Byline: Pete Dougherty
Apr. 5--AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Beginning next week, the winner of any PGA Tour full-field event will get a bonus on top of his winner's check. He will get to play in the Masters. In one of his first moves since taking over as Augusta National chairman, Billy Payne announced Wednesday that the Masters has reinstated its automatic invitation to tour winners.
Tour winners were invited to the Masters from 1972 to 1999, when a change was made aimed at getting more international players into the field. "I can remember innumerable times where winners of tournament events would be more excited to hear that they had automatically qualified …
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