But all three came to grief at one stage or another over the weekend as England’s Danny Willett pulled off an upset win in the first major tournament of the year.
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Willett won in his second appearance at the Masters.
“You talk about fate and everything else that goes with it – it has been a insane week”, Willett said.
“What happened next and later that night shocked me”, he recalled. I have never been particularly up with golf – I play it but I had no idea that he could do this.
The golfer said he was looking forward to “locking the door and throwing the key away for a bit” when he is reunited with them.
The story of this tournament will always be more about Spieth the runner up than Willett the victor, but Willett deserves enormous amounts of credit for a tournament well played and staying composed to shoot an incredible round on Sunday.
She said: “He used to say Danny wasn’t in school yesterday but he’s here today, and that used to be it for years and years”.
“The most noticeable thing was in the winter when he was getting better, he’d stay there until it was absolutely pitch black, chipping and putting under the lights of the club”, Ball said.
The new champion left school at 16. He quit a local college course after a month before attending Jacksonville State University in Alabama for two years. It’s been a fantastic week. “You know when you have somebody that wants to be good”.
Willett came close to not even playing as his wife’s due date for their first child was on Sunday, but their son, Zachariah James, was born by Caesarean section a week before the tournament.
“The Olympics is going to be great fun”, Willett added.
Winning the Masters is the start of the journey, not the end of the journey.
Yes, it will take him a while to get over the disappointment of blowing a five-shot lead on the final nine holes of the Masters, especially after he had just made four consecutive birdies to build what appeared to be that insurmountable margin. “Well, obviously!”, he said, laughing. “All along, you could tell that he would be a good professional some day”.
He said: “It’s just odd, it’s so odd”.
“I won a Claret Jug (British Open), I want to win more”.
Our national championship in June appears headed for a huge comeback after the debacle of Chambers Bay previous year.
‘We were all sat down around JFK airport waiting to get on the plane. “He’s living the dream”.
Though he covered the last six holes in one-under, he had effectively handed the Green Jacket to Englishman Danny Willett as he finished three shots back in a tie for second place, leaving the fans and his fellow players in stunned disbelief.
He also mentions Spieth’s humility and sportsmanship in his two major defeats from last season.
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Bookmaker Coral has already installed the golfer at 6-1 to be the 2016 Sports Personality of the Year.
