Honorary starters Jack Nicklaus (L), Tom Watson (C) and Gary Player (R) pose with caddies before teeing off from hole No. 1 during the honorary starters ceremony at the Masters Tournament on ...

Others who have been honorary starters were Gene Sarazen (1981-1999), Sam Snead (1984-2002) and Arnold Palmer (2007-2016). Nicklaus has been part of the ceremony since 2010, Player since 2012 and ...

A WWE superstar and an LSU basketball player will serve as grand marshal and honorary starter, respectively, for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 Saturday.

NASCAR has announced the honorary starters for the final regular season race of the year at Daytona. WWE Hall of Famer ...

The Savannah Native and LSU women's basketball star will get a special honor Saturday night for NASCAR's regular-season ...

The role of honorary starters was later formalized when Jock Hutchison and Fred McLeod hit the first shots of the 1963 Masters. Since then, 11 golfers, each with extensive history at Augusta ...

This year, Tom Watson, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player have been named as the honorary starters for the 87th Masters. They will tee off at 7:40 am (EST) on Thursday, April 6. The same group was the ...

Honorary Starters first made an appearance at the Masters in 1963. Since then, 11 golfers, each with extensive history at Augusta National Golf Club, have helped kick off the Masters with the ...

A little-known honorary starter fact is that Ken Venturi, who twice nearly won the Masters as an amateur, pinch-hit for Nelson in 1983 as Nelson was tending to his wife, who was ill.

2023 - Adam Driver Adam Driver, the Indianapolis 500 Honorary Starter, waves the green flag on Sunday, May 28, 2023, to start the 107th running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Now would seem to be a good time to restore some tradition at the Masters, a major already loaded with it. The practice of an honorary starter began in 1963, although it goes back even further.