The hottest player on the PGA Tour this year kept it going during the first round of the Masters on Thursday.
Playing in his first Masters, Jimmy Walker was dynamite, bouncing back after a bogey on No. 13 with four consecutive birdies on Nos. 14-17 to close a round of 2-under 70.
“You can’t ever give up, you never know what’s going to happen,” Walker said of the disappointment he felt after 13.
Walker has won three of the 13 events he has entered this year and is subsequently No. 1 in the FedEx Cup standings.
One of the PGA Tour’s best putters with a 1.008 average in strokes gained putting, Walker needed 31 putts to complete Augusta National. He hit 15 of 18 greens in regulation and had just one three-putt.
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