ANGC announces changes to 24 Masters criteria

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Augusta National Golf Club announced three changes to its qualification criteria for the 2024 Masters. The first is an additional invitation for the NCAA Division I individual men’s champion. Vanderbilt sophomore Gordon Sargent, who won last May at Grayhawk, was invited to play in this year’s event, and that will now be an automatic exemption moving forward – provided he remains an amateur for the Masters. “That is a major amateur championship,” Masters chairman Fred Ridley said, “and I thought it was time that we acknowledged it. And we couldn’t be happier to have Gordon here this…