Truly, this 86th edition of the Masters offers the promise of fulfilment. Not just in Tiger Woods’s return to competition – with a scorecard in his back pocket for the first time since suffering horrific injuries in a car crash some 14 months ago – or that a new brat pack of young guns are to the forefront in wishing to add a Green Jacket to their wardrobes; rather, that a sizeable contingent of Irish players, four in all, enter the fray with genuine grand designs of their own.
Indeed, the quartet – Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, Séamus Power and even Pádraig Harrington – have enjoyed the sort of bonding and camaraderie of practice rounds and short game challenges that, apart from sharpeni …
- April 7, 2022
