It was raining when Larry Mize came to the 18th on Saturday morning and if that wasn’t exactly how he had pictured it when he was thinking about the end of his 120th, and final, round here in the Masters, he may reflect it was for the best anyway. If nothing else it meant you couldn’t quite tell whether or not those were tears he was brushing off as he stood in the tee box.
Mize watched as his playing partners, Min-Woo Lee and Harrison Crowe, each clobbered mighty drives up the hill, then wiped his club on his calf and set himself for one last tee shot … which he sent skittering into the trees 150 yards away. “There’s a reason why this is my last Masters,” Mize said.
