In 2011 I came into the Masters the highest I had ever been ranked at
#3 in the world - I had just won the Accenture Matchplay and my confidence was high. .
I went to Augusta wanting to do something no one had ever done before - break the curse!! You see no one has ever won both the Par 3 contest & The Masters in the same year & I wanted to change that.
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So Wednesday came around & with my college roommate das432 caddying for me in the par 3, I accomplished part 1 winning the Par 3 contest with a score of 5 under 22! (Here I am with my wife dianedonald and our 1st child Ellie, aged 1 with the trophy)
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Now for the hard part....I played well that year, coming up the 72nd hole, I needed to birdie the 18th to tie Geoff Ogilvy & Tiger Woods for the clubhouse lead. My 7 iron second shot into 18, hit the flagstick and came off the front of the green - not to be deterred and with my goal still firmly in my head, I chipped it in to birdie 18 and finish at 10 under. .
At that point I thought my...