Golf Masters
….that would leave golf fans buzzing!
But as everyone from Greg Norman to Ken Venturi has learned the hard way, there are no sure things on Masters Sunday. Anything can happen, and just might. Here are the seven best possible storylines, assuming, for the sake of this exercise, a winning score of 17 under…
Written content by Alan Shipnuck via Golf
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The third round of the Masters was the Dustin Johnson Show, and an air of inevitably now hangs over this 84th playing of the tournament. But as everyone from Greg Norman to Ken Venturi has learned the hard way, there are no sure things on Masters Sunday. Anything can happen, and just might. Here are the seven best possible storylines, assuming, for the sake of this exercise, a winning score of 17 under…
Patrick Reed shoots 64 to win
Since it’s 2020, a Reed upset would be fitting. He made plenty of birdies during his third round but lost the plot with a double bogey out of the fairway bunker on 5 and then a deflating bogey-bogey finish. But if the 2018 champ with the wizardly short-game cleans up those mistakes, ya never know…
Abe Ancer shoots 67 to win
It’s a huge ask to make the Masters your first PGA Tour victory but Ancer is trying to do exactly that. He hardly shrank from the moment in the third round, shooting a calm and collected 69 to move into a tie for second. If the dashing Ancer pulls through he has a chance to become the Seve Ballesteros of Mexico. Whatever his Sunday score, he’s pretty much guaranteed to make history: no Mexican player has finished better than 30th at the Masters.
Sungjae Im shoots 67 to win
The 22-year-old with the easy smile and gorgeous tempo is a cult favorite, and a victory here would turn him into the biggest (male) golf superstar to come out of Asia at exactly the right moment, with the Olympics heading to Tokyo next summer (coronavirus willing). Im was rock-solid on Saturday, his always strong ball-striking complemented by some short-game magic; the hole-out on 11 was pure class and stirred the ghosts of Larry Mize, who himself had quite a week. It’ll take more of the same to run down DJ. Read more from Golf.
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