After limping to rounds of 80-76 at the 2024 Masters, the 1992 champion questioned internally if Augusta National wished he’d step aside.
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Fred Couples has been given the green light.
After limping to rounds of 80-76 at the 2024 Masters, the 1992 champion questioned internally if Augusta National’s Competition Committee wished he’d step aside.
Those fears, however, were extinguished after a phone call with Steve Ethun, the Masters Chief Tournament Officer.
“I told Steve two things,” Couples said. “First, that I don’t want to embarrass myself. And that I’m certainly not going to embarrass Augusta National.
“Steve goes, ‘We already know that. We want you to keep playing.’”
“I can’t tell you how much my blood pressure went down,” Couples said in a phone interview.