Today's Golfer (UK)

‘These guys are like ferraris’

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Who’ll win? It’s a tough one. Not being negative, but you have to look for everybody’s weakness, whether it’s physical, technical or mental or karma.

When the top players are on, they’re on and it’s difficult to pick, so I think it’s more fascinatin­g how finely tuned they all are. They’re all like Ferraris – if they twang and the back goes they’re not done for two days, they’re sidelined for a month or more and then if their swing goes to pot, it really goes to pot for a while.

Mentally, they’re a bit up and down; some can lose their attention span. For me, if you’re doing everything at 100% something is surely going to give. I remember going through a rough spell when my psychologi­st warned me that doing everything at 100% will result in something going bang. Physically, these boys go at 100%.

Rory’s done his back in, and with that injury you’ve got to be careful. You can’t keep re-injuring that – so that’s slowed him down. Then there’s Hideki, but he’s under an awful lot of pressure to try and become the first Japanese winner. That’s huge… if he did it, it would be worth about $500m to him. That’s a lot to think about! Then there’s Jordan Spieth (below), who would have won it last year except for one bad swing on 12. And that’s the thing about Augusta – if you lose your concentrat­ion on a wedge shot, that’s it, a seven. That’s Augusta.

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