The 90th Masters Tournament takes place at Augusta National Golf Club from April 9 to 12, 2026, with first-round tee times beginning at 11:30 EDT (UTC-4) and the final round’s featured groups starting at 14:30 EDT on Sunday.
Augusta National is not just a golf course. It is the most private, most controlled, most deliberately beautiful piece of sporting ground on Earth. Built on a former nursery in the 1930s by Bobby Jones and Alister MacKenzie, the layout runs through towering Georgia pines, across Rae’s Creek, and over terrain that television cannot properly convey. The elevation changes are dramatic. The greens are severe. Amen Corner, holes 11 through 13, has decided more Masters than any swing tip or statistical model ever could. Par 72, 7,545 yards, and every inch of it curated to a standard that borders on obsessive.
What makes Augusta singular is the tradition. The same course every year, the same week every April, the same green jacket ceremony on the putting green. Champions are invited back for life. The Par 3 Contest on Wednesday has its own mythology. The azaleas bloom on schedule, as though Augusta National has a deal with spring itself.
For European viewers, the EDT timezone means comfortable afternoon and evening viewing. When the final group tees off around 14:30 EDT on Sunday, it is 20:30 in Central Europe and 19:30 in London. The back nine drama at Augusta, which almost always delivers, lands perfectly in European prime time. For viewers in Asia and Australia, the timing is less forgiving. A 14:30 EDT start is 03:30 Monday morning in Tokyo and 04:30 in Sydney.
The Masters is the first major of the season, and it sets the tone for everything that follows. Whoever walks off the 18th green on Sunday wearing the green jacket carries that weight all the way through to the following April. Ninety editions in, there is still nothing else quite like it in professional sport.