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❑ is rice with lobster and comes from Garcia’s beloved Valencia. And the choice of tres leches cake for dessert was Garcia’s wife’s input. “Tres leches is my favourite dessert, which Angela usually makes for me, and she does an amazing job,” he said. “It’s a Mexican dessert made with three milks and it’s really delicious.” And to toast his Masters success, Garcia chose an albarino white wine from northern Spain. were chipping and putting from and when they were done I took my balls and did the same stuff. “They know what they’re doing out here so either they were messing with me and I just hit a lot of unproductive shots or hopefully I learnt something.” Thomas, whose best finish at Augusta is 22nd, feels the pressure is off having won one of golf’s four blue-riband events, the PGA Championship, this year. ❑ BUBBA WATSON is keeping up the superstitious traditions of some of the world’s best golfers.
Watson has won twice at Augusta and eats one or two burritos every day during the Masters for luck.
Jack Nicklaus won the Masters six times and put that down to having three coins in his pocket.
The most widely reported superstition is the bad luck that winning the eve-of-tournament contest brings. No player who has won the par-three event has gone on to win that year’s Masters and only two players who have won it have ever triumphed in subsequent years – Vijay Singh and Ben Crenshaw.