A player firmly on the rise. The below is the current list of invitees and subject to change once declarations are made: Abraham Ancer. 58. 62. 43. The only weakness, if youd call it that, is hes putting right at tour average over his last 10 events. JASON KOKRAK Age: 35 World Ranking: 33 Masters appearances: 1 Best Masters finish: CUT, 2020 The big graduate of Xavier won for the first time in 200-plus PGA Tour starts last fall at Shadow Creek but missed the cut just a few weeks after in his Masters debut. WebVisit ESPN to view the 2021 Masters Tournament golf leaderboard with real-time scoring, player scorecards, course statistics and more Skip to main content Skip to navigation ESPN The Irishmans been striking the ball nicely but the putter hasnt cooperated. Younger brother Alvaro played in the 2019 Masters after winning the Latin American Amateur. Practice rounds begin Monday, April 5, and continue through Wednesday, April 7. USE OF AND/OR REGISTRATION ON ANY PORTION OF THIS SITE CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF OURVISITOR AGREEMENT(UPDATED 1/6/23),PRIVACY AND COOKIES NOTICE(UPDATED 1/4/23) ANDCALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICE. 35. The 50 leaders on the Official World Golf Ranking published during the week prior to the current Masters Tournament. Lee Elder will hit a ceremonial tee shot. The weather is warming, the azaleas are blooming and the dream of the Grand Slam is alive and well. Entering this year's Masters Tournament in April, 84 players have currently qualified for Augusta National. 369 just two years ago. Its a lethal combination, and one thats seen him live near the top of leader boards over the past month. Not to be a buzzkill, but he does the majority of his damage on shorter, easier coursesthe average winning score of his five PGA Tour wins is 19.8 under parand the majors arent typically set up like that. Masters Tournament 2021 Leaderboard | Golf Channel 47. 59. Still can contend on his style of golf course, but Augusta is a big ask these days with his last five Masters starts resulting in MC/MC/T-36/T-58/T-51. Doesnt have a particularly big game (ranks 141st in driving distance) and has one top-25 in 18 career major startbut hey, Zach Johnson won the Masters, and Harman looks like a lefty ZJ if you squint tightly enough. Im going to get a few more chances to come back here. Getting harder and harder to ignore his relatively poor record in the majors, though, as he has just one top-10 in 22 career starts (T-7 at the 2016 Masters). 65. MATT KUCHAR Age: 42 World Ranking: 42 Masters appearances: 14 Best Masters finish: T-3, 2012 Doesnt get the same press as Spieth, Fowler or McIlroy, but Kuch had been struggling for more than a year until a much-needed third-place showing at WGC-Match Play. Smith continued the strong play into this year, with a solo fourth at the Genesis and back-to-back top-20s at the WGC-Workday and Players. Hes been a tremendous putter throughout his career, so smart money says thats an aberration rather than anything seriously concerning. GOLF DIGEST MAY EARN A PORTION OF SALES FROM PRODUCTS THAT ARE PURCHASED THROUGH OUR SITE AS PART OF OUR AFFILIATE PARTNERSHIPS WITH RETAILERS. Shot an opening-round 70 last November but missed the cut, making it eight MCs in his last 11 Masters. All that said, he finished in the top 25 in each of his last 11 starts on the PGA Tour Champions. He manages the Hot Mic, GOLFs media vertical, and utilizes his on-camera experience across the brands platforms. 1? One of those came at the 2019 Masters, where he played in the final group alongside Tiger and joined the party that rinsed their tee shots on the 12th. Hes going to win another major (or two), and it could certainly happen this week. MACKENZIE HUGHES Age: 30 World Ranking: 51 Masters appearances: 1 Best Masters finish: CUT, 2017 Canadian caught a bit of a heater at the end of the 2019-20 season to get to the Tour Championship, and hes rewarded with his second trip to Augusta and first since 2017. !he played a full slate of events on the 50-and-older circuit and posted two solo seconds in 12 starts. Bryson beat him pretty good that Sunday, and Wolff lost in a playoff in his next start in Las Vegas. There is not alternate list for the Masters, as the tournament is an invitational. The field will be playing for a $11.5 million purse, with 50 of the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking among the top contenders. 1. Dustin Johnson Making up for it with that short game and his putting, which is the best on tour this season, and he eats up bentgrass greens. GARY WOODLAND Age: 36 World Ranking: 53 Masters appearances: 8 Best Masters finish: T-24, 2011 Hes faded a bit since winning the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. Koepka's appearance is still in question after March knee surgery. Four top-25s in seven stroke-play starts in 2021 thus far suggest the game is in a good place. Since then, its been a slogno finishes better than T-36 in nine starts, and he withdrew from the WGC-Workday after an opening-round 83. That certainly bodes well heading into some of the trickiest greens these guys see all year. One of the tours straightest hitters (hes third in fairway percentage) but also one of the shortest, which is how he ranks 153rd in SG/off the tee. 40. Oddsmakers like Johnson to defend his title and become the fourth player to win back-to-backMasters. Hes simply making too many mistakes, mostly off the teeDJ has lost shots to the field driving in two of his last four events, after not losing strokes driving in any of his prior 17 starts. 42. 49. Thats mainly thanks to his terrific ball-strikingyou wont find a better rhythm in golf, and hes picked up an average of 5.75 shots tee-to green over his last eight starts where Shotlink was in place. In fact, he leads the tour in that statistic over his past 24 rounds. Picked up his first PGA Tour win since the 17 Masters last fall, when he stuck an 8-iron on the 72nd hole to within three feet then brushed it in with his eyes closed. Hes a shotmaker who should relish answering Augustas many questions, and his lack of Masters experience should keep his odds very reasonable. Dropped more than five shots to the field off the tee in both the WGC-Workday and the Players, which is legitimately difficult to believe if youve ever been seen him swing a golf club. Threegolfers were added to the field Monday, March 29, when the last Official World Golf Ranking before the Masterswas released. Has five top-10s and 10 top-25s in his 14 starts this season and is already considered one of the tours best ball-strikersranks fourth in SG/approach and SG/tee to green. That is, the groups are spaced 12 minutes apart. 37. He leads the tour in SG/approach over the last 50 rounds and looked in complete control of his ball at the Players. Might be the best iron player in the world and has picked up strokes on his approach play in 14 of his last 15 starts, but whether he contends seemingly always comes down to his puttinghe recently switched to the saw grip and putted nicely at the Concession with it, but he lost an average of 4.85 shots putting in his other two starts with the new technique. Five months after a one-off autumnal Masters, the worlds best are back in Augusta for our favorite rite of spring. CHARLES OSBORNE (a) Age: 20 World Ranking: N/A Masters appearances: First Known as Ollie, hes a junior at SMU and finished runner-up to Tyler Strafaci in the 2020 U.S. Won back-to-back starts at the beginning of 2020 and got as high as World No. No, no, and nohe squeaked by the cut on the number and was never a factor in finishing T-34. There have been some positives latelyhe finished tied for second in SG/tee to green at the Players but last among those to make the cut in putting, which explains the T-35. Finished T-33 or better in all four of his major startstwo of which came as an amateurand has proven multiple times that he can hang on loaded leader boards. Thatd leave less than a month to heal for the opening round at Augusta. On the strength of that run, he crashed on the weekend at the Arnold Palmer Invitational (T-49), then missed the cut at the Players, then lost his first two matches at the WGC-Match Play. ", Also see: Leaderboard | Photos | Player Profiles and stats. The 40-year-old Australian's only Masters appearance was in2014, when he also won an event in the weeks before the tournament. Hes a proper ball-striker and tends to rise to the top on difficult courses, so its no surprise he has eight top-10s in his 18 career starts in majors. Thats slightly disappointing, but its going to change this week. 69. 46. Missed the cut in all three majors last year and has just one top-10 in his 15 starts at Augusta. While hes still competitive on the senior circuit, hes missed the cut in 12 of his last 13 tries against the youngsters and withdrew from last years Masters due to illness. Odds as of Apr 3, 2023 from Since then, hes elbowed his way inside the top 15 with seven top-five finishes in the last 12 months, including victories at Colonial last summer and Pebble Beach in February. Cameron Smith, Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, and several other. BRIAN GAY Age: 49 World Ranking: 209 Masters appearances: 2 Best Masters finish: T-38, 2013 Broke a seven-plus-year win drought last fall at the Bermuda Championship, so hes back at the Masters for the first time since 2013 as the oldest non-past champion in the field. Web2023 Masters Field Listed By World Ranking And Odds To Win. Prior to joining GOLF, James graduated from Syracuse University, during which time he was a caddie scholarship recipient (and astute looper) on Long Island, where he is from. 2021 Masters odds: Picks, field, TV schedule, tee times for Augusta National 2021 Masters pool picks: Brian Harman, Jordan Spieth and a tier-by-tier breakdown of the 27. Whether thats a psychological thing or an unfortunate coincidence, its a frustrating run of results for a player of his caliber. HIDEKI MATSUYAMA Age: 29 World Ranking: 25 Masters appearances: 9 Best Masters finish: 5, 2015 This will be his 10th Masters, which by rule makes him a veteran even at 29. 72. He withdrew from the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational with back spasms and did not play in either the Players or WGC-Match Play to get healthy for majors season. The sports world turns towards Augusta, Georgia this weekend. 6. Had chances to win each of the three events he played in California, including a final-round 64 at Riviera that got him into a playoff. WebThe 2022 Masters - Get all the Masters information you need. 83. The same is true for Augusta, where he has top-10s in his last three appearances. KEVIN NA Age: 37 World Ranking: 34 Masters appearances: 9 Best Masters finish: T-12, 2012 His last two starts have ended in controversy. And hows this for a stat: he has missed the cut just four times in his last 29 starts, and those have come in the PGA Championship, U.S. Open, Masters, and Players Championship. But hes struggled to find week-in, week-out consistency. DeChambeau enters Augusta National with just one victory since his U.S. Open triumph at Winged Foot, but a bevy of top-10 finishes. Sunday charge at the Players Championship, Jon Rahm just broke the PGA Tour single-season money record. Then he struck it great at the Honda but putted poorly, and thats kind of been the story over the past year: one part of the game is firing, the other isnt. This season, hes 199th. 52. Still, the enduring memory from Torrey will be his active fingers during Embedgate. Thats a theme with Reed; his imbroglios, which are more often than not his own doing, overshadow his golf. Missed the cut in the next three before saying the 2019 edition would be his last. Has finished T-32 or better in all three of his Masters appearances, though he hasnt made the cruise up Magnolia Lane since 2018. 24. Yet to make the weekend in four career major starts. Amateur victory at Bandon Dunes. 5 (blasphemy!) Certainly not impossible, but hed need to put everything together in a way he hasnt for more than a year. The 2022 Masters ticket application windowbegins June 1. MARTIN LAIRD Age: 38 World Ranking: 100 Masters appearances: 3 Best Masters finish: T-20, 2011 Came out of nowhere to win in Las Vegas last fallneeded a sponsors invite to get into the field, then was victorious as the No. CAMERON SMITH Age: 27 World Ranking: 30 Masters appearances: 4 Best Masters finish: T-2, 2020 Became the first player in Masters history to shoot four rounds in the 60s last yearand still lost by five shots to Dustin Johnson. JOSE MARIA OLAZABAL Age: 55 World Ranking: N/A Masters appearances: 31 Best Masters finish: Win, 1994, 1999 Short-game legend loves him some Augusta Nationalhes has eight top-10s at the Masters, including his two wins. The tours road warrior has already played 17 events on the wrap-around season and weve only just hit April. MC at Augusta last year then lost a playoff at the RSM Classic the week after, but has no top-20s in his five stroke-play starts since. FRED COUPLES Age: 61 World Ranking: N/A Masters appearances: 35 Best Masters finish: Win, 1992 The ageless wonder is, as hard as it is to say, beginning to show some signs of age. Koepka was at Augusta National on Sunday, practicing and playing a few holes and says he intends to play this week. SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER Age: 24 World Ranking: 22 Masters appearances: 1 Best Masters finish: T-19, 2020 The Texan has risen to a career-best 22nd on the World Ranking after a runner-up at the WGC-Match Play, where he played solidly until the finals, when an ugly left miss doomed him against Billy Horschel. Spieth enters the week on a high after winning at the Valero Texas Open following a flurry of top-10 finishes in the early portion of the season, while McIlroy has struggled even after adding a new swing coach, Pete Cowen, to the mix in late-March. VCU grad lives in Jacksonville and has become close with Vijay Singh, interestingly enough. But he comes in off back-to-back top-10s and his iron play remains elite. Seems to always fly under the radar until he pops up on the leader board and were all like, oh yeah. Hes a proven winner and knows how to close the deal, and hes well on his way to putting together a Hall of Fame rsum. Has a solid record at Augusta with three top-10s and 14 made cuts in 15 starts, and he was in semi-contention in 2019 before joining the misery in Raes Creek on Sunday. Amateur at Bandon Dunes. Still an encouraging debut, but that was an entirely different golf course, and he comes in off a missed cut at the Players and an 0-3 week at the WGC-Dell Match Play. 81. You dont win the Players and two other PGA Tour events before your 26th birthday, and look as good swinging it as he does, without ample talent. Hell be stoked to be back at the Masters for the first time since 2012 and eager to improve on his recent major record, where hes missed the cut in four of his last five attempts. HENRIK STENSON Age: 44 World Ranking: 117 Masters appearances: 15 Best Masters finish: T-5, 2018 We wish we had better news here, because hes really a lovely guy. Must be nice. PATRICK REED Age: 30 World Ranking: 7 Masters appearances: 7 Best Masters finish: Win, 2018 Controversies asideand they are very much pluralhes a major champion with nine PGA Tour victories at age 30. And who is the favorite? Missed three straight cuts before a T-19 at Honda. Hes a feel-orientied, artist-type player who loves to play a bunch of different shots around the greens, so its a little surprising that this is the only major where he doesnt have a top-10. LOUIS OOSTHUIZEN Age: 38 World Ranking: 28 Masters appearances: 12 Best Masters finish: 2, 2012 It might not be fair, but his career thus far will be remembered for what it wasnt as much as what it was. The 50 leaders on the Final Official World Golf Ranking for the previous calendar year. Made certain of that with torrid stretch of play starring at The American Express straight through the Players. Happy reading, and happy Masters viewing. 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WebThe Masters 2021: betting.betfair.com provides the stats as the golfers return to Augusta for the second time in five months Augusta National's notoriously treacherous greens play a No judgments hereif we had a lifetime exemption to play the Masters, wed have a hard time quitting, too. Missed six of his next eight cuts after last falls Masters but comes in off a T-3 at the Honda Classic, so thatll give him some good vibes as he heads back to Magnolia Lane. You dont want to rely on the flatstick to bail you out in majors, though. JORDAN SPIETH Age: 27 World Ranking: 38 Masters appearances: 7 Best Masters finish: Win, 2015 For the first time in three years, Spieths insistence that hes feeling confident ahead of the Masters does not ring hollow. Following a brief hiatus in 2020, the Masters has come home to April in 2021, returning with blooming azaleas, dogwoods and magnolias and some pretty good golf. And we do mean straight throughhe played eight consecutive weeks until the gas tank ran low in missing the cut at TPC Sawgrass. The Masters Committee, at its discretion, can also invite players not otherwise qualified. His recent putting stats jump off the page, as hes averaging four strokes gained on the greens over his last five tournaments. The two-time champs preferred right-to-left ball flightand we mean, way right-to-leftgives him an advantage on so many holes. JOAQUIN NIEMANN Age: 22 World Ranking: 26 Masters appearances: 1 Best Masters finish: CUT, 2018 Caught a brutal break when he tested positive for COVID before the November Masters, so his only start at Augusta came as a 19-year-old amateur in 2018. Particularly impressive has been his iron play, which was always the true driver of his greatness even if it was largely overshadowed by his putting. This time, he honored his word for one year, sitting out last November before vowing to return this year after a back procedure has him feeling better. Still, he took heaps of positives and a firmer, faster Augusta this April should play more to his likinghe ranks 159th in driving distance but second in driving accuracy, so hes always going to be a fan of fairways that roll out. He said in January that hed been playing with pain for the six months prior and needed four cortisone shots to finish the year, which sounds awful. 67. Played in the 2008 Masters after finishing runner-up to Colt Knost in the U.S. Staff photo by Colin Demarest Subscribe today! Hovland picked up a second PGA Tour win in Mexico to end 2020 and followed it up with two runner-ups and a T-5 in his next four starts, all against elite fields. (Limited) Fans are back on site. 2021 Masters TV schedule (ET) TV coverage for the 2021 Masters will be split between ESPN and CBS. Lovely ball-striker who struggles with his short putting, and hes missed the cut in 10 of his 16 major starts, but he has made the weekend in three of four Masters appearances. He opened with 65 to share the lead and posted 67 on Saturday to get into the penultimate group on Sunday, so it's not like it was a backdoor top-10, either. The Masters Field for 2023 listed by Official World Golf Ranking. I'm definitely looking forward to that. MORE: At Augusta, the jockeying for position begins with practice rounds. 87. 9. His finishes at Augusta have gotten progressively better since his T-39 debut in 2016, and he shared the lead after Friday last November before a disappointing weekend. Not quite slumping but not playing to the standard he set in the 2018-19 range. 1. Web1 Scottie Scheffler -10 F 2 Rory McIlroy -7 F T3 Cameron Smith -5 F T3 Shane Lowry -5 5 Collin Morikawa -4 Qualifications for Masters Invitation Masters Tournament Champions (Lifetime) US Open Champions (Honorary, non-competing after 5 years) British Open Champions (Honorary, non-competing after 5 years) That was then, however, and this is now: Hes missed the cut in each of his last five and is a combined 48 over par in those 10 rounds. 15 in the World Ranking that week but had dropped outside the top 50 before Austin. Xs and Os wise, the issue has been his short irons/wedges. Hes yet to win a major, of course, but hes done everything but, posting seven top-10s and 10 top-25s in the first 14 major starts of career. Johnson, who has only had the green jacket off the course for four months, summed it up, "Yeah, I think it will be back to feeling like a normal Masters. 48. Bubba doesnt qualify therehis last top 10 in a stroke-play event came last Octoberand hell need to improve on his approach play, which has cost him shots in four of his last five starts, to have a chance. MORE: 9 things Augusta National doesnt want to talk about. 74. Dont look too much into the recent so-so play. And he relishes the chance to shape approaches into greens, a necessity during Masters week. That sentence you read tells you quite a bit about the current state of Leftys gamehe has just one finish better than T-24 in his last 20 starts on the PGA and European tours, and his World Ranking is so depressingly low that I choose not to look at it, thus forcing my editor to fill in the spot above. Nothing really jumps out statistically to suggest he has a chance to contend, but thats why they play the games on the field. on the weekend for his third PGA Tour title. Read our extensive coverage of the Masters . Would he drive the third green? Tickets are sold out for the 2021 Masters. 12. Jon Rahm's wife is expecting their first child, and Rahmtold the Golf Channel's Rex Hoggard that anyone betting on him should have second thoughts as he will leave any tournament he is at for the birth. PATRICK CANTLAY Age: 29 World Ranking: 10 Masters appearances: 4 Best Masters finish: T-9, 2019 Was on quite a heater heading into the Players, with six straight finishes of T-17 or better including a win, a runner-up and a T-3. Has three top-fives in majors but his best go round at Augusta was a T-17 in 2018. Would be a shame for his career to end with just the lone major, and he has memories of that win and four other top-10s at Augusta to draw from. Got a taste of Sunday-at-a-major pressure when he contended at last years PGA. Played his college ball at New Mexico and has J.P. Fitzgerald, Rory McIlroys longtime ex-caddie, on his bag. 19. PAN Age: 29 World Ranking: 155 Masters appearances: 1 Best Masters finish: T-7, 2020 Former World No. 45. On this page, we present our betting guide for the 2021 Masters, with PGA Tour odds and betting options, as well as a course breakdown and the key stats you need to know.. Dustin 31. Christiaan WebPGA TOUR Live Leaderboard 2021 Masters Tournament (2020), Augusta Masters Tournament (2020) Augusta National Golf Club . Posted top-25s in the PGA Championship and the U.S. Open last year but missed the cut at Augusta, which forces him to hit a bunch of long irons, hybrids and fairway woods. Run your office pool online. Ranks outside the top 100 in the six key strokes-gained categories for the season but remains relentlessly optimistic and insists he and his coach, Chris OConnell, have turned a corner. 351 player in the world. BRIAN HARMAN Age: 34 World Ranking: 50 Masters appearances: 2 Best Masters finish: T-44, 2018 Hows this for getting hot at the right time? DYLAN FRITTELLI Age: 30 World Ranking: 68 Masters appearances: 2 Best Masters finish: T-5, 2020 Texas grad has missed the cut in seven of his 13 stroke-play starts this year and ranks 148th in strokes gained/overall, which makes his T-5 at last years Masters a bit of a head-scratcher. Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth one player seeking to end a much longer winless streak, and one who recently did end a lengthy winless streak enter the tournament on uneven notes. Does rank top 25 in SG/approach, which has allowed him to make the cut in six straight major championships, and he plays demanding setups well. This will make an even 40 starts at Augusta, and hes missed the cut six years in a row, so you have to wonder how many more times hell give it a go. Despite his funky swing there is nothing funky about his gamehe drives it beautifully (33rd in distance and 25th in accuracy) and that always plays well in the big events. XANDER SCHAUFFELE Age: 27 World Ranking: 6 Masters appearances: 3 Best Masters finish: T-2, 2019 The word slump is relative in nature, so forgive the tough critique here. As such, he has just two top-10s to go with 16 missed cuts in 38 career major starts. BERNHARD LANGER Age: 63 World Ranking: N/A Masters appearances: 37 Best Masters finish: Win, 1985, 1993 Delivered one of the interesting stories of last Novembers Masters when he got paired with reigning U.S. Open champ Bryson DeChambeau on Sunday, then beat him head-to-head (71-73). 2022 Masters Tournament field: Players, rankings - Golf News The biggest golf event of the year is here as the PGA Tour returns to Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, for the Masters Tournament.Below, we look at the fantasy golf power rankings and odds for the 2021 Masters, with PGA Tour picks and predictions.. And its workinghe won in Dubai earlier this year and has finished T-12 or better in each of his six stroke-play starts this year, including a T-5 at the Players. And yet he was quite listless last year in his Masters debut, shooting 74-73 to miss the cut by three. After months of eager anticipation, the Masters has finally returned to April. MIKE WEIR Age: 50 World Ranking: N/A Masters appearances: 21 Best Masters finish: Win, 2003 Now PGA Tour Champions-agewhere did the time go? Does have top-20s in five of his last six starts at Augusta, so hes always a good top-10 or top-20 bet, but doesnt strike you as the guy to hole the necessary putts down the stretch to win. In the four years since, hes been, and this not an exaggeration, nightmarish in the majors. CHARL SCHWARTZEL Age: 36 World Ranking: 211 Masters appearances: 11 Best Masters finish: Win, 2011 The only Masters champ to birdie his final four holes to win has been in the wilderness for three-plus years. JUSTIN ROSE Age: 40 World Ranking: 41 Masters appearances: 15 Best Masters finish: 2, 2017 Playoff loss to Sergio Garcia in the 2017 Masters was the toughest defeat of his career, and hes been open about how badly he wants to win this tournament. "Yeah, I think this year in April, the Masters will feel like it's back, and it will feel the same. Thats the caliber of player he is: second-place finishes dont move the needle. DANIEL BERGER Age: 27 World Ranking: 15 Masters appearances: 3 Best Masters finish: T-10, 2016 Was the highest ranked player not in the Masters field last November, as he was outside the top 100 in the World Ranking when the field locked in April 2020. When the 2020 Masters was held mid-November, having been rescheduled following last spring's Covid-lockdown, the weather was cooler, which meant the ball travelled shorter distances through the air and there was less run on softer fairways. Approach shots required a little more club than usual, although putting surfaces remained incredibly quick. Quietly has four top-10s in his last six stroke-play starts, including an under-the-radar T-9 at the Players. 23 on the strength of his three European Tour wins in 2018. Feels like its only a matter of time until he gets his major tally started, but you just wish his form was a bit better coming in. Hes made the weekend in all nine of his stroke-play starts in 2021 and is coming off a more-than-solid Florida Swing, where he went T-28/T-21/T-17/T-8. Or, put differently, hes the most consistent presence on the first page of leader boards. Finally put together some big finishes against top-level fields in his last two starts, a solo fourth in Austin and a T-9 at the Players despite needing to hole a 24-footer at the crack of dawn Saturday morning just to make the cut. Cooled off since and was a late withdrawal from the Players, but he looked fine at the WGC-Match Play. Grew up in Valdosta and played at the University of Georgia, so you have to think this tournament means quite a bit to him. Once considered one of the best drivers of the ball in the world, he ranks an astonishing 177th on tour in SG/off the tee and 91st in SG/tee to green, a brutal development for a player who hangs his hat on his ball-striking and his luscious locks.
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