AUGUSTA, Georgia – Current SMU golfer Ollie Osborne competes in the first men's major championship of 2021, the Masters Tournament, April 8-11 at Augusta National Golf Club.
 
Osborne received an invitation to the event by virtue of his run to the championship match of the 2020 U.S. Amateur, and joins Michael Podolak (1986), Hank Kuehne (1999), Kelly Kraft (2012) and Bryson DeChambeau (2016) as Mustangs to compete in this event as an amateur.

"You start losing some sleep just thinking about it," Osborne said at Augusta National on Tuesday. "After the new year, after that invitation comes, you definitely start thinking about it. Your excitement definitely gets higher as the week comes."

Now a professional, DeChambeau makes up the rest of the SMU representation in the field, and is widely regarded as a contender to pick up his second major championship this weekend. DeChambeau won the 2020 U.S. Open, is currently in first place in the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup Standings for the 2020-21 season. DeChambeau was the low amateur at the Masters in 2016.
 
Osborne tees off at 11:24 a.m. CT on Thursday. He has additionally qualified for the 2021 U.S. Open, which takes place in June at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, California.
 
Television coverage of the event is on ESPN and CBS.