Willett happy to stay out of the limelight
countries supplying Masters winners. His main dish was lobster rice, with Tapas to start and a Spanish three milks cake Tres Leches for dessert.
YOUR diarist may have seriously under-clubbed with the estimate that the new golf shop at Augusta will rake in $65 million over the week. On a second inspection, the astonishing demand for anything Augusta branded from American fans, who wear golf clothes 24/7, my guess is that the 64 cash registers will bring in $100m in seven days. The average spend this week is $500 according to the overworked cashiers.
COLIN Montgomerie has previously been in Augusta for Sky. But for the second Masters in a row, he is said to have priced himself out of a pundit seat in the studio. Sky Sports are now rigidly only prepared to pay what they believe a contract is worth whether it’s for TV rights or expert analysis — and Monty never won a major.
ANOTHER demonstration of Tiger Woods being the only story at the 2018 Masters was illustrated by defending champion Sergio Garcia’s press briefing drawing only 43 journalists while there were around 200 hacks listening to Tiger Woods with all seats filled in the press conference room for the first time since the media centre was built for the 2017 Masters. GOLF’s often warring authorities have got together to agree a global strategy to ensure the sport isn’t embarrassed again by another Lexi Thompson incident. Leading American women’s golfer Thompson lost out on the first major of last season — the 2017 ANA Inspiration — through a four-shot penalty after a TV viewer emailed golf officials that Lexi had replaced the ball in the wrong spot on the green the previous day. It led to Lexi retrospectively losing two shots for the offence and a further two for signing for the wrong score in the third round and was humiliating for golf’s ruling bodies. So all the men’s and women’s worldwide golf tours now have a procedure in place to have selected officials scrutinising all televised tournament golf to ensure in future any rules breach missed on the course is reported immediately through the right process.