Augusta – Jose Luis Ballester was to have relief after hitting his third shot in the 13th hole in Augusta National during the round of the masters. But not for the reason you think.
This had nothing to do with the term applied when a player can take a drop during a golf game.
Ballester, 21, has actually taken a relief – he urinated in the tributary about 60 meters from green to hole in 5. The back to the gallery behind the 14th tee, Ballester made his business and then obtained a high series of applause from the spectators who understood what was going on.
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“Well, I completely forgot that we had these toilets to the left of the Tee box,” he said timidly after shooting 76 while playing with the title champion Scottie Scheffler and Justin Thomas.
“And then I’m like, I really need to pee. I didn’t really know where to go, and as I had a problem on green, I say to myself, I’m going to sneak here in the river and probably people would not see me much, then they applauded for me.
“Probably one of the applause that I really got very strong today, so it was pretty funny.”
The Spanish golfer, who won the American amateur last summer in Hazeltine in Minnesota to qualify for the Masters, plays on Arizona State. And even it brought controversy on Thursday when he was wearing an ASU cap with the lettering that was upside down.
When asked if he was concerned about problems with the national officials of Augusta, Ballester could only smile: “They saw me. They saw me. It was not at all embarrassing for me. If I had to start again, I would do it again. ”
Treo-American in Arizona State, Ballester said it was a great experience to play with Scheffler and Thomas.
“I have the impression that you never really know how to prepare yourself,” said Ballester, who is part of the traditional twinning by the national Augusta of the reigning amateur champion with the title champion of the Masters. “You can meditate, visualize, put yourself in difficult situations, but in the end, you must understand it, well, especially being the first time here in Augusta with such a good twinning like me.
“I knew with certainty that I was going to have Scottie, and when I saw Tuesday that I had jt, I was like, oh, my God, it becomes serious.
“Yeah, I just tried to warm up, I tried to be myself, listening to music, trying to stay focused. And again, as I already said, really satisfied in the way of managing the nerves on the first box of T-shirt and playing the first holes. Although I made a few mistakes and I really had a bad time. Yes, I think.”
