There are any variety of methods to breakdown the Masters area into numerous classes to try to work out who’re the primary probabilities to assert the primary main of the yr, however Australia’s 2006 US Open Champion, Geoff Ogilvy, believes one of the best ways that can assist you discover a winner this week is that this – those that have already got a inexperienced jacket and people who don’t.
“A inexperienced jacket in your locker right here at Augusta Nationwide is value one shot per spherical”, mentioned Ogilvy.
“The fellows who’ve gained right here can play with out the stress that builds on gamers from the second they drive down Magnolia Lane. Should you’ve already gained right here you’re extra relaxed, figuring out that in case you come up quick it’s okay, as a result of subsequent yr you’ll come again, put in your inexperienced jacket, go to the the Champions Dinner on Tuesday evening, and luxuriate in all of the issues that include being a Masters champion”.
Fortunately for Rory McIlroy, Bryson DeChambeau doesn’t have a inexperienced jacket both.
The best inexperienced jacket holder onte hleaderboard is Patrick Reed at six-under, adopted by Scottie Scheffler one shot additional again.

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GREG NORMAN the twin main winner at all times struggled with hayfever when he headed to Augusta in April. He talked about it after his heartbreaking collapse in 1996 after main by six pictures going into the ultimate spherical, however he isn’t alone in relation to golfers batting allergic reactions once they head to the Masters.
Town of Augusta is famend as being one of many pollen capitals of the USA, and whereas the pines, dogwoods and magnolias are the backdrop to the wondrous photos we see on the Masters tv protection, in addition they push the pollen depend to a degree that has the producers of Claratyne doing handstands.
“I get out of my automobile within the morning, my eyes begin watering,” two-time Masters winner Scottie Scheffler mentioned this week. “It’s a little bit bit worse than regular years.”
Sniffles or not, it definitely didn’t damage Scheffler in Spherical 1, together with his opening 4-under 68 bettered solely by Justin Rose, but when the winds decide up and begin filling the air with much more pollen, you may hear much less of ‘You da’ Man’ and extra ‘Gesundheit’ in your TV display screen.
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THERE isn’t a golfer on the planet who doesn’t wish to play Augusta Nationwide, however most of us by no means will, and that’s okay.
Like me, you’ve most likely made peace with the truth that this magnificent format, designed virtually a century in the past by famed golden age structure genius Alister MacKenzie alongside champion golfer and membership co-founder Bobby Jones, isn’t going to be subjected to your duck-hook and flubbed-chip golf sport.
And whereas I’m snug figuring out my future doesn’t function a caddie in white overalls ready to choose up my bag and stroll to the primary tee, I’ve at all times wished to walk down the hill at Amen Nook and stand on the Hogan Bridge that leads the gamers to the twelfth inexperienced, simply to absorb the sheer great thing about all of it.
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When Fox Sports activities sought permission for Paul Gow and myself to file a preview piece wanting on the gap often known as Golden Bell whereas perched above Rae’s Creek, I believed we have been an outdoor probability at finest.
Nicely, typically desires do come true.
It’s truthful to say we have been floating on air as we walked by the eleventh inexperienced, over the magnificently manicured carpet that’s the fairway grass at Augusta Nationwide, and up onto the Hogan Bridge.
And sure, the scene was every little thing I’d at all times imagined it to be.