2026 Masters Preview
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 488 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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It's Masters Week! In today's episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg talk about the otherworldly magic that exist at Augusta National, where the normal rules of reality seem not to apply. Has Scottie peaked? What does Rory do for an encore? And who are they picking to win this year's edition of the tournament?
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| 0:00.0 | It's master's time. |
| 0:02.0 | Here is our preview at the Hackett Out Golf Podcast of this year's Masters Championship. |
| 0:08.4 | Always a great time in the year, exciting. |
| 0:10.6 | It kicks the golf season off for lots of people. |
| 0:13.0 | The sun starts shining in some parts of the world, if you're lucky. |
| 0:16.6 | And you kind of make sure you want to get out there and play golf. |
| 0:19.3 | Yeah, looking forward to it starting. |
| 0:21.6 | Some changes this year from previous year, which we'll discuss. |
| 0:26.0 | First discussion I want to start with is we've got the direct exemptions this year |
| 0:31.9 | from National Open. |
| 0:32.9 | So you've got people from the Scottish. |
| 0:34.9 | So Scottish Open winner, Spanish, Japan, Hong Kong, |
| 0:38.1 | Open, Australian Open, South African Opens, they are all got exemptions via winning that event, |
| 0:44.8 | which is I think the first year, is it, that they are entered? That's really good, isn't it? |
| 0:49.7 | Yeah, I think it's wonderful. I know it was big news down in Australia. I played the Australian |
| 0:54.0 | Open, which is one played the Australian Open, |
| 0:54.4 | which is one of the exemptions, |
| 0:55.5 | one by Rasmus Neegard Peterson. |
| 0:59.1 | And this does, |
| 1:00.6 | this does provide some opportunities for people |
| 1:02.6 | that wouldn't otherwise get in the field. |
| 1:05.6 | Now, one of the, |
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