Former champion Ian Woosnam will not play at Augusta again after deciding to call time on his Masters participation.

The Oswestry born Golf Hall of Fame star won the Green Jacket in 1991 – a victory which guarantees him a lifetime playing exemption.

However Woosnam, who will celebrate his 64th birthday in March and has suffered with a bad back, has made the cut just twice, the last time in 2008, since the turn of the century.

“I have thought long and hard about playing the Masters again this year and in the future, but it’s time for me to watch the young guys play,” Woosnam wrote on Twitter. “So I’m going to sit back and enjoy the memories that Augusta has given me over the years, thank you for everything Augusta.”

Woosnam started playing at Llanymynech Golf Club and turned professional in 1976 before first playing in the European Tour in 1979.

Woosnam was a member of eight consecutive European Ryder Cup teams from 1983 to 1997.

Woosnam won the first of his three BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year awards, which he went on to win in 1990 and 1991.

He was awarded an OBE in the 2007 New Years Honours List and inducted to the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.