Augusta Masters 2020 Irregular start of the Canarian golfer in Augusta
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Rafa Cabrera, the golfer whose main virtue It was always solidity and regularity, I played two opposite roles on the first day of the Augusta Masters. From a brilliant start, from a player who is made to live without stress on the PGA Tour, he went to a run-down finish, which ruined everything he had stored. He dispatched the day with 73 strokes, one over par.
The beginning was majestic. Although he failed to birdie on hole 2 -His balance in par 5s on Thursday was +1, uncommon at Augusta National- he released three darts with irons whose sum was no more than three meters to place three birdies between 1 and 4. The start invited think that Augusta National could have a therapeutic effect on a golfer who has suffered since the pandemic, but who does not relent. That last week, hoping for a miracle and as a fourth reserve, he traveled to Houston in vain to see if the casualties multiplied and he could enter. It did not happen.
Two tripe, two bogeys, they lowered their smile, which was reinvigorated in the Amen Crner with a very courageous putt of 6 meters on par 3, the one on the lake, and on the shot for eagle on 13. With five holes remaining, he was three under par.
But then the ‘storm’ came. He made two bad approaches in 14 (bogey) and in 15, in this one he was so short, that the ball did not crown and he went down the side of the green towards the pond. He came out of there with a double bogey, which was made even more painful with another tripateo on 17. The canary will have to face a good Friday to make the cut at the Masters. “I think I deserved a better result, but the coin did not fall on my side today,” confessed Rafa. “With such a wet course, there was a lot of mud and it was difficult. The greens were softer, but you could hear the underground drying system and they will be faster again on Friday for sure.”
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