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MARCH 19, 2012
Masters Nixes Schwartzel Request To Cook
Piercy Charms Copperhead
el said at the Transitions. “Well, I can’t
do it myself; put it that way. They are
still going to do it but they are going to
have a chef doing it ... I didn’t know what
to expect. They said that it would be nice
if we can all just chat more instead of
someone (a player) cooking and stuff.”
The challenge now for the Augusta
National chefs will be coming up with
the goods. The braai skills are a matter
of national pride in South Africa. B.H.
that ended when he missed an easy
putt on 11: “I’d love to tell you I was so
good that bad thoughts didn’t get into
my head, but unfortunately they do.”
On a prolonged slump that has seen
his world ranking slide and kept him
out of the WGC event at Doral earlier
this month: “It’s not a wake-up call
because it’s not like I could be working
any harder or trying any harder. Just
have to take it on the chin really. You
feel like you’re good enough, but if your
performances are not good enough –
you have no one else to blame.”
On slumps in general: “You can do
a small poll with every player walking
off the golf course, and the guys who
have shot good scores will say yeah,
yeah, yeah, I played nicely and they
felt they got one or two shots out of it
extra. And the guys who didn’t shoot
good scores; I played nicely, I just left
a couple of shots out there. So both
sides are out there telling you they
played nicely, but one guy shot 68, the
other guy shot 72. I was just on the 72
bandwagon for a long time.”
Wednesday in the pro-am Har-
rington aced the par- 3 fourth hole with
a 6-iron. Then he birdied it Thursday. “I
played it in three shots in two days,” he
said. “That’s okay.”
The 52-year-old Kenny Perry
delighted the title sponsor with an A
