Olympics-Golf-Matsuyama makes steady start but feels lingering effects of COVID illness

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Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama made a promising start at his home Olympics on Thursday after his recent COVID-19 infection but said he felt the ...

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Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama made a promising start at his home Olympics on Thursday after his recent COVID-19 infection but said he felt the lingering effects of the illness as his momentum stalled later in his round of 69.

Matsuyama had four birdies in his first eight holes, but bogeys on the ninth and 11th brought him back into the pack, six strokes behind the leader Sepp Straka at Kasumigaseki Country Club."It was very difficult. Towards the end, mental side and focus faded away from me. So that is what I need to put together," he told reporters through a translator.

"If I say I have no pressure, I would be lying. Hopefully I will be able to embrace the pressure on me.

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