For the second day running the first hole was the toughest, with Willett taking eight and former champion Angel Cabrera joining Hideto Tanihara and Si Woo Kim in making triple bogeys. In fact, the parade of former champions and other luminaries who posted scores of 151 or worse and will be skipping the weekend was nearly large enough to fill out a consolation bracket. "But you can't change your game like that". But, like he pointed out Tuesday, the feelings of being back are happy ones.
Willett, the second Englishman after Nick Faldo to don the Green Jacket, will propose a toast to four-times Masters champion Palmer, who died a year ago at the age of 87.
Thomas, now in 3rd place in the Fed Ex rankings, is one of the most prolific players on the tour and was a powerhouse all-SEC golfer in Tuscaloosa.
By his own admission, Danny Willett has struggled to adapt to being a major victor.
The Englishman won the Masters by three shots from Jordan Spieth past year, after the American blew a five-shot lead standing on the 10th tee in the final round. I knew what was ahead and I knew the difficulty of the golf course. Defending champion and native English son Willett will serve a Sunday roast with Yorkshire pudding, Yorkshire tea, and English cheese and biscuits for his Champions Dinner tonight.
"We didn't quite realize the impact it had made in the British press".
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1st hole at ANGC now playing to average of 4.62 for the week. He's begun the third round inside the top 10 each of the last five years only to fade badly on the weekend. "Social media is one of the things these days that allows people to write and say whatever they want". His best finish since the calendar turned over was a tie for fifth at the Maybank Classic, an Asian-European Tour event with a weaker field than any tournament played on this side of the Atlantic this year. "We didn't play great toward the back end of that season, but I think a lot of it was because we didn't really get the time off in the middle of the year we were hoping for". We have had a few balls roll and when you got a little slippery 4-, 5-footer and you got a crosswind to take into account, and if the wind doesn't gust through then obviously you're going to miss hit it.
Rory McIlroy was scheduled to start his bid to become the sixth player to complete the career grand slam at 1.41pm in the company of Spain's Jon Rahm and Japan's Hideto Tanihara.
"And I'm pretty sure that as I get even within the area of Augusta, there's going to be a big Cheshire smile on my face", Willett said. Not one of golf's shining lights before the win, he went from the background to the spotlight at a pace he wasn't prepared to handle.
"I had a little walk around the Champions Locker Room to see the names and the years that they won".
"It's going to be a shame, potentially, to give it back on Sunday".
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