Steve Stricker was really not in a nice frame of mind as he walked away the tenth green on Friday at the Augusta National.
He had shambled at front nine and made the turn in forty-one; then he 4–putted for a double-bogey six on number ten. His Master’s 2nd round was forming up to be a perfect disaster.
Stricker started badly when on the 1st hole, he 3 – putted for a bogey. On the par – five 2nd, he whipped his tee shot in to the trees. He told it appears that he does it every year. The par – four was another story. Steve cast off the tee shot and it aroused in a tough lie in a fairway bunker.
The world number five ranked golfer, and current record holder of the most consecutive back to back cuts made on PGA Tour, was on the very edge of the cut, and heading in the wrong direction. He said that his thinking and the way he was feeling were not helping his golf!
Meanwhile, Mark Wilson, the fellow Wisconsinite, jammed his bags just after a 78 left him at ten–over 154 – something you could have got great golf odds on! In 2011, in his Master’s debut, he also missed the cut. Wilson said if he keeps coming in this place and missing the cut, at least he know that he is doing well enough in his career to make the Masters.