Nick Dunlap found all kinds of trouble in the opening round of masters.
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Augusta, ga. – as Nick dunlap opened up the 18th Street of the 18th Street on a shiny blue Thursday Thursday Augusta NationalHe had the scene for himself. With his partners playing, Billy Horschel and Bob Macintyre, already in Green and increasing their bird efforts, scenes, partly, resembled what we have seen in so many past Sunday masters: the sample enjoying a Victor’s Walking PAR-4.
The patrons of patrons behind the pen of the glance left green, however, told a very different story.
How in the hell do you do it?!
He wants to get off this golf course as soon as possible.
Is she 16?!
Indeed, it was a 16, as in the green number posted near the name of the Dunlap on the iconic table that supervises the green. As in Sixteenth through 17 holes.
And ready to deteriorate.
Dunlap had hit him with his shooting in the tree, then progressed his next three -foot shot. His third oscillation – another fist – reached the right path but ran straight through it, leaving it STILL Without any look at green. Dunlap played his fourth on the street fat and his fifth, a wedge hit by 113 yards, in three legs. As the dunlap ball immersed again towards the hole, Horschel looked back down the road and gave his partner a fist pump. Moral support, though the shell-shocked look in the eyes of Dunlap as he approached the green suggested that the 21-year-old needed something much stronger than that.
Dunlap would hit the double blow to catch the type of round that makes you want to gather your clubs in the basement – and maybe you never pull them out. His latest meeting looked like a Burger Frat-Boy order: seven bogies, Four Double, a triple. In the form of the number, he read this: 43-47-90, which was the highest score of the first round in a master since Ben crenshaw signed for 91 in 2015; Gentle Ben was 63 years old then playing in his last masters. The highest score, period, in a master disown They belong to Billy Casper, who shot 106 in the first round in 2005, but that sign is unofficial because Casper did not make his card connection. So the obnoxious honor instead goes to the amateurs Charles Kunkle Jr., who in the fourth round in 1956 scored a 23-sided 95.
However, Dunlap’s round was certainly more stunning because he is not an amateur outside his element, or his former prime minister of the former champion; Dunlap won the US New Amateur less than four years ago and US amateurs just two years ago, making it the only player who was not named Tiger Woods to search for both trophies. Five months after his victory in AM, Dunlap played in excluding a sponsor at the PGA Tour Palm Spring event trumping a day later To become the first amateur to win at PGA Tour since Phil Mickelson in 1991 and the second newest winner of the tournament in 90 years. One week after Amex, Dunlap returned pros. He fought during the spring and half of the summer, but then won again, in July, at the Barracuda championship near Lake Tahoe. He would finish the season in the top 50 places in the FedEx Cup rankings and with nearly $ 3 million in revenue.
This year has been less prosperous. Dunlap made the cut in his first six beginnings, but only once ended in the Top 10. In each of his next three beginnings in the supremacy of the Masters-Bay Hill, players and Texas Open-he lost the weekend and twice shot 80. In Bay Hill last month, Dunlap said he was working for his own accuracy, more stable. “The only thing about the golf,” he said, “it’s never to understand it.”
And some days, you can’t understand nothing OUTSIDE
Dunlap’s opening in this 89th master proved to be an ominous: a ball drawn on the left of the first road. Tiger Woods has a habit of doing the same in this hole, but also possesses a world’s ability to run the ship quickly. In this Thursday, Squall defeated Dunlap. He deceived the first, then added two more bogies to 3 and 4. In the parfy par-4 5, Dunlap spinked his third shot from green and made 7. After a pair of 7 and 8 came another Bogey in 9.
DOWN CornerMore hell. Dunlap found water in all three holes-par-4 11, par-3 12 and par-5 13-To play the famous extension at 6-5-6. He would still rinse one more ball in the par-3 16, which led to a double, before the closing mess to 18 years old. He hit only six straight roads and the same number of greens. If there was a bright place, he would not do once with three putt.
After Dunlap rolled on his three legs in the last, he grabbed his hands with his players played and their cadets. While strolling to his bag, which his own cadet, Hunter Hamrick, positioned him near the green side, Hamrick gave his boss five quick strips on the back. Few words, if any, were exchanged because what words can to be exchanged?
After making his round official in the note, Dunlap, through a green media official, refused to speak with a reporter, then disappeared after the club. Thus, Hamrick, who placed his bag at a sheltered and, hasty tones, began to deconstruct the round with another Dunlap team member. The caddy lid released by Hamrick’s green masters was pushed back to the head. He seemed spent and, when he approached a reporter, he said he too did not feel much like he could speak. In justice, there was certainly not much to add.
However, one of Dunlap’s partners offered a color. “To be honest,” Macintyre said after signing for a three-sken 75, “he was fighting there today (but) his attitude was strong. He did not get into the road. He did not cease anything that would affect his two other partners playing because we got a job to do.
“I feel for him today, but he will come back.”
