Ready to master Augusta

PAUL McGINLEY strolled from the Augusta National locker room to the practice range as if he was beginning his preparation for just another run-of-the-mill tournament instead of his second tilt at the Masters.

He was a picture of robust good health and fitness, without an extra pound on his 39-year-old, 5’ 8’’, 12-stone body.

After a magnificent end to the 2005 campaign, when he lost to US Open champion Michael Campbell in the final of the World Match Play Championship and then captured the Volvo Masters at Valderrama, he could hardly be said to have hit the ground running this year. A share of 12th in the AT&T pro-am at Pebble Beach and a tie for seventh in the Qatar