{"id":227634,"date":"2019-04-10T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wallace-ready-ahead-of-masters-debut\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T11:53:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:53:03","slug":"wallace-ready-ahead-of-masters-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wallace-ready-ahead-of-masters-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallace insists he is ready to win a big tournament ahead of his Masters debut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/masters_wallace-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Wallace is hoping to be the first debutant to win the Masters since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979\" class=\"wp-image-128852\"\/><figcaption>Matt Wallace is hoping to be the first debutant to win the Masters since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979 (Adam Davy\/PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Before this week Matt Wallace\u2019s only experience of Augusta National was driving past it down Washington Road on his way to a college golf tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But after a practice round with three-time champion Sir Nick Faldo and advice from his experienced caddie Dave McNeilly and 2016 winner Danny Willett, the 28-year-old Londoner is daring to dream of becoming the first Masters rookie to win the green jacket for 40 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDave is loving being back, he\u2019s got plenty of stories,\u201d Wallace told Press Association Sport. \u201cHe\u2019s had some good results here and came fifth with Nick Price. Everyone in my team is ready to go and we\u2019re ready to win a big tournament, whether it\u2019s this one or another one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMasters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheMasters<\/a>! First time around the course, thanks for showing me <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFaldo006?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NickFaldo006<\/a>??&#x200d;&#x2642;&#xfe0f;??????? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IXkvwSQrqx\">pic.twitter.com\/IXkvwSQrqx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Matt Wallace (@mattsjwallace) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattsjwallace\/status\/1114990971018784768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">7 April 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to give ourselves the best chance possible with the preparation that we do. I\u2019m confident in my ability when I\u2019m working hard and playing well. If I can give myself an opportunity to do it I will try and grab it with both hands and I won\u2019t shy away from that situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo be the first English player to do it as a rookie would be pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Less than four years ago Wallace was finishing fifth in a tournament on the Alps Tour to move up to 1,672nd in the world rankings, but the following year won six times and then claimed his first European Tour title in Portugal in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three more wins in 2018 meant Wallace was unfortunate to miss out on a wild card for the Ryder Cup in Paris, but he ended the year inside the world\u2019s top 50 to earn a treasured invite to the Masters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve driven past it before when I was at college and outside the gates it\u2019s strange, you\u2019d never think that there was a golfing Mecca in there,\u201d Wallace added. \u201cI think we had a tournament down in Florida. We were in Alabama so we did a little detour so we could drive past it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can\u2019t stop staring at this ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QaS84D8ir0\">pic.twitter.com\/QaS84D8ir0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Matt Wallace (@mattsjwallace) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattsjwallace\/status\/1115010221921976321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">7 April 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t a very good golfer at the time, I was playing OK but it was always a dream that you\u2019d hopefully play there one day, never knowing how hard you had to work to get there. And I\u2019ll tell you it\u2019s blooming hard to get to that position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s taken me a long time and a lot of really good golf to get there. It\u2019s a lot of hard work, dedication and time. I\u2019ve always said I want to go there and play in it rather than to watch so I\u2019ve saved that for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the same as other things like touching trophies before you\u2019ve won it. Having those sorts of goals and dreams, one of them has now been ticked off but hopefully I will save one of those invites and put it next to the green jacket.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week will be just Wallace\u2019s fifth appearance in a major and he had failed to make a cut until last year\u2019s US PGA at Bellerive, where he also made a hole-in-one in the third round while playing alongside Jordan Spieth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dry at least, I\u2019ll take that! ? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMasters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheMasters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FG5TmsawMP\">pic.twitter.com\/FG5TmsawMP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Matt Wallace (@mattsjwallace) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattsjwallace\/status\/1115334525851189248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">8 April 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was massive, massive,\u201d Wallace added. \u201cI knew I had the ability to compete anywhere but I guess the PGA type of course really suits the way I play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe learning experience of playing with Jordan Spieth on a Saturday, Tiger Woods behind, a hole-in-one and then playing nicely on Sunday and at the end of the day finishing 19th was amazing, but I also feel like I didn\u2019t play my best golf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI played nicely obviously but I didn\u2019t play my best golf so took major confidence from that and ultimately it served me well in the final stretch of the season. Everything\u2019s a stepping stone I feel and it\u2019s going in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Londoner has enjoyed a rapid rise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[219,350,2862,322,3144,649,89,1149,84,495],"class_list":["post-227634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-masters-news","tag-danny-willett","tag-debut","tag-golf-majors","tag-green-jacket","tag-major-tounament","tag-matt-wallace","tag-news","tag-nick-faldo","tag-pga-tour","tag-the-masters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.8 (Yoast SEO v23.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wallace insists he is ready to win a big tournament ahead of his Masters debut - 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