04-09-2019, 04:47 PM
Quote:Tiger Woods was underwhelmed by his first glimpse of Augusta National.
The unmistakable canopy of blooming Magnolia trees that guides golf's finest names along the 300-metre driveway to the Founders Circle and iconic clubhouse failed to capture his imagination.
"Magnolia Lane, is that it?" a 19-year-old Woods asked reporters. "It was a pretty short drive. From what everyone says, it's majestic."
Woods felt comfortable from the moment he arrived at his first Masters in April 1995, having qualified as the US amateur champion.
He had been building towards this since the moment his father Earl handed him a club before his first birthday, captivated by this tournament since first watching it on TV in 1980 at the age of four.
Competing at Augusta was always the dream and, despite remarking that the clubhouse was "a lot smaller than it looks on TV", Woods would in private tell close friend Mark Soltau how he ventured out of his bedroom in the Crow's Nest to wander around the historic building at night.
He spent the daytime practising relentlessly. With his parents staying in
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