Masters 2025: How does any response after shooting 90 in Augusta National?

Nick Dunlop Masters hits the pine straw on the first hole during the first round in the golf tournament. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

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Augusta, Ga. – Let’s start with it: Nick Dunlop is a good golfer. A Very Good golfer.

Before the age of 21, he is already two wins on the PGA Tour. In the history of the game, only eight players have done so – and only two others in the modern era: Tiger Woods and Tom Kim. This week is coming in the masters – still eight months shy of its 22nd birthday – she is ranked 42nd in the world.

And then he proceeded to go out on Thursday, shot 90 equal to 18 overs and became a punching bag after 1 round of the masters. In the history of 89 years of the tournament, only seven rounds are worse. (“Record,” is 94.)

“Like trying to catch a rope and you can’t catch it,” he described the round.

Beaten down and a round in the field was badly disappointed with nine shots compared to someone else, Dunlop could withdraw and no one looked. His father, gym asked him if he was thinking about pulling out.

“No,” he said to him, “I am going out tomorrow and will show those people I can do.”

He then went behind his AirBNB and hit a bunch of balls, which he bought in the forest, ate chipatl, as his custom, and went to the bed quickly.

He reached the driving range at Agusta National in the afternoon on Friday, pulled out his driver and started intensifying. Drive after drive – on a t and away from deck. He is in the middle of a swing change, which only adds to the struggle.

He and the rocket ship have been at their golf career.

He was a natural from the beginning, the first time his father placed a club in his hand as a young child.

“I am grinding here,” his father will say to him, “and you are snatching it every time.”

He was shooting 59 at the age of 12, 14 was Alabama State Champion, US Junior Amateur Champion at the age of 17, committed to play at Alabama University at the age of 18, became American amateur champion in 19 and won his first PGA tour event – won the first fan of winning since Phil Mikelson in 1991.

A week later, he became Prof.

“We hoped that he would slow down it a little, finishing in Alabama,” Jim said. “But that victory gave him 2 1/2-year-old tour. How do you pass it?”

Six months later, he won again, collected a salary of $ 720,000-21-year-old child did not try to find out how to live on his own and suddenly manage a bank account. This is the first world problem, of course, but it is an obstacle for an up-end-comer, which is trying to find out how to compete against the choice of Scotty Chefler and Rory McClayer.

Dunlop cut all three major companies played last year, including Masters, and reached Augusta this week, which led to three straight cuts.

At first, third and fourth, a bogie and a double in the fifth ruined their early stages from the beginning. And then things went bad. He gave four double bogie cards to nine behind, leaving him down from the leaderboard … to be dead in all ways.

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After a 30-minute session in the range, in which he hit 63 balls-all the drivers-they started their second round by sprinkling their tea shot on number 1 in the left side.

“He is the one who shot 90,” a woman whispered with her husband because Dunlop first went into green.

Nevertheless, he managed to scrape for equal.

His tea shots at number 2 were correct, but he managed another equal, thrown out a Burdy put.

At the age of 3, he again lost his drive to the right, his ball turned on a straw of some pine under a pair of trees. This left him at a distance of 145 yards, which has nothing, but a group of a tough climb and Georgia Pines is between itself and green.

“What are you thinking?” His caddy asked.

“Divide those trees with a draw,” they replied.

Standing behind him, it was impossible to tell which trees he planned to divide. Two types of vibrated round posts were formed, but they were barely 15 feet, so that it could not happen. Amateur eyes looked right, where the daylight was very high.

Then he swung and 8 iron, dividing the positions of the target below in the middle. By the time he climbed the hill, his ball had come nine feet from the hole.

It was magic.

He moved to his first bird of the tournament, then 3 fourth place.

“These are moments that define you,” Jim said, stood by fourth T and his son waited for green color. “Are you going to leave or …”

Or … leave your tea shot within 11 feet and card to another straight Bird, which Nick Dunlop did. He will take another card at number 8, put him in 3-undergrains on the front nine.

He was driving it from behind, hitting the foot for some pars, not giving anything back. At the age of 15, an equal, he pierced his third shot, so that he is just eight inches for the bird.

At that time, he was in hunting for another masters record – the most improvement from one round to another. 22 shots -+18 to -4 -Danelop was better than the record set in 1936.

The laxity of the shots was still not working, but he was making his way for one of the best phase of the day.

In 16, a three-foot bogie set her back, yet on 17, another free drive spent her another, then in 18, another bogie stroked her third. He did not want him to wanted, but a day earlier a day earlier after a day earlier.

“It is extremely beneficial and extremely humble and disappointing at the same time,” he said after his round of 71. “I think professional golf can be a very lonely place, especially when you are playing badly. But it’s fun. You travel to a lot of historical and incredible places like this.”

For about 10 minutes he stood next to the clubhouse in Augusta National, answering the question after a question about the struggles in his game, fighting with his swing, the frustration of Thursday.

“You try to have fun, even though it can be quite disappointing at times, and especially right now it is difficult to find something funny about it. But I can be very bad today to play and play Augusta today, so it can be very bad.”

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