By Julian Linden
AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 8 (Reuters) – Peter Hanson was
living every golfer’s dream at the Masters on Sunday. It just
did not end the way the Swede wanted.
He was playing in the final group alongside Phil Mickelson
in front of the biggest and loudest galleries at Augusta
National.
Despite leading the championship by a stroke after the third
round, he was not the favourite for the simple reason that he
had never won a major before.
And he did not win. He finished with a 73 to end up in a
four-way tie for third, two shots behind winner Bubba Watson and
Louis Oosthuizen.
A day earlier, he had shot a 65. Had he done that again he
would have won the green jacket but the final round of the
Masters is when the pressure really tells.
Surrendering the lead after making bogey at the opening hole
and another at the third, he slipped further behind when he
shanked his tee shot at the par-three 12th, failing to even
reach the creek at Amen Corner.
“It was a pretty tough day. I didn’t get it going very well
on the front nine and started off with two early bogeys, which
is never a good thing,” he said.
“The greens were a little bit quicker today and I think I
ended up being too defensive with the putter.
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