Smith comes into Masters month after a three-week break from tournament golf following his runner-up finish in the LIV Golf event in Hong Kong where he was beaten in a playoff by Abraham Ancer.
Since his epic back-nine collapse in 2011 that torpedoed what would have been a wire-to-wire victory, McIlroy hasn’t given himself many chances at the Masters.
Jaeger’s rise has been fuelled by an increase in driving distance. Hitting 10 ‘Jaegerbombs’ in the final moments before you go play is a routine you can adopt, too. And there are some good reasons why you should consider it.
To understand why green speeds fluctuate and why course superintendents can’t simply mow the greens as short as possible to achieve lightning-fast speeds, we caught up with Jason Meersman, the director of grounds at The Patterson Club in Fairfield, Connecticut.
The win was Uribe’s first since 2011, with the 14-year LPGA veteran already calling this year her last on tour. Her final goal, however, is to make the Olympics, and with this victory, she believes she’s all but assured herself a plane ticket to Paris.
The less-than-casual angle to it is that this visit probably provides a good indication that Woods is feeling healthy enough to compete in the 88th Masters when it begins on April 11.
DeChambeau’s video may have done more to settle the debate squarely in the corner of supporting a rollback than any statement made by the game’s governing bodies in the past quarter of a century.