s finest cloth – only to stumble at the final, cruellest hurdle.

One in a Million • With its strict invitation-only policy, the Masters is the ultimate insiders’ tournament. Peering through the pines, Pitch turns to someone who has actually walked the fairways to explain what it is that makes Augusta, Augusta - and the Masters, the Masters.

Exclusively Exclusive • Five of the world’s hardest tee-times to bargain for, outside of Augusta.

MAGIC IN MAUI • THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM SAW TIGER WOODS ACHIEVE THE GREATEST FEAT IN GOLF HISTORY: THE ‘TIGER SLAM’. NOW, AUTHOR KEVIN COOK DELIVERS HIS ACCOUNT OF THE 15-TIME MAJOR CHAMPION AT HIS MOST BRILLIANT - DOMINATING THE GAME IN A WAY WE WILL NEVER SEE AGAIN.

Hallowed Be Thy Name • Given its appellation through jazz, Amen Corner is to golf, sport even, what Abbey Road is to music. But what makes this pilgrimage around Rae’s Creek so special? And why do the world's best still mutter their prayers when entering this unassuming stretch of three?

As It Happened… • PITCH TAKES A LOOK AT RORY MCILROY AT THE MASTERS, THROUGH TIME. BUT IS IT OSCAR-WORTHY?

Cut Above • Golf’s ’next Rory Mcllroy’, Josh Berry, is back where it all began to talk play-offs, pressure putts and dreams of tee-ing it up at Augusta.

Berry’s Best Basher • Josh Berry builds his ’perfect golfer’ from the botton up.

Silk Road • In a world where LIV exists alone from laugh...