Masters Diary: I’d choose a couple of green jackets over cuts, says Couples

FRED COUPLES has teed up his golf ball 23 times in the Masters and has played the weekend at Augusta National each and every year.

It’s a successive streak he shares with Gary Player. Couples can be as wild off the tee as any of them so it’s hardly surprising that he finds it difficult to explain such a run of consistency.

“It’s not one of the great records here and I’d rather have two green jackets than making all the cuts,” said the man who was blessed by an extraordinary stroke of luck at the short 12th on his way to winning the 1992 Masters. His tee shot stuck in the bank fronting the green instead of rolling back into Rae’s Creek.