“We’re able to have tickets and we’ve got family and friends coming in, and everyone is just as excited as every other year, if not more so, because they might even be able to see more golf around that Amen Corner stretch,” Spieth advised reporters, referring to the 11th, 12th and 13th holes of the iconic course.
“So I think the patrons play such a massive role into this tournament, the echos, the roars down in the valley, and especially come the weekend, it won’t take many people for it to feel close enough to normal to be a fantastic event.”
After ending his winless run in Texas, Spieth now has a shot at successful his second Green Jacket having completed tied for 46th at final yr’s Masters — his lowest ever end at the occasion.
He admitted that he endured “tough times” in between his two most up-to-date wins — a interval that lasted 1,351 days and 83 match begins.
“It kind of felt normal, but I think it was more just I wanted that monkey off my back, of it just being a while out of the winner’s circle,” Spieth mentioned of his two-shot victory at the Valero Texas Open.
“You get one 54-hole lead and everyone thinks you’re supposed to win right away, when you haven’t had a 54-hole lead in a long time.
“It was simply extra like, all proper, everyone relax. It was fairly superior once I look again and suppose there’s a subsequent degree that I’ve been at that I’m nonetheless trying to find proper now.”
Among the different favorites on this yr’s subject are defending champion Dustin Johnson, who will host the Champions Dinner on Tuesday, and 2020 US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau
Previous main winners Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy, Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed all completed in the high 10 in final yr’s Masters and will be hopeful of including to their main tallies this week.
Were Johnson to win back-to-back Masters titles, he would change into the fourth participant to take action and the first since Tiger Woods in 2002.
CNN’s Dan Moriarty contributed to reporting.
