An Augusta National rookie hasn't won a green jacket in 45 years, but Gary Van Sickle says Sweden's Ludvig Åberg isn't your average first-timer.
It’s Saturday evening at the Masters and any number of players can still slip into the green jacket Sunday.
First-timers aren’t supposed to win the Masters. Fuzzy Zoeller was the last to do it 45 years ago in 1979, a bit of Masters lore Åberg learned during a Tuesday pre-tournament press conference. But “Joe and I have been very disciplined,” Åberg said. “We’re not trying to force anything. We’re not trying to go for pins or make decisions that will cost us. We take calculated risks. We’ve been very disciplined toward our targets and hopefully we’ll do that again tomorrow.”
The exact moment Masters fans discovered Åberg was Friday when he birdied 12, 13 and 16 to sprint up the leaderboard. Anybody who missed that surely spotted his front-nine 33 in Saturday’s third round. He bashed a drive almost to the crosswalk at the bottom of the 9th fairway, then dropped an iron shot that landed past the pin and spun back to five feet for birdie.
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