Nick Taylor is pleased to get a Mulligan in his first appearance at the Masters.
The Abbotsford, B. C. , venue made its only appearance at Augusta National Golf Club in 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Masters was held in November of the same year, there were no fans, and players can only have one. user in the tournament. bubble with them over time.
Taylor will play in the first primaries of the men’s golf season on Thursday, but this time his whole family will be there and get to enjoy the “real” Augusta experience.
“Most of my early golfing experiences, like Mike Weir’s victory at the 2003 Masters, I watched with my dad and brother in the basement,” Taylor said from his home in Arizona. “The Masters has been like the start of the year of golf. “here in Canada.
Taylor is especially happy to see her children compete in the Par 3 contest, a Masters culture where golfers play the short course with their families and her children wear Augusta’s signature all-white caddie outfit. Her four-year-old son Charlie and her one-month-old daughter, Harper, had already received hers.
“I think the total enjoyment of the week, being there and being a quote-unquote overall Masters, is going to be everything I’ve been waiting for since I started playing golf,” Taylor said.
“After 2020, hopefully it’s not my only experience but obviously you never know, so to be able to say that I’ve had two very different Masters experiences will be pretty cool. “
Another highlight of the Masters experience is playing alongside Weir of Brights Grove, Ontario, the only Canadian to have won the Masters or any men’s major.
They regrouped in 2020 and played a practice circular with Corey Conners of Listowel, Ontario, and Adam Hadwin, also of Abbotsford. Players on Canada’s PGA Tour practice in combination before occasions and, as usual, it’s turned into an East vs. West occasion on Tuesday.
Weir reported that the Ontario duo of himself and Conners beat the Abbotsford boys.
“We had a great time. It’s fun for me to catch up with the guys. I only see them a few times a year,” said Weir, who is the captain of the foreign team at this year’s Presidents Cup. I’m going to see them a little bit more now because I’m going to a few more events, but yes, it’s still fun. “
Another thing that has changed since Taylor’s last appearance at the Masters is Taylor’s FedEx Cup ranking. He qualified in 2020 after winning the AT Pro-Am.
He is now the highest-ranked Canadian on the PGA Tour, ranked in the FedEx Cup rankings.
“I would say at the beginning of 2020 my game was really in good shape, having won Pebble and getting my confidence back,” Taylor said. “It’s easy to watch years later, but you know, the COVID era where I was like quarantined in Canada, bouncing back and forth, my game deteriorated that time and it took me a while to recover.
“I feel like I’m better than I’ve ever been. I feel like I’m a different player than I was three-and-a-half years ago when I was there. “
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