Elementary from Watson

GOLF a la carte. A feast for the purists. A trip down memory lane and smorgasbord of the tastiest morsels from the current crop of sweet swingers.

The opening day of the Masters was the most eagerly awaited in living memory and it didn’t disappoint as 60-year-old Tom Watson, three-time major winner Phil Mickelson, US PGA champion YE Yang and the hungry Worksop man Lee Westwood fired five under par 67s to set the early pace.

With a swirling wind gusting up to 30mph among the pines, the dogwoods and the flowering magnolias, the best bloomed early with the only disappointment the struggles of the Irish trio of competitors around Dr Alastair MacKenzie’s Georgia masterpiece.