AUGUSTA, Ga. — Look out, Brooks Koepka. You’ve got Sam Bennett on your heels.
To the wider world, it’s piffle to say a 23-year-old amateur from Madisonville, Texas — population 4,500, a little break in the mesquite between Houston and Dallas — who’s had one swing lesson and didn’t really care for it, should much bother the big, bad Masters leader.
But this brash whelp has confidence to burn. Just ask him about his ever-evolving expectations. First, he arrived at the Masters as the cute little U.S. Am champion with the heartstring-tugging story. And now, two 68s later, he’s doing things no amateur has done since CBS aired its first black-and-white images of Ken Venturi in 1956. Here sat Bennett Friday at 8 under, four back of Koepka when weather cut short the second round.
