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• ‘A money grab:’ Rory McIlroy denounces Saudi-backed breakaway golf tour

  05-05-2021 20:14 via theguardian.com
  
  McIlroy says he is ‘very much against’ proposed new tourAmnesty warns of Saudi ‘sportswashing’ of human rights abusesRory McIlroy has led a high-profile backlash against a breakaway golf tour that has shot back to prominence two weeks after the European Super League’s stunning collapse. McIlroy likened the scheme to a “money grab” while Amnesty International again castigated Saudi Arabia’s “sportswashing” attempts.Saudi hopes to entice
  
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• Molly Forbes obituary

  05-05-2021 19:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Molly Forbes, who has died aged 96, will be remembered by many as the Scottish woman who stood up to Donald Trump.When Trump tried to buy the Forbes’ farm for his Aberdeenshire golfing resort, the family resisted. He attempted to have compulsory purchase orders taken out, saying at a press conference in 2010 that the farm was “a pigsty”, “slumlike” and “disgusting”. Molly responded with a banner across her hen shed reading: “TRUMP THE GREATEST LIAR
  
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• Saudi plan for breakaway golf tour rumbles on despite football backlash

  04-05-2021 14:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Tens of millions on offer, with players as tour part-ownersSeptember 2022 launch mooted with 12-18 events per yearLess than a fortnight after the collapse of the European Super League it has gone unnoticed that a similar disruption plan remains in play in another sport, with a breakaway tour in golf being funded and proposed by Saudi Arabia. And it has not faded into the background; far from it, in fact.Having started out as the Premier Golf League – the project may actually now have been
  
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• Golfers warned signing for breakaway tour will lead to PGA Tour ban

  04-05-2021 14:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Players told immediate tour suspension will be enforced September 2022 launch mooted with 12-18 events per yearThe world’s best golfers have been warned they will incur immediate suspension and most likely a career ban from the PGA Tour if they agree to join a breakaway regime being proposed by Saudi Arabia.Jay Monahan, the commissioner of the PGA Tour, laid out his position in stark terms during a scheduled meeting with players at Quail Hollow on Tuesday afternoon. It is understood the Eu
  
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• Golfer sets world record for furthest shot hit and caught in moving car – video

  29-04-2021 11:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Marcus Armitage set a new world record for the furthest golf shot hit and caught in a moving car at Elvington Airfield in England. Armitage crashed a shot 303 yards before the ball landed in a car driven by Paul O’Neill, to surpass the long-standing record of 273 yards set by former F1 driver David Coulthard and golfer Jake Shepherd in 2012Watch more from the amazing world of sport series Continue reading...
  
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• Marcus Armitage sets a world record for farthest golf shot into moving car

  29-04-2021 10:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch golfer Marcus Armitage set a new world record of 303 yards for the farthest golf shot hit into a moving car
  
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• Tyrrell Hatton tests positive for Covid-19 and withdraws from Valspar Championship

  27-04-2021 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Britain's leading golfer Tyrrell Hatton tests positive for coronavirus and withdraws from this week's Valspar Championship in Florida.
  
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• Tom McKibbin: Northern Ireland teenager turns professional and will play in this week's Tenerife Open

  25-04-2021 17:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Northern Ireland amateur Tom McKibbin enters the professional ranks and will play in this week's Tenerife Open on the European Tour.
  
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• Graeme McDowell: Northern Irishman fires fantastic hole-in-one at Zurich Classic

  24-04-2021 11:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Graeme McDowell fires his first hole-in-one on the PGA Tour at the 17th hole on day two of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
  
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• Tiger Woods pictured for first time since high speed car accident

  24-04-2021 00:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tiger Woods posts a photo of himself smiling on a golf course - the first time he has been pictured since he was seriously injured in a car accident.
  
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• Australia’s Adam Scott opts out of Tokyo Olympics golf tournament

  23-04-2021 02:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Former world No 1 wants to spend more time with familyScott also missed Rio Games due to busy schedule and Zika fearsAustralian Adam Scott opted out of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, his manager has said. Johan Elliott of Sportyard International said the competition does not fit into Scott’s 2021 schedule.“With the world being the way it is, Adam is gone four to five weeks at a time this year during his playing blocks,” Elliot told GolfChannel.com. “With three young children
  
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• The only symbol of post-Brexit pride | Brief letters

  19-04-2021 17:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Passports | Money advice | Ballgames | Getting the Guardian Despite living in a post-Brexit failed state with the most mendacious, corrupt and criminally incompetent government in living memory, and with the highest number of coronavirus deaths in Europe, having just received my new British passport (albeit black rather than blue), I can now say with pride that it’s all been worthwhile.Tony MaysSheffield• “Money advice may be the best medicine for long-term health issues”,
  
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• RBC Heritage: Stewart Cink wins at Harbour Town from Grillo and Varner III

  19-04-2021 08:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Veteran Stewart Cink wins his third RBC Heritage title in South Carolina - 21 years and two days after his first.
  
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• ‘Course record still intact’: Biden on first underwhelming golf outing as president

  18-04-2021 22:48 via theguardian.com
  
  In contrast, the golf-loving Trump by this point of his presidency had already recorded 19 separate visits to golf coursesDuring last year’s presidential election campaign, one of Joe Biden’s strongest arguments to voters was that he wasn’t Donald Trump.After engaging in the favorite pastime of the “former guy” with the first trip to a golf course of his presidency on Saturday, he finds that he still isn’t. Continue reading...
  
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• Getting stuck in to stickball as a child | Brief letters

  18-04-2021 18:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Ballgames | Newsreading skills | More friends reunited | Take it or buy itStickball (Letters, 15 April) is a New York street version of baseball played with a hollow pink rubber ball called a spaldeen – made by the Spalding sports company – and a broomstick, with the sweeping end either cut or burned off. There is a stickball museum in Harlem. I played at least three variants of the game during my 1950s Greenwich Village youth.Patrick CarrollHelston, Cornwall• Sorry, Richard Lew
  
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• Lotte Championship: Lydia Ko ends three-year title drought in Hawaii

  18-04-2021 11:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former world number one Lydia Ko wins her first LPGA Tour title for three years with a seven-shot victory at the Lotte Championship in Hawaii.
  
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• RBC Heritage: Stewart Cink sets Harbour Town halfway record

  17-04-2021 00:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  American Stewart Cink holds a five-stroke lead at the RBC Heritage after posting the 36-hole record at Harbour Town.
  
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• Tiger Woods sends classy message to Masters winner Hideki Matsuyama

  14-04-2021 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tiger Woods was quick to congratulate Masters winner Hideki Matsuyama.
  
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• ‘The Masters is my life’: the forgotten Augusta legacy of Philip Wahl Sr | Ewan Murray

  13-04-2021 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Eisenhower’s drinking partner and the man who helped make the Masters what it is today surely deserves more recognition
  Tucked away in a corner of YouTube sits the kind of cheesy 1976 sales pitch Augusta National had to make to Asia decades before Hideki Matsuyama came along. Cigarettes, whisky and terrain far less manicured than is the case for Masters of this day and age feature. So, too, Philip Russell Wahl Sr.“We have had the finest group of players, the greatest competitors, on
  
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• Hideki Matsuyama’s Masters win set to boost home interest in golf at Olympics

  12-04-2021 19:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Masters champion could light cauldron at Tokyo Games
  Golf’s return to Olympics hit by withdrawals at Rio 2016Golf’s rocky relationship with the Olympic Games hardly looked like improving when Dustin Johnson, the world No 1, confirmed he would skip the chance to participate in Tokyo. Johnson was, in fact, pretty dismissive over the very concept. The sport’s return to the Olympics in 2016 was overshadowed by a host of high-profile withdrawals, with nervousness within the Internat
  
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• Hideki Matsuyama hopes his Masters win inspires young golfers in Japan

  12-04-2021 19:34 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘I hope they try and follow in my footsteps’, says 29-year-oldMasters champion excited to be playing in Tokyo Olympics
  Golf’s rocky relationship with the Olympic Games hardly looked like improving when Dustin Johnson, the world No 1, confirmed he would skip the chance to participate in Tokyo. Johnson was, in fact, pretty dismissive over the very concept. The sport’s return to the Olympics in 2016 was overshadowed by a host of high-profile withdrawals, with nervousness wit
  
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• Hideki Matsuyama is Japanese but his victory matters for Asian Americans

  12-04-2021 14:11 via theguardian.com
  
  The Masters champion appears to have little in common with Asian Americans. But his win comes at a time when any Asian success story is welcome in the USAnd with that, Hideki Matsuyama is the first male Japanese player ever to win a golf major.Quite interesting timing, particularly as anti-Asian hate crimes in the US have risen 150% over the past year, spurred on by conspiracy theories – spread by those in power – about the origins of Covid-19. The hashtag ‘Stop Asian Hate&rsqu
  
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• Masters 2021: Robert MacIntyre keen to return after 'dream' 12th place on debut

  12-04-2021 11:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scotland's Robert MacIntyre is thrilled to secure a place in next year's Masters after finishing joint 12th on his debut at Augusta National.
  
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• Hideki Matsuyama masters Japan’s golfing nerves to lift pre-Olympic spirits

  12-04-2021 10:16 via theguardian.com
  
  TV commentators ‘could hardly speak’ as 29-year-old becomes first Japanese man to win a majorHideki Matsuyama has recorded one of Japan’s greatest international sporting successes after winning the US Masters golf , months before Tokyo is scheduled to host the summer Olympics.His compatriots were preparing for work, perhaps pausing to catch glimpses of the last few holes on TV, when the 29-year-old secured a one-shot victory over the American Will Zalatoris at Augusta National
  
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• Masters 2021 prize money: How much did Hideki Matsuyama earn after Augusta win?

  12-04-2021 08:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Masters 2021 has ended for another year, with the world's best golfers having to wait another 12 months to tackle Augusta National Golf Club once again. Hideki Matsuyama won this year's Masters, but what is the prize money for this tournament? How much did Hideki Matsuyama earn?
  
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• The Masters 2021: Jordan Spieth, Justin Rose & Tommy Fleetwood - shots of the tournament

  12-04-2021 07:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch some of the the best shots of the 2021 Masters, featuring Jordan Spieth, Justin Rose and a hole-in-one from Tommy Fleetwood.
  
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• Hideki Matsuyama masters Japan’s golfing nerves to boost pre-Olympic spirits

  12-04-2021 05:02 via theguardian.com
  
  TV commentators ‘could hardly speak’ as 29-year-old becomes first Japanese man to win a major ahead of Olympics dogged by scandal Hideki Matsuyama has recorded one of Japan’s greatest international sporting successes after winning the US Masters golf , just months before Tokyo is scheduled to host the summer Olympics.His compatriots were preparing for work, perhaps pausing to catch glimpses of the last few holes on TV, when the 29-year-old secured a one-shot victory over Xander
  
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• Masters 2021: Hideki Matsuyama claims one-shot victory at Augusta National

  12-04-2021 02:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hideki Matsuyama holds on to win the Masters by one shot and become the first Japanese man to claim a major title.
  
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• The Masters 2021: Dustin Johnson presents winner Hideki Matsuyama his Green Jacket

  12-04-2021 01:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Japan's first winner of a men's major Hideki Matsuyama says he hopes to be a "pioneer" as 2020 Masters champion Dustin Johnson presents the 29-year-old with his Green Jacket in Butler Cabin at Augusta National.
  
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• The Masters 2021: fourth round – as it happened

  12-04-2021 01:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Hideki Matsuyama wins his maiden majorDebutant Will Zalatoris finishes runner-up as Xander Schauffele crumbles at 16Official Masters leaderboard 12.31am BST Ewan Murray’s verdict is in. Click below for your edification ... but before you leave, here’s a reminder of how it all finished. Hope to see you back here for the PGA next month. Nighty night!-10: Matsuyama
  -9: Zalatoris
  -7: Spieth, Schauffele
  -6: Rahm, Leishman
  -5: Rose
  -4: Reed, Conners
  -3: Smith, Finau
  -2: Simpson, Cink, Na,
  
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• The Masters 2021: Hideki Matsuyama becomes first male Japanese player to win a major

  12-04-2021 01:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hideki Matsuyama rolls in for a bogey at the last to win the Masters by one shot from American debutant Will Zalatoris and become the first male Japanese golfer to win a major.
  
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• Hideki Matsuyama holds nerve to become Masters champion

  12-04-2021 01:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Final round of 73 enough to secure Green JacketMatsuyama becomes first Japanese major winnerOne can only assume Hideki Matsuyama did not feel the heavy burden of history at all. There is no other reasonable explanation for the manner in which the 29-year-old won the 85th edition of the Masters. Matsuyama has become the first Asian player to don a Green Jacket and the only Japanese male to win a major.His is a victory which will reverberate far beyond this exclusive corner of Georgia. Positive im
  
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• Masters leaderboard RECAP: Hideki Matsuyama holds on to win first major at Augusta

  12-04-2021 01:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hideki Matsuyama avoided a momentary collapse on the final few holes to win The 2021 Masters.
  
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• Hideki Matsuyama wins The Masters for first major title at Augusta to create history

  12-04-2021 01:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hideki Matsuyama was the standout performer at Augusta this week with a heroic triumph at The 2021 Masters for his first major title.
  
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• The Masters 2021: fourth round – live!

  11-04-2021 16:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Hole-by-hole coverage of the action at Augusta NationalMatsuyama surges to four-shot lead | LeaderboardCoaches ejected for flouting Augusta’s phone rulesGet in touch! Email Scott 3.10pm BST OK, pop-crazed youngsters, there’s only one place to start. Crank it up! 1.06pm BST “I hope I can follow in her shoes and make Japan proud.” Tsubasa Kajitani won the 2021 Augusta National Women’s Amateur Championship last weekend, and today, Hideki Matsuyama has a chance to make
  
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• The Masters: Augusta weather forecast for Sunday April 11 as Masters conclude

  11-04-2021 12:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Masters will come to a close today, with Hideki Matsuyama still ahead of his closest four competitors by four points. What is the weather forecast for the Augusta National Golf Course today?
  
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• Justin Rose age and Majors: How many Majors has Justin Rose won?

  11-04-2021 10:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Justin Rose is one of four people currently tied behind Hideki Matsuyama in the Masters this year, as he hopes to add another to his dozens of professional wins. How many majors has Justin Rose won?
  
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• Returning pupils need a gold star, not ‘behaviour hubs’. Poor work, Mr Williamson | Tim Adams

  11-04-2021 08:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Generosity of spirit can play a pivotal role in the classroom – perhaps someone should tell the education secretaryI went to a grammar school in which praise was, in that repressed British tradition, very strictly rationed. You were far more likely to be singled out for doing something wrong than getting something right. Some classmates came and went from the school still hoping for a pat on the back.That changed for me, aged about 14, in the inspired English lessons of Mr Langley, the kin
  
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• Masters 2021: Hideki Matsuyama leads from Justin Rose, Xander Schauffele at Augusta National

  11-04-2021 02:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Japan's Hideki Matsuyama shoots a 65 on Saturday to take a four-shot lead into the final day of the Masters, with England's Justin Rose tied for second.
  
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• Hideki Matsuyama surges to four-shot lead in weather-hit Masters

  11-04-2021 02:01 via theguardian.com
  
  65 moves Japanese to 11 under, with four tied for second
  Justin Rose among quartet after battling his way to a 72Moving day? Matsuyama’s day. In proving how even a brief delay in a tournament – in this case 75 minutes – can totally shift its complexion Hideki Matsuyama emerged to leave the remainder of the Masters field grasping for air.He now sits 18 holes from the making of history; as the first Asian winner of the Masters and the only Japanese man to win a major. A decade ag
  
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• Watch: Matsuyama's brilliant round-three back nine at Masters

  11-04-2021 01:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hideki Matsuyama becomes first Japanese player to lead after any round at the Masters, moving four shots clear of the field with a third-round 65 at Augusta National.
  
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• The Masters 2021: Matsuyama leads after third round – as it happened

  11-04-2021 01:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Hideki Matsuyama takes charge after weather delayJapanese star comes back in 30 to lead by fourOfficial Masters leaderboard 9.38am BSTRelated: Hideki Matsuyama surges to four-shot lead in weather-hit Masters12.50am BST So it’s Hideki Matsuyama’s to lose, after closing with four birdies and an eagle in his last eight holes, en route to a blemish-free 65. He leads by four, though as the likes of Greg Norman and Rory McIlroy can painfully attest, nothing’s ever certain on Masters
  
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• Masters 2021: Highlights of Hideki Matsuyama 65 at Augusta National

  11-04-2021 01:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hideki Matsuyama becomes first Japanese player to lead after any round at the Masters, moving four shots clear of the field with a third-round 65 at Augusta National.
  
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• Masters leaderboard 2021: Matsuyama overnight leader by four shots

  11-04-2021 01:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Express Sport provides fresh updates from the 2021 Masters leaderboard over the weekend.
  
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• Masters suspended: Thunderstorms force golf major to be stopped - When will play restart?

  10-04-2021 22:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 2021 Masters was suspended on Thursday with Justin Rose still in the lead.
  
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• Masters called off for weather: Play resumes after hour delay as storm threat passes

  10-04-2021 22:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE MASTERS has been called off due to poor weather and the threat of lightning at August, Georgia. Play has now resumed after a 77 minute delay.
  
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• Justin Rose wife: Who is The Masters star Justin Rose’s wife Kate Phillips?

  10-04-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  JUSTIN ROSE soared to the top of the leaderboard at The Masters this week, securing a narrow lead over Will Zalatoris in the third round of the tournament. Here is everything you need to know about the golfer's wife Kate Phillips.
  
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• The Masters 2021: Conners scores hole-in-one at par-three sixth

  10-04-2021 20:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Canada's Corey Connors scores only the sixth hole-in-one in tournament history at the par three-sixth hole at Augusta National, moving into contention in the third round of The Masters.
  
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• Penalty call: coaches ejected for flouting Augusta’s phone rules

  10-04-2021 16:18 via theguardian.com
  
  As some players’ mentors have found out in Masters week, this grand old club will punish anyone who breaks its traditionsThe famously no-nonsense approach of Augusta National to matters of discipline has been evident once more during Masters week, with more than one player’s coach understood to have been ejected from the premises for violating the rules on mobile phone usage.In one instance, a competitor’s tutor was discovered to be filming his client from outside the ropes dur
  
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• The Masters 2021: third round – live!

  10-04-2021 16:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Hole-by-hole coverage of the action at Augusta NationalOfficial Masters leaderboardRose holds on to Masters lead but has Spieth in rearview mirrorAny comments? Email Scott your thoughts 3.10pm BST Good morning, patrons. There’s only one way to ease ourselves into the third round. Crank it up! 1.39pm BST It’s Moving Day at the 2021 Masters. The leader Justin Rose, who suffered yesterday before salvaging a level-par 72, will be hoping to channel his Thursday self, when he shot a marvel
  
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