Masters ticket lottery rejection emails hit inboxes

Driving the news: Each summer, the Masters opens its lottery for practice-round and tournament tickets to professional men's golf's first major of the season — among the hardest tickets in sports to acquire.

By the numbers: Bookies.com estimates that about 2 million people apply for Masters tickets for each tournament day, with applicants having just a 0.55% chance — roughly 1 in 182 — of being selected.

• Those are better odds than being struck by lightning or winning the lottery, so you've got that going for you. Which is nice.

The intrigue: Golfers are gluttons for punishment. Even though we know it's a long shot, we sign up year after year.

• Just like trying to hit the green with our second shot on a par 5.

What's next: Waiting for the group in front of us to clear the green so we can load up on that 3-wood and try again in 2027.