Masters 2011: Tiger Woods and 15 US Players Who Might Win, 9 Who Won’t

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Published: April 5, 2011

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As much as golf tournaments are about picking who will win, it’s also about who won’t. The factors that rule people in or out are experience, age, how they’ve performed at the highest levels and what kind of shots they hit compared to the golf course they are playing.

Former winners and those who play well should do well in The Masters, but golfers are unpredictable. They can wake up cranky. Pull a muscle warming up. Get food poisoning. Break their favorite driver. You just can’t tell.  Dumb stuff happens all the time, and it will this week, too. Lucky stuff will also happen, and we just don’t know where.

Of the 46 US players, three are amateurs, seven are first timers at Augusta National as professionals, five are over 40, and six are Champions Tour players.  The likelihood of an amateur or a Champions Tour player winning are not impossible, but as the saying goes, Slim Left Town.

As much as we’d all like to see Fred Couples or Tom Watson win, Watson is now 60. Couples is into his second season on the over 50 circuit and he has a bad back.  If there’s an office pool, those two Champions Tour players would be super dark horse picks. They may be able to post two or three good rounds, but it’s the four good rounds over 50 that are tough. No one knows why, no golfer over the age of 50 has been able to define it or explain it.  With luck they will show the youngsters how it’s done by making some birdies and eagles.

The amateur tradition at the Masters is wonderful, but the last two amateurs to win professional tournaments were Scott Verplank (Western Open) and Phil Mickelson (Tucson Open).  That’s something even Tiger Woods was not able to do.  Nathan Smith. Peter Uihlein, Lion Kim and David Chung enjoy the Crow’s Nest. Study the jacket.

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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