Augusta National: ‘The More You Play It, the More You Understand It’

O’Meara confessed that before 1998, he had long wondered how anyone could stand on the 18th green and make a putt to win.

“Everybody’s nervous. Everybody’s trying to do their best,” O’Meara said. “But I think that for me, the plus was that I never once thought when I was on the green, ‘Hey Mark, you make this putt, you win the green jacket, you win the Masters, blah, blah, blah.’ I just don’t think you can get ahead of yourself.”

Instead, facing the possibility of a playoff, he reasoned that he would have to make a putt sometime, someplace. Why not, he figured, try to make a decent putt now?

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