Golf Augusta Masters from the greeting to Langer to those who pee on the field …

While wherever a weekend of rest begins, today it is hard work in Augusta, where you have to give everything to go up the ranking and give yourself a chance for the green jacket. Meanwhile, during the first two laps …

never say Rae’s Creek

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There are things that cannot be done in the temple. The Rae’s Creek knows something about it, a river that has made (and continues to do) the story of the tournament. When Sunday the race was decided in the last nine holes, he is the undisputed protagonist of the deadly Amen Corner (especially in holes 12 and 13). He, who gives lesson of strategy and said law, would never have thought of suffering an affront like the one that led him to the news prematurely, during the first round. While everyone always tries to avoid it, there was a player who sought him desperately for a pit stop. The Spaniard Jose Luis Ballester, Us Amateur champion in office, created a case that embarrassed the compassionate and regulated world of the Ugusta National. But not the protagonist. “I completely forgot that there were bathrooms to the left of the tee. I did not know where to go and, since Justin Thomas had a problem on the green, I thought of taking advantage of the river and that people would not have seen me much. Instead, I received one of the strongest applause of the day, so it was fun. If it still happens to me I would do it again,” he said.

never say gnome

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It is the greatest challenge of the good spectator. That of taking possession of a thirty centimeters tall that changes dress and appearance every year, ranging from those of a caddie to those of one thousand patrons. The long beard remains, changes the clothing, very British last year, with an embarrassing shirt full of peaches (symbol of Georgia) and fishing ice cream these days. But it doesn’t matter, the gnome is a status symbol, a must have to place on the library or maybe to resell: it costs 50 dollars, but a week later on Ebay it ranges from two hundred to thousand dollars. The Augusta National Lo Centellina, creating waiting, stalking near the mega pro shop and some race (moreover forbidden).

never say 90

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In Augusta “the path is perfection, and requires perfection”, said Nick Faldo, three times Masters champion. Bringing home a score in 90 shots is certainly not what the British Pro meant, but a crooked day is enough to be completely at the mercy of rebounds, slopes and green who have nothing normal here. Ask Nick Dunlap. The twenty -one -year -old road alabama has made little for now, but from number one. Passed in a moment as a best Amateur on the planet to the child prodigy among the professionals, he was the first player in the history of the PGA Tour to win in the same season (2024) both by amateur and pro. Yet his first lap of this Masters was a nightmare. Chapeau for the second round closed in 71.

never say Langer

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Last July plays the last tournament of the DP World Tour (513 departures, 42 wins); Then, on the eve of his 41st Masters, the German champion announces the retreat from the major that saw him twice winner (1985 and 1993) and ensures that passing the cut to Augusta for the last time “will be very difficult, the probability is definitely against me because of the field so long”. But it doesn’t seem to go like this. Family and teams that accompany him on the sidelines, they are already sure they will have to postpone the party on Sunday because he, stainlessly, is still there with his drives to whom sixty meters are missing from the playmate Will Zalatoris. Two days of great golf, but a blow as perfect as mocking at the 15th, with the ball that rolls slowly and inexorable towards the water, ruins the score and for a single blow that cut to -2 does not pass it. An eye to the final leaderbord of the second day to note how many players, who certainly are not lacking, are behind him: among other Books Koepka, Adam Scott, Will Zalatoris, Nicolai Hojgaard, Thomas Detry, Billy Horschel, Tony Finau. At 67, the super German champion does not easily give up his place among the big ones and leaves the green of the last hole holding his wife Vikki Carol by the hand, with a mocking smile.