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Crowe soaring into Masters
By Alexander Dabb
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The number of iconic moments at The Masters is almost endless — Tiger’s chip in on the 16th in 2005, Greg Norman’s capitulation in the final round of 1996, Adam Scott finally claiming Australia’s first green jacket in a play-off over Angel Cabrera — the list goes on.
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Augusta National has turned players into legends and broken the best golfers in the world, but 21-year-old amateur Harrison Crowe isn’t intimidated by the task ahead of him.
Crowe will be playing at this year’s Masters in April after claiming the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Thailand last year, an astonishing feat that saw him drop four shots behind the leader in the final round, only to come back and win by two strokes.
"I was actually very calm all day, which is quite surprising because I think I got to four back at one point from holding a two-shot lead overnight,” he said.
“But it was definitely a lot of self-belief and definitely had to dig deep that week and really just grind it out. I knew I had it in me, I was playing extremely well all week from what I really had.
“It took a lot of mental strength to really come out and do it, just kind of prove to myself the kind of golfer I am and how strong I am."
The win catapulted Crowe into the conversation as one of the world’s best amateur players, not only earning him a start at The Masters, but also The Open Championship at Royal Liverpool this July.
If Crowe is to claim victory in either The Masters or The Open Championship, he will have history on his side, as last year he became just the second player to hold both the NSW Open and Amateur titles concurrently.
The first? Australia’s first ever