Controlled aggression strategy for GMac

Graeme McDowell believes controlled aggression could hold the key to unlocking his Masters mystery and finally give him a chance of fulfilling his boyhood dream.

A look at the Portrush star’s Masters record is enough to bring a tear to the eye — just two cuts made from six starts. But while he’s praying the rain that lashed the course on Monday will have dried up by Friday, he knows he has to be more aggressive with his plan of attack if he is to have any chance of slipping into a green jacket, size 40 short.

“I’m not sure I have ever come into the Masters in better form than I am right now,” said McDowell, who has been drawn with Americans Jimmy Walker and Rickie Fowler for the first two rounds. “You don’t want to be coming in and trying to be too much of a perfectionist here and I have played this golf course too defensively in the past. So I think I can be more aggressive to certain pins. You can’t be kamikaze to tough pins and you have to respect some of them.