and playing in his 41st and final Masters<\/a>, shot a 2-over-par 73.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cOverall, it was a pretty good round for a 67-year-old to get around here at 2-over with the clubs I\u2019m hitting into, sometimes 3-woods into par-4s and 2 hybrids and 3 hybrids,\u201d Langer said. \u201cIf I want to make the cut, I\u2019ve got to do much better tomorrow, or some better.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
By 11 shots, the worst round of the day came from Nick Dunlap, already a two-time PGA Tour winner at the age of 21. <\/p>\n
He shot an 18-over 90 in the first round.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Incredibly, Dunlap\u2019s score \u2014 43 on the front nine and 47 on the back \u2014 wasn\u2019t the highest in Masters history. <\/p>\n
Nick Dunlap struggled through a brutal first round of the Masters. Getty Images<\/p>\n
That belongs to Charles Kunkle Jr., who shot a final-round 95 in 1956. <\/p>\n
Billy Casper shot a 105 at the 2005 Masters at age 70, but didn\u2019t sign his scorecard so the round wasn\u2019t official.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dunlap, who missed the cut in his Masters debut last year (77-72), entered this week struggling, having missed his past three cuts and shooting a pair of 80s, one at Bay Hill and another at the Players.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cam Smith turned some heads in his Wednesday practice round, playing in a blue blazer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFunny story,\u201d he said Thursday. \u201cI met the Grayson [clothing company] guy at teams week this week and we had a couple of beers \u2014 maybe even a couple too many beers \u2014 and we got to talking about fashion. He said, \u2018It would be great if you wore a blazer at the Masters. I think it\u2019s the place to do it.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I agreed to it. I\u2019m a man of my word, so I did it. It was a bit chilly, so it kind of worked out. I wouldn\u2019t say I\u2019m a fashion guru by any standard, but I felt good in it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fellow Aussie Jason Day, who\u2019s drawn a lot of attention for wearing Malbon Golf\u2019s garish wear, said he thought Smith \u201clooked great.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he rocks it, then I\u2019m happy for him. I could see myself playing in something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUGUSTA, Ga. \u2014 Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson continued the Masters tradition that began in 1960…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,6988,4299,5227,79,4297,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-10176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-jack-nicklaus","10":"tag-liv-golf","11":"tag-phil-mickelson","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-the-masters","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114318122947192621","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}