Hoffman has had a penchant for making noise at Augusta on Thursdays and Fridays the past couple of years. Now he’ll have a moment to remember on Sunday at one of golf’s most famous one-shotters.
It tied for the highest score in Masters history, and the highest score on the 15th, “beating” the 11s of Masashi (Jumbo) Ozaki, Ben Crenshaw and Ignacio Garrido.
Installed as the 8-1 favourite to win the Masters next month, Tiger Woods exhibited a potpourri of strokes during Thursday’s opening round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational to validate the odds-makers’ growing confidence in him.
For a second straight year, golfers at the Arnold Palmer Invitational participated in a driving range salute to The King. But this time, there was a twist. Literally.