This preview will largely touch on that same theme.
But we’ll get way-too deep in the weeds to analyzewhya player will or won’t play well.
With that hedge out the way, we’ll begin with a non-player centric bit.
Always keeping you on your toes.
How will the course handle the rain?
And a firm Augusta National is a great Augusta National, for it asks players pointed questions.
The dispersion is so much wider here."
“We did have one, one time, and Dustin Johnson did very well.
Can Tiger break another Augusta record?
All the while he has never missed the cut as a professional.
So why hasn’t he?
“Well, I wasn’t ready to play,” Woods said Tuesday.
“My body wasn’t ready.
My game wasn’t ready.
And I thought that when I was at Hero, once a month would be a really nice rhythm.
Hasn’t worked out that way.
But now we have major championships every month from here through July.
So now the once a month hopefully kicks in…The body’s justthings just flare up.
Again, the training that we have to do at home, it changes from day-to-day basis.
Some days I just feel really good, and other days, not so much.”
He takes great pride in never missing cuts, and this record would mean something to him.
I think he makes the weekend.
How will Scottie putt?
It’s a virtual certainty that Scottie Scheffler will hit the ball well enough to win the Masters.
If he plays his game and he putts well, he wins.
Can a first-timer finally break the streak?
A Masters debutant has not won the tournament since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979.
This year’s crop boasts, by one metric, the two best Masters rookies ever.
4 Wyndham Clark is the highest-rank rookie ever, and no.
2 on that list is Ludvig Aberg, who enters this week as the world No.
6 despite being a professional for just 10 months.
Clark, never short on confidence, believes he can be the guy to break a 45-year-old trend.
“Stats like that are meant to be broken,” Clark says.
“So I know it’s a tall task.
It’s a challenging golf course.
There’s a bunch of good golfers.
With that said, you still have to match – you have to still bring your game.
So it’s not like you might just flip a switch and win it.
But, yeah, that would be an amazing accomplishment.
And I like my chances.
I really like myself on this golf course.
I feel good on a lot of tee shots and approaches, and there’s so much creativity.
So I feel good coming into the week.”
As for Aberg, a 24-year-old Swede, he’s going with a little more of a stop-and-smell-the-azaleas approach.
This isn’t just his first Masters; it’s his first-ever major championship.
He became the first player ever to play in a Ryder Cup before playing in a major.
It’s a very, very talented group.
Does current form matter at all for Brooks Koepka?
This week feels like the ultimate acid test for whether current form matters at all for Major Brooks Koepka.
He played very poorly at LIV Miami last week, shooting 77-77 over the weekend.
He doesn’t have a top 10, in fields of 54, in his last four LIV events.
But does it matter?
Like, at all?
“It’s what I always dreamed of when I was a kid.
But you knew that already.
