To be fair, while Azinger’s tone and cadence were measured, his comments felt unnecessarily acidic. Trying to belittle the European Tour to make his case isn’t right. That doesn’t mean Azinger was wrong.
After the 2011 Masters champ’s group was put on the clock on the 18th hole, the usually cool-headed South African got “heated” as described by NBC/Golf Channel’s Dan Hicks during Friday’s coverage.
In between clubs at the par-5 third, JT hit one of the worst fairway woods he’s probably hit in a long time – a swipey banana slice that peeled off into the pine straw on the right-hand side. And that’s when he pulled some short-game magic:
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