by Playing the Augusta National Golf Club is a dream. But sometimes the dream turns into a nightmare, or at least it goes aside. Enough for Nick Faldo to remember tears in a round in 1989, Jason Day fell into a deep depression after exploding his best chance of winning in 2013 and Matt Fitzpatrick was so frustrated by his game in 2020 that he did not want to play next week.
Golf can be humiliating. In his first masters, Russell Henley pulled 82 in the second round to miss the cup. It is also his birthday. No gift or cake slicit was going to cheer it up that day. Here are a few times when the pros remember having been the most upset by the masters.
Nick Faldo
In 1989, Lee Trevino and I had to finish the third round on Sunday morning. It was not going well. I had a third shot on 13 and I thought that if I finished 2 under the last six holes, I would save the day. In fact, I finished 2 and I pulled 77. I was in tears on the course when I plugged it to 17 years. I was able to group and throw everything on the wall and pull 65 and win sudden playoffs (on Scott Hoch) but six hours earlier, I had tears as if I had blown it.
Wyndham Clark
Last year, I played well and I hit him on the green on the 15th, I went up near the hole and I turned into the water.
Rickie Fowler
I sorted the last in 2018 when Patrick Reed won. I remember having the impression of giving my best shot, so I was excited about this, but being so close and being short was one of the times up and down.
Matt Fitzpatrick
2020, I didn’t play well and I didn’t want to play next week. It was humiliating and showed me that I was far away.
Brian Harman
I made triple the new one year and I did not reach a bad blow.
Jason Day
In 2013, I had my head with three holes to travel and I thought the jacket was mine but I stuck 16 and 17 and I finished third. It was a deep deep disappointment.
Keegan Bradley
I am a lot upset in Augusta. I remember this one that I hit the sixth hole on a rear-left flag. It was wet that year and I hit the most incredible 6 iron in there and he hit, and I left my eye and I started driving and rolling. I stopped looking at and he came all the way forward and I was furious.
Kevin Kisner
One of my first times by playing in the masters, I was trying to cring so hard to cut the cut and I eaten my ball at nine time at the front at 4 feet and a big burst made it skirted with the green before I could mark it and I had to offend it again.
Matt Kuchar
He must leave early. I missed my right part. Whenever you go early, it’s a disappointment.
Rickie Fowler
One of the most excited and the most upset is probably the last when Patrick [Reed] I then won, knowing how close I was, obviously to play well and give it a good blow, I was excited about this, but to be so close and then fail, it was probably a piece of advice. But it’s time, so the top and top very low.
Russell Henley
I pulled an 82 to my first masters on my birthday, April 12. It was a Friday, so I missed the cup too, and I had a lot of people there to see myself. I got my hopes very high and the next thing I know that I report for 82. Not the birthday present I hoped.
Stewart cink
I made a hole in one by 16 with my son Cadding for me. It raised me directly on the cutting line and I built the last two to miss. I was destroyed. All that I could think of was that it could be my last time at the Masters, and so far.
Webb Simpson
One year, I missed the cut with a bogey manufacturing on the last hole.
Adam Hadwin
In the Masters of November in 2020, I had to finish the second round on Saturday. I had a 6 feet for stewed on 14 and I had to play the last five holes in 1 sous and I missed the 6 feet and I missed the 15thth Green with a corner and ended up missing the cut by one. It is the craziest I have ever left the property two days earlier.
