{"id":608,"date":"2005-04-08T00:23:13","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T05:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/thursday_at_the_masters\/"},"modified":"2005-04-08T00:23:13","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T05:23:13","slug":"thursday_at_the_masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/pga\/thursday_at_the_masters","title":{"rendered":"Thursday at The Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/pga\/chris_dimarco_masters.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"203\" alt=\"Chris Dimarco Masters\" class=\"bordered\" \/>Chris DiMarco started where he left off last year and Tiger Woods never really got started at all in the <a href=\"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/pga\/masters_suffers_rain_delays\/\" title=\"Rain Delays at Augusta\">rain-shortened Thursday<\/a> at Augusta.<\/p>\n<p>DiMarco, who last year played in the final group alongside eventual winner Phil Mickelson, finished fourteen before play was suspended. His four-under-par total currently leads The Masters.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Woods found the water on the thirteenth&hellip; <em>with his putter<\/em>. His eagle putt was struck too firmly and rolled off the front of the green. He later birdied 15, but had an interesting front nine. Looking to make a move at +1, his approach to the first hit the flagstick and careened into a bunker. He failed to get up and down from a bad lie in the bunker and bogeyed. At the par-5 second, he chunked his driver 100 yards up the left-hand side of the hole, but somehow managed to save a par.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe 5&frac12;-hour delay threw some players off the back nine &#8211; an odd proposition when the nines are so dramatic. Ten asks players to hit a hard draw, and then you&#8217;re right into Amen Corner. While the first is hardly benign, the second is a relatively easy par five. Among those who went off the back, Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, who finished today&#8217;s play at +2 and +3 respectively. Vijay Singh, Retief Goosen, and Phil Mickelson went off the front and currently all sit at -2 and tied for fourth.<\/p>\n<p>DiMarco, who at one point rattled off three straight birdies, was told of Tiger&#8217;s adventures. He replied rather unsympathetically &#8220;He&#8217;s got a few good breaks over his career. So you know what? Darn. It&#8217;s golf.&#8221; Mark Hensby, one of only 24 players to finish the first round, sits tied for second at -3. &#8220;You can play good shots and get rewarded, and then you can hit good shots and not get rewarded,&#8221; said Hensby. Englishman Luke Donald was also tied for second at -3 after 14 holes.<\/p>\n<p>World #1 Vijay Singh played fairly well, picking up three birdies on the front nine and twice saving par with ten-foot putts. He elected to finish his last hole, the 11th, after the horn signalling the end of play sounded, and his approach came up well short. He three-putted from 100 feet for a bogey to end his Thursday play. He later said &#8220;I played pretty well today. I hit my driver beautifully and had some good saves. It was just disappointing how I finished. Maybe I should have waited&hellip; on the second putt from 5 feet. But who knows? I may have missed it tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nick Faldo, the three-time champ, withdrew partway through the ninth hole, citing a lower back injury. &#8220;I can&#8217;t swing,&#8221; said Faldo. &#8220;It&#8217;s horrible. This is the Masters. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve walked off in 30 years. But these uphill lies, the downhill lies, it&#8217;s brutal. It just kept tightening up and tightening up. I could hardly hit it up No. 7.&#8221; Faldo, victorious in 1989, 1990, and 1996 is one of only three players to win back-to-back.<\/p>\n<p>British Amateur champ Stuart Wilson had to spend $170 to buy an Augusta National bag because his, contrary to rules for amateurs, had his club&#8217;s logo on it. Any commercial logos are forbidden, but at least Wilson&#8217;s $170 was well-spent. His bag will be a nice souvenir when he misses the cut, having carded a first-round 82.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Casper carded a 14&hellip; at the par-3 twelfth. <a href=\"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/pga\/a_funky_monday_finish_at_the_players_championship\/\" title=\"Tway Takes 12 at 17\">Not even Bob Tway could match that<\/a>! Speaking of 14, David Toms faced a putt on the 14th hole that blew back into the fairway after a gust of wind set his ball in motion.<\/p>\n<pre>Pos    Player                 Today    Thru\n1      Chris DiMarco            -4      14*\nT2     Mark Hensby              -3       F\nT2     Luke Donald              -3      13*\nT4     Ryan Palmer              -2      16*\nT4     Retief Goosen            -2      13\nT4     Stuart Appleby           -2      10\nT4     Phil Mickelson           -2      11\nT4     Vijay Singh              -2      11\nT9     Chris Riley              -1      15\nT9     Thomas Levet             -1      15*\nT11    David Howell              E       F\nT11    Jonathan Kaye             E       F\nT11    Casey Wittenberg          E       F*\nT11    Fred Funk                 E      17*\nT11    Scott Verplank            E      17*\nT11    Padraig Harrington        E      14\nT11    Stewart Cink              E      13\nT11    Nick O'Hern               E      13\nT11    Charles Howell III        E      14*\nT11    Mike Weir                 E      12\nT11    Shingo Katayama           E      12\nT11    K. J. Choi                E      12*\nT11    Thomas Bjorn              E      11\nT11    Darren Clarke             E      12*\nT11    Ryan Moore (a)            E      11\nT11    Adam Scott                E      11*\nT11    Bernhard Langer           E      10\n* Began play on the 10th hole<\/pre>\n<p>For those counting, this is the ninth of 15 PGA Tour events that have seen a delay or cancellation due to weather. Play will resume at 9:45am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Masters will be on tomorrow on USA (channel 242 on DirecTV) from 4-7pm ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris DiMarco started where he left off last year and Tiger Woods never really got started at all in the rain-shortened Thursday at Augusta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thursday at The Masters (PGA) - The Sand Trap .com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/pga\/thursday_at_the_masters\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Thursday at The Masters (PGA) - The Sand Trap .com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Chris DiMarco started where he left off last year and Tiger Woods never really got started at all in the rain-shortened Thursday at Augusta.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/imgs\/pga\/chris_dimarco_masters.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@the_sand_trap\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@the_sand_trap\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Erik J. 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