Fred’s plasters hoping to make another master cut. But is a farewell coming?

Fred’s plasters, in a warm verse in Florida, sound both optimistic and understanding, which is a much more favorite mental lie to sit than what he conquered 10 months ago, in front of a black microphone in Georgia.

There In last year’s masters, Couples said He was just hurting. There, he would shoot at 80 and 76 rounds, though it was the way in which he collected the numbers that concerned him the most.

“My back was shot,” the 1992 masters said at the time.

“I have more things just to play. The longer the club, I am fine. I had no speed. I was driving that 260 (yard). But most of them were going straight. It was pleasure. It was really difficult If I had more forests, frankly, yesterday, I could have been shot by 75 but I didn’t know – I was minimized how bad I felt. .

It was not ideal. But it was a year ago, and time actually healed the wounds. While he did not use an 11-tree, he is proudly added some lids to his bagA collection of lighter metals and hybrids to hit. Before this week’s PGA Tour Champions, Chubb Classic, he says his game is OK. He is talking about the masters again. The 65-year-old is as part of the event as Pimento’s cheese sandwiches.

Can the cutting, a feat that he reached two years ago, making it the oldest ever to do that? Why not? He said he will play this week, take a month off, play two right events at the end of next month and be ready.

“I should have played last year? I don’t know, ”couples said on Thursday. “I had a bunch of cortisan shots. But to be honest with you, besides the shedding of some tears below the stature, I couldn’t even walk. I broke 80 that day and played very well.

“So I’m waiting for him. I really think if I go there and I’m feeling well, I can compete with this cut everyone talks. I can’t compete with Jon Rahms and (Brooks) Koepkas and (Scottie) Schefflers and (Xander) Schauffeles and (Patrick) Cantlays, but I can compete with that cut number. And that for me is a goal.

“Here, it’s more competitive to work on my way to the last group or in the second group to the last and then, hey, a hot Sunday, everything can happen. Everyone is so good now. People just said why they are – there are so many young boys. In the early ’40s that were great when I was 21, 22. Now they are 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, and everyone is knocking on the door, winning and extraordinary players. “

Plessifts are also pragmatic. Even in Golf, where there is always another blow, always another round, always another year, there is a border, and with it, a decision. Couples are aware. Maybe it has crystallized some over the past year.

Perhaps he will soon stop the exclusion of life, given to former champions. In Augusta this year, he will look Bernhard LangerA 67-year-old owner of the green jacket, play his last masters and before a reporter can finish a question about when that day may come for couples, he replies.

“Well. I too can be there,” the couples said. “I have to sit with Fred Ridley (Chairman of the National Team and Augusta Masters). I’m 65 years old. But I miss a couple, so I’ll throw there, hey, fred, you know, my back came out a few years ago.

“It will be great with Bernhard. And Bernhard is a guy who can break this record I have as the oldest son to make the cut. But he is such a competitor and he plays well there. But he will It tells you that everything has to go, really well. every hole.

Or maybe couples can.

Which, of course, is a more comfortable thought than those he had a year ago.

“I just feel like the way I play in Augusta,” he said, “I too have a blow.”

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