Fred Couples had a first-round 71 in his back pocket ... 9-iron, sand iron, pitching wedge, gap wedge, sand wedge, putter. Yes, conventional putter. He needed only five putts over the last five ...

Fred Couples made history at ... He recorded two birdies, an eagle and three bogeys. Couples began his day with a birdie off the green as he used a Texas wedge to make it happen.

Fred Couples put on an ageless performance in Thursday ... Padres with the weekend sweep, Casas goes down for the Red Sox, GMs around the league face the media and a Turbo Mode weekend recap.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — (AP) — Fred Couples was so unflappable during the first round of the Masters that not even a sound engineer for one of the broadcasts who wandered down the middle of the fairway ...