The Masters in April—that is more like it.

Last year, golf’s premier event was postponed to November, but this year, it's back where it belongs. Six former Bulldogs (I still don’t count Patrick Reed) are in the field at the 85th edition of the Masters. Only one former Georgia Bulldog has won the Green Jacket (Bubba Watson in 2012 and 2014), but several others have come close. Watson was also the only Bulldog to make the cut (out of three) last year. How will the Dawgs fare this week? Here's a deeper look at the 2021 Masters in the eye of a Bulldog fan.

Six times at the Masters has a Bulldog finished in the top five, and 13 times they have finished in the top 15. Chip Beck was a runner-up in 1993; Tommy Tolles was third in the magical year that Tiger Woods won his first, back in 1997.

Check out all the top finishers among the Georgia linksters who have played this prestigious major.

Harris English – Official World Golf Ranking – 21st

English has been the most successful former Bulldog this golf season. He has made ten of 13 cuts, including five top-ten finishes. Back in January, he won the Sentry Tournament of Champions out in Hawaii. It was his third career PGA Tour win and his first since November of 2013. His fourth-place finish in the 2020 U.S. Open in Winged Foot was his best ever Major finish. This is just English’s third Masters appearance, and he has an excellent chance to have his best finish, as shown here:

Brian Harman – Official World Golf Ranking – 50th

This is also Harman’s third appearance at the Masters. Harman has made 14 of 15 cuts this season and has a third-place result last month at The Players Championship. Two weeks later, the lefty made it to the quarterfinals at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. He was the runner-up at the 2017 U.S. Open, and a T-13th at the PGA Championship that same year. Those are his best two major finishes, and as you can see below, he also has a good chance to improve his best finish at the Masters.

Kevin Kisner – Official World Golf Ranking – 36th

Kisner will be making his sixth career Masters appearance, and last year was the only one in which he failed to make the cut. He started well in last season’s event, but faltered some in the second round. This season, Kisner has made eight out of 11 cuts, and in half of those made cuts, he's finished in the top 25, including a runner-up finish at the RSM Classic last November. He has two career top tens in majors, but is looking for his first in Augusta.

Hudson Swafford – Official World Golf Ranking – 175th

While Swafford hasn’t had the best of seasons (six made cuts out of 15), he did win the 2020 Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship last September for his second career PGA Tour win. Strangely enough, he finished sixth in that same tournament a few weeks ago. This is Swafford’s second Masters appearance, and he has failed to make the cut in any of his four career majors. But anything is possible in the first major of 2021.

Brendon Todd – Official World Golf Ranking – 56th

Todd is doing well this season; not as strong as last season, when he won twice, but he's playing well. He has made the cut in 12 of 15 PGA Tour events this season and finished tied for 8th at Mayakoba Golf Classic back in December. Last season, he made the cut in two of the three majors. Unfortunately, the one he didn't was the Masters. He has failed to make the cut in two previous Masters he has played, although he did not play that badly last November.

Bubba Watson – Official World Golf Ranking – 58th

Georgia’s most successful professional golfer of all time is trying to get back in the win column. Waston has won 12 times on the tour, including twice in Augusta. However, the long-hitting lefty hasn’t won at all on the PGA Tour since 2018. This season he's made seven of ten cuts and has three top ten finishes. He's made 11 of 12 cuts here in Augusta, falling short only in 2017. In the three times he has played here since then, he has shot under par in seven of 12 rounds, and even par in two more. Besides his two wins, his two top finishes at the Masters have occurred in that time period (T-5 in 2018 and T-12 in 2019). How will he fare this season? We'll soon see.

Here are the tee times of the six former Dawgs for the first two rounds, and the other golfers in their group.

And a special shoutout goes to Caterina Don, who is a sophomore on Georgia's women's golf team. Last week, she finished tied for 25th at the Augusta National Women's Amateur, which is a field featuring the world's best amateur golfers. She shot a final round, five over at the Augusta National Golf Club, and sank a 50-foot putt on the final hole. Freshman Isabella Holpfer and sophomore Candice Mahe also participated.