Successful the U.S. Newbie comes with lots of perks: the Havemeyer trophy, a gold medal, and your identify etched in historical past alongside greats like Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Phil Mickelson, Arnold Palmer and Bobby Jones.
However maybe the best perk of all is an exemption into three of the next yr’s main championships: the U.S. Open, the Open Championship, and the Masters — so long as the participant maintains his novice standing.
And for newly topped U.S. Am champ Mason Howell, making the journey to Augusta in April is already high of thoughts. The U.S. Newbie champion is historically paired with the defending Masters champion for the primary two rounds of the Masters. Which means Howell can count on to tee it up alongside Rory McIlroy on Thursday and Friday at Augusta Nationwide. On this week’s episode of Subpar, Howell defined how that chance may have some further which means for him.
Mason Howell’s golf equipment: Inside his U.S. Newbie-winning setup
“I’ve one among his golf balls sitting in my room proper now from the [2016] Tour championship up in Atlanta,” Morrow informed Subpar hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz. “I went to look at and he gave me his golf ball on just like the 4th gap, and I’ve saved it ever since, so it’ll be type of a full-circle second. He was like my favourite participant rising up.”
Howell, in fact, isn’t too far faraway from his childhood. The 18-year-old is coming into his senior yr of highschool this fall, and has verbally dedicated to play collegiately on the College of Georgia.
“Some folks say, like, who do they give the impression of being as much as? Like Tiger and other people like that,” Howell mentioned. “Rory was my man as a result of he was the very best golfer for me rising up.”
So far as the spherical itself, there’s just one factor Howell says he’s fascinated by on the subject of taking part in alongside the World No. 2: “Simply hoping his drives received’t be taking an excessive amount of aerial images of mine as his is flying previous,” he mentioned with fun.
For extra from Howell, together with an inside account of his expertise on the U.S. Newbie, try the total episode under.
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