It can be said louder and probably clearer, but it’s impossible to describe in a more graphic way than Sergio García (PAR) what has happened on the first day of the Augusta Masters. The golfer from Borriol feels that he has fought a battle that has taken him to the mental and physical limit. The reason: the gusty and tremendously changing wind that is being experienced this Thursday.
Just after finishing the round, with five birdies, three bogeys and a double bogey, Sergio raised the white flag. We’ve come this far. “I’m going home to rest, I feel like I’ve boxed twelve rounds against Mike Tyson. It’s been very tough. The wind was very complicated because suddenly it was blowing at 30 kilometres per hour and then it dropped to 5. You had to calculate it well and, in addition, be lucky,” the Spaniard assured.
The par result, undoubtedly, has tasted little to the golfer from Borriol, who has hit very high-quality shots. The bogey on the 11th and the double bogey on the 12th, which completely stopped his round, came precisely from a wind change. “Ryan Fox (one of his playing partners) hit the pitching wedge on the 12th and left it in the centre of the green four and a half metres from the flag and I hit the 9 iron, the strong gust of wind jumped, I fell short and ended up in the water,” he explains.
This first day of the Masters is a day to play good golf, but you also need those doses of luck that the Spaniard refers to. Be that as it may, the birdie putt-bonus that he put in on hole 13, after sinking from more than 15 metres, must also be credited to his account.
It has not been a bad start for Sergio García in the Masters, although the result tastes little to him, clear demonstration that his feelings hitting the ball, as has been seen throughout the week in the practice rounds, are being very good.
