Tommy Martin: For one week, Augusta is the chocolate factory and we’ve all got the golden ticket

Tommy Martin: For one week, Augusta is the chocolate factory and we’ve all got the golden ticket

Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm of Spain and Adam Scott walk to the 16th green during the second round of the 2018 Masters. Picture: Jamie Squire

Let's start with Bobby Jones, a pretty good place to start.

“On the golf course,” the father of the Masters wrote, “a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy, any of these within a few hours.”

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