John Boyette

John Boyette is the sports editor at the Augusta Chronicle . He has covered twenty-three Masters(R) Tournaments and has directed the Augusta Chronicle' s award-winning coverage of the tournament since 2001. As a twenty-year-old junior at the University of South Carolina working part time for his hometown newspaper, the Aiken Standard , he was offered a chance to help cover the 1986 Masters(R) Tournament. With no specific assignment, and being a fan of Jack Nicklaus, he decided to follow him...See more

John Boyette is the sports editor at the Augusta Chronicle . He has covered twenty-three Masters(R) Tournaments and has directed the Augusta Chronicle' s award-winning coverage of the tournament since 2001. As a twenty-year-old junior at the University of South Carolina working part time for his hometown newspaper, the Aiken Standard , he was offered a chance to help cover the 1986 Masters(R) Tournament. With no specific assignment, and being a fan of Jack Nicklaus, he decided to follow him exclusively for Sunday's final round. The result was an afternoon he will never forget. He won a statewide award the next year for his recounting of Nicklaus's win, and his journalism career was launched. He lives in Aiken, South Carolina, with his wife, Kathy. See less